Thursday, April 30, 2015
Swashbuckling
A swashbuckling swashbuckler swashbuckles
One dictionary explains this sentence as a person who engages in daring and romantic adventures
with bravado or flamboyance against their enemies with swords.
Well, there is no necessity to consult any dictionary for any other meaning
as it does not matter whether its full meaning is explained or understood.
Cinema goers of yore fully comprehended its alluring significance while being entertained.
This genre of swashbuckling movies were the rave in the 1940s and onwards for decades.
So much so that galleons of exquisite robustness and power were especially built
to conjure the thrill of reality in a mock up kind of way in the cinemas.
And naturally the protagonists in the movies were the heroes,
they were particularly handsome and dashing to be acceptable to portray their debonair roles.
Then there were the coy, charming and beautiful opposites,
like Olivia de Havilland, Maureen O’Hara, Susan Hayward, Janet Leigh, Jean Peters, Debra Paget and Eleanor Parker.
And it would be quite unimaginable that movies lovers of that era would not know about Douglas Fairbanks,
Basil Rathbone, Louis Hayward, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Louis Jourdan, Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger.
The two lists can continue to include actors and actresses that follow to the present day.
As for the movies that would not ever be forgotten,
these would still be entertaining today: The Swordsman of Siena, The Corsican Brothers, The Count of Monte Cristo,
The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Scaramouche, The Sea Hawk, The Adventures of Robin Hood,
Pirates of the Caribbean, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Mark of Zorro, The Black Pirate, Captain Blood,
The Black Swan, Adventures of Don Juan, The Crimson Pirate, The Golden Blade,
The Buccaneer, Captain Lightfoot and Anne of the Indies .
Of all the swashbuckling movies, Scaramouche starring Stewart Granger
and The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn were most popular and outstanding.
They are still swashbuckling
# posted by chunmu @ 12:04 AM 
