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Dan Howard




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PostPosted: Sun 18 Oct, 2009 2:14 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

IIRC In El Cid you'll see how not to use a flail on horseback. Watch the battle scenes in slow motion and you'll see Charlton Heston smack his horse's head more than once Wink
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PostPosted: Sun 18 Oct, 2009 2:21 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Dan Howard wrote:
IIRC In El Cid you'll see how not to use a flail on horseback. Watch the battle scenes in slow motion and you'll see Charlton Heston smack his horse's head more than once Wink


Very tough horse trained to ignore heavy spiky iron balls hitting it from behind. Razz Wink Cool

Want to bet that the horse accidentally/on purpose stepped on Heston's foot after he got of the said horse ? ( Probably not, but it's sort of fun thinking it might have happened ).

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PostPosted: Sun 18 Oct, 2009 2:27 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Dan Howard wrote:
IIRC In El Cid you'll see how not to use a flail on horseback. Watch the battle scenes in slow motion and you'll see Charlton Heston smack his horse's head more than once Wink


He does the same thing in The War Lord so I guess flail tactics weren't Chucks forte!
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PostPosted: Sun 18 Oct, 2009 3:55 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Patrick Kelly wrote:
Dan Howard wrote:
IIRC In El Cid you'll see how not to use a flail on horseback. Watch the battle scenes in slow motion and you'll see Charlton Heston smack his horse's head more than once Wink


He does the same thing in The War Lord so I guess flail tactics weren't Chucks forte!


Either that or I'm confusing the two movies Happy I haven't seen either one for decades. I think the horse's head in those scenes was fake, so no danger of a real horse getting hurt.
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PostPosted: Sun 18 Oct, 2009 8:41 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Speaking of Alatriste, does anyone know what kind of knife does the main character use? I thought it was a rather funny looking knife.

As for my favorites, a lot of these have been mentioned but I will mention them nontheless:

Lord of the Rings, all three.
Kingdom of Heaven
Troy(I don't know if it really falls in this category but I like it a lot.)
El Dorado 1988 (Awesome movie, I recommend it. You see some brutal killing done by the Spanish Conquistadors on themselves.)

13th warrior
The Messenger
Gladiator
Timeline
The First Knight with Sean Connery.
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PostPosted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 4:12 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I thought Troy was really well done. But not because of the armour or weapons. They were horrible. Same with 13th Warrior.
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PostPosted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 9:18 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I would say :

Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
Jeanne d'Arc (Luc Besson, 1999)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980)

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PostPosted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 10:11 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Hmmmm... I would say my favorite one's are the following:

Gladiator
The Warlord
Excalibur
El Cid

And I am going to have to watch El Cid again for the horse head flailing scene to see if it is there now! Cool

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PostPosted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 11:10 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Hmm. Noone mentioned the 1971 Roman Polanski version of Macbeth? Even if it's basically a russian propagandafilm you have to admire the insane amount of extras in Ilya Muromets (The sword and the dragon). Especially when the mongol hordes arrive... And if you want really "nice" armour you can always take a look at Eisensteins Aleksandr Nevskiy! But for the time it's good battle scenes.
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PostPosted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 11:27 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I'm a bit surprised that no one has mentioned The Seven Samurai.
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PostPosted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 3:21 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Ken Speed wrote:
I'm a bit surprised that no one has mentioned The Seven Samurai.


Well technically there was little armour in that movie but it is one of my favorites.

Oh, " The Crusades Cecil B. DeMille, 1935:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026249/

A more obscure film Scipione l'africano (1937 ), some of the best set battles ever: Large Roman formations using historically correct tactics as well as a charge of War Elephants.

Originally in Italian but I remember seeing it translated in French on T.V. a long time ago:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029526/
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3275792128/tt0029526

http://www.allmovie.com/work/scipio-lafricano-124965
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To bring Scipio L'Africano to fruition, director Gallone was afforded the luxury of a 232-day production schedule. According to official files, 32,848 extras, 1,000 horses and 50 elephants (for Hannibal's journey across the Alps) were used in the film. Even so, this heavily propagandistic paean to the glories of the Roman Empire is often shoddily put together, chock full of such anachronisms as telephone wires stretching over the battlefields. The film was not the enormous flop that many people claim, but its lukewarm box-office showing was enough to convince the Italian film industry to concentrate on musicals and "white telephone" comedies for the duration of the Mussolini regime.

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PostPosted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 12:33 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Hi all ^^ Happy

What is the name of this movie? Question Question Question



Thanks ^^

I'm interested in Medieval Arms and Armor.
But... My English is very poor ><;
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PostPosted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 4:47 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Snow White and the Huntsman
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PostPosted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 4:50 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

My favorite is The Warlord with Charlton Heston. Tough to find I think but worth a look.
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PostPosted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 5:20 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Any movie with good looking weapons and armor are good.
I really like Mel Gibson's Hamlet for the clothing and armor (Though they are all pretty anachronistic jumbles).

The Seventh Seal (1957) - Max Von Sydow is a knight returning from the crusades to find his homeland ravaged by the plague, intermingled with the game of death personified are the struggles he witnesses of humanity with lust, fear and love. And the ultimate acceptance of the dance of death that all souls must face. The movie is a bit deep and revealing but the subject matter can be over people's heads. The armor in it is minimal but seems to be pretty well centered on the 14th century as is the clothing.

The War Lord (1965) - Charlton Heston as a Norman. You just have to see it for nothing else, just so you can say that you have.

The adventures of Robin Hood - Erol Flynn. Okay. Horrible armour, but my favorite movie of all time.

You really need to see the 7th Seal if you haven't already. The Seventh seal is a Swedish film, with subtitles, but has been available on Youtube for awhile.
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PostPosted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 7:54 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

The Warlord
Excalibur
El Cid
The Messenger

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PostPosted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 8:59 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I was surprised that Ironclad didn't make anyone's list.

I am another fan of The Warlord, particular since is was very counter to what was being made in Hollywood at the time. I watch 13th Warrior at least once a year. It's more a heros tale than a fantasy, and it has all the classic elements, is well acted and full of interesting characters.
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PostPosted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 10:19 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Tod Glenn wrote:
I was surprised that Ironclad didn't make anyone's list.

I am another fan of The Warlord, particular since is was very counter to what was being made in Hollywood at the time. I watch 13th Warrior at least once a year. It's more a heros tale than a fantasy, and it has all the classic elements, is well acted and full of interesting characters.


I liked Ironclad. Happy

Not much armor in it, but I also liked Rob Roy with Liam Neeson.

I also liked Black Death with Sean Bean and Season of the Witch with Nicholas Cage.
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PostPosted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 10:52 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I think tis one was not mentioned yet, and I really enjoy this movie:

Il mestiere delle armi (The Profession of Arms (2001)) - I think it's the only one mowie about George Frundsberg and the only one where I saw quite good replica of black sallet and armour of early 1500's.

Also Flesh+Blood (1985) - sometimes good fencing, good costumes indeed, and good plot.

And favorite of all eastern european historical movies With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem (1999)) based on Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel - with crazy massive battles and wery good duels and costumes of the period.

Hope those of you did not watched those movies will do so!

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PostPosted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 11:21 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

There's a small bit of armour in Queen Margot, but my main reason to mention it here is the extremely convincing depiction of arms and violence in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572 (scene below). Note the use of short pikes. One of the characters even uses a complex hilt field sword in a way that clearly distinguishes the type from the narrower rapiers shown in other scenes. Be warned that the violence is realistic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GwUKrBgRb0

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