The Duellists - Realistic Movie Sword Fight

Ha, so unrealistic, these guys are acting like they're swinging around giant razor blades.

... wait... that's what swords actually are..

No no no this is not true sword fighting. As a guy who has watched dozens of sword fights in movies and TV shows, both duelists should be doing spinning slashes and running at each other like true swordsmen.

Man put those chopsticks down and let´s do it hand to hand. I´d like to see that little 60 kgs guy with the moustaches then real up close and personal...

Looks like guts to me. He'll make it 😂

This scene is rare in that I actually emotionally register this as a fearful life-or-death situation. Watching other fight scenes, I obviously know someone may die, but being so removed from it I watch it as if I’m watching a 1v1 game, more curious as to who would win. But here it’s evident that if you slip up, your entire existence and everything you’ve ever lived for will be gone

Ugly always lose.

Muvh better than spining jumping and rolling 😂

A good fight scene has context, characters with motivations and tells a story in itself. This fight scene has all of that.

They don't really explain how this duel came about, right? I just imagine Feraud got insulted by the slightest thing and more or less coerced this poor guy into a duel. He is so terrified and Feraud like he wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Why do I get this instinct that the Mayor of Strasbourg's nephew deserved this?
Hmm. Probably has a loud mouth.
Do you know what had to be done to get to this duel?
A) Demand apology in public
B) Wait for a response
C) Demand another apology.
D) Duel.

If every movie sword fight was like this I would like swords far less very lame

thats going to sting!

He said "Gimme my sword back...Ehhh, fuck it. I'll get it in a minute. I'm gonna get a drink. Need something?"

Amazing film

This is why i laugh when people say the New Hope Light Saber battle was the lamist.

Not that there is anything wrong with Princess Bride over the top Ren Faire dream fight. They all have their place in cinema .

One of my favourite films.

Ah. A Ridley Scott film. I'm sure I'll love it

he should have yield after that cut to his hand

Single minded grudge........ Crazy.......

My favorite Ridley Scott film

This is how I wanna go. Stabbed to death by harvey keitel in 19th century french countryside

Mean while ill just pull out glock.

great acting I felt bad for the guy.

In fact duel were very short as documented by archive since the 16 th century and not always fatal

Only unrealistic part is he should have pulled the sword out and ended it. Getting stabbed through the intestines is a horrible death. He would have been on the ground screaming for hours

I like how this scene is mostly quiet, because real fights are one of those cases when silence is loud.

You can tell immediately who is more skilled based an who retreats first

I rented this a few months back and glad i did. Good movie.

The bald man stand like he is going to poop in his pants.

amazing acting, they both look terrified that a single mistake can be their death, which if it reality it would be.

Wow. I wish more of this kind of fighting was in movies

STUFF that Sir !!!g

I'd rather battle an army with guns anyday than swords, idk how people used to have the balls of steel to get up close and stab eachother in mass armies. Especially since you know people wouldn't always fight fair and would stab you while you're preoccupied fighting with other people.

Je me demande, si la maisonnette sur pilotis en pierres, est toujours debout aujourd'hui, j’espère que oui, c'est un site qu'il faudrait inscrire aux monuments historiques, si cela n'est pas déjà fait.
D'ailleurs, j'ai chercher sur le net, des renseignements à ce sujet, sans résultats, si quelqu'un des alentours, peut me confirmer que l'on a bien prit soin de préserver cette merveille, je le remercie infiniment du retour.

Me and my friend playing with toy lightsabers:

Sigh... we ever going to have bald protagonists? Always the desperate, non-expert antagonists.

Brings me back to a time where actors were self respecting human beings and intellectuals to a point

Feraud's hairstyle is so cool

Now compare this to Zorro (and I say this as a HUGE fan of Zorro).

Remember kids! If you have a piece of metal hanging out of your internal organs to make peace with god quickly. The more you know . . . 💫

Cool asf

I wonder what duelists thought back in the days when they actually met to fight over personal quarrels. This scene was so strong that you could feel the tension of just being a moment away to have a rapier pierce your lung and you’ll die a most horrible death, likely over days.

As cool and entertaining as we might find those romanticized Dártagnon books and movies this scene makes you realize that people faced death solely for their egos and I bet many people thought „what the hell am I doing here? Is this truly worth it?“

This was before CGI, so the method actors or stunt doubles really got ran through and sometimes died, you can't fake that.

Bro got tilted harder than me playing Street Fighter against anyone higher than Bronze.

Feraud realizes very quickly that that he's a much better swordsman than his opponent, and it's an awkward position to be in. If he's careful, he can draw first blood and end this without killing the man, but he can't afford to get careless. You can never take an opponent for granted. In the end, his opponent goes all or nothing and leaves his defenses wide open, which is frustrating to Feraud. He earned no honor in this duel, and he knows it.

I thought one of the rules is if one draws blood it counts as a win but maybe in the movie they decided to go til death

The Horse: groans (come on… KILL EACH OTHER!)