[merged] Archery: the films have it wrong

[gamerprinter]

Well many movies do get things wrong, even those that get "some things right". Consider any Kurosawa film. He often depicts samurai with hip mounted quivers which is indeed historically accurate. That said, I've seen very few Japanese films using Japanese horses, even Kurosawa depicts samurai riding Arabians, which never occurred historically speaking. So sometimes films get some things right, but they never go far enough with authenticity. Now how practical it is to truly achieve authenticity in film, is certainly an issue when trying to be authentic. Unless large herds of trained Japanese horses exist, how could Kurosawa depict using them? Do films get some things right? Certainly, and I'm not disagreeing to that point.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I like to think he is onto something but until we get a "way back machine" I don't know as there are still a number of cultures out there that still fire bows the way they have for hundreds of years, Mongolian horse men, tribes in the Amazon, etc.

 

[Ryujin]

I knew that I had this bookmarked somewhere. This is for those who don't know what the term "archer's paradox" means (it's referred to in the debunking link). As I mentioned previously watch how the string jumps and the way that the arrow behaves.

[video=youtube;cP8XVW4H90g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP8XVW4H90g[/video]

 

[trancejeremy]

I saw a thing about the making of that Errol Flynn Robin Hood movie on TCM, apparently they really shot people with arrows. They had padding/armor so it didn't hurt, but still...just a first inches off...

 

[Ryujin]

I had forgotten that Matt Easton also posted a video about this guy, a little while back.

[video=youtube;cr_1z3GwxQk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr_1z3GwxQk[/video]