Rathbone vs Flynn in Captain Blood
Feb. 25th, 2014 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonemagpieDammit, with all this Musketeer stuff around right now, it just makes me wonder why we never had Basil Rathbone as Rochefort... Or, fuck it, let's have him as one of the good guys - Aramis, most likely.
It's always a mixed experience watching a Rathbone duel; they're always worth watching, they're always great, but because he always plays bad guys he always has to lose - to an inferior swordsman. And they're always inferior swordsmen cos, basically, Basil was the greatest fencing actor who ever graced the silver screen, end of.
It's always a mixed experience watching a Rathbone duel; they're always worth watching, they're always great, but because he always plays bad guys he always has to lose - to an inferior swordsman. And they're always inferior swordsmen cos, basically, Basil was the greatest fencing actor who ever graced the silver screen, end of.