#Duel

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

👀 Fantasia 2024: The Second, Short Film Short Review by Kurt Halfyard CONTRIBUTING WRITER; TORONTO, CANADA

"The result is a semi-formal, subtly playful story inspired by the 18th century pistols-at-dawn duels in Kurbrick’s Barry Lyndon. Only here, in the alternate universe of the short, the practice has continued into the 21st century. Then, and now, these antiquated rituals of solving grievances were of course dangerous things, but also smacked of vanity, absurdity, and futility."

說實話我若是沒有閱讀 Kurt Halfyard他所寫的影片短評，得知"The Second"其故事背景，我看完影片的當下真的覺得很生氣，這都什麼時代了，怎麼還會有如此迂腐又荒謬的傳統決鬥儀式，父親竟然讓自己的兒子去面對這個人生的風險，天知道的虛榮心還有什麼比生命還重要的比賽？簡直莫名其妙！(To be honest, if I hadn't read Kurt Halfyard's review of the film and learned about the background story of "The Second", I was really angry after watching the film. What era is this? How can there still be such pedantic and… Ridiculous traditional duel ritual, the father actually allowed his son to face this risk in life, God knows what kind of vanity is there? What kind of competition is more important than life? It's totally incomprehensible! 🙄😒🤬🤓 ) Thanks 🙏 Lan~*

poster via IMDb

The Second, a short film by Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou [Animatic/Commentary here]

[illustratus]

[lamaery]

It's alright Dalinar, babe, he got this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- image description: A loosely scribbled and coloured comic page with several panels in four rows of the scene in Words of Radiance in which Kaladin joins the duel in the arena. The background in the panels is painetd very patchily implying the seats of the arena with half roofs offering shadow from the sun above. The first row has two panels, on the left we see an agitaed Dalinar, in his blue uniform with gold and white trimmings, as he leans forward, hands on the wall of the dueling pit in front of him, calling out "What happened to us?", "Where is our honor?". A smaller speechbubble to the side contains the words "Honor is dead". The panel to the right depicts Dalinar looking to the side to see who gave that cynical commentary. Kaladin stands there not far behind him, also in captain's uniform holding his spear and looking very grim. The next row has two smaller and on medium sized panel, they all show Kaladin from the side in profile – as Dalinar would see him. He inhales like he is fortifying himself for what comes next. On the exhale he looks down into the arena with mix of resignation and determination and utters the words "But I'll see what I can do." The speechbubble for it is already in the next panel, in which Kaladin is gazing towards us with a mournful expression as he says "If this goes poorly, take care of my men."

The third and fourth row are both each one long horizontal panel. The third row shows Kaladin as he vaults himself over the wall in the foreground. Dalinar stares at him seeming very shocked. The panel in the last row is a top down view into the arena. Kaladin stands in front of six people, four of them Shardbearers in full plate all now turning towards him. On the far left is Relis in his black plate holding a big shardblade. Adolin kneels next to him in the sand of the arena holding his broken shoulder. To his right stand Elis with a shardhammer in a grey plate, then Adrobar in a orange one with a blade. Further to the right is Jakamav in his green plate and the king's blade, Renarin standing blade- and plateless next to him.

[ulan-bator]

Duel (1988 MS-DOS)

[archerinventive]

“You burn hot enough to light an ocean on fire.” -Robert Thier

A huge thank you to Dresden Blue for taking these photos of Ash and I having fun on the beach at Kindle this year.

Being out there among the mist and fire felt so surreal.

This is just a small selection of the moments she captured, but I'll be sharing more from her and other photographers over the next few days as I play catchup. :)

[m3dieval]

Genz d'armes 1415

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Marcus Stone (1840-1921) "An Interrupted Duel" (1868)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Me and Hatsune Miku made a bunch of pipe bombs together and left them in people’s mailboxes in an attempt to create a new Christmas tradition world-wide. We eventually ran into Santa and beat him and Rudolph in a Yu-Gi-Oh! duel for the right to make Christmas pipe bombs a widely known tradition in the cognitions of the people.

[junkfoodcinemas]

Duel (1971) dir. Steven Spielberg

Sorcerer (1977) dir. William Friedkin

Christine (1983) dir. John Carpenter

[yoan-le-grall]

[caleod]

12-2-24

[cosmonautroger]

Duel, Steven Spielberg, 1971

[illustratus]

Cardinals' quarrel by Théobald Chartran

[hell-ter-skelter]

Oh... I drew this for 9 hours.. 🤘🏻

[skeletonfumes]

Blue Eye Samurai