El Cid: Battle for Calahorra

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  • @trevorpayne9671
    @trevorpayne9671 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    No stunt men! No 'Graphics" Fantastic. One of my favourite movies.

    • @Marveryn
      @Marveryn ปีที่แล้ว +7

      not sure about stuntman am pretty sure that wasn't heston that fall of the horse and had the horse run him over.

    • @blblbl1449
      @blblbl1449 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Very poor. Cid was devastated on the beginning and then had same energy as his opponent. And the duel.. "fascinating" attacks on the shield/weapon instead on the body.
      You do not need billions of dollars and latest technology.
      Today's reconstructors fighting more interesting and better than in this movie

  • @donallally5504
    @donallally5504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    They made great movies in those days with great characters and actors in them, this was a real classic in so many ways

  • @conniesoulis7521
    @conniesoulis7521 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    As movies go..this was a good one
    .still is.

  • @ronniecoleman2342
    @ronniecoleman2342 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A character of history so great, so epic, so beloved that only Moses could play it.

  • @pachocleproplayer8259
    @pachocleproplayer8259 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Greetings from Calahorra!!!

  • @shaun5944
    @shaun5944 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Best fight scene ever! No CG here. Just pure, raw energy and physical strength. Takes your breath away just watching it! 👍🇬🇧🎬🎥

    • @69Jackjones69
      @69Jackjones69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My thoughts exactly

    • @davidaynes5023
      @davidaynes5023 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Watch Ivanhoe 1952 final duel. But this one is right up there

  • @lawrencebittke8478
    @lawrencebittke8478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I saw EL CID with my Dad when I was 8. It was an awesome movie and I actually had a “boy crush” when I saw beautiful Sophia Loren on the screen.

    • @generalpublic3744
      @generalpublic3744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here, she's an amazing looking woman. The love hate relationship was a fascinating thread through the film.

    • @johnferguson40
      @johnferguson40 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sophia Loren, Maureen O'Hara, Lois Griffin at their best, yummy.

    • @myview5840
      @myview5840 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I still do😊

    • @ClementColucci
      @ClementColucci หลายเดือนก่อน

      A crush on Sophia Loren no more needs to be qualified than does gravity.

    • @glennelliott5133
      @glennelliott5133 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What boy didn't have a crush on her? She was gorgeous!

  • @donallally5504
    @donallally5504 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Absolutely fantastic stuff, one of the best in all cinematic history

  • @jamesmaclennan4525
    @jamesmaclennan4525 9 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    One of the few Cinematic fights where the participants actually look as if they are really trying to kill each other

    • @signorellil
      @signorellil 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Yes, that's the point of this scene. Mann had it choreographed by Enzo Musumeci Greco, an Italian fencing champion and expert on medieval swordsmanship who basically did most of the sword fight choreography in every Italian costume dramas and then went into helping staging fights in a lot of Hollywood epics shot in Europe. He added a quality of realism that up to that time was completely missing from movie sword fights. He created a movie swordfighting training school that's now run by his nephew (another former fencing world champion). The Musumeci Greco family had a long tradition on this - I believe their traditional fencing academy is now world's oldest

    • @jackmyers8687
      @jackmyers8687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fantastic

    • @chrisnewport7826
      @chrisnewport7826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Never saw better - except in Los Angeles after dark, where 405 and 91 meet.

    • @andrewstackpool4911
      @andrewstackpool4911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And, despite the double-handed swords looking to be light steel or even aluminium absolutely correct weaponry and use. Without the film to hand I am trying to recall who was his opponent and who played the King.

    • @mattilatvala4164
      @mattilatvala4164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@signorellil Some expert.... jousting from wrong sides. 😆 (Morning star was a good choice.) Swordfight is silly, only trying to slash trough steel armor. No attempt to wrestle down. Opening oneself long time with every slow haymaker slash. Then - a weak slash suddenly cuts thick steel and it is over.

  • @shaun5944
    @shaun5944 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    It doesn't get much better than this. SL, CH. One of the best films ever made. Thank you leO 👍🎥👋🇬🇧

  • @elizabethroberts6215
    @elizabethroberts6215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Saw this firstly in 1962. Became a fan of Mr Charlton Heston after that. Had the great honour, & privilege of meeting him, & his beautiful wife, Lydia, many times’ over the next three decades’. Very ‘down to earth’ people, & fabulous to converse with! Greatest thrills’ of my life!

  • @terencewild4245
    @terencewild4245 8 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Rodrigo Diaz di vivar, Europe needs another man like you right now.

    • @lukeskywalker3329
      @lukeskywalker3329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My sister married one of his descendants.
      🙂✝️

    • @malafakka8530
      @malafakka8530 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nonsense

  • @josephcarlbreil5380
    @josephcarlbreil5380 8 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    One of Miklos Rozsa's finest scores. His music for this scene is unforgettable.

  • @deriter64
    @deriter64 13 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    From Major Dundee to Ben Hur, nobody played those larger than life roles than Heston.

  • @mqblues
    @mqblues 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Blood on Heston's blade as he kneels. Great action scene. Bravo!

  • @gdgopaul
    @gdgopaul 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I remember Mum (RIP) and my elder brother saying that I was making so much noise crying in the cinema back in the '60's that they had to leave bless 'em.
    One of my favourite movie scenes ever . . .

  • @doughill1945
    @doughill1945 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I first saw this in Torquay around 1962. It remains one of my favourite films. The combat scene was unlike anything I had ever seen before. The setting, the colours and the emotions portrayed just superb

  • @romeomikulic9781
    @romeomikulic9781 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    One of the best duels in the cinema history.

  • @ajvanmarle
    @ajvanmarle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I was ten years old, when I first saw this movie and fell in love with Genevieve Page. To this day, I think it is one of the best portrayals of a sociopath ever.

    • @asuntosvarios7456
      @asuntosvarios7456 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ¿Un sociópata en la película "El Cid"? ¿Quién?

    • @elizabethroberts6215
      @elizabethroberts6215 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@asuntosvarios7456……Princess Uraca………

    • @asuntosvarios7456
      @asuntosvarios7456 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@elizabethroberts6215 "Urraca", chata, "Urraca", con dos erres.
      Sociópata era el jefe de los moros, Urraca era un encanto.

    • @JGlennFL
      @JGlennFL 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      And she's still alive at 97 years old!

  • @tigerarmyrule
    @tigerarmyrule 12 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Proper old style Hollywood. Heston was superb in those roles

    • @beviaart
      @beviaart 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This is the golden age of Hollywood.

    • @seymourskinner2533
      @seymourskinner2533 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not made in Hollywood or by Hollywood

  • @AlexandreOliveira1974
    @AlexandreOliveira1974 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    From 2:04 to 2:13, soundtrack briefly brings the tune of one of the 'Cantigas de Santa Maria' by Castillan / Leonese King Alfonso X, the Wise. It's "CSM 7 - Santa Maria amar devemos muit' e loar". Quite interesting the composer made this insertion!
    The CSM (400+) were composed through the 2nd half of 1200 century (the king died in 1284), more than 150 years after the life and deeds of El Cid. They're a monument for medieval art in MANY senses - yes, musical notation is plainly registered in the 4 known Codices, which has been studied through centuries.

  • @generalpublic3744
    @generalpublic3744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    There was nothing quite like watching El Cid on the big screen. The full effect and enormity of the classic epic made an impact on a impressionable youngster aged six! I was transfixed and watched it all right through. It was a long film, but the battle at the end was the basis for my love of tactical strategy games now.

  • @ignaciovillanueva9231
    @ignaciovillanueva9231 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This particular scene was shot in Belmonte, province of Cuenca in Spain. The castle that appears is real and is a 15th century castle if I am not mistaken. Nowadays you can visit it, I did it a few months ago and it is impressive. The village that appears is also the same and you can distinguish the church with its collegiate church. In this village was born an important Spanish writer Fray Luis de León.

  • @philpascali4070
    @philpascali4070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    wished humanity to find back such honor back

  • @indyandnorbert1
    @indyandnorbert1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Fantastic sequence, saw it as a kid at the cinema when it came out, still draw back as if in 'the line of fire' with every blow. Marvellous film altogether, watch it every few months, never tire. And a wonderful score too.

  • @williamwalker146
    @williamwalker146 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Great scene from one of the greatest films ever made.

  • @Halo9K
    @Halo9K 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Miklos Rozsa became one of my favorite composers once I started paying attention to Soundtrack music. It’s still my favorite music (soundtrack) to listen to. He made several soundtracks for a variety of movies. He was the John Williams of his time. If he wrote it, you knew it was going to be good. I saw El Cid when it came out. I was 11 when I saw it. Heston was perfect for the role. Sophia was too.

  • @songsmith31a
    @songsmith31a 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I saw this spectacular production when it was given a special screening that utilised
    the full visual and audio equipment that the Odeon, Marble Arch, London W1 was
    able to provide many years ago. The brilliance of the filmed scenes and the huge
    immediacy of the sound were what I remember. They don't make 'em like that
    anymore!

  • @goblin2bis707
    @goblin2bis707 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Superb ! music, actors all perfect in this scene

  • @donallally5504
    @donallally5504 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Those battles were really hectic and brutal

  • @alexkrycek21
    @alexkrycek21 14 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Such a brilliant film.

  • @ArizonaAirspace
    @ArizonaAirspace 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Charleton Heston was made for this heroic role. He was the El Cid.

  • @Priyo866
    @Priyo866 11 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Memories of me as a kid playing Age of Empires II come to my mind...I was playing El Cid campaign and building small villages all around...hurling monks everywhere and using only El Cid to fight... :P
    Oh God...nostalgia.

  • @gdgopaul
    @gdgopaul 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love this bit of the film when I was a kid . . .

  • @jslasher1
    @jslasher1 14 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Miklos Rozsa's score adds so much to the tenor of these scenes.

  • @Halo9K
    @Halo9K 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This was my favorite scene of the movie. The music was fantastic.

    • @hectormarcayda8608
      @hectormarcayda8608 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Fully concur w/you on the exceptional musical score and soundtrack -- the product of the great composer Miklós Rózsa, whom I believe also conducted the music. A number of years ago, Nic Raine conducted the music for a CD/vinyl release, and performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. An absolute gem of a collection.

  • @FernandoGon814
    @FernandoGon814 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What a masterpiece!

  • @deriter64
    @deriter64 11 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Nobody could have pulled this scene off like Heston.

    • @JohnDoe-et8th
      @JohnDoe-et8th ปีที่แล้ว

      [Gives Ximena her blood-soaked scarf back]: "You colors are no longer black!" epic line

  • @carterbentonjr399
    @carterbentonjr399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember seeing this back in 1972 in Westover Grammer School. We saw it in 2 parts. Boy those were the days. But of course during the romantic scenes we kids would cover our faces. But over all very great movie 🎥. Those times were a-okay 👌.

  • @George9906
    @George9906 15 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    To whom does Calahorra belong?!
    Awsome scene! :)

    • @salozinp
      @salozinp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Calahorra is an spanish village in region of la Rioja,(famous for his wines).Born in roman (179 B.C),in 405 A.C the visigothic barbarians conquest de city,in 711 the muslims invaders destroy the visigothics and conquest the city.In 1092 The Cid reconquest for christian kingdoms the city and the castle,finally,in 1512 the spanish catholic kings pacify the Rioja zone.One of spanish villages with long history.But the castle in film is the castle of Belmonte,the thrue castle of Calahorra is this: th-cam.com/video/Uq6O6uJd--o/w-d-xo.html

    • @pachocleproplayer8259
      @pachocleproplayer8259 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      salozinp That’s not the castle of Calahorra, really. La Calahorra is a town in southern Spain, in the province of Granada. Calahorra’s castle has been long gone, where it once stood, now lays a XVII century church.

  • @jorgesantos1641
    @jorgesantos1641 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Eu era muito jovem quando assisti esse filmaço . Até os dias atuais com 60 anos, ainda me lembro da história.

  • @sonnyburnett4321
    @sonnyburnett4321 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Viva nuestro Cid Campeador! Viva España!! Dios bendiga al Cid!!

    • @marcosolveirasantos8466
      @marcosolveirasantos8466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Viva

    • @Ac72958
      @Ac72958 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Viva El Cid. O maior campeão da Espanha

    • @carlossantamariapico1571
      @carlossantamariapico1571 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ¿Cuál Dios? ¿Yaveh, Dios, Allah? Es que combatió por todos ellos. A cambio de dinero.

    • @carlossantamariapico1571
      @carlossantamariapico1571 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Castillo de Manzanares el Real. About 50 kms far from Madrid. A nice excursion, close to the Guadarrama Sierra

    • @sonnyburnett4321
      @sonnyburnett4321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@carlossantamariapico1571 Si te destierran de Castilla al menos 2 veces, y estás rodeado de reinos de Taifas moros, no te queda más remedio que trabajar para comer, y lo que mejor sabía hacer El Cid es batallar, pues tuvo que ir a la Taifa de Zaragoza por ejemplo a prestar sus servicios al rey Moro..Cómo diablos iba a vivir si era una España casi entera musulmana, si te destierran? Era común la guerra de cristianos contra cristianos, moros contra moros, y entre ellos..Así que lo del Cid era completamente normal en ese tiempo..pero como buen castellano el era cristiano..de eso no hay dudas…

  • @tackyman2011
    @tackyman2011 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Cid with that bare throat, the gorget not coming up to cover his neck. Friggin' Hollywood Medieval.

  • @jackmyers8687
    @jackmyers8687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Grabbing the saddle was a surprise but a great tactical idea

  • @pp-bb6jj
    @pp-bb6jj 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    England needs El Cid now.

  • @Prospro8
    @Prospro8 14 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The music here is the most interesting thing. Miklos Rozsa used 2 of the 13th Century Cantigas of Santa Maria for the fast music there at the start. A good film, very stylised hero archetype.. This was the last scene they shot in the whole film, and it shows a little. Notice how the knights charge the WRONG way, with their shields NOT facing their opponents' lance sides. They're driving on the wrong side! You'd have thought Franco's cavalry who were on site would have got that right.

  • @sethpotter9592
    @sethpotter9592 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sometimes I wish trial by combat would return. In our civilized society of today, justice is not served.

  • @joehayward2631
    @joehayward2631 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ElCid one of the top 5 greatest knights ever

  • @jamesupton4996
    @jamesupton4996 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    That was brutal. And Sophia Loren was awesomely beautiful.

  • @signorellil
    @signorellil 14 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    4:41 absolutely brilliant! Reportedly this scene was quite liked by Sergio Leone

  • @sonnyburnett4321
    @sonnyburnett4321 8 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    For God, for the Cid and for Spainnn!!

    • @mareksteinke7023
      @mareksteinke7023 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      To było kiedyś oddanie dla ojczyzny

  • @larry1824
    @larry1824 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Haven't seen it in decades but always renember the cids last charge

  • @hughcapetien
    @hughcapetien 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    A fact, a lot of folks didn't know that both King Fernando of Castile, and King Ramiro of Aragon were both brothers, Ramiro being the younger illegitimate half brother.

  • @Pope6006
    @Pope6006 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is truly ah great action film!! El rocks!

  • @vierchristopher
    @vierchristopher 11 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Calahorra.La primera conquista del campeador DEL CID!!!!

  • @surajratti1329
    @surajratti1329 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Spain wonderful country

  • @osamaobama879
    @osamaobama879 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    U recognice the age, but to be honest, more heroic and epic than most stuff u see today!

  • @robertoinsaurralde2494
    @robertoinsaurralde2494 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    very good

  • @fernandoalonsobarahona3114
    @fernandoalonsobarahona3114 11 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A great work of art

  • @TheSocratesofAthens
    @TheSocratesofAthens ปีที่แล้ว +2

    To whom does Calahorra belong?!

  • @joserumbado317
    @joserumbado317 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We must distinguish between the literary Cid and the historical Cid. There is little to discuss about the literary, since it is based on a few written poems. That is the Cid that I prefer, because he chisels the prototype of the Castilian, of the frontier man, accustomed to fighting for his land, oblivious to the ancient honor of the Asturians and the Leonese, always faithful to his word and defender of the weak, rebellious and courteous to others, stoic and tough, long-suffering and ascetic, indomitable and courageous. When the reciters passed through the villages of Castile in the Middle Ages and recited the verses of the Poem, with their epic and high-sounding tone, even the most seasoned men cried for the Campeador's sorrows or applauded wildly if the Christian hosts plundered a Muslim fortress or the gentleman was swindling some Jewish usurers. In school, we learned those lines by heart. Thus was born Castilla, land of my father and soul of Spain.

  • @AtomicExtremophile
    @AtomicExtremophile 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Heston was in a class of his own...

  • @frankleepower2333
    @frankleepower2333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "I'll give you my sword when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" - Charlton Heston

  • @brucesharpe1079
    @brucesharpe1079 9 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Proud to have had Spanish ancestor

    • @caim4611
      @caim4611 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i have too

    • @lordbouzas3640
      @lordbouzas3640 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      thetrooth 99 we still have that.... but you know you can challenge someone in the street. We are in 2017.

    • @joseramonsamaniego1061
      @joseramonsamaniego1061 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Be sure Bruce that your ancestor will also be proud of you, because Spain belongs to everyone who honors her with a noble soul.

    • @brucesharpe1079
      @brucesharpe1079 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      José Ramón Samaniego hi Jose I am English but I do have Spanish on my grandmother side it goes back three or four generations we don’t know who they are it’s only a little bit my sisters son has a Spanish girlfriend he is learning Spanish off her so that can’t be bad they live in London we had holidays in Spain when I was younger Spain is a lovely country and has a great history we are (part English part Scottish part Spanish and we think there may be german there as well (we are right mongrels ha ha) the wheel turns full circle with my sister son and his girlfriend from Spain

  • @robertnegron9706
    @robertnegron9706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Heston must of been a time traveler.

  • @theodoregrapsas4028
    @theodoregrapsas4028 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Long Live Castille and El Cid. Castille and El Cid was and is Spain.

  • @francisebbecke2727
    @francisebbecke2727 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Of course Heston has to win. Sophia looks good no matter what she wears.

  • @JOHN----DOE
    @JOHN----DOE 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I hope everyone notices how nasty it is when Rodrigo give Ximena her blood-soaked scarf back and says, "Your colors are no longer black."

  • @hollyshippy7417
    @hollyshippy7417 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What we need is a remaster of "El Cid" and its release on 4K. If they can turn out 4ks of forgettable, grade B horror films, it would be a travesty not treat "El Cid" with the same care and distribution.

    • @richstex4736
      @richstex4736 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not a bad idea, as long as they don't inject a modern perspective in the story line.

  • @lordbouzas3640
    @lordbouzas3640 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Proud to be Spanish.

  • @jackmyers8687
    @jackmyers8687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Why can't we settle all disputes with Trial by Combat?

  • @georgesturges2918
    @georgesturges2918 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ok. WHY IS THIS MOVIE NEVER ON TV CABLE OR WHATEVER???? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

    • @hughcapetien
      @hughcapetien 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Contact the people at TCM!

  • @paulthomson8824
    @paulthomson8824 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WONDER IF THIS TOWN EXISTS TODAY - MIGHT VISIT IT.

  • @Redneck322
    @Redneck322 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    In Texas, we still settle disputes in mutual combat.

  • @MaximKretsch
    @MaximKretsch 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    0:28 left background: The Calahorra industrial area

    • @emils4049
      @emils4049 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah well how else did they build their Horses? :P

    • @IchabodvanTassel98
      @IchabodvanTassel98 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maxim Kretsch really?

    • @CESSKAR
      @CESSKAR 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Actually it's the town of Belmonte, in Cuenca.

    • @lordbouzas3640
      @lordbouzas3640 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      not true dude

    • @reggiespotter3427
      @reggiespotter3427 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is Belmonte I have been there, as well as Penniscola and Torrebalaton, fantastic castles.

  • @sonsofliberty75
    @sonsofliberty75 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a cinematic experience that defines the word epic! My favorite Heston movie!

  • @babyrazor6887
    @babyrazor6887 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can't imagine what it would cost to do this shot and build this set today, not to mention just all the costumes alone.

  • @rulason87
    @rulason87 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Castilla y Aragón lucharon por Calahorra?? yo pensaba que lucharon Castilla con Navarra...

  • @georgeinfante1106
    @georgeinfante1106 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great Epic 🎥 cast. El. Cid. ****

  • @deafsmith1006
    @deafsmith1006 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There can only be one!

  • @mateoalvaro1435
    @mateoalvaro1435 ปีที่แล้ว

    Esta rodado en España, en el pueblo de Belmonte, cuenca

  • @oooTACooo
    @oooTACooo 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic music

  • @qpae123
    @qpae123 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Those guys fight like Terminators :))

  • @jrisner1951
    @jrisner1951 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of the knight combat scents ever.

  • @JohnDoe-et8th
    @JohnDoe-et8th 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Problem is, no one could possibly have survived that many whacks with a mace. But quite a show.

    • @JohnWilson-zh3il
      @JohnWilson-zh3il 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Naturally it's a show, but from a practical point it depends on where the mace strikes.

    • @JohnWilson-zh3il
      @JohnWilson-zh3il 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just re-watched the sequence, and you'll notice all the mace strikes except perhaps 1 were intercepted by the shield. Yes, it was choreographed, but comparatively little plot armor.

    • @JOHN----DOE
      @JOHN----DOE 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JohnWilson-zh3il Well, not only does the first one hit him right in the head, but the horse tramples him a couple of times.

  • @johndudley5761
    @johndudley5761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Epic 👍👌

  • @primusinterpares8202
    @primusinterpares8202 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ella ya sabia por eso fue de luto.

  • @nickmail7604
    @nickmail7604 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's a good film I watched many times as a child, but the older you get you realise how daft it is. El Cid born 1043 and died 1099 in Spain is in this scene fighting with a 15th century two handed Scottish claymore. But that's the yanks for you, no respect for history.

  • @Armis71
    @Armis71 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's an Italian doing in Calahorra? And a beautiful one at that!

  • @conniesoulis7521
    @conniesoulis7521 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What does Kalahora mean in Spanish?

    • @sonnyburnett4321
      @sonnyburnett4321 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Calahorra is a city of La Rioja, Spain..It has not translation

  • @George-f4m7r
    @George-f4m7r 13 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Actually El cid really did fight for both sides depending which side was stronger and there was more to gain and ironically it worked as both sides needed his skills

  • @skiphuston3501
    @skiphuston3501 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is that one of the actual castles in the background? I've always wondered that!

    • @isidroramos1073
      @isidroramos1073 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The castle does reallly exists, it's called Belmonte. It's in Castile (Ciudad Real or Cuenca provinces, not sure) but about 300 km south of Calahorra...

    • @sonnyburnett4321
      @sonnyburnett4321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The castle is in Belmonte (Cuenca) Spain, and it really exists, built by Juan Pacheco, Marquis of Villena, it is in a perfect state of conservation. I have visited it a few times and it is spectacular. It also has a museum of medieval war weapons. Spain has the highest average of fortified castles for the defense of the world, because the Christians had to defend themselves against the continuous attacks of the Muslims...

  • @timcsont6985
    @timcsont6985 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don't think any of today's millennials and woke crowd would survive such a time when masculinity and mental fortitude were a necessity such as back then.

    • @fredfry5100
      @fredfry5100 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, not to complain, but my sister used to do things like scratch up my video games, and tore out a page of one of my comics because I annoyed her. She also told me to kill myself in in a number of occasions right in front of my parents. Who usually told me to take it on the grounds that I was a "big guy". Not that they ever said that to or about anyone else. In any case, having read the D"Artagan Romances (Three Musketeers) it is spelled out that "masculinity" is about being rich, powerful, and whatever that society seems cultured.

    • @timcsont6985
      @timcsont6985 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fredfry5100 that was not even masculinity back then, it was about responsibility, self-control, purpose, courage, and above all... honor.

  • @jsp7205
    @jsp7205 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A GREAT MOVIE.

  • @Brvnkaerv
    @Brvnkaerv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow. She was a total fox. Sophia Loren, back in the year I was born.

  • @HectorMeana
    @HectorMeana 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    !!!!!!! excelente

  • @jaimebruno7595
    @jaimebruno7595 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Se rodó en Belmonte, provincia de Cuenca ( al sureste de Madrid).

  • @Prospro8
    @Prospro8 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @cripplehawk These are not claymores, which are unique to Scotland. These are double-handed greatswords which, incidentally, didn't exist at that time either. The film is deliberately stylised to fit a hero myth motif, based partly on Corneille.

  • @rajeshnaik9879
    @rajeshnaik9879 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i love cid

  • @robertpigott5312
    @robertpigott5312 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where is the orchestra ?