Samurais and swordsmen had to learn a certain stance,had to know how to handle the sword and what sword they could handle and it wasn’t any Triple-quadruple teaming a person with a sword cause technique goes out the window with that many people,multiplying the chances of someone getting hurt.

A pistol had 6 shots and a rifle had 5. It was impossible to mow down crowds with any gun in those specific times. Of course the guns were still guns but they relied way more on skill and human reaction than just “kill kill kill” like a modern day assault rifle. Also the fact that you inserted the bullets manually means you literally had 6 shots when facing opposition,so there wasn’t really any reloading in a shootout.

These weapons were actually designed for protection and fairness when used against a human. Humans appetite for more destroyed this system,now we have people with killing machines in their homes for no good reason other than to kill as many people ASAP.

you watching samurai flicks and spaghetti westerns OP?

Hesitation is defeat

Legit watched this the other day,made me think

i have only watched couple zatoichi films lol

Desperation kinda sad,it’s like none of the important characters win but Zatoichi save everyone at the same time

sad samurai flick? in

Imagine you trynna holla at a local wench and someone pulls out their revolver on you

He outta pocket anyway but you suppose to be fast enough to respond to that.

lupe won

I know it’s not really funny but idk why it’s hilarious to imagine life back then

As far as guns,I think they might’ve got it right. Like I said,a gun is still a gun but at least there was still some very human elements in handling one.

For sure man. You ain’t about to commit mass murder with a musket lol

Don’t forget Samurais were taking niggas heads and bringing them back to their lords for a reward. There was a time when people honored duals. They would walk a few paces turned around and try to shoot the other person before they got shot. Now I’m not against romanticizing older weapons/combat but they were still designed with killing people in mind and if people knew how to make assault rifles and had equipment to make them back then they would’ve been made sooner. The plan for any smart person that gets into a conflict whether they started it or not is to sit down their opposition ASAP.

John Ford > Akira Kurosawa > Sergio Leone

Yep and shooting a person on the back was a serious crime. A killing machine is a killing machine but all I’m saying is that all this stuff was designed with fairness and humans in mind. Maybe they would’ve made assault rifles back in those days if they had the equipment but let’s not forget that at first,assault rifles were only used for large scale conflict.

My Darling Clementine

Its a shame just how many of his silent films are lost

the film red sun combines both. has the goats toshiro mifune and alain delon in it too

damn classic

There are some Ford silents are still available like The Iron Horse, but all silent films like 90% of them were lost which it's very surprising.