Original sentence: The fight scenes were choreographed by master swordsman William Hobbs and turn the swashbuckling movies of the Forties and Fifties on their collective ear; these are more like brawls, with the combatants using knees, fists, furniture and even wet laundry as often as they do their swords.The film adheres strongly to the novel, but it also injects a fair amount of humour.The films were shot by David Watkins, with an eye for period detail
Edited sentence: (It helps that both films are gorgeously shot by David Watkins, with a keen eye for period detail.) The spectacular fight scenes (choreographed by master swordsman William Hobbs) turn the swashbuckling movies of the Forties and Fifties on their collective ear; these are more like brawls, with the combatants using knees, fists, furniture and even wet laundry as often as they do their swords.Fraser's Flashman novels manage the difficult trick of saluting heroism even as they satirize it, and that spirit infuses the movies, which have the debunking spirit of the cynical Seventies but are still exhilirating to watch.The film adheres strongly to the novel, but it also injects a fair amount of humour, and the film itself has garnered much critical praise