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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: sailordad on October 18, 2008, 10:22:46 pm

Title: epocolyptco(sp?)
Post by: sailordad on October 18, 2008, 10:22:46 pm

just watched the Mel Gibson movie by that name.
it was probalby very historically inaccurate.

i did see several,what lloked like,large obsidian blades and was just wondreing if any body knows if they were really knapped blades
or just hollywood props,and if real any idea who made them?

just a thought and observation

                                                                                   tim

Title: Re: epocolyptco(sp?)
Post by: mullet on October 18, 2008, 11:19:23 pm

  They were Hollywood props. The real nice, throat slicing, bone handle knife was plastic.

Title: Re: epocolyptco(sp?)
Post by: El Destructo on October 18, 2008, 11:28:34 pm

The Movie was Apocalypto.........and the Weapons were made by Simon Atherton .....he has been the Armorer and Weapon Designer for countless Movies such as .......
Cutthroat Island (1995) .......Spy Game (2001) .....Gladiator (2000) ......The 13th Warrior (1999).....The Mummy (1999) .....Saving Private Ryan (1998) .....The Mask of Zorro (1998) .....The Fifth Element (1997) .....Braveheart (1995) .....The Three Musketeers (1993) ....1492: The Conquest of Paradise (1992) ......Alien3 (1992) ......Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) .....Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ....The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) ......Apocalypto (2006) ......Blood Diamond ......Black Hawk Down (2001) .........and many many more.......as for being real.....I couldnt guess........

Title: Re: epocolyptco(sp?)
Post by: mullet on October 19, 2008, 05:12:30 pm

  I have the DVD with the extra one on how the movie was made. Actually the Obsidean blades looked like rubber the way they would bend when the actors were playing around with them.

Title: Re: epocolyptco(sp?)
Post by: Hillbilly on October 19, 2008, 07:54:30 pm

I would guess that they were casts of actual obsidian blades.