The Last Duel - Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott, Matt Damon, Adam Driver - yeah I'm in

Ridley Scott's very first feature film was 'The Duellists'. I reckon this could be his last film, considering his age and it would be a fitting end. I am looking forward to this; great cast, great setting, and overall, a wonderful director.

Obviously hoping for Adam in this one.

And worth noting that this is the first script Damon and Affleck have worked on together since Good Will Hunting (along with Nicole Holofcener).

Director's cut of KOH 2005 is probably his last great film.

Like others I didn't enjoy his return to the Alien world very much. Nonetheless he's had a number of very competent and enjoyable films since the mid 2000s: A Good Year, Body of Lies, American Gangster.

And The Martian, while not anything amazing was perfectly fine.

It's an enjoyable, light, date night type movie, especially with a glass of wine in hand :)

I hadn't even realised it was directed by Ridley Scott until now. I don't know if it's his worst film but perhaps his slightest.

Scott's generally better when writing duties are apportioned to others. So I still hold out hope this could be good.

They had zero chemistry but it is watchable for the location

Affleck also co stars in this but Damon is lead, I am intrigued by the premise and setting

Well, directors can/will change a script as they go. But even then, has he not developed ideas and stories for some of his work? I thought Prometheus and Covenant were his stories for example, whereas Alien was mostly O'Bannon.

How much of this was filmed in Ireland?

A good spoiler free review, he does mention how the film is broadly constructed , very positive

Very disappointing to see this sinking like a stone at the box office, as it's really quite a good movie.

Okay, sometimes, it's a bit on the nose, but it hits a hell of a lot more than it misses. I went because I wanted to see the lavishness on the screen, but it's really a character piece and everyone is doing really good work here.

Could have easily cut an hour out of this movie by not telling the same event three times over with minor changes. Third time around I couldn't care less.

Telling the story three different ways was kinda the point!

And which version of the three stories would you have kept?

I wonder was there sufficient overlap between Damon's story and the wife's to the point where they could have combined the two...

I didn't feel there was enough of a difference in the perspectives, except that Jean de Carrouges is far more noble, heroic and affectionate as a husband in his perspective. When it comes to the crux of why we have these perspectives, to deal with the assault itself, it was clear cut in both versions that depict it that Le Gris rapes Marguerite. I would have thought going into the film that his perspective would have shown that scene play out as playful, flirty and consensual, but it wasn't enough to fully justify the multiple perspectives on the situation. It just dragged out the running time.

I was called to be an extra on the film and was annoyed to miss it due to the day job. Bad timing.

But Le Gris see's what he done very differently even though it was the same physical act,

Remember his point of view to Pierre was that it was not rape because he loved her & it was right to do it as she also had feeling for her,

You have to remember back in those days the act of rape was not a crime against the women but a crime against her husbands as she is seen as her property ,

Basically La Gris thought she also felt love for him but refused do do anything out of respect of her husband & La Gris felt this gave him the right to do it,

Alex Lawther is King Charles.

Ben Affleck plays Pierre d'Alençon who is a high ranking nobleman but not the King.

You have to remember the time this all happened ,Le Gris think its ok to do what he did because he loves her & because in his mind she showed interest, Remember at that time in France rape was not a crime against the women but a crime against her husband because its seen as a crime against his property ,

Le Gris tells Pierre exactly what happened but refuses to call it rape ,

Its a completely different time with completely different views of things ,They try to remind you of this in the court room when the guys says obviously she could not get pregnant by rape as science says you can only get pregnant if you enjoy it,

For me it did , it showed what he was like as a man ,

Never seen this in the cinema. I blame the Pandemic for that. Kinda glad do as just like "Oppenheimer" I think I would have fell asleep watching this in the cinema but at home watching it on RTE on my own TV I found it very good and the acting was excellent. I would watch it again. Its sad that it was such a huge flop in the cinema. It deserved to do well was just unlucky with the timing of its release.