Art of the Saber (2002) - By Ho Brothers' Productions

Uploader's Note: I was not involved in the production of this short film and do not take credit for any work shown here. I uploaded to share to the public (You guys and gals). This particular video has been converted into a more suitable format for YouTube. Usually I upload the raw videos, but the raw file did not playback so well. The quality in this one is a lot better I believe. The action in this film pars or even exceeds the popular Star Wars films. With martial art choreography implemented along with lightsabers, this is one fight you cannot miss. Enjoy!

Video Description:

Date Released: October 2002
Short Film Title: Art of the Saber
Studio Name: Ho Brothers' Productions
Director: Clarence Ho
Cast: Cary Ho and Calvin Ho
Editor: Calvin Ho
Cinematographer: Clarence Ho
Special Effects and Sound Editing: Cary Ho
Martial Arts Choreographer: Calvin Ho

A light saber fight sequence with the flavor of a Hong Kong martial arts action movie. This short is set in a dense forest, where a young man, willing to leave his loved ones behind to help fight in the Revolution, clashes with an enemy in a battle where only one will remain standing. Music by Denez Prigent and a monologue extracted from an authentic Civil War love letter written in 1861, help to set the tone for this movie.
Taken from FXHome.com

If anyone knows where I could find their main webpage (if they have one) please leave a message with their link. Thanks.

End Note:
This film is dedicated to our parents for their undying love and support, and for always putting their children first.

Music by
Denez Prigent - Gortoz a Ran - From the movie "Blackhawk Down"
Hans Zimmer - Honor Him - From the movie "Gladiator"

Monologue created from the excerpts of the Civil War love letter written by Union soldier, Captain Sullican Ballou, to his wife Sarah on July 14, 1861. He was killed in battle one week later.

This movie is based on characters and situations created buy George Lucas

Special Thanks from the Creators: Thanks to all those who took the time to e-mail us comments and suggestions regarding our proof-of-concept, from which, we used in the development of "Art of the Saber". We greatly appreciate your praise as well as your interest in our project, and we hope you enjoyed this short film as well.

Notes from the Creators: For those interested in the creation process of the movie, it took four days of filming during the early summer of 2002 in a small woods in Maryland using a Sony mini DV camcorder and several plastic lightsabers. Editing was done using Adobe Premiere 6.0 and special effects were added using AlamDV. Obviously, we are not actors nor film students/professional film makers by any stretch of the imagination. We simply thought creating a short movie would be a fun project. It was.

Email: Ashamanho@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.artofthesaber.webhop.net/ [When I checked, site was down]

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[TimiHendrix195]

are there anymore like this that was fucking immense better than most of the saber battles from the films

[xSleepyBakazx]

@TimiHendrix195 No, not that I know of. It is a shame really.

[z41yn]

wats the music called?

[xSleepyBakazx]

Denez Prigent - Gortoz a Ran - From the movie "Blackhawk Down"

Hans Zimmer - Honor Him - From the movie "Gladiator"

[shamilton1990]

Cool. Make's me wish i were asian!

[xSleepyBakazx]

You don't need to be Asian to do these things. XD

[NeoTodesklingel]

NOO!!! GUY WITH THE RED SABERR!!! >.< x'O

Damn, he was so awesome... T_T

And...

... i never saw such a AMAZING looking Fight of a Fanwork! Awesome!!

I don't know if this Video was speeded up a little or not, but these Guys are very excellent! The are so fast and move so well! I guess they are skilled Martial artist's with a high Amount of Bodycontrol !

[VocaloidDTM]

This performance. *goosebumbs* O_o"

Sad story of a Hero, like it must be to give birth of a real Hero.

[wardivich]

2 thoughts,

1) beutiful, puts the action in the lucus films to shame.

2) if jedi don't have feelings (or relationships) , that makes the man who dies a sith, which i like the idear of. rebels being terorists, jedi being pchicopaths, sith being peaple who feel anger, hate & love etc. - turns things on its head, which starwars is needing in my opinion, if it wants to keep up with more recent sci fi storys.

[MaruchioZehel]

this is awesome....n luv the last melody at the end of the vid

[MAXIMUS172]

Whatever that thing was that he did at 4:00 with the two light sabres was just nasty. This is one of the best performance was one of the best I've seen so far!!

[freshenup]

amazing. shame the bad guy is dressed for the part and the other looks as though he's about to hit the gym

[aboosiaSJ]

@TimiHendrix195 All of Ryan Wieber's fan films are well done like RVD and RVB. Also some of the Lightsaber choreography contests films are good as well.

[plucktop]

Dude u rock, finally someone with intelligence and skills. Great description, great quality.

Keep it up! (cuz theres so much FAILS of this vid out there...)

[hijinxDD]

Shien / Djem so > Soresu = double sided lightsaber

Vaapad = red lightsaber.

i think.

[Supelock989]

I like to this the red saber guy was a sith. It gives them some sort of humanity and empathy which is rather refreshing from the usual evil sith.

[gonoff]

@xSleepyBakazx yeah you just have to know wushu style fighting