The Duellists
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Sep 9, 2026
Adam SchwartzHOST
That's nuts
Nathaniel GingrichHOST
... is 1977, I guess, which is The Duellists.
Nathaniel GingrichHOST
But he's doing TV before that in, ni-
Adam SchwartzHOST
Yeah
Andy MorganGUEST
Was the Party of Five guy? It did.
Andy MorganGUEST
It did well, but his career starting in 77, he had a movie called The Duelists, which I don't think a lot of people have seen.
Andy MorganGUEST
I've never seen that.
Andy MorganGUEST
Alien was his first big hit.
Adam KempenaarHOST
I do know how I feel about my next pick in round four, and this is where some homework pays off, and it is another military movie, though a very different kind of military movie.
Adam KempenaarHOST
And I'm also glad I watched it because, you know, you, you can look back at a lot of filmmakers' first features and see how it sets the template in a lot of ways, and The Duellists is a really good movie.
Adam KempenaarHOST
The compositions, the use of landscape, but also how he uses light indoors is, is so rich.
Adam KempenaarHOST
The storyline...
Adam KempenaarHOST
The, the thing I was thinking about watching it, going back to Alien: Covenant a little bit actually.
Adam KempenaarHOST
I was thinking about Alien: Covenant watching The Duellists, and here's why.
Roxana HadadiGUEST
[laughs]
Adam KempenaarHOST
I was thinking about Fastbender's, Fastbender's David, and if...
Lizzie BassettHOST
Yes.
Chris WinterbauerHOST
Right? So like he has The Duellists, which is very well-received, then Alien in 1979, which is universally acclaimed.
Lizzie BassettHOST
His best movie, I think-
Chris WinterbauerHOST
Yeah
speaker_5HOST
But Scott Free Productions understands historical tactile brutality.
speaker_5HOST
Think of the mud and the blood in The Duelists or The Last Duel.
speaker_5HOST
Elfheim cannot just be a beautiful forest.
speaker_5HOST
It has to be terrifying.
Amanda DobbinsHOST
That's fine with me.
Chris RyanGUEST
Let's put Hannibal at 19, and that makes The Duelists 14.
Sean FennesseyHOST
Mm-hmm.
Amanda DobbinsHOST
Okay.
Sean FennesseyHOST
It's okay.
Amanda DobbinsHOST
Okay.
Chris RyanGUEST
I, I'd li- I think you should give The Duelists another look.
Sean FennesseyHOST
Sure.
Jim HillHOST
And, um, uh, Mr. Scott, you know, uh, has had an interesting career leading up to this project.
Jim HillHOST
Uh, sort of came on the map first in the fall of '77 with The Duellists.
Jim HillHOST
Uh, it's a period drama that Paramount released.
Jim HillHOST
And then, uh, he had two sci-fi related hits back to back.
Jim HillHOST
And Mr. Scott, you know, has had an interesting career leading up to this project.
Jim HillHOST
Sort of came on the map first in the fall of 77 with The Duelists.
Jim HillHOST
It's a period drama that Paramount released.
Jim HillHOST
And then he had two sci-fi related hits back to back.
Andy MorganGUEST
Was the Party of Five guy? It did.
Andy MorganGUEST
It did well, but his career starting in 77, he had a movie called The Duelists, which I don't think a lot of people have seen.
Andy MorganGUEST
I've never seen that.
Andy MorganGUEST
Alien was his first big hit.
Jim HemphillHOST
Do you ever get any pushback from cinematographers? Some cinematographers don't like m- multiple cameras.
Ridley ScottGUEST
Well, I don't give a shit, 'cause I was a great operator, so I operated on everything, 2000 commercial, Duellists, Alien, Blade Runner, right through to Thelma & Louise.
Ridley ScottGUEST
Then I discovered, you know, I'm better off with m- Thelma & Louise was one camera, was me.
Ridley ScottGUEST
So I said, "You know what? I'm gonna go multi-camera.
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