The Last Duel | Blood & Tradition

"It's in the blood and this is tradition..."
A tribute to Ridley Scott's new and underrated film The Last Duel.
Spoilers and some graphic content ahead!
I had the idea for this video the moment I left the theater. Now I have high quality clips to finally finish this.

[@spinnenpfotedonnerclan5318]

Such a great edit! I love the movie and your song choice suits Margurite so well! Esp with the "Take what you want" and the part from around 2:40 bombs!

[@morningfromspace]

Perfect​ song choice. Neatly edited as well.

[@tobiasberlin759]

Great video, perfect music

[@dogge8680]

Amazing video!

[@mensahcarrelle]

Superb video. ❤

[@porphyriontimotheoios1107]

You know, we have a tendency to judge the people in this story pretty harshly, and I’m not entirely sure that’s fair. First of all, the film seems to only cursorily resemble the events of real life, which is fine cuz film is never a direct reflection of reality, but rather a society’s values.
Now, we have to think here about the context I think of the accusations. Marguerite was accusing Le Gris that her husband paid rent to, who was a wealthier and better connected to nobleman, knowing that her husband, whose military career had just taken a serious hit with a situation he could’ve fucking died in, would pursue revenge. Besides that, he had been having problems with this Le Gris fellow for some years. Now, we might say that all the men in this story are pigs or whatever, and maybe that’s true, but from the perspective of people on the ground in the setting, that wouldn’t actually be that important. From Carrouges’s mother’s perspective, that’s her son and her legacy that almost died and now is almost about to die again. From the perspective of people on his estate, well… this is kind of a time period where revolts in the nobility are staged on such grounds. That means everyone on the estate’s life is potentially being risked say, if Carrouges were not allowed a duel for his honor. You know, cuz he might get some men together and say, “Hey, Le Gris and that fuckhead boss of his need to die.
They fucked me out of an estate as part of my marriage contract and then they raised my rent AND Le Gris likes to wander around and rape people’s wives and the king gives nobody any justice here.” Remember that his father-in-law had actually been on the side of the English and that his marriage of his daughter to a lower noble and the bargaining of some of his estates was what he had to do to reintegrate into that system.
Marguerite opening her mouth about this to a lot of people could very well be perceived as unthinkably selfish, and with good reason. I’m not saying that’s right, but if you’re one of the tenants on the estate and it’s your son who is gonna get called up for battle if Carrouges doesn’t get his due in court, you may be just a little bit angry.