Movie swordmaking is a big long orange-glowing lie
by Rob Beschizza from on (#48R4B)
From Game of Thrones to Conan, from Lord of the Rings to, well, everything, the filmic representation of casting swords is "completely wrong, so wrong it's frankly difficult to know where to start. How can you cast a 3D item in an open-top mould? Are you going to glue two halves together?"