Jess Franco was the second unit director on Orson Welles’ "Chimes at Midnight" and worked on an aborted "Treasure Island" film with Welles in 1964. He oversaw the poorly received assembly of Welles’ unfinished “Don Quixote" footage in 1992. (imdb)
The selection of this scene to highlight the possibility of a restoration, demonstrates the inanity of people with power, the aspect ratio is also well out.
Martin Scorsese too. On the Gangs Of New York commentary he cites this as the greatest battle scene in a movie and the inspiration for the opening of Gangs.
See...this is what I point to when I rant to my fellow geeks about how the Game of Thrones show should be showing battles! Welles had no CG, a shoestring budget and yes a few goofy rubber maces and caveman clubs, but this had a ferocity and energy that's hard to beat! And how does this multimillion dollar HBO Game of Thrones portray the similar Battle of the Green Fork in the first season? Clonk Tyrione Lannister on the head and have him wake up after the battle! Cheap asses!
😂 This is a great scene but i would have hated to have left this comment before the battle scene in GOT season 6, if anyone says that was a bad scene then they are just being petty.
@@Conda17 that scene is amazing. But it's the only good thing going on for GOT after season 4. Producers were really lost after they had no more books to base their story.
@@RedcoatT Ferocity and mobility are just as important as cohesion. You would stick in formation on the advance, and you would keep it as best you could, but scenes like this were still pretty common, because war is chaotic. For example, if two formations clashed, and one began to route, the fleeing formation would dissolve, and lose order. The winning formation wouldn't stick together in lockstep, or carefully approach. No, they would chase the other guys down and beat them to death with a spiky club. Same with if cavalry charged a formation and broke it up. Sometimes smaller groups would flank around and rush the enemy while the enemy was already fighting other groups of soldiers. There are a thousand different moving parts in a battle, and the common soldier cant see or hear damn near anything when theyre fighting. The movie Cromwell had an excellent depiction of this, where the battle of edgehill started in good order, continued briefly the same until the forces met, and then everything quickly became a clusterfuck. Its why buglers were needed: to sound simple orders such as advance, retreat, and of course, REGROUP.
Medieval battles were a sequence of events, charges and counter charges, feints, regrouping and counter attacks, both sides looked for an advantage but the PBI of one side would start to leave the battlefield if they were being hammered and knights would do the same. The battle of Stirling Bridge and others were classic examples of a demoralised army (English in this instance) buggering off at high speed and because of the clever choice of battle ground by the Scots, many drowned in the process of trying to cross the River Forth. You can’t fight a battle in a prescribed format if the ground doesn’t allow it.
Budget of $1.20 and not that many actors and a genius director. Just amazing.
These old movies had an qualiity of action that no machinery can imitate!
Exquisite filmmaking, all around. Perhaps the most convincing battle scene I can recall, at least relating to this time period
fantastic battle scene, years ahead of its time.
Mighty algorithm, thou hast borne to me Shakespeare and Orson Welles!
SERVE NO WINE BEFORE ITS TIME
One of the great battle scenes of all time!
Absolutely amazing battle scene Kenneth Branagh said he could never have shot his movie without studying this before
Tina Maggiore Neither could Mel Gibson before Braveheart
i believe you Mr. Scorcese this is pretty great
I'm here to verify what Scorsese said, and i'm agree
Jess Franco was the second unit director on Orson Welles’ "Chimes at Midnight" and worked on an aborted "Treasure Island" film with Welles in 1964. He oversaw the poorly received assembly of Welles’ unfinished “Don Quixote" footage in 1992.
(imdb)
Hell of a fight scene. Wow
Did u notice near the end the sword bending lol
this is a phenomenally visceral scene
The selection of this scene to highlight the possibility of a restoration, demonstrates the inanity of people with power, the aspect ratio is also well out.
You can definitely see that Kenneth Brannagh, Mel Gibson, and Steven Spielberg studied this.
Martin Scorsese too. On the Gangs Of New York commentary he cites this as the greatest battle scene in a movie and the inspiration for the opening of Gangs.
And the GoT battle of the bastards too
I miss Orson
Agreed. But you'll notice GOT employing the same troop composition techniques Welles pioneered on Othello to make a few extras seem like a giant army.
In your face, Peter Jackson!
What r u trying to say Jack Nance? Peter Jackson is kino
4:03 More Care required with Rubber Swords or somebody is going to get hurt.
This is so fire
You can just smell the SGI in this scene :)
Welles basically set the way for every battle scene: Paths of Glory, Saving Private Ryan, Brave heart
See...this is what I point to when I rant to my fellow geeks about how the Game of Thrones show should be showing battles! Welles had no CG, a shoestring budget and yes a few goofy rubber maces and caveman clubs, but this had a ferocity and energy that's hard to beat!
And how does this multimillion dollar HBO Game of Thrones portray the similar Battle of the Green Fork in the first season? Clonk Tyrione Lannister on the head and have him wake up after the battle! Cheap asses!
😂 This is a great scene but i would have hated to have left this comment before the battle scene in GOT season 6, if anyone says that was a bad scene then they are just being petty.
@@Conda17 that scene is amazing. But it's the only good thing going on for GOT after season 4. Producers were really lost after they had no more books to base their story.
Dam even the horse got beaten lol😅😂
Mwaaaaaah the war!
Was this shooted by Jess Franco?
Please upload in the correct aspect ratio.
I'm confused. If the aspect ratio is not supposed to be 1.66 : 1, then what is it?
wrong aspect ratio...
aspect ratio is a complete disaster
James Hancock -oh lookie, you learned a big term like “aspect ratio”! Bravo!
Do people realise that medieval army's fought in formations ?
That's how battles started, usually ending up in muddy melees such as this one.
@@flitsertheo A formation that lost order was defeated
@@RedcoatT Ferocity and mobility are just as important as cohesion. You would stick in formation on the advance, and you would keep it as best you could, but scenes like this were still pretty common, because war is chaotic. For example, if two formations clashed, and one began to route, the fleeing formation would dissolve, and lose order. The winning formation wouldn't stick together in lockstep, or carefully approach. No, they would chase the other guys down and beat them to death with a spiky club. Same with if cavalry charged a formation and broke it up. Sometimes smaller groups would flank around and rush the enemy while the enemy was already fighting other groups of soldiers. There are a thousand different moving parts in a battle, and the common soldier cant see or hear damn near anything when theyre fighting.
The movie Cromwell had an excellent depiction of this, where the battle of edgehill started in good order, continued briefly the same until the forces met, and then everything quickly became a clusterfuck. Its why buglers were needed: to sound simple orders such as advance, retreat, and of course, REGROUP.
Medieval battles were a sequence of events, charges and counter charges, feints, regrouping and counter attacks, both sides looked for an advantage but the PBI of one side would start to leave the battlefield if they were being hammered and knights would do the same. The battle of Stirling Bridge and others were classic examples of a demoralised army (English in this instance) buggering off at high speed and because of the clever choice of battle ground by the Scots, many drowned in the process of trying to cross the River Forth. You can’t fight a battle in a prescribed format if the ground doesn’t allow it.
why is the aspect ratio completely fucked?