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XENA SEZ: It's almost impossible to stage a fight with non-metal weapons. Steel has a look and a sound that spectators know, and wood cannot achieve that.

You maybe could, with a couple VERY good Foley artists behind the scenes, because it's easy enough to replicate the sound of steel on steel, but it'd be prohibitively difficult to time the sound effects to the blows.

Also, wooden weapons just don't have the heft that steel ones do. It's much harder to fake difficulty swinging a two-pound wooden rapier than it is a fifteen-pound steel greatsword.

Frankly, it's an insult to the actors, and were I one of them I'd refuse to do it.

22 posted on 04/20/2007 9:09:55 AM PDT by Xenalyte ("A cat can give birth to kittens in the oven. That don't make 'em biscuits." - Quanell X)

It's almost impossible to stage a fight with non-metal weapons. Steel has a look and a sound that spectators know, and wood cannot achieve that.

Even aluminum sounds wrong. Nothing like that sound and it's beautiful.

61 posted on 04/20/2007 9:55:40 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)