He's old and out of touch at this point. He's 86 for Chrissake. He should have retired 2 decades ago.

​@@Shadowman4710 Rubbish

Napolean is so much better than this.

​@@dougdougw I feel bad for you.

@@dougdougw fanboys...

There is not. They're even more sensual than love albeit more fleeting. The air you breath crackles with sensuality.

Truth. As a rockclimber I say you speak the truth sir!

as a plainjumper I also agree

As a woolly jumper I also agree.

as a call of duty 7693 player I concur

In terms of the truly horrendous wounds that a sabre can deliver? It was slight.

@@BillOweninOttawa Oh I don't doubt it for a moment. I do love the understated way of representing it though. Reminds me of the Black Knight scene in Monty Python.

@@Rekaert tis but a scratch.

There are authentic reports of cavalry sabres cutting soldiers in half. Not horizontally, but VERTICALLY!

..."I regret that the duel can not continue".

If you rewatch, you’ll notice that he does start off scared, but then he has flash back on how all this pretty much ruined him, turning fear into anger. The adrenaline of fear is replaced with adrenaline of hatred. He goes from being afraid to charge forward, to hastily rushing forward to defeat his opponent. This is why you never underestimate your opponent, moods and opportunities change every second that can be in or against your favor.

Performance anxiety... he was defeated in the previous duel and this was look much more deadly.

@@cheeseandonions9558 yeah. I think it was more nerves than anything else. These dudes stare death in the face on the regular. I sincerely doubt that he's actually scared of losing his life in a duel.

@@censorthispuertorican I dunno. I've heard that inexperienced soldiers are sometimes given difficult missions due to them not knowing any better. The rationale being that experienced soldiers are more easily scared due to knowing how bad things will be.

@@LoudaroundLincoln that may be so. But this dude was a decorated officer in napoleons army. A hussar who lived his life on the front line; constantly charging into battle. I seriously doubt that such a man was scared of dying.

Stephan Bruno 😂😂😂

Well For some people Honor and dignity is everything even more important than money. They rather die for it than let it go

Scott Fresner Better than living for money, or pleasure, or nothing of value at all.

Based on real sets of duellists. In real life, Dupont (d'Hubert counterpart) wanted to stop, but Fournier just wouldn't let go. They actually fought a hell of lot more duel than the short story and this movie implied.

For real haha

i agree, i watched the film yesterday. I also found the lighting in this film so beautiful.

It was a challenge filming with real candles. Kubrick was a perfectionist, always asking from his crew to go beyond the envelope. If you watch closely the moon shuttle from 2001. Each window has a film sequence even if they are post stamp size.

@@mikecimerian6913 sorry but this is not Barry Lyndon, it's The Duellists. First movie of the famous director Ridley Scott. Scott admits he was influenced by Barry Lyndon while making this movie but I think The Duellists is a far better movie in visuals and story.

@@osmankarih5239 True, Barry Lyndon. Thanks.

@@osmankarih5239 I admit I like The Duellists better than Barry Lyndon but it has to do with the themes. Barry Lyndon is the story of a lucky upstart opportunist. The sort of character opposite to men of honor. Honor taken to absurd is more interesting than a social climber story.

The fighting is realistic, portraying how the sword is deadly, 2 moves in 3 seconds and somebody got hit and crawling on the floor bleeding. People like unrealistic, sensational fighting with 100 fancy sword play for 6 minute with no main characters got incapacitated .

"Can someone tell me how the hell this film isn't recognised as a masterpiece?" It is.

I dont understand why it is not more appreciated. I do think that Kietel seems a bit out of sorts here but that's just because I'm so used to seeing him protray street wise thugs and corrupt cops.

Watercolour Guitar people have tastes, and it isn't your job to insult them. Fucking gatekeeper

@@watercolour in real life, how long a real sword fight ends actually depends on the skills of the combatants, it doesn’t matter how much techniques you know, it really depends

All of Kubrick's movies are gorgeously filmed. He was a true artist.

***** I meant Ridley Scott's movies. He is a true artist.

***** As far as aesthetic style goes, Ridley Scott must have a sixth sense or something. In all of his movies the aesthetic design is so good, they look like they were shot in this decade. I honestly can't think of any movie ever that has better looking hussars or roman soldiers than the Duellists or the Gladiator. I was especially struck by the difference between this movie and Barry Lyndon which I watched in the same sitting - while Barry Lyndon was a deeper and ultimately greater masterpiece, stylistically, Barry Lyndon looks extremely outdated whereas the Duellists felt like something I might have seen in theaters this summer. It's truly a remarkable feat that a movie from 1975 (40 years ago!!!) looks and feels that way.

***** Again with that mistake? You have a problem sir - haha!

You know when they say that, "canigit," the joke is they're pronouncing "knight" wrong? K-ni-ght! I never realized until someone else told me.

"Slight". I don't think it means what you think it means. -Inigo Montoya

T'is but a scratch.

A scalp is not a vital organ by any means!

@@alekseyibragimov9873 but there is lot of blood flowing thru it.

@@alekseyibragimov9873 it can cause dire situations though. Scalp injuries can be dangerous.

Quid Est Veritas lol...and they call the Musulmen 'death-worshipers'....nothing compared to these eurotribal nutters, bred only for hacking their neighbors apart...

***** I suppose it highlights the attitude of the Hussar of the period; they certainly had a reputation as being brave to the point of recklessness and having a somewhat unruly lifestyle. La Salle himself, notable for personal heroism in battle, was also a notorious duelist and gambler. The hussar was frequently depicted as heroic and cavalier in battle, flamboyant in appearance, but also a drinker, brawler and womanizer. They also gained a stereotype as being not exactly the smartest men in the army. I suppose La Salle could just as easily been saying "live fast, die young" :)

+Quid Est Veritas i'd like u to get a french head, American!

+Quid Est Veritas Thank you very much .

+Rick Deckard hussard have turkish origin

That's a good point, although Feraud is the only one we see actually engaging and destroying the enemy (the scene where he shoots the Cossack in Russia.)

That relates to another detail I haven't seen mentioned, which is that Hubert is an aristocrat, while his opponent is not. I'd assume an aristocrat would have grown up around horses, them being the primary mode of transport at the time if you had the money to buy one. As such you can see in this duel that Feraud has a lot of trouble controlling his horse, and Hubert does not, and as a result of his superior mastery of the horse he easily wins this duel. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because you comment about Feraud having experience with horses as an officer made me doubt the above analysis of mine, but I still might be on to something, after all even if all officers are good with horses, surely the officers who grew up riding horses would be better than those who did not.

need more butter!

There was a small contingent of hussars, called "Bagot's Hussars", in the Jacobite army of 1745-6, their uniform seems to have been more understated than these ones but did include a fur cap.

That's a nice head on your shoulders

I drink from your skull!

Ptsd flashbacks

The commentary on the DVD mentions that the uniforms for the main characters did cost more than 10,000 $ to make, even back then in the seventies.

See “Barry Lyndon”

@@darbyheavey406 Truth.

Yes, I have to agree. I never saw more dashing outfits in any other movie except Waterloo and Charge of the Light Brigade.

Run-on

Un hussard qui n'est pas mort à 30 ans est un Jean-foutre disait le général Lasalle...

Ferrault and D'Huber were a study in contrasts: One crass, brash and impulsive, the other was polite, modest and thoughtful. Both were a credit to their uniform and in a different world, could have been the best of friends. Ferrault rebuffed the good advice of his friends, and doubled-down on blaming a good man for his own failures. In Russia, when an opportunity to duel is over-ruled by duty; together both driving off a band of Cossacks. When the danger has passed, D'Huber offers a drink, comraderie in those most bitter conditions. When Ferrault refuses, D'Huber understands that reconciliation is impossible. He half-jokingly tells Ferrault "Pistols, next time"...probably thinking that neither of them will see France again. Yet D'Huber saved Ferrault's life after the fall of Napolean, repaying the debt incurred during their interrupted duel in Russia. In that moment, we realize that D'Huber was trapped by his own personal honor, and it may well cost him his life one day. This movie was sublime on all levels. The way Ridley Scott made this movie allowed the viewer to experience each moment, instead of showing a scene; he did this by crafting the scenes with light... if you watch carefully, each scene in sequence will have similar lighting at the beginning as did the scene before it ended. Lighting levels were always carefully balanced to never distract the viewer from the scene, but rather to draw them into it. Scene to scene transitions were carefully crafted. This movie watches like a book you can't put down.

You've watched the movie that many times and don't know that their names are spelled Feraud and D'Hubert?

Richard Sharpe agrees with you.

@@peterblyth5500 Abba, however, does not

Imagine wearing so much style today? You'd have t stop at every mirror and admire your outfit.

Agreed. And what kind of blows my mind is the look of the film was achieved through very, let's say, traditional means -- beautiful photography and no need for digital manipulation.

rongwrong1 I really liked 'Alien' too, but still you are probably right!

Direction...oooo that's tough. My gut would say 'Bladerunner' mostly because of the way dialogue was more important in it, and he knew how to give his actors freedom from over-direction. Imagine Hauer's performance with a different director who kept the talent on a short leash; Baty could be a talkative Terminator instead of this tragic shell.

This and Alien

It's been sad watching his decline over the decades. His first 3 films are classics. Downhill ever since.

@@bbb462cid I love bladerunner but the dialogue is very clunky

Forget the basically

Do you know if Feraud’s horse makes these movements from 1:34 based on command? Or is it eager to gallop but Feraud is holding it back?

Play List you need to check out the comments on The Wire clips

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I haven’t even seen this movie but I’ve watched 5 duals now

I think this was the one duel in which d'Hubert felt he had no chance against a superior horseman and horse - he was facing death... and beat it.

Then he jumps the haywain out of sheer exhilaration at still being alive.

Or maybe it has nothing to do with PTSD but he is fucking scared of having a psychpathic maniac on a horse running full speed at it with a sabre. Imean, what's so weird about that?

PTSD is over-analysing it. He could be dead inside a minute. He is up against someone who would be satisfied with nothing less. It's like "You only live twice. Once when you are born, and once when you look death in the face." By that standard, D'Hubert is living for the second time.

I see what you're saying but that's good old fashioned fear. Courage in the face of fear-nothing like it

it's a copyrighted movie now... you were lucky to see it when it still no major film company cared for it

Fear is a strange thing - I recall going caving and in one particular tight squeeze the hole started filling with water just as I got wedged, I was so terrified of drowning in a couple of inches of water I would have broken my own ribs to get out. And yet climbing one time, I was in a severely bad position which I was convinced was going to leave me falling 1000' feet to my death and I hardly broke a sweat (until a few days later when it caught up on me). I have begun to wonder whether courage is not a binary thing you have or not, but a consumable item to which you can add to or lose from.

I faced fear ,many times at our dojo ( and at completion with hundreds of spectators watching ) facing other karate guys just about to start Kumite ( fights ) Once I got started I was ok.

Nothing weak about it. I’ve been in several dozen intense fire fights on my deployments. I have also jumped out of a plane 66 times. The anticipation was painful for both events, the calm before the storm was much harder to bear than the event. Once it got started though you were free, all the anxiety vanished and you were in the moment. It is quite perplexing to be human.

il faudrait des noirs et des gay transgenres en effet

@@Brackhmmarr c’est vrai qu’en dehors de la propagande et l’histoire réécrite Netflix Netflix … car le néant

if only he would make a movie about Rome and gladiators and their generals

Or the crusades

Maybe some Sci-Fi...

This is the best scene of his career without question

Scott could do well with a simple story about a London broker who inherits a vineyard. Perhaps near Gord...

I think its better than Barry lyndon .

Scott has said he was trying to emulate the cinematography of Barry Lyndon

@@flameracer93 If that is the case then he did a pretty darn good job.

@@flameracer93 I'd say he improved on it.

@@flameracer93 He did a pretty good job.

Incredibly gay

@@P_steez what did you say? I couldn't understand you. Take the cock out of your mouth and say it again.

Beats sitting around camp playing cards and catching dysentery.

In aspect they are on a field trip.

Hussars were usually aristocrats, as commoners usually didn't know how to ride horses.

It is a stunning film. May God bless you as your ex. ❤

no Shawshank Empire of The Thing....

@@KlingonGamerYT I'm guessing you like them, but no, not like any of those.

Nice catch!

yup - Duchy of Warsaw to be more precise :)

Lancier polonais de la Garde impériale

@@druisteen I don't think the Guard had its lancer regiment yet in 1806.

Well if you have seen the trailer for "Napoleon", you'd know it's going to be quite historically inaccurate to say the least.

@@s.w.4409 Considering what an ahistorical shitshow "The Last Duel" was, it's not surprising at all

word is, it stinks

Indeed, every scene is crafted beautifully and both main actors are superb.

I couldn't I agree more, and this scene, the fourth duel was amazing

Poor d'Hubert knew he was outclassed on horseback and even his horse was outclassed but he pulled it off.

One of the best final shots ever, too.

D'Hubert was actually a really good swordsman tho, but he was "just" a solid horseback fighter, that's why he was so nervous before this fight

Some are disappointed with their small thingies. May as well seek combat.

I think there's a direct correlation between size of the ego and the size of the hat throughout age and time. Just look at cowboys, pimps, folks at the horse races in uk.. royals on an outing .. the pope Big egos ... Big hats.

Honnor, not ego !

@@stijnvandamme76 Lol you're on to something.

It's historical. Uniform during Napoleonic wars changed from elaborated Ancien Regime niceties to plain, simple and practical.

Not entirely. Feraud is wearing overalls, heavy-duty trousers, when he severely wounds that civilian at the start. These were favoured, especially on campaign, by all kinds of cavalry in the Napoleonic period but later scenes typically have both antagonists wearing the more ornate breeches.

That egg deserves an oscar nomination. Hands down.

The weapons were primitive -- basically sharpened metal sticks, but the uniforms were elaborate and stylish.

The fur-lined pelisse of hussars was useful in cold winters, and sometimes there were concessions to utility. In the first duel with the civilian who is skewered, Feraud is wearing overalls rather than cavalry breeches, and these were often favoured on campaign.

Hussars wore especially showy uniforms and it probably limited the number of such regiments that were raised, because equipping them was more expensive. I believe the most common type of light cavalry in French service were chasseurs, who wore rather mundane green uniforms with infantry-type shakos,. with the elite company of the regiment wearing busbies like those here. There may also have been more lancer regiments than hussar regiments, and a lancer officer, probably Polish, can be seen among those at the breakfast party.

Thanks to all the rifles and artillery making a lot of smoke, every bit of bright uniforms helped to distinguish friend or foe. Rifles were less accurate as well, and they fought in lines, so they could get away with it. Later on it started to just paint a big "shoot me" sign, that's why uniforms were changed to better blend in with terrain when looking for cover etc. Cavalrymen had especially flamboyant uniforms, just like their attitude and air of superiority to common infantrymen fighting in the mud.

These are the parade uniforms they wore in this duel. Earlier in the film, it was suggested that they wear such uniforms. They did not wear such ornate uniforms at the front.

girls love horses

where are u from Norm gb/uk or elsewhere in anglosaxon world?here italy

here in italy we call"anglosaxon countries" all those country as cdn,gb usa,nz and aus,the root is similar od identichal

The Anglo Saxons , Celts ,Vikings, Normans, French and Spaniards are all mixed together so other than English as a trade language we are all family....some are just a little more pale skinned than others. :)

>Someone calling france a great country >not sarcastic >omegalul

Norm Ellison Incorrect. They can tell where a European comes from by testing their dna. For example. The Welsh have on average 70%+ Celtic DNA. The idea that Europeans are all mixed is a myth.

Hahaha right. It's a flesh wound lol

He literally got his wig split

scalp bleeds a lot. very slight wound. incredibly low chance of death. skin is the body's largest organ and is also ruthless with healing wounds even that bad. fleshwounds were more common then. its about cleaning it and you're usually safe

exept the polish lancer, they joint after 1807 the french army and this playing 1806

Ridiculous and snooty first sentence.

​@@spikespa5208 ha ha doesn't it tell you everything.?

It's called age.

You gotta stay hungry.

Absolutely... But it's also interesting how we recognize this cinematography as being the early 19th century Europe... Who put these ideas into our heads?

Oui. Mais quel film magnifique !... Tourné en France avec un petit budget. Il est regrettable que l'industrie cinématographique française actuelle soit incapable de produire des œuvres de cette qualité...

@@lespagnolrogermarie7674 Ce sont des jean-foutres dans l'industrie du cinéma Français.

I swear to God. How much time did these killers spend fussing with their hair?

To John Rohde, I applaud your knowledge of the hussar uniforms of this period. The shabracques of the hussar "seconds" are incorrect. They should be sheepskin, with the saw-tooth edge of cloth.

pinz2022 The braids were (supposedly) meant to add a layer of protection against saber slashes (when combined with their actual headgear, sort of like an under-layer). I don't know if it did that, but it did immediately identify them as Hussars.

I was about to comment upon the incorrect uniforms. Glad I didn't , you Sir, truly know your stuff.

Parfectement exact

That's the sort of crap written by spin doctors to needlessly send men to their deaths.

You should watch the 1970 movie "Waterloo", it's here on KZfaq

@@LOLERXP Saw it at the cinema when it came out ! But the real thing must have been unbelievable

+Cpl. Gadway USMC I understand that, for this movie, the uniforms were the biggest production expense.

Cpl. Gadway USMC ??? American Civil War

In a KZfaq talk he gave at a film retrospective, at the Virginia Film Festival, Carradine said they had uniforms made in the authentic style of the period, but the fabric didn't "give", which I suppose means it ripped too easily, so they had to remake them using modern processes. The authentic 18th or 19th century uniforms I sometimes see in museums do look rather brittle, perhaps cloth from that period was not durable, or maybe it is just that the material is old.

or maybe most uniforms were already factory made, which is of course lower quality than hand made.

Cpl. Gadway USMC im not using my phone