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Which Duel Style look intensely ? Old West Cowboy Gun Duel? or Samurai Sword Duel?
- Thread starter Yukari
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You mean which is more intense?
I guess it just depends on how long you draw the stare-down out.
Yer missing the fancy lad duels.
I guess it just depends on how long you draw the stare-down out.
Yer missing the fancy lad duels.
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Whenever Yugioh decided to start dueling on motorcycles.
I guess if you mean Hollywood versions I prefer wild west duels.
I guess if you mean Hollywood versions I prefer wild west duels.
Yeah I thought someone would come back with this.You think Katana duels last long?
I understand that the 'drawing strike' is a thing but I suspect that most duels were a bit more drawn out and messy than that.
Edit: Iaijutsu.
I guess shooting somebody with a gun without hitting vital organs can get messy and a bit more drawn out too.
But yes, when we're talking "formal" duels with a one-hit win condition, the shoot out scenario is cleaner.
You think Katana duels last long?
At least post something classic.
At least post something classic.
Too right....forgive me.
Just generally the katana duels werent like in hollywood lasting from first strike usually seconds.
Assuming you werent hit in a vital spot getting shot you have more the enough time to completely unload your pistols.
Getting your arm/leg sliced clean off or getting you innards turned to outards will immediately put you in shock and you pretty much cant fight anymore.
While I think the best Western duels often come out on top, my favorite all time duel is from a Samurai film, specifically the final duel of Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro with with the late great Toshiro Mifune. I've timestamped the start of the duel below but take the time to watch the whole scene as its just masterclass film making and acting.
Lots of great cinematography and stylish posing here, but the technique? Erm 😐
Cowboy duel you have a good chance of dying instantly whereas Samurai is more intense because of the threat of being fucking gutted and dying slowly
I love western standoffs but I've found that samurai duels tend to be more cinematic and intense.
The fact that dueling was actually a thing is the wildest shit to me. Like, a cowboy accused another one of cheating at a game of cards and now one of them has to die. That was an event that occurred in this reality.
Pretty hard to beat a gun duel in intensity and stupidity.
Pretty hard to beat a gun duel in intensity and stupidity.
Someone already answered. But it's Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick. One of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen, every frame looks like a painting. Definitely worth watching.
I just disvovered I have it in my Blu-ray collection amd I have actually never watched it. Clearly a big mistake. Will get right on that tomorrow evening.
Is this really masterclass for 1962? I feel like I can find much much better done scenes from around the time. I should probably watch the entire film before judging but that scene just seemed meh lol
So obviously the way they show it in cowboy movies isn't quite real. It's exaggerated to the max, also that whole quick draw gunslinger thing wasn't like a common thing. Dueling, specially sword based dueling existed way before that...I think more from medieval europe where it was that whole "protecting honor" bs. Someone insulted you, you would challenge them formally, they'd accept, and you would fight at dawn or some bs.
Did you just insult Yojimbo? Good lord. Although it is a pulpy epic based on Dashiell Hammet's hard boiled classic novel "Red Harvest", countless versions of which has been done like Last Man Standing. Yojimbo is a classic.
It's all romanticized, really based on the director
I'd say samurai since blades are a bit more intimate than guns
Also I will fight anyone who shit talks Yojimbo, it's a fantastic film
I'd say samurai since blades are a bit more intimate than guns
Also I will fight anyone who shit talks Yojimbo, it's a fantastic film
Nope...pretty sure Yojimbo.
He plots and ensures that the rival gangs destroy each other. Just like Last Man Standing. And originally, the Continental Operative does that in a nameless American town in Red Harvest.
Mifune cutting Nakadai up is such a beautiful shot scene, you know it's about to go down, but nothing had prepared me for that.
Gun duel wise, not even the Dollars trilogy registers for me on the same scale.
Also, not a duel, but Road to Perdition has some of the most beautiful shots featuring people getting executed by guns, Chiaran Hinds in the warehouse and Paul Newman "I'm glad it's you" scene. Dang.
Gun duel wise, not even the Dollars trilogy registers for me on the same scale.
Also, not a duel, but Road to Perdition has some of the most beautiful shots featuring people getting executed by guns, Chiaran Hinds in the warehouse and Paul Newman "I'm glad it's you" scene. Dang.