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That one is a pet peeve of mine. It shows up so often, it's referenced on TV Tropes as "Helmets are hardly heroic". Most ridiculous of all is when the lead character is clad in full plate armor, but their head is entirely devoid of any protection.Or any number of battle scenes where the lead character doesn’t wear a helmet so the audience can see who he is?
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That one is a pet peeve of mine. It shows up so often, it's referenced on TV Tropes as "Helmets are hardly heroic". Most ridiculous of all is when the lead character is clad in full plate armor, but their head is entirely devoid of any protection.
Harold was the one who thought plot armor would be protection enough, and failed to realize he wasn't the hero of that particular story.Though presumably William did not then say, "You know what chaps, I can see how it's confusing. Let's all take our helmets off so we can identify each other."
Though I can make an honourable exception for films like Troy or the like where they're meant to be larger than life characters pulling off heroic deeds beyond the ken of normal mortals.
This is probably also why you don't get as much writing on implausible ancient-war methods and cultural practices in LOTR versus the Dothraki, who as 'low fantasy' are meant to be more grounded and quasi-real.
No, that's entirely a function of the fact that Return of the King came out 2 years before YouTube was launched, whereas Game of Thrones spanned 8 years during a time when the internet was well established.
I think that was also specifically at the insistence of the actor, wasn't it?I think Dredd may be the only film where they leave the helmet on, and that was because he's meant to seem less of a person compared to the helmetless rookie Anderson
I think that was also specifically at the insistence of the actor, wasn't it?
Ah, the version I'd heard was that they originally were going to show him sans helmet at some point and Urban insisted otherwise because of sameIIRC a thing from the top down, and part of the casting was that the actor was okay with it (and Urban very much was because he's a big Dredd nerd)