Someone recently tweeted the question, “What’s your favorite movie sword-fight?”
Well, of course the obvious answers all popped up straightaway: the duels in Star Wars (take your pick), Pirates of the Caribbean, Kill Bill, Rob Roy, The Princess Bride, etc. And these are all great, no doubt about it… but the sword fight that occurred to me was from a movie I haven’t seen since I was a kid: The Great Race.
The Great Race is just what it sounds like: a movie about a race—an old-time car race from New York to…Paris?
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Well, of course the obvious answers all popped up straightaway: the duels in Star Wars (take your pick), Pirates of the Caribbean, Kill Bill, Rob Roy, The Princess Bride, etc. And these are all great, no doubt about it… but the sword fight that occurred to me was from a movie I haven’t seen since I was a kid: The Great Race.
The Great Race is just what it sounds like: a movie about a race—an old-time car race from New York to…Paris?
Read more »