the duellists (1977) - first duel 

genius

Aaaaaa...that's what they mean when they say: "things went pear-shaped!"

That sounds fruitty and gey

Lmao

*A-pear-ently.*

Yeah there is a pattern forming. I see it now.

Napoleon banned duelling because he was losing his best commanders..

@@peterroberts7684 Even then it wasn't properly enforced.

@@peterroberts7684 yea. Imma need you both to keep talking.

Sounds like worst commanders

dementia

Gladiator 2 is gonna suck so bad

I was so disappointed that they were attempting Gladiator 2. It was a great standalone film and did not need the risk of a sequel tarnishing it. Nor did it really need a sequel. If they were to do it, they should have struck while the iron was hot

You guys could suck ass all the time. Fuck you all! BASTARDS!!

You could all go to hell, this man is a genius!

It's timeless.

@@frostyrobot7689The exquisite costumes really give one a feeling for the period… dude with the shiniest helmet and prettiest feathers wins.😂

it's certainly one of the best directorial debuts IMO.

Jep, Ten times better than the trash he puts out now.

that was uttered in an unsure voice....

@@cheeseandonions9558 No. It wasn't.

@@cheeseandonions9558 i think you wrong you ape

@@cheeseandonions9558 Who ends up in a pool of his own blood only saved by a harlot?

Well, it would be social death for D'Hubert to let someone like Feraud bully him, so he stands up to him.

🍷😆😆 Considerably!

Well that's the trick. All through the story it's clear that D'Hubert is every bit Feraud's equal at fighting. He's just a lot more pragmatic about it. Your point would be correct at Scott's desired casting, Michael York and Oliver Reed.

A 34 year old General? Must of been a talented soldier or in a regiment with a high possibility of promotion.

@@LoudaroundLincoln Many young men rose to senior command positions during war as such times offer quick promotion to talented and capable men (not only during Napoleonic wars). Look at Bonapartes own carier.

@@erfgtdsfsdf6993 Post-revolutionary France also had gotten rid of the old nobles in the officer class gumming up the works promoting their nephews. They had a lot of opportunities to advance, too, with all the military success they had as a citizen army fighting against frightened peasants.

Appropriate since Feraud is supposed to serve in the 7th Hussars, who were part of Lasalle's famous "Brigade Infernale."

@@LoudaroundLincoln he was extremly talented. And his senior officers died young.

You're damn shakespearean

They also served as excellent excuses for plot exposition, as our hero - an officer in the 37th Inniskilling Fusiliers - can take time a moment to explain to the young lady, unschooled in the ways of honor and combat, why the British are about to charge an artillery battery on horseback, a tactic which otherwise might not make sense to the audience.

Basically groupies

That very mindset is still alive and well in todays day and age and brings the term “you had me at Tricare” to mind

Soooooo a hoe

Rather than a madman I think he is pettiness incarnate, if he was mad that would some sort of excuse about his conduct but he does all of this in a sound state of mind, that is a lot worse; great character though, the perfect foil for the likable D'Hubert, it is clear which one of them should gain the sympathy of the viewer but I have never felt this makes either of them simplistic.

carradine is joel kinnamans real dad. the resemblance is spot on.

D'Hubert is a touch arrogant in his interactions with Feraud. Not that it in any way justifies what D'Hubert suffers, mind you, but it probably didn't help matters.

@@orboobleck5366 I found neither character likeable. It did not detract from the film.

D'Hubert is clearly a member of the old aristocracy who is cooperating with the new government to preserve their prestige, that's why Feraud despises him. Unlike D'Hubert, Feraud is clearly a self-made man from the lower classes who was raised to his position because of the new government. You can clearly see it near the last duel. After the restoration of the old monarchy, D'Hubert still remains a nobleman, and Feraud becomes a commoner again.

Hussars were the punks of their era. They were the only soldiers who got away with acting out, being wild and crazy and subordinate. What reads as elegance today would have been understood as extravagance and excentrism in their time. The Hussars were modelled after eastern European cavalry like Hungarians or Kosacks, wich in turn had adopted the culture of horse people like Mongols and Turks. They originated on the eurasian steppe, where strict, western style military discipline couldn't be enforced. Instead, military units acted independently. Bravery and passion was a virtue, and the Hussars were used to carry out extra risky missions. It was a YOLO lifestyle that attracted many young men. The crazy Hussar uniform stems from some nomadic people's custom of always displaying their wealth. If you live a life constantly on the move, you own only what you can carry, and you wear the best that you can at all times. If you look splendid, it means you are the shit. It means you are capable of earning a fortune, -and defending it. In sedentary cultures, excessive spending and display of wealth reads as you are irresponsible with your finances and try to elevate your status above your peers. It is a source of conflict rather than trust.

Yes and no. If you send one man to the arrest and he ends up with a sword in the gut, then you can send the dozen soldiers .. and hang the man. I suspect he wasn't supposed to apprehend him. :) They were at war. In wartime you need people who like the killing.

Hussars were recruited from the aristocracy, and thus they were expected to behave like gentlemen. Feraud here is an anomoly.

@@CognizantCheddar He was, I believe, from the ranks and was always being a 'try-hard' to try and make up for it. I've known a few of his kind in my time, they can be absolute nightmares.

@@cgavin1 that sentiment didn’t arise until a century later. Wars in those days were vanity projects of kings and field marshals, where the “civilised” officer class stood above the filth of the enlisted men...

@@M1tjakaramazov An astute and piquant comment. I salute you, sir!

Bladerunner is awesome

The same man who directed this, directed Napoleon 2023

@@manuelpanisse5991 yep

LoL, I actually really liked Prometheus and I absolutely loved covenant. Watch both at the cinema.

@@DougMickeyI'll back you up on Prometheus but I just can't defend Covenant, you're on your own there buddy.

The 2nd duel had a crazy glove though. And they swished rapiers.

i wonder what is considered sane today that will be considered insane, sane and insane definitions change with the times.

Как бы эти черти рубились с Баклановым? Никак, он бы их пошинковал.

Umm the accents are wayyyy off buddy

He was trying.

Why would he murder Keitel's mistress??

Strumpet 😂

@@legion999Self defence is bot murder.

​@@legion999because she interfered in the first duel?

Was he a prick in real life too?

From what i learn from Flashman, hussars tend to be pretentious pricks

Thought the same thing

i was thinking kinnaman was aging really well

thats his real dad for sure

Hivemind

Had the exact same thought

Oh the horror

Nerd. Get over yourself.

yup, it is glaring as hell :D

I watched it for the first time the other night and keep coming back to these short clips. I will watch it again--I can assure you.

I'd go with Bladerunner but this one is top 3 for sure.

@@Shadowman4710 Yes. Bladerunner, Alien, and the Duellists are easily his most masterful films.

Better than Alien?!

Yes, Feraud was a psychopath...totally obsessed & completely bonkers...as was his "real historical counterpart"...

@@edgaraquino2324 Totally, so nuts that the two officers' feud lasted for some years, the wacko just couldn't stay away and let the other man have peace.

@sethguest781 - He was mad, mad at the system. Ferrau was proabably from a much lower economic status that Dubert maybe even poor. He would have to fight all his life and struggle to move up and be recognized. Maybe fight to get into the service, definately fight to get into the calvary and be an officer. Then fighting the enemies of France, or the internal "snot nosed rich boys" that got promotions, the best calvary and cushy assginments like Dubert, fighting to be recognized in the social circles even if he did't understand it, or competing against other men in his regiment to be recongized and move up or even fighting agaist the cold of a russian retreat. His issue is that he couldn't or would not turn it off. It may have even been impossibe at a certain point in his life.Thats probably why he got himself on the executioners list...fighting to stay relevant. Napolean would have just been a good excuse as any. Though to be fair in the end what did he have? No family, no prospects, just a dead-end life drinking wine with aging war buddies, and collecting a meager pension under police survelliece till he died. That is why he started that last duel...finnaly he had something he could fight even if it was just to start some shit. Dubert had his family, money, rich estate, and got to marry a hottie from a good family

@@rongorden3985 Understandable, but no matter how mad one was at the "system", given how Napoleon was, it was important to stay in his good graces and pray that he didn't have you executed just because he felt you turned your back on him, but I suppose that Ferraud got off easy with a prison sentence possibly because of how fond Napoleon was of his soldiers since he was a grunt himself once and understood the man's frustration.

Simply fix, ambush him.

Challenging people to duels, preferably overmatched people, was indeed a form of bullying at this time. The British general Isaac Brock, later a general with a distinguished career in Canada, was challenged by one of these characters to a duel with pistols. The other man was a good shot. But as the challenged party Brock could specify the distance and he said "handkerchief distance". Point-blank range. At that distance one or even both would almost certainly be shot, and Brock's challenger backed down and soon after left the regiment.

@@stevekaczynski3793 1000%%% General Brock chose the rules in order to intimidate the attacker, you Duel to win, he understood his challenger, GENIUS Dueling was used in a abusive manner, lets say I challenge someone to a duel over a woman, this guy stands no chance etc...... It was cherrypicked by assholes to bully people Great story appreciate it

The weak should fear the strong.

Duelling was hardly bullying, you're a modern and have no idea what you're talking about

He should have never made that "pistols next time" comment, cant imagine a more scary experience.

MASSIVELY disagree, the new Napoleon movie had issue but it was FAR from "bORIng" AT ALL as it was a masterfully directed movie and beautifully made!

@@Gadget-Walkmen it was the perfect opposite of all what you claim it was.

@@redhussar1436 lol not even close, just stop with the hatful nonsense as basically ALL of Ridley Scott’s movies looks fantastic and beautiful to see. Nowhere near “tHe pErFEcT oPpOsiTE oF aLl wHat yOu clAIm iT iS” lol NOT even close. You have a problem with the script, NOT the masterfully directed movie that it was!

@@Gadget-Walkmen you do realize putting some words in caps, putting the other sides areguments in quotation marks and saying something the opposite of what the other is saying, doesnt actually make your opinions into facts, right?

@@redhussar1436 You do realize, NOTHING that which you're saying is true at all. I'm mocking and breaking down the nonsense that which you're saying, it doesn't make what I say into facts, it highlights just how wrong what you're saying actually is.

Where did you read that?

Seems a little implausible. Especially since I've never heard that anywhere.

Google “Cadenettes” and read away...

Wow cool fact of the day, thanks mate.

I wouldn't think that, but it's a neat fact I did not know!

Just don't go all the way and challenge her to a duel. We saw how it turned out between D'Hubert vs Kietel's woman lol.

Film & TV they filmed the Russian winter scenes in Scotland as far as I can remember.

If I'm being curt with you, it is only because time is of the essence....so pretty please, with sugar ontop.

it works, that's all that matters.

@@plasticweapon If you say so, Harvey.

@@ScotchIrishTarheel my name is josh.

@@plasticweapon Harvey Josh Keitel? Or Josh Harvey Keitel?

andriyko oscars don't mean anything.

I don’t remember movies that get oscars unless I wanted them to

Who beat this movie for the oscar and were people in disagreement?

It wasn't his wife, more likely his mistress, and it would probably just enrage Feraud further. In fact he probably thought that the woman's intervention saved D'Hubert, not him. Feraud has that kind of personality.

There's always that one guy who always wants "beef" with people. They have inner demons and sometimes you gotta fight'em whether you want to or not.

Still life, stilleben👍

No, because neither side agreed to submit. The man who "lost" can easily say the "duel" was "interrupted" by the woman, and so they have to settle things later.

If you look up the true story of what happened it makes more sense. They fought in 20 duels and both were quite happy to do so.

There was no winner here; the law had banned duelling for the better part of two centuries in the kingdom/country so only custom and peer / social pressure regulated the proper procedure of a duel, with no law and no (competent) third party involved here given the rushed nature of the encounter only them, D'Hubert and Ferraud, could decide if the matter was closed. Ferraud did not surrender so was free to pursue this petty rivalry another day and D'Hubert had no resource to declare the matter settled here regardless of who had the advantage when they were interrupted.

@@TheChuckfuc I read it was more like 30 duels. It's true that the real person d'Hubert is based on was happy to continue dueling the person Feraud is based on, right up until the former got married -- only at that point did he finally want it to stop.

Keitel must be a remainer.

Yeah, I think a film about aliens or gladiators might work.

So, this is how it is to be a hummingbird in spring?

You fight NOW

d'Hubert should've said "cope".

That guy wanted "beef" no matter what, BUT....I would not have tried to arrest him at a whorehouse. More prudent to wait until he came back. But honestly, some guys just want beef with everyone and you ultimately will have to fight one.

@@juniorjames7076 I bet he wouldn't "beef" against four rifles with bayonets. But if he tried - it would be fun.

He might have been a bad doctor?

He did......and better. It was called Alien

@@toddjohnson271 lol just stop. Star Wars and Alien are NOTHING alike as sci-fi stories in the slightest. They can't be compared as they're NOTHING alike except having ships in space but even THAT isn't very comparable as HOW their ships operate is entirely different. NOR is alien better than star wars AT ALL. Not even close. And I love Alien and I'm an alien fan of the series but it's really NOT better than star wars or it's film series at all.

Yeah I don't really understand what made Keitels character so upset in the first place

@@hverdagen8429 Remember the couple who pulled guns on people and were all over the news? Keitel's character is them, but competent. The intent was to fight. Finding the reason was secondary.

Napoleon Dynamite , Fiddler on the Roof , Unforgiven , The Good the bad and the ugly , Das Boot… there are lots of great movies.