When the best swordsman is swordless
When Madmartigan in the movie Willow claims that he's "the best swordsman who ever lived," we don't know if we trust him. He then spends the next forty minutes of the movie without a sword. This video examines this trope: The character who claims to be a legend, but we don't get proof for a long time. We'll look at Willow and at Cormac McCarthy's amazing novel, All the Pretty Horses. You'll also get my acting debut. You can let me know how much I butchered a West Texas accent. The YouTube algorithm doesn't show you the creators you subscribe to. You can always find out when I have a new video by subscribing to my free Substack: Read All the Pretty Horses! https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-the-... Here is the full (legendary) Billy Bob Thorton interview: • Billy Bob Thornton 'Blow Up' on Q TV Girls doing sporty stuff on ponies: • How to Scoop A Quoit! | *GAMES TUTORIAL* Woman getting coat from ground from horseback: • How to Pick Things off the Ground on a Horse! 0:00 Willow 3:23 All the Pretty Horses 8:59 Evidence of Virtuosity 17:37 The Mythic West
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