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Erwin 2022-06-20 18:44:38
"Good-looking debut"
First movie ever made by Ridley Scott, the Master of Hollow Spectacles. Visually stunning. As a period piece, the research that evidently went into preparartion of the costumes, settings and army paraphalia, is simply amazing.
The plot is perfunctory. It is the kind of scripts that you figure can... -
Tatyana 2022-06-20 23:52:54
Kind of like a Chinese martial arts novel
I have a lot of fate with this director. I just watched his recent movie "A good year". If you look at his early work, you can see that he is really talented. There is a naive feel to the movies of the '70s, though.
The film is about two French officers in the Napoleonic era who experienced 4...
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[talking about a marriage]
Armand D'Hubert: If I were to neglect making you a proposal, no blame would attach to you. And I think perhaps you might be saved from a... sad dull life.
Adele: If you neglect to make me a proposal, my uncle will go mad.
Armand D'Hubert: Damn it, you are not put on this earth to coddle your uncle.
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[first lines]
Narrator: The duellist demands satisfaction. Honour, for him, is an appetite. This story is about an eccentric kind of hunger. It is a true story and begins in the year that Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler of France.
