The thing is, Basset was a pretty honorable dude. accepted Connor's apology, refused to attack him further, and instead shot the man who tried to make him shoot a man in the back. All in all a pretty solid dude despite his posh exterior.
ive always seen it as rage. like now he couldnt even get the satisfaction of killing him why else continue stabbing a man that wont die. so he had to kill someone in his frustration
Wasn't that because - due to the learning gap - Immortals knew that alcohol was a poison and too much of it could kill a normal person? The fact that. as time went on, alcohol became the thing that people lovingly consume nowadays some of them thought "crap, in my time, only the local apothecary would make this so that someone would die" and thought poison and alcohol were similar?
That's what I like about these Immortals, is aside from not being able to die (aside from certain circumstances), they were still very much human in their frailties and foibles.
There were a few more. The wounded Marine on his hospital bed telling the inspector that he was going to Fck (gesture 💪) the Kurgan next time. The street Hot Dog vendor (while reading and flipping the pages of the newspaper) asking the inspector about the police incompetence in the case “What does it means ‘Clueless’ ??”
Hahaha I have 3 specific memories of watching a not-so-kids movie with my dad and howling with laughter at a scene when my mother walked in, saw it, then scolded us both. This is one of them. The other two were Tango & Cash and Escape From New York.
I'm watching on Highlander on HBO and they totally cut the part where the lord shoots his servant! What a bizarre and hysterical scene. I also laughed because I'm from near Boston and Boston Common doesn't look like that but it's still pretty.
@@ConcernedResident_GiantStack We were made to experiment with fun, crazy, pleasurable mind-altering substances, it seems. Been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years :) only recently with all this ridiculous stupid "War on drugs" stuff did we develop such a feeble Victorian-era mindset about enjoyable or expansive entheogenic substances, I feel. Sadly I still have yet to try a bunch of the really lovely chemicals because of this -- I REALLY want to do DMT, MDMA and psilocybin, and to a lesser degree several others. Psychedelic therapy in safe, nurturing and well-controlled environments has been suggested to me, too...
When I first saw these movie at the movie theater I remember I went with my best friend who was half spanish and he loved the scene he was laughing and imitating bass and kurgan for days. I remember this scene like if it was yesterday and its been like 35 or 40 years, I was shock too see the highlander beaten so bad I wanted him to take revenge on bass but it never happenned.
He didn’t care enough for revenge. The guy couldn’t kill him. MacLeod insulted him, humiliated him and then insulted him again, as he apologised for insulting him (well, about his wife, but it was his honour being “defended”). The End. MacLeod wins.
@@delboy-su3wf Maybe he watched a TV edit? Sometimes, they actually cut this scene out for time (they cut it at the bridge so it's like they are reminiscing). A freaking shame in my view.
Loved this scene..Shows its not all doom and gloom and the immortals can have a little fun too. Even if it means getting stabbed multiple times while p!ss3d out of his brain 😂
It is somewhat. At some point Nanarland ( "sympathetic bad movies", a site on films so bad they're good) had a Christophe Lambert laugh generator; Some even made a real life electronic "Lambert Box" playing his laugh when the button was pressed.
it was a sword duel.not a gun duel.the servant insulted the gentleman by trying to get him to shoot a guy in the back of the head.and the servant would probably shoot anyone..i wouldnt want him around me iether.shot in butt..thats funny
I know this was only comedy, but even comedy should get some things right. Wigs were always removed at the start of the duel, because it was part of the ritual and for practical reasons as seen here. That's where the expression still used today comes from, that if such and such behavior doesn't end, "there'll be wigs on the green". I could imagine Rowan Atkinson getting great fun out of the doffing wigs ritual.
Far in the future a certain mere mortal will have another duel where the other combatant is just as humiliated. It also involves the honor of a woman though more or less reversed. He is a great man. A good man. An okay man.
it would have been a massive insult that a servant would imply his lord would be such a coward (and poor swordsman) that he'd need to shoot a peer in the back to win.
Due to Connor's poor condition, the fact that the gentleman had pretty much won, since he drew first blood and Connor in their eyes was significantly injured and in a state unable to fight, which could also end a duel, and that Connor apologized and the apology was pretty much tacitly accepted, it would have been dishonorable to kill Connor, adding that at that point Connor wouldn’t have even been aware, and wasn’t being offered the possibility of a pistol duel.Even the subtlest suggestion would have been an insult to the Lord's honor in this situation, therefore to preserve the honor, and with the fact that the insult came from someone of a lower position, the gentleman just kills Hotchkins right away. Footnote: duels could be fought until first blood, until one of the parties could no longer fight due to significant injury or until death. Offering an apology and taking back the action (verbal altercation, epistolar altercation, public altercation, unacknowledgement, etc...), if accepted, would have also meant the end of the personal feud, with that in mind, as explained in the original comment, we see we have 3 of 4 elements that could end a feud via duel depending on what the two parties agreed via mutual close friends, or other known gentlemen, who were named “seconds”. Also, it is obviously implied that Connor and Basset are about the same age and societal standing, otherwise the duel wouldn’t happen, since it would be refused. This wasn’t as common tho, since it would have to be very obvious, and otherwise it risked aggravating the honor of the seconds by implying affiliation to someone of lower standing. It is evident that in no way would a member of the third state duel a gentleman or noble (which is why Basset doesn’t put much thought in killing his servant), but it wasn’t as crazy to have 2 gentlemen, one to be a planter of means, the other, another planter of much superior means to duel, a farmer of great lands against a burgeois, a count against a duke, etc...
I would like to know if Vincent Cassel is Mr. Basset, I mean he looks like him in his younger days, and I don't remember seeing his name in the credits, but the resemblance is uncanny. This was always something that bugged me when I saw BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, is like "I have seen this guy somewhere..."
The thing is, Basset was a pretty honorable dude. accepted Connor's apology, refused to attack him further, and instead shot the man who tried to make him shoot a man in the back. All in all a pretty solid dude despite his posh exterior.
Honorable?
To be in a duel with a full drunk who can even stand is not honorable!
ive always seen it as rage. like now he couldnt even get the satisfaction of killing him why else continue stabbing a man that wont die. so he had to kill someone in his frustration
Unlike that little bastard Lord Bullington.
@@AnimePrayersir neckbeard
"Christ I've gone blind." Lmao
Gotta respect Basset for accepting Connor's apology. And letting him go after stabbing him multiple times. Treating it like it was natural.
Immortals: "Alcohol cannot affect us ..."
Scottish immortal: "Hold my (empty) beer(s)"
Wasn't that because - due to the learning gap - Immortals knew that alcohol was a poison and too much of it could kill a normal person? The fact that. as time went on, alcohol became the thing that people lovingly consume nowadays some of them thought "crap, in my time, only the local apothecary would make this so that someone would die" and thought poison and alcohol were similar?
I really love the colonial gentlemen dialogue:
“The heavier blade Mr. Bassett, I implore you.”
“I am fighting a duel hodgekiss, not you.”
Lmao
What's funny was that Connor was so drunk that he forgot to play dead and after getting repeatedly stabbed, he was like, 'Okay I'm sorry'
That's what I like about these Immortals, is aside from not being able to die (aside from certain circumstances), they were still very much human in their frailties and foibles.
@@hellacoorinna9995 exactly
actually, he had to die after each of these deadly stabs, immortals just revive, but still, funny :)
The bit where Bassett shoots Hodgekiss cracks me up 😂
My favorite scene in the movie. "CHRIST IVE GONE BLIND!"
The best part is the laugh in the middle of his apology 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣 bloted warthog 🐗🐽❤❤lol!
Heh heh!
@@warlordqueekheadtaker7960 à
Definitely!
Hotchkiss was a bit of a groveller. Mr Basset raised his pistol so exquisitely aimed his gun expertly and dispatched the rotter.
The weapon used was OBVIOUSLY not loaded with Black powder - as it should have been! LOL
He shot the gun in the rear XD
how they managed to slip such a funny scene in a film like that is just bewildering 🤣 I totally love it
There were a few more. The wounded Marine on his hospital bed telling the inspector that he was going to Fck (gesture 💪) the Kurgan next time. The street Hot Dog vendor (while reading and flipping the pages of the newspaper) asking the inspector about the police incompetence in the case “What does it means ‘Clueless’ ??”
"A duel to the death it is!"
"Well, as long as there's no beheading, I'm totally in."
ehh , most duel'et's were simply too wound only
, no killing least you want to pay the rep's an final tax's
Or agreeing to fight when you have got an infy cheat on (as my friends said about it during break)
No the best part is the butler dude at the end when he reappears with pistols saying shoot him shoot him now sir in the back of the head sir! 😆
Lmao if it was the present day he'd probably call a SWAT team or the military
When you are Max level and are bored and about to log off, so you go out of town and just watch a low level enemies moveset
"Tell him I'm ready!" "Basset is that you!?"
"Stop Sir. I beseech you. Otherwise we'll be here for all eternity"
The literal meaning of "I can do this all damn day, or until you get tired"
Mark Andrew At least McLeod will
Or, more precisely, McLeod would be there for all eternity. Bassett will be another 30 years
And that’s when Hodgekiss found out he was an immortal, and that there could be only one.
Is this scene in full movie
Hahaha I have 3 specific memories of watching a not-so-kids movie with my dad and howling with laughter at a scene when my mother walked in, saw it, then scolded us both. This is one of them. The other two were Tango & Cash and Escape From New York.
The Blues Brothers for me, haha. Such excellent films to get caught watching
@@AlyssMa7rin blues brothers....I watched it with my mum..
My goodness, I love this scene - The Highlander movies whether they are cheesy or awesome with the sword work, this scene stands out, so funny!
To be fair on this one, it's a sword fight between a nobleman and a drunken Scotsman. Would anyone ask this scene to be perfected?
@@Shanethefilmmaker it’s perfect as it is! 😊
This is the best highlander movie . The first one.
This is the ONLY Highlander movie. The other two are cringeworthy and appalling efforts, best forgotten. It ends with this one. Perfect.
"you missed him, mr bassett"
"Basset, is that you?" Gets me Everytime 😂😂
I'm watching on Highlander on HBO and they totally cut the part where the lord shoots his servant! What a bizarre and hysterical scene. I also laughed because I'm from near Boston and Boston Common doesn't look like that but it's still pretty.
yeah I never saw the shooting scene till now. the cut I always saw ended after Connor walked away after apologizing
It was cut for American release, as it wasn't considered American humour
Dang! @@drd675
this is from the international cut (called "director's cut" here in the U.S.).
After 33 years, still funny!
That Lord Basset. What a hound!
Connor: Stop, or we’re gonna be here for a while
Basset: (After Connor walks off) I have to lay off of the cocaine
LOL...yeah, they actually loved their "snuff" back in those days.
@@ConcernedResident_GiantStack We were made to experiment with fun, crazy, pleasurable mind-altering substances, it seems. Been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years :) only recently with all this ridiculous stupid "War on drugs" stuff did we develop such a feeble Victorian-era mindset about enjoyable or expansive entheogenic substances, I feel. Sadly I still have yet to try a bunch of the really lovely chemicals because of this -- I REALLY want to do DMT, MDMA and psilocybin, and to a lesser degree several others. Psychedelic therapy in safe, nurturing and well-controlled environments has been suggested to me, too...
I totally forgot about the part where he shot the annoying psycho valet
Trivia: the whole scene is overdubbed because Ian Reddington (Bassett) couldn’t understand a word Christopher Lambert was saying.
Like most of us, then (quoth a real Highlander). XD
Nobody:
MacLeod: "hehehehehe"
His laughter was epic!
hehehe...what kept you??
Reminds me of the laugh in Mortal Kombat.
@@rageagaintstheNWO it's normal when both are portrayed by the same actor.
The man made the same mistake as Rickon Stark. Didn't zig zag!
goatboyful alway zigzag
Always gotta remember to follow the Five Ds: Dodge, Duck, Dive, Dip, and Dodge
What? Stop making stuff up man. Rickon is alive and well.
i was mentally yelling at him to turn slightly left or slightly right
Serpentine! Serpentine!
You're really not supposed to repeat the insult and laugh during your apology. 3:)
Connor did, .. because he can ;)
Yeah he did hahaha
You're right. But he was drunk ;)
lol guess you can when you're immortal and nothing can kill you.
I think he was being sarcastic
I remember the first time I saw this scene as a kid... and I was in tears laughing...
When I first saw these movie at the movie theater I remember I went with my best friend who was half spanish and he loved the scene he was laughing and imitating bass and kurgan for days. I remember this scene like if it was yesterday and its been like 35 or 40 years, I was shock too see the highlander beaten so bad
I wanted him to take revenge on bass but it never happenned.
Revenge for? 🤔
He didn’t care enough for revenge. The guy couldn’t kill him. MacLeod insulted him, humiliated him and then insulted him again, as he apologised for insulting him (well, about his wife, but it was his honour being “defended”). The End.
MacLeod wins.
It's even more amazing since Lambert is blind as a bat. Even during the first movie.
Without glasses he is pretty much blind.
This is exactly how Hit Points in RPGs work 8-^).
_never insult the honor of a gentleman, Hotchkist_
Hodgekins is fired.
ПичвајзПикчерс He's dead tired
bad un tss
he got buckshot in the arse
Good answer!
upon.
The buttler is the cousin of smitters from the simpsons lol
@Vlah Vlah bad typo lol. Thx
He WAS the cousin of Smithers
Not the cousin. Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granduncle
They put this scene on to cheer you up after Heather's death.
It's hilarious that Christopher Lambert spoke virtually no English when he took on the role of Connor MacLeod.
@WhyAmIWearing ARedShirt if Ramirez speak in hieroglyphs no one would understand except Daniel Jackson
and he was virtually blind & left his special glasses back home
@WhyAmIWearing ARedShirt Swiss-speaking? There is no lSwiss language. Switzerland has four official languages: German, French, Italian, and Romansch.
@@killersalmon4359 Lot of languages for such a little country.
@WhyAmIWearing ARedShirt It's a great film, period.
Oh. My. God. I'm a huge Highlander fan. And I saw this scene for the first time today. Lol
Is it not in the full movie
@@delboy-su3wf Maybe he watched a TV edit? Sometimes, they actually cut this scene out for time (they cut it at the bridge so it's like they are reminiscing). A freaking shame in my view.
I've seen this in the cinema, on vhs and on TV. And I swear that I once counted nine lunges from Basset, not just six.
I think there are more in the director's cut.
do you have any idea how much an Immortal has to drink to get THAT drunk for that long??
Yeah, how does their regeneration work?! Do their bodies break toxins immediately or what?
absinth?
He was up for the challenge.
I think a "Hightlander" cannot drink his "head off"
I think the only thing is, they can't die.
Otherwise, they're pretty much human.
"Shoot him, sir" is a timeless line.
what a time loop, "I come to bargain"...
The poor guy at the end should have swerved left and right to give himself some chance...
@Walt Kowalski even worse 😂😂😂😂😂
Shooting someone in the back who just apologies is dishonorable so he should the fools who get that stupid idea.
Connor was sooooo fucked up. Lol. “heheh heheh.” “I apologize for calling your wife a bloated warthog and I bid you good day.”
Love this scene. And that haughty laugh...
Loved this scene..Shows its not all doom and gloom and the immortals can have a little fun too.
Even if it means getting stabbed multiple times while p!ss3d out of his brain 😂
Lambert's laugh... why it isn't a trademark?
It is somewhat. At some point Nanarland ( "sympathetic bad movies", a site on films so bad they're good) had a Christophe Lambert laugh generator; Some even made a real life electronic "Lambert Box" playing his laugh when the button was pressed.
"There must be something wrong in this sword..."
I love how they incoorperate comedy into these movies!
That newscaster at the very end looked disturbingly like Jeremy Clarkson.
I thought so too.
Always love this scene 🤣
I love this movie and I’m lucky enough to get to walk around the grounds of Brocket Hall where this scene was filmed as it’s near where I live.
Definitely not Boston Common..I live less than 15 miles due west of that.
Connor MacCleod is more invulnerable in a duel than Sir Giantholeinthetorso Wickenshire.
Family Guy
Bassett???? That you????
They do feel pain right? It's been years since I've watched this film. The only Highlander film that matters. After all, it had Sean Connery.
With the alcohol running through McLeod right now, I don't think the pain was registering!
@@rubix4195 I'll take your word for it.
@@philosophichuman1507yes they feel pain that's why they have high pain tolerance
I never really understood why his attendent wanted Macleod dead in the duel so badly.
is highlander based on true events?
He was just an annoying kiss ass.
Just an arse kisser who was way too extreme maybe?
thanks, never seen the shooting part at the end.
0:58 doesn't even go through him lol.
I remember this so well...!
Yes. It was 1783 indeed.
1783 was a very good year.
"His namme wasss Bassett." Tell, him I'm ready.!"
This is just funny.
Lol, Clarkson!
I apologise for calling your wife a bloated warthog lol 🤣
I love this scenen. It Is very funny. Connor had his moments
1:38 was that Jeremy Clarckson?!
Christ I've gone blind
Basset had some skills for a non immortal 😂😂😂
No ones memory is this good lol
Funny how the weasel gets it in the end or shall i say gets it in the head. The End
the ending is so funny :D
this always cracks me up
Let this be a valuable lesson never bring a gun to a sword fight
poor cicisbeo, remembered by an immortal for a really stupid death.
Funniest duel on film!
Love American nobles back then still hadn't quite forgot how to be British yet 😂
Even in Indiana Jones time, it seems some American's can't quite pull off "Scottish Lord Looking For Tapestries"
it was a sword duel.not a gun duel.the servant insulted the gentleman by trying to get him to shoot a guy in the back of the head.and the servant would probably shoot anyone..i wouldnt want him around me iether.shot in butt..thats funny
With those pistols he would have almost certainly missed. Hitting anything at more than about 5m was sheer luck
No. He had apologized. So there was no more reason for fighting because honour was restored.
@@topcat073 a typical masquete would ripp half of his ass cheek off
@@user-oj2wd9jb4k Even a pistol would at that range, a .50 or .60 caliber bullet ... he ain't sitting down to do anything for quite some time.
Forgive the enemy
Bury every traitor
This movie won an Oscar.
False.
Hodgekisses loyalty was commendable but a little misguided 😂😂😂😂
If you are gifted with immortality...... do not play games with those who are not....
Poor Hotchkiss.
1:18 This part was cut in theatrical version..
I initially thought it was Klaus from American Dad talking
I know this was only comedy, but even comedy should get some things right. Wigs were always removed at the start of the duel, because it was part of the ritual and for practical reasons as seen here. That's where the expression still used today comes from, that if such and such behavior doesn't end, "there'll be wigs on the green". I could imagine Rowan Atkinson getting great fun out of the doffing wigs ritual.
Прекрасная дуэль! Отличный фильм!
Far in the future a certain mere mortal will have another duel where the other combatant is just as humiliated. It also involves the honor of a woman though more or less reversed. He is a great man. A good man. An okay man.
Does this man wear a brown coat because I may have seen such a splendid duel 😉
@@dirtydan2695 :)
Nice shindig. :)
I love when he laughs during his apology LOL! Why does he shoot the other guy in the end?
it would have been a massive insult that a servant would imply his lord would be such a coward (and poor swordsman) that he'd need to shoot a peer in the back to win.
Due to Connor's poor condition, the fact that the gentleman had pretty much won, since he drew first blood and Connor in their eyes was significantly injured and in a state unable to fight, which could also end a duel, and that Connor apologized and the apology was pretty much tacitly accepted, it would have been dishonorable to kill Connor, adding that at that point Connor wouldn’t have even been aware, and wasn’t being offered the possibility of a pistol duel.Even the subtlest suggestion would have been an insult to the Lord's honor in this situation, therefore to preserve the honor, and with the fact that the insult came from someone of a lower position, the gentleman just kills Hotchkins right away.
Footnote: duels could be fought until first blood, until one of the parties could no longer fight due to significant injury or until death. Offering an apology and taking back the action (verbal altercation, epistolar altercation, public altercation, unacknowledgement, etc...), if accepted, would have also meant the end of the personal feud, with that in mind, as explained in the original comment, we see we have 3 of 4 elements that could end a feud via duel depending on what the two parties agreed via mutual close friends, or other known gentlemen, who were named “seconds”. Also, it is obviously implied that Connor and Basset are about the same age and societal standing, otherwise the duel wouldn’t happen, since it would be refused. This wasn’t as common tho, since it would have to be very obvious, and otherwise it risked aggravating the honor of the seconds by implying affiliation to someone of lower standing. It is evident that in no way would a member of the third state duel a gentleman or noble (which is why Basset doesn’t put much thought in killing his servant), but it wasn’t as crazy to have 2 gentlemen, one to be a planter of means, the other, another planter of much superior means to duel, a farmer of great lands against a burgeois, a count against a duke, etc...
Because he was angry and frustrated, he wanted to shoot someone.
@@thetooner8203 Yep the true reason, and it's a movie, not the crap, lengthy responses above LOL! ROFL
Comedic relief.
😂I have never seen that ending🤣
Ahhh but a big strong man like you shouldn't be afraid a-little Boom Boom. 😂🍾
You're Fired!
Hahaha, think I know where Tommy Wiseau got his acting inspiration from
There is a certain "Tommy Wiseau" vibe to this clip
That guy knew what was up lol
I would like to know if Vincent Cassel is Mr. Basset, I mean he looks like him in his younger days, and I don't remember seeing his name in the credits, but the resemblance is uncanny. This was always something that bugged me when I saw BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, is like "I have seen this guy somewhere..."
Mr. Basset is played by the English actor Ian Reddington. But indeed, he looks a bit like Vincent Kassel. ;)
I've wondered this since I was a kid. Where is Kastagir in the drunken duel scene???
Brilliant!
0:20 0.25=Drunk Bassett
what we present on the end? cuting the cable?
Vicent Cassel the wrong man to duel😅😂.