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The Duellists is a movie from the 1970s starring Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine. It is based on a short story by Joseph Conrad. It takes place during the Napoleonic era in France.

The actors trained heavily for their roles and the swordfighting has been acclaimed as some of the most realistic ever caught on film.

The plot revolves around two French officers who duel each other several times over the years over a petty, insignificant quarrel that is ultimately meaningless. Feraud, played by Keitel, seems to relish the conflict, fuelled by revenge addiction. D'Hubert, played by Carradine, dreads the encounters but his sense of honor will not allow him to back down.

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Reality is about more than getting all the facts right. No one understands this more than artists.

"It is important to realize that the expressive photograph (the "creative" photograph) or the informational photograph does not have directly proportional relationship to what we call reality. We do not perceive certain values in the subject and attempt to duplicate them in the print. We may simulate them, if we wish to, in terms of reflection density values, or we may render them in related values of emotional effect. Many consider my photographs to be in the "realistic" category. Actually, what reality they have is in their optical-image accuracy; their values are definitely "departures from reality." The viewer may accept them as realistic because the visual effect may be plausible, but if it were possible to make direct visual comparison with the subjects, the differences would be startling." - Ansel Adams

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True freedom begins when you stop running from your own reflection. When you no longer reject the parts of yourself you do not understand. When you embrace the duality within, the contradictions, the complexity of your being. Only then can you move beyond illusion, beyond limitation.
– Dame Dove Hepburn (1980–2025)

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