Understanding the film EXCALIBUR epic collab Part 3
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Күн бұрынThe Medieval Myhtbusters reunite to deconstruct and review the medieval fantasy film Excalibur!
These videos are part of an epic six part collaboration between the KZfaq channels, Metatron, Medieval Review, Knyght Errant, Antony Cummins, Knight Squire and Shadiversity.
Part 1 (Metatron): • Understanding the film...
Part 2 (Medieval Review): • Understanding the film...
Part 3 (Knyght Errant): • Understanding the film...
Part 4 (Antony Cummins): • Understanding the film...
Part 5 (KnightSquire): • Understanding the Film...
Part 6 (Shadiversity): • Understanding the film...
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@joshkbai 7 жыл бұрын
Who would have thought my favorite youtubers would up and decide to make a video together? These are all excellent by the way. I loved seeing the different takes each person had on a subject played back to back. What an incredibly interesting watch.
@Gew219 7 жыл бұрын
Ian, you forgot about the 17th century Savoyard type helmets. Those closely resemble the skull shaped bad guy helm and can even be more nightmarish and bizzare. Their face protection parts are also more flat than in previous helmets. Really, look it up. It's a fascinating topic, and one I'm really looking forward you cover someday, because this stuff is so obscure, that almost non existant on the internet, despite it's popularity in the period.
@archive4058 7 жыл бұрын
That was some very interesting historical context from the Metatron.
@metatronyt 7 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it pal ;)
@bor_is_baas8986 7 жыл бұрын
wow! its so awesome all of you guys are making a big collab like this!!!! i really like it keep up the good work :D
@1066BigDaddy 7 жыл бұрын
Excellent job, guys! I love the fact that some of my favorite Medieval-themed KZfaqrs made a collab together. I am surprised, though, that in discussing the accuracy of the armor as a whole no one mentioned that the armor portrayed is from the 15th Century while the movie itself is set in the so-called Dark Ages.
@duchessskye4072 6 жыл бұрын
Well that was too obvious to mention I guess Also the armor portrayed is from no century at all, although it does draw inspiration from late-15th and 16th century armors.
@SolidRollin 7 жыл бұрын
You guys did a great job. Well done.
@Robert399 7 жыл бұрын
3:30 You don't find that because medieval soldiers valued their eyes.
@KawauMusic 7 жыл бұрын
The best collab I've ever seen! Outrageous!
@Theduckwebcomics 7 жыл бұрын
As to big front gates, there ARE quite a lot of examples, as long as you're thinking about outer walls- especially where it encloses a small town. You needed large gates there to accommodate the flow of traffic and commerce, as well as the largest things you might be bringing through like building supplies.
@yshwgth 7 жыл бұрын
Shad pronounced über correctly! Hurray!
@shadiversity 7 жыл бұрын
Miracles can happen ^_^
@barghestblue731 7 жыл бұрын
What would actually be the internal living space? Like are we talking a medium house, small mansion, an entire apartment building?
@rohadtanyad8908 5 жыл бұрын
he didn't. he swallowed the "r".
@calumbarclay4966 7 жыл бұрын
the helmet was meant to be a caricature of Maximillian. Last I knew it is in the collection of the royal armoury in Leeds.
@macmurfy2jka 7 жыл бұрын
Nice to see an upload Ian.
@jeova0sanctus0unus 7 жыл бұрын
0 :50 Yea we all learned that from team fortress didnt we: 1. A characters most recognizable thing is his Siluett. 2. You destroy exactly that if you give everyone stupid hats
@joachimmacdonald2702 7 жыл бұрын
Someone needs to tell lindybeige and sholagladiatora about this
@GermanSwordMaster 7 жыл бұрын
@ that squire guy: The helmet is a representation of Maximilian himself, of whom Henry was a big fan.
@Ybalrid 7 жыл бұрын
Came here thanks to the Metatron, I watched the whole thing, then I came back to subscribe and put you a big thumbs up! ;-)
@KnyghtErrant 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I appreciate it!
@Dowlphin 9 ай бұрын
Nobody remembers Excalibur's secret prototype, Excelipoor.
@mahrcheen7966 7 жыл бұрын
Nice to see that ppl half the world from here know Malbork castle, greetings.
@davidhelmer1230 7 жыл бұрын
It's not a castle gate, but Westgate in Cantebury is large enough for a doubledecker bus to drive under. There are also some fortress gates in India which were big enough for an elephant to walk through.
@hanssmirnov9946 7 жыл бұрын
Couple of interesting points on the video, +Knyght Errant : 1 Crazy Helmets: The Samurai might be the best example of this, just because many of their masks and crests were very fancy. Knights did have a lot of great crests too, of course. 2 Parade Armour: As you'll recall from the Knight and the Blast Furnace, ironically parade armours were sometimes better armour than combat armours. It was a better quality steel (because the other smiths got lazy), and the smiths who made most of it were very skilled indeed. Many of the parade armours and helmets would, I expect, be fine to take into battle, though the more unusual ones may have some weaknesses in their design.
@duchessskye4072 6 жыл бұрын
There is a fine reason they wont - it's because even though the steel is top shape the shape of the armor is not really made to fight in. It would impose restrictions that general armor doesn't and would end up getting you killed
@Fishhunter2014 7 жыл бұрын
Will the medieval mythbusters become a regular series? By that i mean every once in awhile
@KnyghtErrant 7 жыл бұрын
I can't speak to frequency, but it will probably happen again I'm sure.
@IIARROWS 7 жыл бұрын
YES!
@pantslizard 7 жыл бұрын
THAT would be Worthy. Make it So. :>)
@kendonl.taylor5111 6 күн бұрын
@3:41 That helmet appeared in Nioh 2.
@0hn0haha 7 жыл бұрын
Byzantine and Russian armors have a lot of simple but strangely haunting face masks on them. It's pretty cool. Don't know how much it was used in actual combat though.
@stellarytc1629 7 жыл бұрын
Where is Matt Eustone Scholagladiotora tho, that would have been the icing on the cake!
@Schmunzel57 7 жыл бұрын
I have seen several gars that ware modified (shrinked) in later times. You see different stones used to make the opening smaller. Many from the 10-12-chentory had gats where you cold ride in with your upright lance. Later the changed that and the even made some gats narrower, but all lower. Somehow I get the idea (read that?) that it was not allowed to make the gats lower, because the King should never be forced to lower his lance. Here in town is a ruin of a castle that had a water gate big enough that a ship could sail in! The walls of the main tower were stronger than 12m. I guess that would fall under you über or uber- castles.
@andit1265 7 жыл бұрын
if you include fortifications you should include the "Bundesfestung Ulm" that is the biggest one in Europe and probably the last one ever build with historical warfare in mind. it was in use by the Bundeswehr till the 80s I think. and I is absolutely huge :D
@Kriegerdammerung 7 жыл бұрын
According to the Age of Empires history files - which I found very accurate - there are approximately 11,000 castles in all France.
@Knight_Astolfo 7 жыл бұрын
Holy shit 3:48 that reminds me so much of the helmet worn by Domhnall of Zena in Dark Souls. I think the in-game name for it was "Helmet of the Wise." Has anyone ever pointed this out? I think I might remember it from a Silver Mont video, but I could just be crazy.
@biundo1000 7 жыл бұрын
Seraephus Dark Souls is heavily inspired by real weapons and armour. That's why it's more believable than other fantasy rpg. Ah, Blighttown, so much memories :')
@gadyariv2456 7 жыл бұрын
I always assumed that fantasy armor has allot to do with American Football then historical plate armor. Fantasy Armor "Pauldrons" just look more like the Shoulder Pads Football players wear, rather then actual Pauldrons.
@BigZ7337 7 жыл бұрын
This is an awesome series. Do you think more people that recreate historic armor should paint it?
@cerocero2817 7 жыл бұрын
They lived in a very diferent era, we would laught at things that they might have feared. The burgonet of Charles V by Desiderius Helmschmied is badass by the way.
@MrMortadelas 7 жыл бұрын
woah woah woah 3:16 nothing more bad-ass than the corinthian helmet has been made in the last 2000 years. Maybe the Messerschmitt Me 410 but you can't wear an aeroplane.
@robinthrush9672 7 жыл бұрын
The first question's first explanation here can be exemplified by referring to the Transformer series of movies.
@CeciliaCessseeezyCornejo 7 жыл бұрын
King Henry VIII is one of my favorite parts of history along with his children and wives and the war of the roses prior to King Henry VIII
@Ungulates 7 жыл бұрын
The intro music is an edit of Crunk Knight by Kevin MacLeod, right? Do you credit them at the end of the collaboration? I did not see credit in this video.
@KnyghtErrant 7 жыл бұрын
I did not create the intro, but attribution has been added to the description. Thanks for the head's up.
@marcosvazquez6775 7 жыл бұрын
Overzised armour? Here smells like Warcraft....
@DoktorWeasel 7 жыл бұрын
I've always found German style sallets to look pretty damn mean and intimidating without any decoration. Very impersonal and harsh looking. Like some kind of evil robot here to ruin your day.
@CAPace09 7 жыл бұрын
DoktorWeasel Stereotypically German, ja?
@matthewmuir8884 7 жыл бұрын
5:56 Most likely we would define uber as in large. I don't think anyone is asking if historic castles offered taxi rides...
@cinemacritic9571 7 жыл бұрын
i wish Lloyd was here
@matejdostal9992 7 жыл бұрын
Dear Shad, can you next time mention the Prague Castle. Because even it was later reconstructed, by layout it is probabley biggest.
@shadiversity 7 жыл бұрын
I would be more inclined to call it a palace seeing that it doesn't have any fortifications, functional or asthetic. Previous versions of the palace were certainly castles, but this last iteration was built in the 18th century.
@matejdostal9992 7 жыл бұрын
Shadiversity I know that, but there are fragments of fortifications, like the gate behind st. Georges basilic. Also around that gatehouse is wall with crenelations and a tower in the corner. And about that rebuilding I know, but mentioning it because of its history I think is worth. By the way I am from Czech republic. Thanks for reading
@Valkanna.Nublet 7 жыл бұрын
I used to love this film but I haven't seen it since I started learning about the actual facts of hema and armour etc. It will be interesting to see it from a different point of view.
@KnyghtErrant 7 жыл бұрын
I hadn't watched Excalibur in many years and only did so recently for the making of this video, and it was a very different experience :)
@robinthrush9672 7 жыл бұрын
I imagine having issues with how frequently the swords are used like clubs against those heavy suits of armor (going by my own years-old memory of the film now).
@maddockemerson4603 7 жыл бұрын
I wonder if there's shots where you can see the reflection of the crew and camera(s) in the armor. If I could criticize, I'd point out that a lot of the armor is *so* shiny it looks like aluminum, which is probably what it's actually made of, but makes it difficult for me to view it as armor. So I kind of prefer the overall effect of the kind of scruffy looking, darker armor that you see more earlier in the film, and consistently on the bad guys. But I understand why the knights of Camelot have super-shiny costumes in their prime, it's to make them look rich. For a while I thought that the shininess of the armor was supposed to imply that it was silver-plated, but then Percival's armor gets rusty over the course of some scenes, meaning it's uncovered steel, so the shine is just stylistic.
@KnyghtErrant 7 жыл бұрын
The armor in the movie specifically doesn't really look like real polished armor because the color is off. Like you said, it looks like aluminum. Stainless steel is usually given away by it's color as well, the chromium makes it look too white. Carbon steels, even when polished bright, usually have a grayer quality to them.
@maddockemerson4603 7 жыл бұрын
Hey, I think that's the first time a channel replied directly to my comment. Cool. I posted just before watching the video where one of you talks about the polish of the armor, so maybe it would have been more appropriate there. Also, I avoided watching these as they were posted because I thought they might contain spoilers, (just saw it on HBO a few hours ago) which it sorta, almost did, if the audience really knows *nothing* about the Arthurian legends to where they don't know that Arthur and Mordred kill each other at the end, they might not want to be shown that part. But generally, there was nothing too specific to the movie that was revealed in these videos. I appreciate that.
@ryklatortuga4146 7 жыл бұрын
Does Knyght Errant have a triskelion symbol like the flag of Sicily, where mild mannered professor known as, The Metaman resides? Or does the Sicillian Flag have a Knyght Errant laptop symbol on their flag...(good work all of you!)
@countc44 7 жыл бұрын
Sadly, no such grandiose explanation exists. I'm afraid it's a simple company logo. Razer's, to be precise. www.razerzone.com/ 'Twas a good theory though! :)
@jordanthomas4379 2 жыл бұрын
3:06 - don't know if i'm alone here, but that is one terribly hideous helmet
@sadlobster1 7 жыл бұрын
Here is my question For as long as I've been a lover of Arthurian lore (which I am.) I've long wondered if Camelot is the name of Arthur's kingdom or just the castle? If Camelot was a kingdom/city, did it have houses for the villagers inside or outside the walls
@KnyghtErrant 7 жыл бұрын
In most stories, Camelot refers to the castle and court of King Arthur. He's the King of Britain, but sometimes in some versions of the story, Camelot is more loosely interpreted as his whole Kingdom.
@sadlobster1 7 жыл бұрын
I've read/heard other stories refer to Camelot as a whole kingdom
@michaelwills1926 4 жыл бұрын
I think in the context of the film, Camelot refers to the entire kingdom. “The King and the land are one.”
@maciek19882 7 жыл бұрын
Oversized pauldrons are due to american football
@nirfz 7 жыл бұрын
Castles were build for defense: if you take Hochosterwitz in Austria: it has 14 ! fortified gates, one after the other circled around and up a mountain. Build to be easy to defend and (without artillery) frustrating to attack. So no big gates for real castles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochosterwitz_Castle#/media/File:Hochosterwitz_01052004_04.jpg
@duchessskye4072 6 жыл бұрын
Well you need to have them a certain size to conveniently transport supplies
@valmarsiglia 3 жыл бұрын
Well of course none of the armor is historically accurate because armor like that didn't exist in the 6th century. I think Excalibur has lots of problems (the utterly inane screenplay being the main one), but to be fair to Boorman, the film is purposely set in a mythical Britain, one that someone from the late 15th century (ie when Le Morte d'Arthur was written) might have imagined.
@gorazdvahen492 6 жыл бұрын
I have to admit this is painful to watch. Excalibur should either be considered a fantasy flick like LOTR or GoT, or a disastrously inaccurate semi-historic film. To understand the film one just has to know one thing about it: Hollywood. If Arthur ever lived it was around 500 AD, almost a thousand years before the weapons and armour in the film. Guys, you know this, at least some of you. Does anyone ever mention this? I can't be bothered to watch the whole thing so if you do, I apologise. To anyone interested in King Arthur I recommend a book trilogy by no other than Bernard Cornwell: The Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur. www.amazon.com/Winter-King-Arthur-Books/dp/0312156960
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