Cinematic gold in those 2 minutes...The horse and knights speeding up from a trot is set in cinematic gold like the breaking of the fourth wall and Hitchcocks dolly zoom...
The idea of a cavalry charge is for them to all arrive at the same moment, which is why you don't gallop till the last moment. I still haven't seen a charge done correctly on film that wasn't a documentary. It's a great movie though taking nothing away from it. But historically accurate it isn't :)
Ye but at the same time it was the 30s or 40s I mean the guy is called Olivier and even he doesn't pronounce Calais ir Agincourt properly historical accuracy wasn't really a big concern back then
Disastrous tactical error by the French; the cavalry were effectively funnelled into a narrow gap by the woodland flanking either side of the battlefield, eliminating their numerical advantage. Combined with the wet muddy conditions, as they were struck down by archers they literally piled up in a sea of mud, and in which fallen knights were incapacitated by their heavy armour; according to accounts I’ve read, many of them actually drowned in the mud. Henry’s smaller army didn’t have the capacity to take many prisoners, so his foot soldiers were instead ordered to slit the throats of the fallen French knights as they floundered helplessly in the mud.
The archers wouldn't shoot their arrows up high, they would lose all their energy as only gravity would bring them down. They would fire a low sraight trajectory and thereby maintain the impetus.
@@IsfetSolaris i was talking about the tactics actually, since this was 1944 people didnt really know how these things worked, and why did you reply 3 weeks later?
@@vincecedricsuarez4146 ah thanks,, that makes sense. as for why I replied 3 weeks later: my notifications suck. I just got notified you said this, 2 weeks later.
@@TheNapster153Well the British Monarchy was really quite an interesting lot. Anglo Saxon, Norman French, Welsh Scottish, German. The British People are a whole different bag.
Oh, this is terrible... Knights riding into BATTLE on decorated horses? Knights riding into BATTLE with tournament armor? Knights riding into BATTLE with flags hanging down from their lances? Also, what's with those ridiculously short lances? And why are the Knights starting to gallop at such a long distance? You only start galloping as soon as you get into bowrange, ideally you start galloping the second the first volley of arrows is released. The bowmen keeping their bows drawn for prolonged periods of time? Those are english longbows they essentially start at 90 pounds drawweight you don't hold that any longer than a couple seconds at best. The bowmen jumping out from perfectly good cover? Also, the leaderguy standing BEHIND the bowmen is just swinging down his sword, no additional signal and somehow all the bowmen see that and release the first volley of arrows? And of course, the Knights just stop from a full gallop in an instant just because they are hit by a couple arrows? I'm not gonna say anything about how they did the hail of arrows because that's just the technological limits of their time.
And Here i was bashing medeival films of the 2000s for being "dark skied, uncolourful knights, and fantasy elements" when i didnt know that medieval knight were uncolourful. Tha k you for knowledge
@@LongHairedLout It's almost as if KingQ imagines the lines shouldn't be spoken as rhyming couplets either. This is a cinematic depiction of a 400-year-old theatrical play.
No that was the charge of the light brigade. And Errol Flynn made a film in which that takes place. A lot of horses were killed in that film because trip wires were used during the charge. I think some of the jockeys too.
One of the best movie scenes ever, with Sir William Walton's music doing it justice.
Cinematic gold in those 2 minutes...The horse and knights speeding up from a trot is set in cinematic gold like the breaking of the fourth wall and Hitchcocks dolly zoom...
For the Lady! For Bretonnia!!!
Superb. Sends goosebumps.
The idea of a cavalry charge is for them to all arrive at the same moment, which is why you don't gallop till the last moment. I still haven't seen a charge done correctly on film that wasn't a documentary. It's a great movie though taking nothing away from it. But historically accurate it isn't :)
Ye but at the same time it was the 30s or 40s I mean the guy is called Olivier and even he doesn't pronounce Calais ir Agincourt properly historical accuracy wasn't really a big concern back then
Still way more accurate than the movie: The King
Disastrous tactical error by the French; the cavalry were effectively funnelled into a narrow gap by the woodland flanking either side of the battlefield, eliminating their numerical advantage. Combined with the wet muddy conditions, as they were struck down by archers they literally piled up in a sea of mud, and in which fallen knights were incapacitated by their heavy armour; according to accounts I’ve read, many of them actually drowned in the mud. Henry’s smaller army didn’t have the capacity to take many prisoners, so his foot soldiers were instead ordered to slit the throats of the fallen French knights as they floundered helplessly in the mud.
You should look up cavalry charges from movies Waterloo and War and Peace.
Which adaptation of War and Peace? There's multiple films and TV shows of it.
@@Sean12248 he said movie
The archers wouldn't shoot their arrows up high, they would lose all their energy as only gravity would bring them down. They would fire a low sraight trajectory and thereby maintain the impetus.
Well this Movie was created in 1944 so times were different back then
@@vincecedricsuarez4146 Last I checked, physics haven't changed. The arrow would function the same.
@@IsfetSolaris i was talking about the tactics actually, since this was 1944 people didnt really know how these things worked, and why did you reply 3 weeks later?
@@vincecedricsuarez4146 ah thanks,, that makes sense. as for why I replied 3 weeks later: my notifications suck. I just got notified you said this, 2 weeks later.
@@IsfetSolaris makes sense
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Looking at all the comments here I am amazed at how much we have all learnt about historical military tactics since 1944!
For ze lady...and all that
People are gonna lose their minds if they had to be told the Brits were French.
Wait, hold on. That's just history.
@@TheNapster153Well the British Monarchy was really quite an interesting lot. Anglo Saxon, Norman French, Welsh Scottish, German. The British People are a whole different bag.
What movie is this?
henry v from 1944.
@@zapbrannigan000 Hey Zap - Did you ever get Leela between the sheets?
What’s name movie?
Henry V
Huzzah!
Which idiot let a cavalry charge without infantry support?
Ney would
@@-mathijs exactly
the french :)
You seem to have frenchmen lmao.
Inferiority complex much?
Oh, this is terrible...
Knights riding into BATTLE on decorated horses?
Knights riding into BATTLE with tournament armor?
Knights riding into BATTLE with flags hanging down from their lances? Also, what's with those ridiculously short lances?
And why are the Knights starting to gallop at such a long distance? You only start galloping as soon as you get into bowrange, ideally you start galloping the second the first volley of arrows is released.
The bowmen keeping their bows drawn for prolonged periods of time? Those are english longbows they essentially start at 90 pounds drawweight you don't hold that any longer than a couple seconds at best.
The bowmen jumping out from perfectly good cover?
Also, the leaderguy standing BEHIND the bowmen is just swinging down his sword, no additional signal and somehow all the bowmen see that and release the first volley of arrows?
And of course, the Knights just stop from a full gallop in an instant just because they are hit by a couple arrows?
I'm not gonna say anything about how they did the hail of arrows because that's just the technological limits of their time.
And Here i was bashing medeival films of the 2000s for being "dark skied, uncolourful knights, and fantasy elements" when i didnt know that medieval knight were uncolourful. Tha k you for knowledge
I'm certain this was a film made in the 40s for morale ahead of D-Day I think we can cut them some slack
You are my mediaeval warfare lecturer from university and I claim my free pint!
@@LongHairedLout It's almost as if KingQ imagines the lines shouldn't be spoken as rhyming couplets either.
This is a cinematic depiction of a 400-year-old theatrical play.
Will you also complain because there wasn't an orchestra at the actual battle?
More like most idiotic charge in worlds history.
No that was the charge of the light brigade. And Errol Flynn made a film in which that takes place. A lot of horses were killed in that film because trip wires were used during the charge. I think some of the jockeys too.