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The Last Duel
2021 · Film · 153 min
Directed by Ridley Scott
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.
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Ridley Scott has made several amazing movies after Blade Runner. The latest film from him that I really liked was The Last Duel.
I know this sentiment but for me it does not apply to Scott. He made some great movies later in his career; Black Hawk Down, Hannibal, Prometheus and The Martian are all masterpieces imo. The Last Duel was also pretty good
With regards to trails by combat, highly recommend Ridley Scott's movie The Last Duel:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Duel_(2021_film)
Haven't personally read the book:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Duel:_A_True_Story_of_Crime,_Scandal,_and_Trial_by_Combat_in_Medieval_France
interesting. in the film the last duel they use this when interrogating the woman who is being fought over. i thought it was an effort to be period correct.
Hah, didn't realize Last Duel was his as well. (Something about that film bugged me -- may have to revisit to determine precisely what.)
But that (his) first film (!) is exquisite imo. (Thanks for the Conrad heads-up.)
> That was much harder to do, in the past
Is there any evidence for that? In one of David Attenborough's documentaries, he talks about that. Research showed that people are quick to point out that a baby looks like the father, even when the father isn't the biological father. The inference is that cuckolding is a common occurrence.
You're right that people would go to great lengths to ensure fidelity of the women, even executing them for infidelity. They wouldn't have bothered if cuckolding wasn't common. The recent movie "The Last Duel" was historically accurate in that it was a duel to the death over whether a knight's friend had sex with his wife or not.
The recent movie "The Last Duel" featured a duel to the death by two knights. I thought the fight sequence was good, but was amazed to learn it was historically accurate. Observers at the time had actually documented the fight blow by blow, and the movie hewed to it.
So if you want to see a best effort recreation of how two heavily armored knights would fight, watch it!
He has two movies end 2021: The Last Duel and House of Gucci. Kudos to him for having such energy for his age.
I think he's getting more irritable as he gets older (and I think he still has a chip on his shoulder for being criticised for being too visual - should a bird not sing?), but wasn't The Last Duel supposed to have been good?
As for irritable: Some of these press outbursts are definitely directors trying to whip up some press for their movies, but he got in some hot water for saying
--- “The best films are driven by the characters,” he said, “and we’ll come to superheroes after this if you want, because I’ll crush it. I’ll f*ing crush it. They’re f*ing boring as s*." and "Their scripts are not any fucking good" ---
Is he wrong? They're mostly not bad* now (marvel ones at least), but they're utterly sedated and breeding a new generation of media-consumers who've literally never seen a "good" movie (By which I mean something driven by a director rather than a producer)
I enjoyed his recent movie "The Last Duel". I thought it was unbelievable, but after reading the book it is historically accurate. The fight scene is blow-by-blow what actually happened. Sooo much better than those silly superhero movies.
I'll definitely see more Scott movies!
I agree that this outcome should cause people to stop and think about whether justice is really being done here
If you get to this point and now wonder whether justice is being done, you haven't been paying attention or following it for a while.
None of this is about justice.
It's about powerful people trying to deny themselves truth/reality to maintain their illusory identity. They bought into the "truth, justice and the american way" and got caught out.
Assange enabled the world to see their nation behaving as they do, not as they wanted to be seen, with the added irony that it was through collateral damage of their own journalists being blown away by a trigger happy numbskulled armed forces member out of control.
Cue Jack Nicholson saying "You can't handle the truth!" - they can't.
Making Assange guilty in any way possible is the only way 'the system' can make itself feel better about itself.
All the laws and technicalities and ridiculous court theatre are just part of the sad misdirection show. The 'interpretations of law', bizarre courtroom requirements and treatment show that Assange was actually right to fear his situation.
The fact they gamed the system to get a specific judge to preside over the trial while at the same time denying nearly all public eyeballs from actually being in the room whilst the case was being heard just shows how far they're willing to go to try to reinforce their self-righteous identity.
As I said in another post: The US want to apply US law somewhere other than the US to someone who is not a US citizen. They can fuck off. And that's from someone who thinks 'the law' (or application thereof) is a crock of shit a lot of the time even if there were some well meaning intentions made back in the day.
There's something very ominous about the line "The truth does not matter, there is only the power of men" in the trailer for the upcoming movie The Last Duel.