Why did Barry Lyndon shoot at the ground in the final duel against his step-son? Any media literacy knowers?
>>219412388extreme example of no good deed goes unpunished
>>219412388Isn't media literacy just "this piece of media conveniently aligns with all of my leftist talking points"
It's been a while but I think he wanted the boy to kill him? Not 100% sure, but by doing that he was giving him a free turn to end his miserable life.
>>219412388Isn't literacy just "this piece of text conveniently aligns with all of my leftist talking points"
>>219412474Media literacy just means >Death of the author is ours, you chuds, stop stealing it
>>219412388It's called "deloping," it was an acceptable way of trying to de-escalate and cancel the duel without actually backing down and being called a coward, both sides agree that honour has been satisfied and go home.
>>219412388Deliberately missing your shot was to my understanding somewhat common when duels were practiced (you also see it in Chekov's The Duel, for example) and essentially a graceful way of resolving a dispute bloodlessly, allowing both parties to come out of the duel alive and unshamed (without looking like cowards). In Barry's specific situation, it would have been further social suicide for him to shoot Bullingdon dead, so ending the conflict this way was really his only way out. But he misjudged the degree to which he had offended Bullingdon, who wasn't satisfied until he actually shot him.
Because he was a cuckold who did not want satisfaction
he was shooting at the devil
>>219413249The Irish Code Duello expressly forbid deloping as it presented a danger to bystanders.
Barry's father was a weak manlet who died in a duel with chad. Not dying that way was a life goal of Barry's, but as an Irish petit-bourgeois his social advancement depended on duels so he became the chad. Ultimately his willingness to accept duels landed him in an impossible situation, doing this often enough will eventually result in having a gun fired at you point-blank. It was his punishment for a small lifetime of degeneracy, and he couldn't kill because he didn't want to repeat his father's death, but ended up in front of the gun just like his dad.
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hate this gay ass epoch. most idiotic form of warfare to ever be practiced on this planet. just walk towards entrenched enemy with rifles as they shoot at you lmao. the duels were basically the same on a micro scale, some sort of a balls check rather than a test of skill and craft. miss me with those powdered wigs and whitened faces, men in pantyhoses carrrying fucking umbrellas. look at those dweebs. FAGGOT CENTURY
>>219412474Yeah, "media literacy" has become a buzzword that more often than not means what you described. Its usually the exact opposite of what it actually means.
>>219412388People nowadays might not understand it, but it was an extremely common occurrence in duels of that era. Just showing up and shooting the ground, or into the air, was a way to see that "honor was satisfied" without anybody having to die. These guys weren't bloodthirsty, and they knew that violence begat violence, if you kill somebody's father/brother/uncle/best friend or whatever, you could be fighting duels over it forever and if you won every duel, then you'd still acquire the reputation of being a "famous duelist" and then random young men would be trying to challenge you for fucking nothing just to get a reputation for killing or wounding you.Standing there bravely and being willing to receive fire was a show of courage and they respected that enough to think that a man with courage is worth something and shouldn't be wasted.
>>219414190The fact of the matter is that the guns weren't accurate enough for "skill and craft" to be the point of dueling or of battle.There's a famous line from a certain soldier who literally TRAINED men in the army to shoot that he wouldn't fear standing in the open field and receiving a full volley from a whole line of men as long as every man swore to aim directly for him, because that would guarantee his safety.You simply misunderstand the technology they were working with, my dude.You even said "rifles." They weren't rifles, they were smooth-bore muskets. It's a completely different thing. the few rifles that did exist at this time were highly specialized equipment and were seen as too expensive and too finicky for mass production as weapons of war. Rifles were so much slower to load that any army using rifles would be shredded by three musket volleys for every one volley they could return and the sheer weight of fire would kill too many of them to be able to outweigh the enemy's fire after a few minutes. Yes, their shots would have been more accurate, but it wouldn't have even mattered by the time they fired their third volley, there wouldn't have been enough of them left to withstand a bayonet or cavalry charge, so the point would have been moot. If you're playing rock paper scissors, it doesn't matter if you throw the best scissors God ever saw, because the enemy just has to throw the same crappy rock that beats every other scissors you could throw. This is the true essence of line warfare.
>>219415332Did they have this sniper rifle during the Battle of Waterloo?
>>219413679Who cares about the Irish?
>>219415597this nigga
>>219415548I don't know, but Wellington did NOT have his Peninsular army. He was making do with an army that was cobbled together out of disparate pieces and parts of local garrison forces and Dutch troops who were frankly more sympathetic to Napoleon than to the British. Napoleon was also making do with an army that was very green and severely lacking in cavalry, which Ney mismanaged.
>>219412388rob rager where you at mah nigga?
>>219414190>some sort of a balls checkmade me kek. kiss me my boy!
>>219415548more than 50 years after the events of Barry Lyndon??
I can't even watch this film anymore because there's so much texture and shit happening in the background in every scene that you become immensely depressed trying to watch anything modern after it. Like this scene with the fucking pigeons and the clearly actively in-use barn they're in.
>>219412388Deep down he knew his step-son was in the right and didn't deserve to die or get wounded by him.
>>219412388well i used to have my own opinions but after becoming media literate i realized it was because he's racist
>>219415597
Dueling to the death needs to come back ASAP.
