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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 905548" data-attributes="member: 6533">I highly recommend finding the original Zorro by any means necessary.  It's a silent film, I believe, the set pieces are as authentic as it is possible to get, and the performance of Zorro is obviously an important moment in American popular culture.Bob Kane said it was one of the most important influences on the development of Batman.Gilliam's Rob Roy is a recent movie that illustrates the heart-renching pathos that can be found in swashbuckling's tales of honor and villainy.The duel at the end is one of the best I've ever seen, for the simple fact that people sweat, show pain when they are wounded, still fight well, and virtue comes up with a more or less believable victory.There was a fantastic history channel presentation on Swords, or something like that, that featured an extended treatment of different historical swordsman schools and techniques.If you can find it, it is certainly worth seeing as it featured a demonstration of all of the sword fighting styles reffered to in Romeo and Juliet and how they dictate the puns in the verses and a lot of the physical performance of the play.The recent version payed some lip-service to this by emphasizing the different models of firearms.</blockquote>