The Last Duel trailer

[CTTT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deXQ7vyru3A

Ridley Scott has been inconsistent in recent years but when he hits the mark (Kingdom of Heaven extended cut) he really hits the mark. Looks like a return to form and a period drama. Adam Driver is great, and it's nice to see Matt and Ben onscreen together again.

[godisawesome]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deXQ7vyru3A

Ridley Scott has been inconsistent in recent years but when he hits the mark (Kingdom of Heaven extended cut) he really hits the mark. Looks like a return to form and a period drama. Adam Driver is great, and it's nice to see Matt and Ben onscreen together again.

I really like the looks of this.

…I like the fact that Ridley Scott seems unlikely to trust only in Driver’s looks to convey why he should have a good role even better; no repeated of The Last Jedi, please. Driver’s damn talented, and that should be used more than just depending on his hair to carry the day. SNl, Logan Lucky… most of Driver’s films have featured directors more aware of how to use his skill set than Rian Johnson in TLJ.

[godisawesome]

…Okay, I actually bought the audiobook for this thing, and HOLY SHIT, this should be a great movie if it can capture any of the human drama and complexity of the actual history. And the caliber of the cast plus Scott as director makes me think it might honestly come down to how much Scott understands he *doesn’t* need to modify or change the actual history, and to keep his more personal flourishes on the story to the undocumented parts, or the segments that the book written about the event doesn’t cover.

Because really, the history seems to show that Comer’s character, Marguerite, should easily be the heart of the film as a sympathetic and inspiring protagonist, like the trailer implies. Damon’s character was historically seemingly a bit of a jealous, short-tempered, acerbic jerk of a flawed human being, but who likely wound up 100% righteous in this one case. The gender politics and prejudices of the time, combined with a highly ceremonial and bureaucratic nature of a still brutally direct “judicial combat” make Marguerite the more impressively brave individual in all this, since she had to risk a horrible death for herself on a system gamed against her.

Scott can sometimes go too far in modifying history, but not always; Gladiator is ahistorical as hell, but still good, while Kingdom of Heaven feels like the changes he made to history are the story’s greatest weak spots.

Personally, I’m hoping that he keeps Damon’s character as a heavily flawed man, and focuses on trying to make it clear that the audience and people of the time have good reason to not like him personally, but be 100% behind him in the duel for Comer’s character’s sake, and perhaps portray a grim kind of “I’ve screwed up way too much in my life, let me do this one thing right” kind of portrayal for him in the moment.

[batnbreakfast]

Thank you guys for bringing this to my attention. Makes me want to put on my chainmail lol

[godisawesome]

Just got back from it. Maybe the cleverest twist on the old Rahsomon idea I’ve seen - the perspectives remain different… but not the story’s facts. The most important question is rather firmly answered by a character’s POV even before the victim’s is shown, but done in a way to keep the POV differences intact.

[Witchfan]

I saw this last night. I like Ridley Scott. I like the actors in the movie. I like medieval films. I was entertained.
RT score 87% with a 93% audience score.