great movie by turnstiles as illustrated
by up with the wing with contemptuous
ease technique now this man has been
thrown by his opponent who is who is who
is where who is Wow he must be very
strong to have thrown him that far
okay there's Agamemnon played by rufus
sewell and those are the Jemez cool
isn't it oh look at these extras here
all right what you want to do is you
want to punch your right hand over and
over again and say hey all the way
through the fight you know just like
people do I'll try to get that move to
work in real life this shaven figure
here is clearly a modern bodybuilder
actually strong people don't look like
that
now the shout and charge technique so
the not suspicious look viewed all right
all your mates are with you Paris and
Hector just wait for them to back you up
but you know don't go running off ahead
of them oh great
to fight those pleats on your own oh
it's running action literally into him
well that was daft if he wasn't it he
stabbed him while he waits politely
technique I'll just hold my left hand
out like this that's it one more and
stab well done sir
now look at this guy here and see how he
contributes to his own fate understand
hearing waiters much obliged
his exception now he's got him now and
but no no instead of hitting in me to
screams and hang on did he have to duck
that seemed to be see Rufus swings
there's his head level okay easy snap
wrists the aim to miss your opponent
technique now this will swing wildly at
the air or how to open its weapon to be
utilized in this room you had to point
in space between level not putting
either of them in danger so why they
bothering to parry that post very good
swing at the wall waits with your sword
repeat hope you saw that in front of you
and then wait the other guy then heated
pads it now this guy in red you see on
the left he's swinging his sword quite
slowly and missing Menelaus by by over
an arm's length and yet Menelaus still
for some reason parried no don't care it
manners just watch it go past and him in
the arm he's missing you he's missing
we take no advantage from throwing
weapons technique now this is the tense
moment in the film when Paris and
Menelaus have agreed to duel to decide
the fate of the city so quite a lot of
extras there so there's the royal family
watching from the walls the Greek heroes
there and here's our man Paris but you
think he'd have buffed his arm up a bit
for the occasion wouldn't you know
polish it up nice and shiny bronze but
no instead that's rather dull
I'm guessing fiberglass and in the
Trojan choir it's Paris a hick great
acting public next with that we did a
quick glower from Rufus all very good
and we're off
so he needs his javelin with a bizarrely
fat head on it I've never seen an actual
javelin head like that before
must be really heavy a much thinner
javelin head of course would have an
easier time getting through armor but
never mind it's the javelin did they
choose they circle each other for a bit
the drums start or tension mounts
why are they holding them so near the
front is the head that heavy no it isn't
because you'll see he adjusts his hand
position before throwing Wow all the
noise it made as it went through the air
did you hear that it sort of eased
didn't it right well did he follow up
that tur throw no he didn't he hung back
and now the guy with the javelins got a
huge advantage he could run right up to
him and throw from point-blank range but
no he hangs back because noise is
amazing I love to the way all these
extras are so happy to stand immediately
behind someone who's being thrown that
don't take your helmet off now you're
fighting a duel dodgy shield strap there
and damn ha Oh Rufus you didn't poison
it did you don't throw it down to right
back at him
now I've stopped the action again sorry
I keep stopping the action but I won't
do draw attention to the fact that this
has got to lots of straps on it the prop
Department presumably put these ones on
first and then they decided that those
didn't work very well so they put these
second ones on which are very floppy and
you'll see in later in this video how
the shield's flop around all over the
shop so they've got new javelins now
anyway maybe it's the rules so here
throw and did you follow up no did you
charge in before he could recover nope
you then hang back just wide run that in
run that in throw from a range of 6 feet
come on right and now my shield is just
a counterweight technique now with these
big floppy shields you see they're just
most of time it just pull but hopefully
she'll behind them leaving themselves
almost completely exposed but it's
alright as long as they just swing at
the air or each other swords they'll be
reasonably stabbing stabbing your kingly
when in rage why didn't you just stab in
there all good glowering ruthless Oh
their idea or haymakers things right on
to the next technique I think it's Pete
when desperate try something less
effective technique so he's tried
fighting in that way so as they battle
away out of the circle here he'll change
to hold his sword back to front
well is this better if he was better at
fighting that way why didn't he fight
that way from the stuff this is common
in films that people will try to fight
an ineffective way first and then try a
more effective way later only he's
perhaps trying to reverse here I don't
know who can say now then is there some
other way I can use the shield more
effectively I know I'll grip it by the
rim on both sides expect exposing all my
fingers oh but my opponent will do the
same in this one so that's pretty handy
okay I'm stopping the film for the last
time now because I just want you to
witness by how much Menelaus can miss
his target from this range wow that's
amazing but wait till you see this next
one Paris is in no danger from this next
below
we've got to see that full speed and
there you have it extraordinary