Medieval (Jan Žižka 2022) Movie Teaser Trailer: Reaction (TRASH?)
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I'm from the Czech Republic (Bohemian) and a reenactor of the Hussite period myself and this trailer was soo painful to watch, the movie will be horrid. They could have asked our community and we would have helped ( When the battle of Gettysburg was shot, They used a lot of reenactors and that is exactly the main reason why it's so good.
Yeah, it is all the more disappointing considering how huge the reenactment community for this particular time period is in this part of Europe.
Dobre den! And yes - it's so easy to get it right when you have a reenacting community who would probably sell their car just to get a role as an extra in a properly made film....
I heard most of the times they ask for historians for their help. But they always ignore them at the end. They just wanted a "Historical advisor" in their credits so it would look pretty.
@@noldorwarrior7791 I think Lindybeige has said as much more than once....
Bohemian too - craziest thing usually is if they stayed true to the real history, it would have been even more drama and suspense and plot twists than screenwriters come up with - Kingdom of Heaven *wink*wink*
Jan famously used a war hammer whose business end was a fist clutching a dagger. A lot more visually interesting (and unique!) than a regulation flanged mace.
According to all the statues in my country he used a mace and it does look like the one in the movie. No dual wielding a weird sword tho.
Search images for "socha jana žižky" and take a look.
Tod makes those
@@Qntla According to some paintings, he wielded a machinegun
@@TommyRepulsed But that is totally absurd comrade major...
@@AB8511 tell me comrade kefalin, what do you imagine under the term 'absurd'
This medieval-color grading is the weirdest thing ever, the sky is dark like it's a nuclear winter, if not for the title I wouldn't have guessed it was supposed to be set in a temperate climate of Central Europe like Bohemia.
Come on dude, they just had pretty shitty camera gear in the M E D I E V A L times...
colors were only invented after the Renaissance
Yeah...it always stumps me when they do that. Make everything greyish and black. Like I get it's a stareotype that people in middle ages wore brown rags and were all dirty but like...at least give us some pretty landscapes and nature...but nope. I cannot help but think of Ford's Krzyżacy(Knights Teutonic) and the color version and how colorful the clothes were and that sunny day looked like goddamn sunny day...and it was old-timey camera. Nothing like the focus and saturation and all that people can have today. But nope. today's movies have to look like they've been shot with night filter.
it's actually postapo movie which takes like 5000 years after nuclear war
Next you're gonna tell me not everything is tinted red in Mexico
Jan and his followers are lightly armored for a good reason, its not a historical error. The fights Jan Zizka led were taking place in muddy meadows. So when Jan Zizka and his army were fighting against an other army, the other army was a heavily armored so they couldnt properly move, their legs were stuck in the mud. And that's one of the reason's why Jan Zizka's army was successful.
I don't hugely mind if stuff is slightly period inaccurate (a few decades off isn't the worst) but I really can't wait to get a medieval movie that gets the colors and vibrancy of the medieval period right.
In this case the old movies of 50s/60s are more correct, even they showed much nonsense.
I will point you to a film released last year, called Richenza (it's available here on YT). Gotta warn you though, it was made by enthusiast, it has very low budget, no real actors (only volunteers), fighting scenes were done by people doing medieval combat (but with no or very limited experience on stage or in front of camera), sound sounds a bit weird... But what it did strive for, and was able to achieve, is the historical accuracy.
Well, it was a very small project, we did have fun making it, loads of things could have been better, but I do like it.
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@@HumbleTemplar added it to my queue, I'll watch tmw! Sounds cool
@@HumbleTemplar Thanks for sharing this!
Getting the colours right is the lowest hanging fruit Hollywood can pick and they go with 50 shades of grey. Maybe they think we called it the dark ages because of the fashion
I also hate the blue-gray bs. Every piece of medieval stuff I’ve ever seen is brighter than a kindergarten. We only imagine it as yucky and grimy because it HAS to be worse than today’s cities or an industrial period factory because PrOgReSs
True. Btw this grey colorlessness in movies about the Middle ages wasnt a thing untill 2000s or something. For example, the 1990s movies like "The Braveheart" or "The 13th warrior" were pretty colorful (and historically inaccurate unfortunately), as I remember.
@@jus_sanguinis and Monty Python and the Holy Grail of course.
@@Simon_Nonymous Yes, but its the 70s. My point is that the 90s was the last decade before the widespread of colorlessness in medieval films.
@@jus_sanguinis ain't that the same time Mexico became orange-tinted? I would assume some blockbuster production popularized tints in 90s/00s and the rest followed suit.
@@Loromir17 Im not 100% sure, but that yellow filter for hot desert areas became a thing probably somewhere in the 90s or maybe even in the 80s.
Sadly, looks like another hollywood "medieval" generic cliché parade - with one originality - not made by Holywood :D. Agree with that tint. I dont hope even that at least story will be good when trailer is so stupidly hollow.
Worst is the fact, its not Hollywood! It was made by Czech ditector! How horrible for us Czechs!
There is a Czechoslovak film about Jan Žižka, made in the 1950s that looks a million times better than this one. It has bascinets, flails, bright colours, early cannons... And you can watch it legally on UA-cam (in Czech) ua-cam.com/video/xOpIj2BTe9E/v-deo.html. Not very action-packed until the final battle and with the usual shortcommings of the era (knitted mail, etc) but worth a look over.
It's actually part of a trilogy (Jan Hus, Jan Žižka, Proti všem) and the three of them are available in the Česká filmová klasika channel. The third one (Proti všem) is the more military-focused of the three, but they all have at least one epic large-scale battle scene.
I love that atmosfere in that movie, so much more authentic then this holowood sharade, unfortunately, I thought we finaly get a great story about husits to the world instead we get this :(
@@dzyan01 I was cautiously interested myself since I heard about this being filmed a few years back, but this trailer killed all possible interest.
Thanks a lot for the link, too bad there isn't subtitles. But just scrolling through it, it looks like a way better example of the period. I'll watch it later.
I would love to see Mats reaction to those movies. They are terribly Commie in their message and have tons of knotted mail in them, but I still love them.
The title is TERRIBLE! This is possibly the LEAST medieval film that one could make with a 15th Century setting. The Hussite Wars in so many ways presaged the end of the medieval period, with their ties to the Protestant Reformation, budding nationalism, warfare fought by mobilized common people and gunpowder, etc.
It seems to have been given different titles in different territories. I suspect that the idiotic 'Medieval' title was picked by the English -language distributors, who were worried nobody would know who Jan Zizka was outside of the Czech Republic.
@@chrisball3778 Are there any European titles other than Zizka?
When a movie from 1955 about Jan Zizka looks better and more historically accurate than the new one, you are doing something wrong......
Another cool piece of history turned into generic "Hollywood" bullshit - even worse from czech director, I would kinda understand if this was made by some american dude, who mistakes our country for Chechnya, but one of us? Such a disgrace .
You mean Groznyy isn't a good spot for a Pilsner?
And here I thought that making shitty movies is a Polish specialty. Turns out it runs in the family.
@@kamilszadkowski8864 you should see our Bulgarian historical movies and you will reconsider your opinion on Polish movies.
PS: Actually don't look them up, you will regret it. ;)
@@lion80000 Now I'm tempted ;) Any recommendations?
I love the Czech Republic, I just got really quickly frustrated by how I couldn't walk by anybody without them saying "Henry's come to see us"
Btw this grey colorlessness in movies about the Middle ages wasnt a thing untill 2000s or something. For example, the 1990s movies like "The Braveheart" or "The 13th warrior" were pretty colorful (and historically inaccurate unfortunately), as I remember.
The 2000's start the grimdark period, where movies have to be grittier, like Nolan's Batman
I blame Ridley Scott, with Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven. He made a big impression on how period pieces "ought" to look and predictably, Hollywood is drawn to trends like flies to honey.
@@Bonko78 I usually don't blame the originator of things like this. Most of the time they don't do it because they think it looks more "period accurate" or whatever most people think, but rather because it's a particular style they want to hit. I'd draw a comparison with Cher's "Believe" and overly aggressive auto tuning: works great in her case, but less so for most copycats.
@@AnotherDuck Don't get me wrong, Ridley is one of my favorite directors, with a distinctly refined visual style. But even though he may pull off the desaturated colors, foggy light shafts and low frame rate action, it's evidently hard to emulate well. The comparison with Cher also works, yes.
@@Bonko78 I think it's probably hard to emulate because they don't know why the original creator made those choices. I recently saw a video about games pandering to nostalgia, and how they miss what the original had. It's the same thing there, with people using mechanics, graphics, settings, etc. without the original intent behind them.
That sword breaker might have been one of the worst props I've seen Hollywood commit.
But they had kettle hats? Those things don't get enough love!
I saw your comment, and I thought, "Can't be that bad." Got to that part, and I thought I was looking at an 80s throwback fantasy.
I wish it was Hollywood but actually it's Czech film :(
Sakra!
It looks hideous. I put it up there with the half-visor from Ridley Scott!
These costumes were literally used in EVERY SINGLE ONE of the last few "historical" movie from Czech republic. These are the most cheap and stupid props. We have hundereds of groups that have seriously well made costumes and they could've used their own, yet we en up with this shit.
Another thing about the crossbow scene... second soldier on the left has his thumb holding the bolt in place... a good thing. He also happens to have his thumb inside the string, not above. Poor guy is going to lose his thumb if he tries to shoot.
Both center soldiers have their thumbs ready to get hurt. I came here to make the same comment!
During this time the Hussite stole all the colors so they could fuel their revolution, it is known...
It was bold to call one's movie "Medieval". It would have made sense on a documentary, which to be honest, it is definitely not. I don't watch movies anymore, and I don't miss it really.
Did you at least watch The Duellists? I think you might actually like that one. : >
First time I've ever seen hedge trimmer blades repurposed as a sword. Must've been getting a bit low on the budget by that scene.
😂😂😂
In other news, there's an independent czech film being made by a group of reenactors, which I unfortunately forgot the name. They had a page on Facebook. Does anyone who knows what I'm talking remember what the movie's name was?
Adorea Olomouc? ua-cam.com/video/gjUyLeHb5JE/v-deo.html
@@grzegorzmarcholt5552 not them, unfortunately! It was a full feature film set in the 13th or early 14th century from what I remember. I hate the fact that I can't remember what the project was called, it looked really promising.
Knight of Hope pehaps? Or any of Adorea fight films?
Maybe this? ua-cam.com/video/5-V0-9PtZPM/v-deo.html
Richenza ua-cam.com/video/_ie3CF8ScZs/v-deo.html
no hussite war wagons 0/10
This takes place about a decade before that
Just a tidbit people may find interesting: author of The Witcher books (basis for the games) A. Sapkowski, wrote another great series of books about Hussites. It's a very tastefully done popular history with magic. Highly recommend!
Yeah, I’ve read the two first volumes in English; fantastic story…. and taught me a lot about history in Bohemia, Silesia and Central Europe!
Oh thank you for letting us know. I'm going to try and find an English version today. Loved the books way more than the game and TV show. The show is great but the books are amazing
Great is.. not what I would call them. Setting and characters are nice and show care and authors knowledge, but the books are devoid of any plot or sense and are very repetitive. In the second book alone the main character is taken captive or hostage at least 6 times. It is ridiculous.
@@AlcaturMaethor it's not ridiculous imo, it's the essence of picaresque novel (like Simplicissimus), idea of the genre i believe, and, i mean... the plot was pretty much about everybody hunting pan Reinmar, no wonder he's by side of mortal danger each time.
Also more accurate depiction of Hussite wars.
Another film feeding from the stylistic swill trough of Last Duel. Given how vividly colourful everyday dyes could be in the period this film supposedly depicts, this is rather depressing.
It's been going on for longer than since The Last Duel.
Might go back as far as Monty Python, if not before.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher Probably so, though Holy Grail lampooned it. Last Duel was particularly egregious.
@@theapostatejack8648
They lampooned it, but the movie industry took the wrong lesson (as they often do) and made it standard.
One positive thing that I can say about The Last Duel, though, was that they demonstrated armor actually being effective at protecting the wearer. And it makes me sad that that low bar is so often missed.
Gotta love costume departments that go with the 'rule of cool' instead of attempting any form of historical accuracy. Folks, please, PLEASE, 'Medieval' isn't just one giant all encompassing 'look'. That's like costuming a Western-Cowboy movie, but instead everyone wears late-period high end Victorian era UK styles.
Like, sure. That was roughly the right time frame, and sure it was worn roughly around then...but not by the people you're portraying. And not like that.
Gah!
And the sad thing is, accuracy is often cooler than the nonsense films come up with. I guess its too much effort.
These costumes were literally used in EVERY SINGLE ONE of the last few "historical" movie from Czech republic. These are the most cheap and stupid props. We have hundereds of groups that have seriously well made costumes and they could've used their own, yet we en up with this shit.
I think it's less rule of cool and more rule of cheap. Rent out a wardrobe from a prop company and just chuck on whatever you find.
That sword breaker thing from late in the trailer -- I'm pretty sure I read about that in Mike Loades's book "Swords and Swordsmen," or saw it in his old video tape "Blow by Blow Guide to Swordfighting in the Renaissance Style." I don't remember the details though. Something about how it was a sword-breaker and an anti-grab device? Following the pattern of the rest of the footage it's probably a few hundred years early or something, and something that was very rarely used even in its time. But some prop man thought it looked cool. Which I guess if this were fantasy, it probably would.
I have a weird feeling that I'll see this movie and regret it quite badly.
Per Wikipedia the working title originally was "Warrior of God," and then later "Jan Zizka."
honestly my real complaint would be how generic is looks in addition to not being overly historically accurate. The fascinating thing about the real Zizka was his ability to innovate on the battlefield, he was a man who was never held back by tradition. He was perfectly happy to incorporate any weapon or any tactic into his army so long as it worked, especially gunpowder weapons. He was also a major figure during a period of significant social upheaval in europe as it transitioned away from feudalism and the primacy of the catholic church.
This movie kind of just looks like another heavily romanticized popcorn flick, which is a shame. Zizka really is one of those fascinating historical figures not enough people appreciate, so this is kind of a wasted opportunity.
01:50 Does this really look like a brigandine? Most reconstructions I have seen don't sport individual peaces of leather. Besides, you can clearly see, that there is no metal under the leather as the peaces bend an twist around his collar. It just looks like another weird studded leather biker gear. I think this thing is actually worse than the wrong type of breast plate Michael Caine is wearing.
Dear Hollywood/Movie Industry: When doing films set in the 14th or 15th centuries, you MUST stop being afraid to portray people wearing extremely form-fitting tights, and extremely pointy krakow shoes! If modern people snicker, let them snicker. We need to be shown how people in the Late Middle Ages REALLY dressed, even if it's too far outside of our sartorial comfort zone. Thank you.
Don’t forget the codpieces 😆
@@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight , I actually almost included codpieces, but decided not to at the last second!😁 I really would love to see some krakow shoes in a Medieval period movie for the first time, though!
@@andreweden9405 I find it ironic that we are ok with fictional depictions of bikini armor, but are not generally ok with historical codpieces. Hollywood standards are weird AF.
Don’t understand the slagging off of a movie when in this day and age this sort of historical epic is a rare thing to come across or even produced. So things are off with some of the props etc, who gives a shite.
It was a good watch and quite refreshing to come across a decent movie with a good tale.
100 % agree !
And he's wrong about it too, they wore dark clothing and flanged maces were used in 1200s in Europe.
Its not cynicism, its experience.
I don't like these new ultra-stylized "history" flicks. When I want this kind of films I watch the works of Otakar Vávra. He was a controversial man in some regards, but incredibly talented and his films are masterpieces. He made film "Jan Žižka" in 1955, but his greatest opus is Witchhammer (1969 or 1970 based on some sources), one of the best, most impressive, chilling and poignant films ever made.
Thank you for your very informative comment. I am not an expert on period armour. The Hussite war is primarily a religious war, which is not easy to understand nowadays. The Hussites fought mainly for a certain unorthodox concept of the Eucharist. If Jákl's film turns this into a Hollywood romantic bullshit, we Czechs will be very angry :).
The sort of movie you don't go to see with friends from the SCA.
William Wallace was a real historical person, too, but _Braveheart's_ only relation to real history was to run as fast as possible in the opposite direction screaming, "FREEDOM!"
Inspired by a historical event, but not more than that. It's pretty much where most "historical" films - medieval or not - fall.
It's a Til Schweiger film, it has to be bad by definition. But seriously, it's a czech movie from 2018 with a by Hollywood standards tiny budget of 20 million USD which they probably mainly blew on getting Michael Caine to show up (and still managed to be the most expensive czech movie to date).
They obviously need you to re-explain the necessities of... Context.
Matt, I've been waiting for you to critique/review the weapons and setting of the Northman. Did I miss a video with this content?
I looks like the production team worked very hard to make sure that all the boxes of Hollywood clichés for Medieval times were ticked.
Also, I was walking just this morning on the hill with the monumet dedicated to Žižka and surprisingly the Bohemian sky was blue and the leaves on trees green, but I supposed that they only gain those bright colours in the last few decades, since in this movie it looks like colours had not yet reached Bohemia in the 15th century...
Blue/grey filter = medieval.
Brown/orange filter = Mexico.
I live like 500m away from the location where a part of the film was filmed, seen on 4:06. It's an old abandoned mine called Velká Amerika, (The Great America)and they had a massive artificial village built just for the movie, and I must say it's quite cool to see a location where I grew up in a high budget movie like this :D
Let's point it this way, from what I've just seen now made me cringe.
Why don't they ever ask people from Reenactment how and what is what?
Also why didn't they ask the guys from Adorea Olomouc for advice?
It SUCKS
As a Viking reenactor, I can say that we do get asked on occasion, but we are too expensive for multi-million $$$$ movie budgets.
"Also why didn't they ask the guys from Adorea Olomouc for advice?"
That's precisely what I wondered.
Love you Matt, amazing video as always. I have a request/suggestion/idea for a future video: modern bladed weapons such as the karambit or the balisong, and their historical roots (idk if the karambit has any, but i think your wife point on those knifes would be interesting to hear.)
Keep up the good work, stay awesome 😎👍
Karambits originate from Indonesia, so yeah they're an historical weapon (although the old ones look really different)
@@atom8248 Yeah, the first known Karambits are from the 11th Century. And it was mainly a tool back than, used as an farm implement for cutting rice straw and for doing other cutting work. Its more or less the small version of a sickle.
The title in Czech is Jan Žižka I presume the title Medieval was used to summarize the movie for people who have no idea who he is. This title is probably used to draw more people to cinemas
Matt, what's your opinion of the film's PLOT from this teaser? That seems to be the one part of this teaser analysis you haven't touched. At which point in Jan's life does this appear to be taking place?
Quite an early point. He still has both his eyes and seems to work as a mercenary.
It not a church. It is a royal castle. Václav II and his mother were prisoners in the castle. It is called Bezděz. There will be also castles Točník and Křivoklát. There is not much known about the young Žižka. He had some problems with Rožemberg family, he lost one eye, he was an outlaw. Later he went to Poland. This is story about his youth, some lady is kidnapped. ...
Anne of Bohemia, Richard II's queen, was born in Prague six years after Jan. She died aged 28 in England, probably of plague. English history might have been very different had she and Richard had kids. His presumed homosexuality is often cited as the reason for their lack of heirs.
Some historians also connect Lollardy in England with Hussite proto-Protestantism in Bohemia, via her court. She was however both a Bohemian and Holy Roman princess, against which empire Jan fought. Her brother Wenceslaus died in 1419, leading to the Hussite Wars. Their dad Charles IV had been King of Bohemia and HRE.
Saw an interview with the director and as I understand it, he is well aware that 15th century was nothing like this. Despite this his vision is grey-brown, dirty, bloody movie version of middle ages and he basically wants to do central European Braveheart... Can't say I like his vision though.
Jesus. To butcher a movie about Jan Žižka like that is like to orphan his knights a second time.
I think Hollywood needs to get away from the "it looks so mean". Historical representation was originally designed to be intimating. So why not spend the extra few hours in finding out what was being used during that period? OK, you hire a costume designer and they do a quick Google of the "medieval" period and thing that 2000 years of development are all the same.
Michael Caine: 'You were only supposed to wear the bloody ARM-our.'
I am not a historian. But as Czech I grew up with stories and pictures about Žižka. He is often depicted with a flanged mace albeit a more simple looking one. And both hussites and crusaders are depicted with very bright and colorful clothes. As far as I recall kettle helms are the go to hussites headgear in illustrations. And Žižka famously used firearms and artillery with great effect.
From what I can remember, there was a period when Black coloured steel was cheaper to mass produce, so a lot of mercenary armour was black. Cuirassiers are the most prominent example, although they appeared en masse around a hundred years after the time this movie is set in.
The saddest part is we have period accurate arms and armor behind every rock. Not only would it have been more accurate, but honestly the variety would also make for more realistic look.
Maybe they should have had more lit torches in the daytime to brighten things up a bit.
One of the interesting ideas I heard posited is that the exact ages of armour design were not in fact specifically accurate to a set of years, but rather were migratory throughout each period.
For example. In the early 1300's you would have seen some early experimentation with a full cuirass and more holistic protection of the head, limbs and hands with the early designs of plate. These would have been designed for those of extreme wealth, not to be buried in, but to go to war in. Right now, it is mostly agreed upon that this was the age of the coat of plates (Visby etc). I think you would have seen some marshals, march lords etc with more experimental armour that was far more protective. That then would have migrated to the rest of the army over time.
Most of the examples I've seen of the source data for early medieval armor technology come from the tomb effigies rather than contemporary examples that were preserved.
Even then, the shifting design specs for each type of armour found historically suggest that different Armoursmiths were consistently experimenting their way through the designs to come up with better methods to protect their lords.
I seem to recall the 1950's movie Ivanhoe had some bright colored clothing, it didn't have the dingy, dismal atmosphere of modern movies that take place in the middle ages.
Does it really cost that much to get things closer to correct? They wouldn't have soldiers armed with M16s in a movie about Korea.
I would not be sure about that these days.
When reënactors can do so much better as a hobby, and who would gladly volunteer to consult with filmmakers… It actually costs more to get medieval material culture this wrong.
@@Segalmed Yep, not a lot of Korean War movies but if they ever do another one, I'm sure it will have something totally wrong with it. But maybe not, Korean era weapons are pretty plentiful in the states so it would be relatively cheap and easy to do it right.
@@wingracer1614 I do not think costs are the main reason why so many movies get things wrong. More about either the makers being idiots or them considering the audience to mainly consist of those. I would not be surprised, if thinking ran along the way of "War with US involvevment in East Asia? Korea, Vietnam, what's the difference? The idiots that watch our movies are used to seeing GIs with M16 rifles in the jungle. If we show them with something else, the viewers get confused."
For anyone having trouble with š, č, ž it is like english "sh", "ch" and "zh".
The whiplash I'm getting after going from The Northman to this... thing is downright painful!
Black is a very easy color for leather if the leather is veg tanned. Place steel wool (iron filings in period) to vinegar and let it chooch for a few weeks. Paint onto high tannin leather (or wood) and it’ll turn black. Suppose would work with cotton stains brown with tannin and then treated in the same way .
Errol Flynn's Robin Hood seems to gain in historical accuracy with every passing year.
The question about the helmets had me thinking - what helmets would you suggest for movies that want to show the character's faces?
Maybe a Barbute (Barbuta)? I’ve seen a lot of variants of it, and I believe they were open-faced, for the most part. 🤷🏻♂️
Bascinets, with no visors, or raised visors.
For this period? An open-face bascinet works perfectly well, or a kettle hat.
A quick search should turn up videos by Matt on open faced helmets (and raised visors in combat) in every period. Also, movies like Iron Man have demonstrated that even when the visor is closed, film has the flexibility to give us “inside the helmet” views of faces. I could also argue that showing faces in those few situations where closed helmets are appropriate may not be so important, and whatever the filmmaker is concerned about could be handled in different ways.
Actually, you do not necessary need to see the characters faces all the time, look up Astartes by Syama Pedersen.
On a modern crossbow, we tell people to get their thumb down or the bow will cheerfully take it off. If you’re swinging it around like those crossbow men, someone will accidentally fire one and remove their own thumb.
1. It seems this movie was envisioned as a first from a series - it's about a young Zizka
2. They have Til Schweiger. Playing the bad guy. I repeat - they have Til Schweiger playing the bad guy.
3. Guys and girls, maybe it's this generation "13th warrior"/"Robin of Sherwood"? (Gods, I wish it turns to be so!)
As a Czech and big fan of historical accuracy Im dissapointed again. Hollywood really loves stereotypes, althou they really improved moder depiction of warfare in movies, they still cannot let go the dark, dirty, leather wearing biker gear, cheap ass plastic armor aesthetic.
If we only could get films or series that looked as good as KC:D.
This is a Czech film, not Hollywood. The blame lies with your own people.
@@wingracer1614 doesnt make any difference if its Hollywood production or not, everybody makes the same shit. BTW, I dont feel any national belonging to a group, so not my people. Nothing personal, Im just allergic to group identity.
@@davidduchon2064 Nothing wrong with that, I actually agree with you. So stop applying the group identity "Hollywood" to all bad movies. Other people make shit too. In fact, they make even more shit than Hollywood does. That's why they make so much less money.
There are some exceptions. Allow me to recommend South Korean movies. They are making some excellent stuff.
Why are these medieval movie vampires so afraid of sunlight and color?
Wait, are you telling me that you didn't know that in the medieval period everything was a dull blue hue?
Next you're going to tell me that you didn't know Mexico is tinted orange.
A metal painted plastic mail shirt doesn't cost much, is widely available, low maintenance (maybe respray it after heavy wear), cheap, comfortable enough to wear long term, forgiving in sizing, low maintenance, accurate for about a millennium of fighting men (~500 to 1500+), valid for pretty much all of Europe (and a bit further), looks way better, and doesn't even take up that much space in storage. Why do we still see movie armor when it seems it would actually be EASIER for production to use something that looks in period?
A few things, I have never seen any movie on the Middle Ages that got the arms and armor exactly right. Some do a better job than others, but viewers who know something about the subject have to overlook the mistakes or stop watching.
The fact that Zizka has two good eyes, shows the scenes in the trailer are from his very early career when he was a low ranking mercenary. Perhaps too poor to own a full panoply of armor.
Finally the sword breaker is absurd. There a good movie made in Zizka’s native land about the Hussite war available on UA-cam, if you can stand subtitles. A review of that would be welcome.
He is covered in mud, so props for that. ;).
The Northman would be nice for a fight review. Please.
This can’t possibly be the Hussite War in Bohemia. I mean, absolutely no one says, “Jesus Christ be praised, Henry has come to see us!”
It's not, it's set about a decade before that
@@wingracer1614 Actually, I just looked it up. The Hussite Wars took place from 1419-1434. Kingdom Come Deliverance, specifically the sacking of Skalitz, took place in 1403. So actually, the movie takes place ~10 years AFTER the game. Which means… my memeing is still relevant! Woo!!!
i guess it just goes to show that even outside of hollywood quality isnt certain.
personally im just tired of the lack of colours in every medieval movie.
Why is it that historical dramas from the 1950s could have awesome colors and look like places you'd want to visit if it were possible, but so many historical dramas today use that cold blue-gray color tone?
As someone from Czechia, this trailer made me sad.
btw the "bad guys" is from house of Rožmberk it was the most wealthy noble house in medieval bohemia and they here look like the most dirtiest and evil guys of course beacuse they was against hussites
Will he defeat the final boss by grasping his longsword in a one-handed reverse grip and pirouetting on the spot?
I don't expect historical movie and real history story, it's more like fantasy.
If the anachronisms are all of the 'mid-1400s not early 1400s' scale, this must be the most historically accurate film ever made. BTW, I used to live in Žižkov, and the statues all have flanged maces.
I don't think it was the shape of the mace so much as the fact that it literally looks like it's made of plastic.
First time hearing "browplate". Always thought that raised part was just for aesthetics, but now I see why you'd want reinforcement there to keep the edge from buckling. Also finally have a name for the visor-like thing that clearly isn't a visor that's in so many fantasy helmet designs. :D
Early 15th century and not a bascinet in sight.
Apparently, there are connections between this movie and the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance from 2018. Since I loved the game I was excited about this trailer (it says at the end it will be available as a game too) but I am concerned that it may not be a very good movie. It's possible for me to look past historical inaccuracies --- I still enjoy Braveheart --- but the trailer doesn't really fill me with confidence. I Hope I'm wrong.
It's hilarious to hear how black was an expensive color in Medieval but film and tv are obsessed with black and darker colors for 'medieval' settings
1) Zizka was gentry, so not wealthy enough to have plate armour. Be began his carrier in military as wolfhead and soldier in various petty wars between wealthier nobility. 2) That "churchL on the hill is in fact the castle Bezdez, one of the most inconquerable fortresses in Bohemia. 3) That bridge is the famous Charles Bridge in Prague, minus the later statues.
Should have contacted the ppl who did Kingdome Come game about armour... This just looks like a low budget get rich quick movie.
The director of this move, is the guy whos body and looks the character Runt is based on.
Jan Zizka was not young when the Hussite Wars began, but 58 or 59.
At the time the story takes place, the Hussites do not yet exist. It is 12 years before the burning of Jan Hus and 17 years before the death of Bohemian King Wenceslas IV. and before Žižka joined the Hussites. The story takes place in 1402, when he could have become a robber. It is supposed to be about the birth of a warrior, not an already famous warrior.
But that doesn't mean they couldn't have at least kept the costumes and props, even though not much is known about him from that era. Except that he had two wives with the same name, Catherine, and that he probably vouched for someone and lost his property, which is how he ended up with the captors, who were caught and all executed after 1408. Well, all except Žižka, who was pardoned by the king.
So I suppose the movie will try to explain why the king would leave him as the only one alive some 10 years later. But who knows.
Medieval movie directors must think that the human eye only developed the ability to see vibrant color schemes in the modern era.
Oh the glee of "he's got a head wound, should have worn a helmet!"
Pitty. The story of Jan Žižka and the Hussite wars is bloody interesting.
I wish someone would make a movie out of Andrzej Sapkowski’s excellent _Narrenturm_ (Tower of Fools) trilogy.
Narrenturn would have to be a "quality TV" series. It wouldn't work as a film. I would love someone like Paolo Sorrentino to shoot it. That would be awesome.
All heroes are berserkers . Tells a lot about the mentality of people today .
But if no one carries a shield (in movie) , it's understandable . Just not associate it with reality .
It's a movie, not documentary.
I swear, Hollywood reckons that people didn't see in colour the way we do until the 1960s...
Have you seen 'Last Tune in the Black Forest'? (Akadamia Szemierzy)Any chance of a review? Or did you already do one and I missed it?
Hey Matt, you should do a movie review of old czech movie about Hussite wars and Jan Žižka. There is for example battle of Sumoděř or battle of Vítkov. Even though, the movies are from 50s, I think the battles are great and in many ways they are better than this Hollywood trash.
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The trailer they sent out last year had Prague bridge and The Hunger Wall (built 1340s ✅)
complete with 17th century statues❌ gas lamp posts❌ the 1891 Petřin Tower❌and a modern billboard for Picasso in the background 🤦♂️
When I see these type of movies or trailers, I always think they must portray a parallel universe...with only blue, grey and black in it.
Matt - why did fencing masters wear black?
To be fair about the crossbow men mate Ive seen pictures of Ziska wearing one of the same sort of sallets. Obviously they are ones drawn by illustrators decades later, but maybe thats where the costume designer drew the inspiration from.
We should demand they also sepia-tone all movies set around 1900 and instagram-filter all movies set in the current day.
Did you see the crossbowmen had their thumbs on the bolt, while the crossbow was drawn. That seems like a quick way to lose a digit.
Hi, i would like to know what is your opinion about the historical accuracy of series Rome
I wonder if the blue-grey hues and muted lighting make it easier to take out things like power lines and other modern infrastructure post production?
and not one Hussite flail!!! definite suck.
I did actually notice one in the background, so presumably they will appear at least a little.
"Oh! He's got a head wound. (Should have worn a helmet...)" LOL!