duels are an interesting thing. I would like to know more about that kind of culture.
If you felt insulted you could challenge the other guy to a duel. The other guy would have to defend his honor against yours.
What if you are a complete nutbag challenging people to duels over nothing for some outside gain? What if someone without honor/skill pays you to insincerely challenge his targeted opponent to a duel?
The movie The Duelist kind of delves into the questions you ask, based on a real life event that spanned years, which was part of a series of fascinating historical tidbits from Evangelista's Encyclopedia of the Sword:
The on-location sets really help sell the story despite the film's lower budget. A shame that Ridley Scott's best work (outside of Gladiator) are still his earlier films before he became a household name.
Oh I forgot about that one... but you're right. The duel in the film -- from what I remember -- was very logically sound though, in terms of why it happened and what led to it. And in some ways, I was hoping it would because Lyndon was a right wanker.
In the Duelist, it was more-so that the man who was challenged had no actual alts with his challenger and had no reason to duel but was pulled into it regardless, which fits in line with the question you asked about a nutbag trying to pull someone into a duel with nothing to gain.
Then that's when social graces allow you to act to refuse the challenge the same way you'd refuse a challenge from a child.
The Germans also had an interesting manner of it. There's a million youtube slop videos on "Why German WW2 officers all had scars" which shows the german system of honour duels.
duels are an interesting thing. I would like to know more about that kind of culture.
If you felt insulted you could challenge the other guy to a duel. The other guy would have to defend his honor against yours.
What if you are a complete nutbag challenging people to duels over nothing for some outside gain? What if someone without honor/skill pays you to insincerely challenge his targeted opponent to a duel?
Very interesting indeed.
The movie The Duelist kind of delves into the questions you ask, based on a real life event that spanned years, which was part of a series of fascinating historical tidbits from Evangelista's Encyclopedia of the Sword:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075968/
Interesting film; well worth the watch.
The on-location sets really help sell the story despite the film's lower budget. A shame that Ridley Scott's best work (outside of Gladiator) are still his earlier films before he became a household name.
I will look into it.
I was thinking of the movie Barry Lyndon too.
Oh I forgot about that one... but you're right. The duel in the film -- from what I remember -- was very logically sound though, in terms of why it happened and what led to it. And in some ways, I was hoping it would because Lyndon was a right wanker.
In the Duelist, it was more-so that the man who was challenged had no actual alts with his challenger and had no reason to duel but was pulled into it regardless, which fits in line with the question you asked about a nutbag trying to pull someone into a duel with nothing to gain.
Then that's when social graces allow you to act to refuse the challenge the same way you'd refuse a challenge from a child.
The Germans also had an interesting manner of it. There's a million youtube slop videos on "Why German WW2 officers all had scars" which shows the german system of honour duels.