Ben Affleck and Matt Damon: The Last Duel is a feminist Movie
For the first time since Good Will Hunting reunited as writers, the producing actors say the Medievalset saga has clear contemporary relevance
The Last Duel, the medieval drama directed by Ridley Scott, is a feminist film, according to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, its stars and co-authors.
At a press conference at the Venice Film Festival shortly before the film’s world premiere, the couple wanted to showcase their feminist references and the relevance of The Last Duel to the MeToo movement.
Affleck described himself as a feminist and described The Last Duel as “a film about someone denied justice, who goes to great lengths to seek justice for himself at great risk”. He added: “This is about this incredible woman in the story who spoke out against a man who attacked her.
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A story that took place in 1386 between Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris after Le Gris was accused of being Carrouges’ wife Having raped Marguerite, playing Damon Carrouges and Adam Driver Le Gris, while this Affleck is the feudal lord Count Pierre d’Alençon and Jodie Comer is Marguerite. Producer of the project alongside Scott and co-writer Nicole Holofcener.
The footage of the film features three different versions of the same central event, the rape of Marguerite by Le Gris, from different perspectives, two male and one female, just like Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon. Working on the script for the first time since she Together they won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting in 1998.
Damon described the difficulties they faced as a writer. “In male-centered stories, women appear when men need them for something; otherwise they are ignored. They are property, they are not human. ”He added,“ Men were very good at cataloging everything they did then, but women’s history was completely invisible so we all had a lot of catching up to do.
