The King - Duel Scene

The King 2019
Young Henry V encounters deceit, war and treachery after becoming King of England in the 15th century, in the aftermath of his brother's death.

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[desimo]

That's probably one of the most realistic fights you'll ever see on the screen. Sloppy, desperate, losing their swords, out of breath, falling down, and by no means graceful.

[jackmyers]

I like the fact the armour did its job. No cuts went through

[Jknight]

It’s not everyday that you see a modern movie portraying realistic knight duels

[saf]

"Imagine a King who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight."

[connoriquada]

0:43 I love his attitude. He so clearly doesn’t want to be there and doesn’t wanna fight at all. His body language and face just say “fuck, here we go.”

[Karathos]

Really found myself enjoying the whole duel but especially the opening half-swording move at 1:12. Tons of medieval literature talks about knights dueling being more like wrestling too, with grappling and tripping and beating. Too much armor to just slice someone like a movie, you gotta wear out the other guy so you can finish them or get them to yield.

[chrispyle]

The slow Crysknife penetrates the armor. Bless the maker, bless his coming and going. And bless the producer who selected timmy to play Mua'Dib

[buttlord]

Dude hookin the sword around the legs for the grapple is PURE GENIUS

[Ser_Arthur_Dayne]

The Wheezing and heavy breathing really did it for me. As a HS Wrestler, we had 3 2-minute periods, which was up from 3 1.5-minute periods in Middle School. It took some getting used to. I *think* College might be 3 minutes, then 2 and 2 ... ANYWAY - people have NO IDEA what it's like to go 101% of your abilities in heated battle against someone else giving 101% themselves. *AND THAT DOESN"T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT* a motherfucking suit of Medieval Armor and sword etc. This was a very realistic scene to me and it's a damn shame Hotspur had to die so quickly, he was a badass in this. But so was Hal, of course.

[natecloe]

The fact that every fight and every battle in this movie is so unrefined and realistic is what made this movie so great.

I also like how the rivals are portrayed. You've got the British actor playing the French King and the French actor playing the British King.

[road]

What were you expecting, twirling of the sword and amazing footwork - men who don’t get tired as well.
This is as realistic as a knight duel gets.

[Daze-ewxj]

Realistic yet entertaining. Great movie

[CaptainPantys]

The brutality of a real fight can't be outdone. I haven't seen this movie yet but I've watched this scene a bunch of times. It's so accurate to the manuscripts it honestly looks like a legitimate duel between two monster athletes and warriors. Well done. I shall now enjoy this film.

[gefiltafish]

Goes against what we all thought is a PROPER fight, but this scene, including them barely breathing, is the real deal.
Especially the ending with Edward tripping him, and ending it with a small knife.
I think it’s one of the reasons they used big lances and big swords only in tournies back then.
Can’t really kill a fully armored knight with these weapons.. well mostly.

[BlueSkyCountry]

Very well made scene. The poniard, or long dagger like the one used here, is to European knights as the tanto, or very short katana, is to Japanese samurai. Both are hidden on the wearer and when a duel devolves into grappling and one or both fighters lose their swords, a poniard or tanto is often deployed to lethal effect. One might think that this may have been considered "dishonorable", but surprisingly, it was not, because such a tactic took place DURING the course of the combat, and thus was not considered an ambush or cheap shot. In China and Korea during this same time, duels were fought at 21-40 paces with bows. The Chinese dueling code was very similar to the western code of the handgun duel which came later in the 1700s. If an arrow fired by either side caused death or injury, or missed, but inflicted sufficient enough fear to compel one party to call off hostilities, the duel was over, and further combat or ambush occurring outside the sanctioned dueling window would be regarded by the law as assault, attempted murder, or murder.

[captainvalourous]

That time when Paul Atreides, Tommen Baratheon and Aegon II were in the same movie 😅

[seraphik]

i love the brisk, almost careless way Henry closes his visor while readying his sword. tells you without telling you that he might be kinda scrawny and he might be a bit of a wastrel, but the dude was still a warrior born.

[gp-]

I loved that it quickly devolved to a fist fight

[rliao]

If you pause at 2:22, you can see the sword going straight for the connection between the helmet and breastplate. And since that area is protected by chain mail, slashing is not going to deal too much damage, so he is going for a thrust. Very accurate fighting, much better than other movies where they are slashing around, making cinematic but useless moves.

[Kiwi.]

Willy Wonka versus Aegon Targaryen, who knew