What the world really needed, according to Geena Davis and husband - filmmaker Renny Harlin, was a pirate picture, starring Davis as a high -
seas swashbuckler.
Not exact matches
Instead, we have generic
sea battles (against men becoming
sea creatures, though), occasionally violent moments, tons of new mythology and secret revelations (none of which mean much, and all of which feel forced), and a tone more in tune with a serious epic than a post-modern
swashbuckler.
It's possible that At World's End represents an anomaly or a serious attempt to re-capture the romanticism of classical Hollywood
swashbucklers like The
Sea Hawk.
By the time The
Sea Hawk rolled into production, the Flynn
swashbucklers had found their formula.
Band of Misfits (PG for action, mild epithets and crude humor) Animated kiddie adventure about a competition among three buccaneer
swashbucklers (Hugh Grant, Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek) to capture the coveted Pirate of the Year Award by wreaking the most havoc on the high
seas.
The
Sea Hawk is the type of big - budget
swashbuckler that Errol Flynn is remembered best for, and was the ninth film he and director Michael Curtiz collaborated on successfully.
While Warner Bros. had dominated the period action /
swashbuckler genre with their in - house star Errol Flynn in monster hits like Captain Blood and The
Sea Hawk, Fox was taking modest pokes at the genre in non-oceanic outings like The Mark of Zorro — one of the best period action films of the forties, and arguably the pivotal film that made Fox chief Darryl Zanuck realize that film's star, Tyron Power, could move closer to boats, swords, and more bare - chested combat.
Todd gets in touch with his inner
swashbuckler with
Sea of Thieves this week, despite the haters saying that the game is sparse and incomplete.
Our Emma Boyle and Jon Porter went hands on with E3's big new
swashbucklers, Skull and Bones vs
Sea of Thieves.
It fits snuggly at the bottom of the garden and has been superbly decorated to become a base for
swashbucklers from tropical
seas.