Their armor, you can see, it's a little bit too flexy. And increasingly it looks more and more like metal, but it doesn't behave like metal. Now, there are lots of great spraying techniques, and you can spray plastic to look reflective. All that decoration is etched into the steel with acid. Nothing else looks like metal but metal in close-up. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001) He does not have to look like a pile of leather crap. So, I mean, someone like Ragnar Lodbrok or someone of that stature would have an amazing mail coat. You can't go anywhere near a battle like this without a helmet. I do have a problem with none of the main characters wearing helmets. Almost across the board, people in the past did not make clothes out of leather. There is almost no historical evidence for leather clothing. The burgonets, with the high comb and the peak. And that makes it almost the more tragic for me, because those Anglo-Saxons are all wearing late-16th-century helmets. There's a lot of things to like about this show. And in the ancient Greek period, they were the heavy infantry, but they still had shields to hide behind, and they're actively protecting their faces as well as relying on their armor. In the 15th century, most used by infantry, shooting crossbows and firearms and. And this style of helmet became fashionable again in Italy and Venice, in the Venetian empire, specifically. In the 15th century in Italy, and very rapidly everywhere else, people became fascinated with the classical world again, and they started looking back to the ancient Greek and Roman precedent. That was then imitated in the Renaissance. So that's where that really closely set kind of spectacled profile comes from. In the Bronze Age, they're trying, again, to get as much protection for the face and the head as they possibly can. These very distinct spectacled helmets with these eye cutouts, they have a nasal for the nose and then the cheeks brought in. On the one hand, it looks a lot like an ancient Greek hoplite's helmet, the ancient Greek heavy infantry of, like, 500 BC or of thereabouts. Toby: It's got a couple of possible sources of inspiration. That's never really been explored until this. The armor is responsible for his safety, but he's also the guy who's gonna mold your character. Historically, a knight has a very close, personal relationship with his armor. Toby: He hardly ever takes his helmet off, and yet you know everything about his expression, his feelings, his character. Mando: Tell me where the Mandalorians are, and I'll walk out of here without killing you. They need to glide over each other and move like you move. The plates are hardened and tempered medium-carbon steel, so they don't have to be thick and chunky. It doesn't have to be a lot of space under there. Real armor of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, is like a steel skin. I've built a lot of different kinds of armor, working with different craftsmen all over the world. I've been jousting and fighting in armor for 30 years. He can take a shot right in the chest, so that's a pretty big character point, wouldn't you think? He's not clunking around, all cumbersome. And the armor in this clip takes on, again, narrative significance. You're not gonna waste time defending what doesn't need to be defended. And in armored combat, there are times when you decide to let your opponent hit you because you know you can take it and you're gonna do something else. And in a complete armor, a medieval knight can suffer horrendous physical punishment that would kill an unarmored person like that, but you can take the hits. Did you see that? He just got shot in the armor, and it knocked him, but it didn't stop him. And today we're going to be looking at the treatment of medieval arms and armor in cinema. I've taken part in competitions, armored combat all over the world. Since I was a kid, I've been riding horses and fighting in armor. I'm curator of arms and armor at The Wallace Collection in Central London, but I'm also a practitioner. Toby Capwell: Poor old R-Patz looks like a pile of garbage, I'm afraid. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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