tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991803860372006625.post4141726142703142777..comments2024-03-20T06:13:43.116+00:00Comments on Joy and Forgetfulness: Muskets at the Movies: Black powder battle on film - Part TwoConrad Kinchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683395740934527502noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991803860372006625.post-57213556213859073792016-06-11T02:32:59.959+01:002016-06-11T02:32:59.959+01:00I have only just discovered that there is a direct...I have only just discovered that there is a director's extended cut version of Last of the Mohicans. One of its extra scenes is a great musketry engagement at the fort while the dispatch messenger to Fort Edward tries to break clear. You can see it here:<br /><br />https://youtu.be/eBsq6Cd4Rf0Paul O'Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08611720164170399684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991803860372006625.post-75767253362656570882015-05-24T20:24:06.578+01:002015-05-24T20:24:06.578+01:00Wow! I never expected to see the name of Jókai Mór...Wow! I never expected to see the name of Jókai Mór, the Hungarian writer in a list of a wargamer, who is not Hungarian. What a great suprise! Thanks. I just did a search on Amazon, and now I see how many of his books is actually translated to English. His book: The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, is very-very popular in Hungary, we have a movie version from 1964. This movie is like the Zulu for the British, once a year 15th of March, you can see on TV. :) The battle scenes are not very professional, but for me as a kid was enough to give a lifelong inspiration as a military history buf. :DJanos Baloghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521213062307608915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991803860372006625.post-51976766747580643962015-05-24T12:38:28.618+01:002015-05-24T12:38:28.618+01:00Great selection, I didn't know With Fire &...Great selection, I didn't know With Fire & Sword, I'll have to get it! Ride with the Devil is a marvelous movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991803860372006625.post-38407313765434758682015-05-23T01:35:33.368+01:002015-05-23T01:35:33.368+01:00Excellent blog post (and the previous one too)- I ...Excellent blog post (and the previous one too)- I really must find a copy of 'Ride With the Devil' now.<br /><br />Looking forward to the conclusion.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Pete.Pete.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06668389518826053090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991803860372006625.post-84175002165778259672015-05-22T17:15:51.259+01:002015-05-22T17:15:51.259+01:00It does exist:
http://www.polandbymail.com/d/640/...It does exist:<br /><br />http://www.polandbymail.com/d/640/historical-films-on-dvd.htmRoss Mac rmacfa@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053555991679802013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991803860372006625.post-67431727198005531052015-05-22T06:54:28.347+01:002015-05-22T06:54:28.347+01:00I am pleased to see "Ride with the Devil"...I am pleased to see "Ride with the Devil" here as it is a film I have watched quite a few times on dvd.I agree with you that it depicts that kind of battle very well indeed.<br />I really must get round to buying /watching WF&S your clip looks amazing!<br />Do you know 1612? It is well worth a view too if your tastes include renaissance Russians etc.<br />Finally are you watching 1864?<br />Alantradgardmastarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13116967655904601740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991803860372006625.post-31187482840927674182015-05-22T01:32:49.514+01:002015-05-22T01:32:49.514+01:00Fire & Sword has been a favorite since childho...Fire & Sword has been a favorite since childhood thanks to Classic Comics as has Last of the Mohicans. Hoffmans movie version actually follows the book for once and does the book honour. Good acting helps and my favorite character, Pan Zagloba now has a face. Can't read or see the death of Boramir without thinking of Pan Longin. The next 2 movies are also good, but not as good despite the presence of the Swedes, as a book the Deluge also seemed to drag or repeat a bit in places but still good reads. <br /><br />The Mohican movie is a real love hate thing, if it had a different name I would love it but it butchers and twists the story and characters so badly, aborting all the other books in the series both previous ones and sequels that I fret and fume each time.<br /><br />Anyway my copy if the polish trilogy, with subtitles, came from Pole art if its still around.Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053555991679802013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991803860372006625.post-8594555192864637252015-05-22T01:27:00.086+01:002015-05-22T01:27:00.086+01:00Some interesting snippets, I have promised myself ...Some interesting snippets, I have promised myself to look up With Fire and Sword a few times and never had. I was a well versed 18thC gamer when I went to see LotM and thoroughly loved the film treatment of the military aspect of the book. As wargamers we expect far too much from what is an entertainment medium, I still watch the film at least once a year and never feel let down by it. Of course Madeline Stowe and Co. are rather pleasing to the eye which might help ;-)PaintPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09047331820540221681noreply@blogger.com