The Last Duel (2021)

2025-01-27

What a fun month it’s been exploring some directors so for the final week we’re hitting up someone who is easily our most prolific, is very well known and has some beloved works under his belt. We’re talking about Tony Scott’s brother, Sir Ridley for week 5’s sub-theme “SIR RIDLEY SCOTT’S LAST FOUR”. The first of Ridley’s last four did not light up the box office and he was pretty sore about it. He blamed an entire generation and, yeah, it would be nice if millennials would move away from the franchise shlock a little more but Sir Ridley might have been suffering of a bit of a sore booty hole about it. Not enough people went to go see his historical account of a duel in medieval France following a fairly rare occurrence of a noblewoman’s claims of rape. Told in three perspectives and the men seem to tell on themselves a bit. Did the braggart fuckboy, Jacque le Gris, sexually assault Marguerite, the daughter of a traitor and wife to the terminally unlikable Jean de Carrouges? Truth or no, it all comes down to violence in Ridley’s 2021 film “THE LAST DUEL” starring Jodie Comer, Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Ben Affleck. Looking back, 2021 was kind of a fucked year for most anybody alive right now so maybe Ridley should calm down a little bit? His next one did much better and it came out the same year. People love that fashion stuff.

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