{"id":121,"date":"2022-03-18T22:41:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T22:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2022-03-22T05:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:43:31","slug":"is-this-a-dagger-which-i-see-before-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“His blade cuts the soul but not the body.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Soul Killer’s dagger is one of the most powerful and awesome weapons ever created. \u00a0It is a dense,\u00a0highly concentrated\u00a0weapon of pure psychic energy that was fabricated\u00a0out of thin air from the intense anger and hatred from the Soul Killer’s mind. \u00a0Its blade disrupts the flow of energy in a living body, and ultimately kills them, leaving only microscopic evidence of its presence. \u00a0Those who are gifted can see evidence of its work in a person’s aura as blue blood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In reality, however, the dagger had to be created using real materials.\u00a0 Bob Canode went to Burbank-based SWORD & THE STONE, operated by a blacksmith\u00a0named Tony Swatton. \u00a0The place is decorated with suits of armor, tunics, bracelets,\u00a0and weapons\u00a0of all kinds. \u00a0They have a real-life Sword of Omens from the Thundercats TV show, as well as a real-life sword from the 80’s Filmation series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.<\/p>\n

Most props in the film were off the shelf, but Canode commissioned Tony to customize a dagger for the film. \u00a0Tony brought out this big book of historical daggers and they discussed the look of the dagger as well as the time period it was from. \u00a0The Soul Killer has been around for around 200 years, so we wanted the dagger to be historically accurate.<\/p>\n

The hilt of the dagger was actually lifted from one of Keira Knightley’s daggers in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, which Tony’s company had worked on. \u00a0Since the dagger has its roots in the lush, green country of Ireland, he included a single green emerald stone.<\/p>\n

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The dagger was hefty and the point of the dagger was seriously sharp. \u00a0He had to sand it down to avoid any actor getting impaled on set. \u00a0There was no money to create a “stunt” dagger. \u00a0In fact,\u00a0they couldn’t afford to buy the dagger out right as money was needed for the production. \u00a0Instead, the dagger was rented for the few days the crew was shooting, and returned back to The Sword & Stone. \u00a0The dagger was apparently loaned out in a couple other movies and TV series since SOUL KILLER.<\/p>\n

Christopher Holt, one of the actors who played the Soul Killer, recommended to director Bob Canode that the dagger appear at the end of the film in the Shopkeeper’s shop, nestled among all the other objects\u00a0– as if it was just one souvenir\u00a0in a number of adventures. \u00a0The dagger also helped visually integrate\u00a0Natalie to the shop and the shopkeeper’s legacy.<\/p>\n

A couple years later, Bob Canode’s wife bought\u00a0the dagger from SWORD & THE STONE, and now it proudly sits in their house, a cherished relic of the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“His blade cuts the soul but not the body.” The Soul Killer’s dagger is one of the most powerful and awesome weapons ever created. \u00a0It is a dense,\u00a0highly concentrated\u00a0weapon of pure psychic energy that was fabricated\u00a0out of thin air from the intense anger and hatred from the Soul Killer’s mind. \u00a0Its blade disrupts the flow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulkiller.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}