Another Movie Weapon

[Queequeg]

Originally Posted by VANDOO

A POSSIBLE ORIGIN FOR THE IDEA OF THIS SWORD WOULD BE THE KORA. THEY OCCUR IN NEPAL AND INDIA AND I HAVE SEEN SOME VARIATIONS WITH THREE POINTS AT THE WIDE TIP. THE MOVIE SWORD HAS A STRAIGHT BLADE AND THE POINTS ARE MUCH LARGER AND MORE PROMENENT. IT DOSEN'T LOOK LIKE MUCH WORK WENT INTO MAKEING IT PROBABLY A FLAT PIECE OF ALUMINUM ROUGHLY CUT AND SHAPED. I COULD NOT SEE THE GRIP BUT IT WAS PROBABLY VERY SIMPLE AND CRUDE ALSO. THE INFORMATION ON THE KORA CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE 373 OF STONES GLOSSARY.

Actually, I have some closer shots. Seeing those, I get the impression that they did put a lot of work into it.

On the wall:


A shot of the crossguard and pommel. Looks like a hand-and-a-half handle there. The knobs on the crossguard seem to match the pommel, giving it a nice effect:


And, it looks like it has a pattern engraved on the length of the blade:


That looks like a lot of work for a movie prop which appears in only one scene. Pretty nice work, I think.