THE DUELLISTS
Directed by Ridley Scott Screenplay by Gerald Vaughan-Hughes
Dawn: a hayfield spreads to a stand of poplars; early sun warms the rough wall of a stone granary; in the middle distance, two small groups of men.
We understand immediately. Several hundred films have used ground fog rising off fields and the dark figures of waiting men to give the same contrast between soft landscape and hard purpose. A duel is to be fought. The swordplayers level rapiers, hold, touch blades in saute, fight. One falls, too badly wounded to continue.
Duels at dawn are as familiar as graveside scenes in the rain,...
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