As long as everyone is covered in filth, and wearing gray with a blue filter over everything, it's a sure sign of historical accuracy.

I bet he doesn’t wear it for the looks but for the stats

Nobody is mentioning the fact that Metatron is getting progressively more Armoured during the video lol

Ridley-Scott first film was called “The duellists“ probably one of his best films to date

I never thought I needed to see a knight juggling pizza in my lifetime, but thanks to you good sir, now I know.

Blackadder: No war was fought so badly, since Olaf the Hairy, head of all the Vikings, accidently ordered 100.000 helmets with the horns on the inside!

"Do you know how I got these scars...?" -"From your stupid helmet?" "..... ah crap"

Historical advisor: "Look at those beautiful and completely accurate helmets." Hollywood producer: "Wait, you mean they close? Like over the actors face?" Historical advisor: "Uh, yes. The steel kinda needs to be between the face and the pointy bit" Hollywood producer: - Historical advisor: - Hollywood producer: "WE PAID FOR ADAM DRIVER AND MATT DAMON AND WE WILL SHOW THEIR HANDSOME MUGS! EVERY! SINGLE! FRAME! WE! CAN!" Hollywood assistant: "Sir, the guys on youtube are gonna make fun of us again if we don't use head protection. Remember the Hobbit?" Hollywood producer: "DAMN THE INTERNET! Half a visor, that's the best I can do. How else is the audience able to tell the two dudes wearing dark blue and black in front of a grey sky and muddy peasants from each other? It's not like they colour coded knights or anything..."

"Riddley Scott... Thats it, aliens!" This cracked me up, amazing hahaha

Lady (presenting the half helmet) "Bring honour to this helmet..." Knight "This helmet?" Lady "Indeed...this helmet" Knight "Tis but half a helmet m'lady" Lady "And you are but half a man." Knight "M'lady, if it pleases thee, m'lady can shove the half helmet up thine arse."

I wonder how some insults back then would've played out in the 14th century. "Yo momma so old, she thought today was the Battle of Hastings!" "I would like to formally duel out this issue, sir!"

Ok, so Spartacus Blood and Sand deviated a lot from historical accuracy and even combat sense sometimes but hear me out: one cool thing they did when shooting some fight scenes in the arena I remember was as if they had a camera INSIDE the gladiators helmets to show the actors faces. I had never seen something like it before in a setting focusing on ancient or medieval culture and I found it to be a really cool touch. So if you have to show the actors face while wearing a combat helmet, then do something like that rather than this mess with half visors. For pittance sake! :S

Good take on the trailer :) I‘m still kinda happy the movie is being produced; there can’t be too many historical pieces, even if they‘re only an opportunity to talk about history.

a Sicilian man in full plate armor tells me "we're gonna have fun" what should i expect?

The Historical Set Advisor Was Either Completely Ignored Or Was Isolating With The Plague?

I must say, that helmet made me chuckle. I do believe that was the true reason- it made Ridley chuckle.

No one can act in a full helm! David prowse as darth vader: *shoulders sag in disgust*

I think someone in production team heard a term 'half-helmet' (which actually means a bascinet-type helmet without a visor)?

My favourite things about The Last Duel were how their armour actually worked and received tons of hits (and actually protected them!), and all damage came from non-armoured bits. Also halfswording.

That half visor genuinely looks disgusting. Humans are naturally attracted and drawn to symmetry... So why would you remove the beautiful symmetry of a helmet and replace it with a disjointed mess, it makes everyone look heavily disfigured and for what reason? This is the weirdest thing I've seen in a long time. Edit: I'm refering to facial symmetry

Looks more like a Swadian arena from M&B: Warband rather than a jousting list

Have you heard about the upcoming crusades series Knights of the Cross? The devs are really serious about going for historical accuracy. The first trailer is set to release soon.

You never know how many times a general audience member will simply forget who they are watching fight in full armor.

I love these type of videos and I love to see it for a change from you. Keep up with this, its awesome lmao

0:28 Me after I witness a full plate armoured Knight tossing Pizzas in the intro.

What pisses me off more is this ever present gray/blue fllter with directors (scott especially) going out of their way to darken and create an awful mood to medieval period.

So many trivia I had never heard about!! Amazing content, noble one!

rants and sarcasm are the reason I subscribed 3 years ago

The way you described anonymous knights in coloured armor makes me wish there was "Top Joust" featuring the medieval equivalent of "the Stig" xD

Oh, this is just a premonition that this character would become a medieval TwoFace. Good foreshadowing, or sth like that.

He lost the other half on a crash,and the insurance company told him to wait six months for the new part to be processed and issued....and then installed by a professional,qualified technician. That's when the guy with half a visor went;To hell with it!

The movie actually ended up being pretty good! Should maybe look at reviewing a couple of the scenes when it’s out! With the exception of the weird helmets you see armour actually doing it’s job multiple times, and various more realistic techniques like half swording used

Maille coifs and padding ... I was an extra on a documentary about the Plantagenets. The deal is you drive several hunderd miles across Britain, to a muddy field in the rain, get togged up in whatever armour you own, then MAKEUP come along and spray you with theatrical sterilised mud, for some reason. Then the assistant directors come along and match you versus some other renactor in a battle scene and you then make up some moves that look suitably authentic. Then the assistant director comes along and says 'no no no!' You explain that whilst swords were a thing, you typically start the fight with some sort of tin opener on a pole and end it rolling in the mud with rondels. The assistant director removes your bills and spears and gives you a late 1400s horseman's war hammer whilst yoh try to explain that at Crecy such a weapon probably wasn't used, he then asks if you have a different helmet besides the bascinet, you say you have a sallet but its like turning up to the Somme with a red tunic.. the AD insists so you lumber off back to the noble Steed (ancient Volvo) and have a rummage and return with your lobster tailed 1480s sallet and think, hey, why don't I bring my Edward III guard surcoat. Return to Crecy field where the AD loves the helmet but tells me to open the visor, makeup then spray more mud on me... the AD does not, however, like my surcoat (despite my pointing out that it was a relatively accurate reproduction of the one, likeky worn by my ancestor Sir William Atte Woode, who was Captain of Edward III's Royal Guard and who, with his son Sir Geoffrey, a Serjeant in the same Guard, was killed defending Edward at Crecy).. no no no, says the AD... it's too COLOURFUL and costumes are making surcoats. Which, when they arrive appear to be what modern soldiers would call 'Tactical' i.e. whdn you take a Stars and Stripes or a Union Flag and you replace the red white qnd blue with dark greens... I point out that the 1340s were pretty colourful, and people weren't covered in shit , well, at least before the Black Death hit later in 1346 in that part of the world... Then the AD decides my French opponent shouldn't be wearing a pig faced bascinet and tells him to take it off. The problrm is that he's only got a thin padded coif under there so the Health and Satefy dude turns up and tells him its too thin and hands him one of those Indian made versions that's 1.5 inches thick and looks like a Russian tank helmet from the 70's. That goes on and the Chevalier now looks like one of Gru's minions in armour. Meanwhile a water tanker turns up and starts showering rain on us. I point out to the AD that there is no evidence it was raining at Crecy which was fought in August in a country where tens of thousands of Britons head every year partly BECAUSE ITS SUNNY. Nothing doing...so we grumble about it and do what they want, and moan about the rust we're going to have to clean off, and the smell of Vick Vaporub which some use as a grease to protect their kit that is moderately more easy to wash out of 21st C clothes and 20th C trusty steed interior carpets than engine grease. We then get catering, paid our petrol money and given £20 for our efforts for the day then drive 200 miles home. Documentary comes out and there I am, in blury blue filter, covered in mud, wearing a space age helmet with its visor open jumping on top of a steep clad Minion (dasterdly Frenchman) waving a horseman's hammer which is 140 years out of date and wondering why they bothered engaging Toby Capwell as a contributor!. THEN as I am loading the boot of the trusty steed, the AD's assistant comes up and asks me if I can come down next month because they are 'doing Towton' and asks me to bring a shield. I no longer do re-enactment, sold my armour and am too old for MMA these days. It's expensive and soul destroying working with meeja types who aren't interested in accuracy or understanding that our ancestors knew how to wash, cut hair, avoid mud, liked colourful clothing and getting covered in shit.

One thing I really appreciated from the movie was how they showed arrows doing basically no damage to the armour. I just finished watching the movie and desperately wanted to see your thoughts on it. Hope you make a full video about the movie post-release at some point at all, I thought it was awesome!

You made me curious about that movie... yes, and thanks a lot for the load of information about judicial and honour duels. I will watch on and wait for your next video. Keep up the good work! مع السلامة

I don't think any historical or period expert is going to be 100% happy. But I was impressed with the fighting and Matt Damon in particular. He was very convincing as a brutish knight that made his living in war. During the combat, he looked and moved like he was used to wearing that armor and trusted it. There were a couple times where he pivoted so his plate absorbed the blow so he could move his sword to attack. He wasn't constantly trying to parry everything. He was also very fluid when it came to switching weapons depending on what was at hand. I know all of this is choreographed and I'm sure they spent hours in training and rehearsal. But the point is that it showed. They looked and moved like they really wanted to kill each other. It wasn't like other swords fights where it looked like their goal was to hit each other's swords.

"You Cheeky Muppet" is my new favourite insult. 😂😂😂

King: "You've done well, here's a couple of thousand Franks and a few Bob(s)." Knight: "Oh, bloody hell. Where are they going to live? Can't you just pay me in cash, like all the other monarchs?"

That was both funny and informative, well done ! Also, props for the really good pronunciation of French names :)

10:24 Martial prow-N-ess? Funny misspelling there, my man! Awesome video, regardless! The beginning was hilarious!

I just saw it, and I was trying to figure out why they had a half helmet as well. It was distracting to me.

These actors and producers need to learn from the Mandalorian. You can in fact mime your way into expressing emotion while never showing your face.

Since i saw the weard helmet in the film trailer i was looking forward for your commentary on this :D Greetings from Perchtoldsdorf/Austria!

this movie is really really good, I am ashamed I didn't see this earlier, everything in the 3 different scenes is different when you really want to pay attention to it, loved it, I really want to see more movies like this, and please never let the historical drama die out, we have too many superhero movies, it's time to go back to the epics.

If you saw the film, a possible reason that Margurite de Carrouges told her husband Jean Carrouges about her rape and him challenging Jacques Le Gris to a trial by combat, wasn't just simply about honor, but also for the legitimacy of their child (son and heir), that was "conceived" around the time of her rape. Le Gris could always later say that it is his bastard son. If left unchallenged, it could cause a lot of trouble later about inheritance, and the continuation of the "Bloodline".

Speaking of jousting, would you describe "a knight's tale" accurate or not? If you didn't already spoke about it.

Just found this channel, very interesting topics. Keep it up my friend, you are my new favorite channel, thank you

Dude Raff, love your work bro. Extremely interesting. 👍⚔

Love that intro, made me chuckle

Interesting video, Ralph. Actually I had some inaccurate knowledge about dueling.. You filled in some gaps. Especially the judicial form of dueling. BTW... Nice to see the fair lady again... tell her not to worry too much about acting.

Hilarious 😂 great video! Thanks for making it. Cheers 🍻

love this style of video, heaps entertaining and informative, keep it up

I saw the trailer for this movie last week and the 1st thing I thought why they hell is his visor only half? I'm going to still see it though after reading about the two real men that fought the duel. Great video Metatron

I love how the hat come on and off without mention. 😂

Love your reenactment. Absolutely brilliant.

Formidable acting! That for me is the best artistical material you have produced so far. More reenactment of not so good movie scenes please, because it destilles the essence of it so very good and it shows both your sense of humor and humanity.

The French King Henry II was killed during a joust. He was struck in the eye by a splinter.

It most be really "expensive" to have a historian or expert in a big production since they miss again and again in accuracy

awesome video as always tanks! i hope we got an edited version of this movie with CGI -ing a full vigor for both duelist!

It’s so funny because I just saw the trailer and I knew you were going to tear that apart, glad to see there was a video on it already

This whole shenanigans vould easily be work with some scenes of the actors expressions inside the helmets or make the helmet visor become invisible making ot a see through close up scenes like something from anime/manga. IT'S THAT EASY!!

Just from a brief snippet in the trailer, it appears that both jousters use half visors, armored on the left side. In the actual duel. highly cinematic, the alleged rapist stabbed the agrieved husband through the thigh while he was down. But he leapt up, knocked his opponent down, straddled him and popped his visor open with the pommel of his dagger. A fight choreographer couldn't invent a better duel than these two Normans really fought.

This is a very, very, very good video! I just hit that subscrive button! Keep up the good work!!!

Well... I heard the term half helm being tossed around in the Song of ice and fire novels... but THAT is the last thing that would have never ever even come to my mind when imagining what that could mean and obviously JRR Martin surely describes some scull cap type of helmet with that word...

-Why don't actors in historical battles wear helmets? Hollywood: Because we've paid millions to have their faces on film! -But it's ahistorical! Hollywood: Let's compromise

The last time Ridley Scott did a medieval movie, it was about Robin Hood... you know... the character famous for his skill with a WAR HAMMMER (seriously he use like 3 arrow in the whole movie). There was also this brilliant scene of Omaha Beach with automatic-bows and boats from WW2... I mean... what did you expect ?

Damn, everything aside, the reenacment part was so wholesome!

I'm a motorcyclist and I prefer wearing only half a helmet myself. In the case of an accident I simply fall on the helmet side of life.

"Based on a true story" oh yes, who could forget the legend of Half Helm Harry as he was known at first but after his first battle he was known as massive head-wound Harry

So excited to watch noble lord the intro goosebumps

Patiently waiting for your full review.

Your lady did an excellent job. Dropping the top off her shoulder was well played..

Half visor because de Carrouges (as per the account) used his dagger's pommel to break the visor lock and then held Le Gris at dagger point. This whole fiddling with the lock part must have - in the artistic eyes of Mr. Scott - looked ungainly, so he did away with it. Plus, we get to see 100% of Matt Driver that way. Or is it Madam Damriver? Confused.

With a half visor he can smoke a cigarette during a duell.

"Muh lod, why are you wearing half a helmet?" "I will look more menacing this way & bring more drama to the battlefield"

I was waiting for your opinion on this one, myself I pretty much know the story and have read the book . In the book it was said that barriers were not used in judicial duels. Don't know I wasn't there. I'll wait until it comes on Netflix.

8:15 Metatron reached Astral plane because of his rage.

1:13 Ah, Breathe? Yes. Breed? Probably not... poor guy 😓

Those are exactly the same questions I thought to when I first saw the trailer. I think it's the exact same thing that happened in Game of Thrones. Sandor Clegane and Jaime Lannister had much more elaborate helmets in the book, but in the series they never wear them just because the characters had to be more recognizable.

That smile is from heaven and it can dim the old One's light.

Feels like Metatron was getting close to doing a Cato the Elder. Half Helmet delenda est.

Ngl, I need a montage of Metattron just loosing his mind over hilarious historic errors in shows/movies. Also, a vote, which reaction was the most expressive, the one with the Netflix show about samurai and simping Katanas, or this one with half visor?

you should do a history of the toga video, so many people unknowingly think the toga was a greek invention when the ancient greeks never really wore true togas only himation cloth. love the videos always of high quality bro.

This is right up ur alley Do as many shows as you can on this movie

Hey metatron will you ever do another "strongest for honor heroes in real life" since we got new heroes, also i think it would be a great video if you did the same video but instead of using default armor, use the highest rated armor instead. It would be a really interesting video to see your take on how much the order changes based on better armor but its just an idea.

"Full Lame" ...made me crack up good, almost died

Me: clicking to see if the half-visor half-chopped face had a historical reference or plain stupid. Also me: gets a full blown lecture about historical judicial duels instead. Not disappointed.

10:19 this reminds me of how all the people I meet at jujitsu and wrestling tournaments are really respectful, weather you won or lost you chose the hardest sport to compete in and you were worthy of being on the mat.

I though it's gonna be about "Hawk the Slayer"🤣 Hey, maybe it's a homage🤔🤣!

It's so people can see his facial expression but they can still say he's wearing a helmet

540k subs, damn man your popping off, i remember when i was watching it was around 250k

Wow, what an interesting talk on Medieval combat off the field of battle.

To everybody: Read the book!!!! The Last Duel by Eric Jager, it tells the true story of this duel and it's a great read.

We do see asymmetry in later armour - focusing on the left side as that is the more likely side to hit. In an actual battle I could see this being useful because it's not quite open faced but the side more likey to be hit is covered up. However, if it worked I'm sure we would have historical evidence for it.

Dear Metatron 👋🏻 nice vid as always I just wondered if there is a way to fanmail you stuff

Hello Megatron, So recently I was in Sicily and saw something very interesting on the wall of Ursino castle in Catania, where I can contact you about this? ( I need to send a pic)

i don't even care about the helmet really, but this video made me laugh out loud

There was said to have been a judicial duel between an accused murderer and the victim's dog. Spoiler Alert! The dog won.

that editing/armor XD you got me, shame that i am already sub, would have sub again ! XD

0:16 I was like, "oooooh here we go" LMFAO