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Luc LEFEBVRE
8th November 2012, 09:01 PM
Sword from "Game of Thrones", inspired from ?
Luc LEFEBVRE
8th November 2012, 09:04 PM
Egyptian Kopesh ?
Luc LEFEBVRE
8th November 2012, 09:11 PM
African knife ?
Rick
8th November 2012, 11:18 PM
Art imitates Life ?
Battara
8th November 2012, 11:40 PM
I was thinking the kopesh.
There are also some Indian ceremonial swords like this as well.
David
9th November 2012, 02:36 PM
Game of thrones is an AWESOME show, one of the best things i have ever seen produced for TV. The weapons are all intentionally fantasy weapons, but obviously they draw strongly from historic examples.
Jim McDougall
9th November 2012, 05:28 PM
Excellent observation Luc! While artists, authors and film makers typically prefer to to reveal thier inspirations or models for thier creations, it is quite clear that exposure to many sources form their basis.
Rembrandt had quite a collection of arms and armor, and the use of modern ethnographic weapons such as the keris quite of of accurate context in Biblical settings was pushing the limits of artistic license, but very effective visually.
In movies like "Sleepy Hollow" the dramatically effective fantasy sabre carried by Christopher Walken as the 'headless horseman' was again visually quite effective. In looking into the swords which would have been carried by the Hessian cavalry of the period and locations, the regulation sword was of course far from the needed effect.
In art, Frank Frazetta's "Death Dealer" of a mounted barbarian horseman with horned helmet and huge war axe is incredibly impressive. I noticed that the hilt on the sword the warrior is wearing is clearly the Sassanian longsword of about 4th c. (if memory serves). I also noticed that some apparantly earlier versions of the painting did not have the sword.
In any case, probably out of context, but effective in the amalgam of inspirations from varied arms and armor.
It is a great subject, and I think we have had a thread of this topic before which was great fun, and fascinating..there are so many wonderful instances.
Thank you Luc!!!
All the best,
Jim
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