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Thursday, 8 August 2019

NUADA VERSES MAUL: POLES APART?

Who would win in a battle between Prince Nuada [Hellboy] and Darth Maul [Star Wars]?

Both are masters of the long pole [what I knew as Bojutsu as a young martial arts-mad teenager], each using their skills to employ their chosen weapons: Nuada, a short sabre-like spear that extends into a long spear and Maul, a double light sabre, what else!
Here's Nuada, played by Luke Goss, training in the Golden Army:

and here's Darth Maul, played by Ray Park, in the Phantom Menace:


Oddly enough a mate and I once had lunch on the next table from Ray Park. He was a guest star at the NEC Memorabilia event back in the early noughties. I half expected him to pull out an extending double fork to eat his nosh or at least snap up a fly whizzing by with his sticky tongue [he's Toad in the X-Men].

As an aside I couldn't help noticing the similarity of Prince Nuada's face to that of the lady monster in The Unnameable!

I blame the pale face creme.

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6 comments:

  1. WOTAN8/08/2019 8:40 am

    Its a funny thing, but I absolutely loathed Bros and the Goss twins in their heyday and after seeing Hellboy 2, I was amazed by Goss's performance as Nuada. Not so much his martial arts skills, for which he probably used a stunt double, but his restrained, minimal depiction of the troubled prince. A great film, I can't say i enjoyed the new gore fest of Hellboy with David Harbour in the red mask. Ron Perleman shone as Hellboy, Harbour just looks like hes a extra in a panto. I can't for the life of me understand why they felt the need to reboot the franchise again, either - basically refilming part of the first episode! Irredemably charmless. Ah well

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  2. chris592648/08/2019 3:52 pm

    Luke goss I love this guy

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  3. WOODSY8/08/2019 5:27 pm

    Not seen the new hellboy wote. I suppose its for a new generation but i agree the perlman flicks arent that old yet. Theyre hard to beat really. Abe Sapien turned up again in Del Torros The Shape of Water. As for Bros, didnt take much notice of teeny boppers in the eighties. My own ship - heavy rock - had more or less sailed and being a young dad I was too busy. It is the decade music forgot. Or were Bros the nineties? I liked Luke's Nuada too. A convincing role. Not sure what else he's been in. Hellboy has a Lovecraftian feel to it in my eyes. Its those old gods.

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  4. WOTAN8/08/2019 9:08 pm

    Is that Abe in Shape of Water ? I could see the paralells, but is there any firm connection ?

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