You think Katana duels last long?Cowboy because it can be over so quickly and traditionally waits for a signal.
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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.
Yeah I thought someone would come back with this.
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.
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.
Barry Lyndon
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.
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.
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.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.
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.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
LOL inadvertentlySo 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.
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.
Nope...pretty sure Yojimbo.
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.