{"id":3633,"date":"2009-08-01T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T21:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2009-08-01T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T21:56:42","slug":"weekend-fright-flick-a-gentlemans-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/01\/weekend-fright-flick-a-gentlemans-duel\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fright Flick: A Gentleman&#8217;s Duel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much frightful as funny this week: a period drama featuring steampunk dueling mecha, lots of destructive action and sexual innuendo &#8212; not to forget ironic comment on the underlying hypocrisies of the chivalric gentleman&#8217;s &#8220;code of honour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gentlemens-duel01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3635 aligncenter\" title=\"gentlemens-duel01\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gentlemens-duel01.jpg\" alt=\"gentlemens-duel01\" width=\"461\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gentlemens-duel01.jpg 717w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gentlemens-duel01-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Gentlemen&#8217;s Duel <\/strong>(US-2006; short [7:46 min.]; dir. Sean McNally and Francisco Ruiz Velasco)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fighting for the affections of Lady Bluntsworth, the two adversaries, Sir Eustace Weatherbury and Lord Du Bois do battle in their pugilist steam-powered armour, but who will be victorious?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s made by Blur Studio, who do excellent animation, such as <em>Rockfish<\/em>, which featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/07\/rock-fishing-can-be-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\">Undead Backbrain last year.<\/a> If, after watching the film, you want to garner some information about its creation and about even bigger robotic sequences that didn&#8217;t get into the finished product (see image below), <a href=\"http:\/\/etheremporium.pbworks.com\/A-Gentlemen%27s-Duel\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is an interview with co-creator Sean McNally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/10gd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3636\" title=\"10gd\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/10gd.jpg\" alt=\"10gd\" width=\"460\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/10gd.jpg 600w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/10gd-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Film:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"460\" height=\"305\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FXET1kvEOAY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FXET1kvEOAY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>via Kaiju Search-Robot Avery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much frightful as funny this week: a period drama featuring steampunk dueling mecha, lots of destructive action and sexual innuendo &#8212; not to forget ironic comment on the underlying hypocrisies of the chivalric gentleman&#8217;s &#8220;code of honour&#8221;. 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