I missed one thing
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life4all — 17 years ago(August 17, 2008 02:29 AM)
The sequence of events went something like this:
- Rodrigo frees the prisoners (Moors, who swear to abandon any future attacks) he captured
- Rodrigo's father calls Jimena's father a liar over a charge of treason
- Jimena's father slaps Rodrigo's father with the glove (shames him). This is an invitation to a duel which Rodrigo's father is now too old to fight.
Does this help? Take it from me, this movie is well worth a second viewing to refresh your memory. The scene where Rodrigo makes King Alfonso swear is also worth a second look. In fact, the movie is full of compelling scenes. Enjoy your 2nd viewing!
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Book1245 — 17 years ago(August 17, 2008 09:49 PM)
Ah ok, I gotcha
I really intend to see it again. I want to buy it asap. Does it have a nice three disc edition or something of the sorts?
I've been listening to Miklos Rozsa's amazing score for days
And yes, I loved the scene where he makes Alfonso pretty much lie to his kingdom. Rodrigo had him by the balls lol
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life4all — 17 years ago(August 18, 2008 01:47 AM)
You are in luck. Re-mastered and quite recently released (after many years of waiting):
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=imdb-adbox&index=dvd&h idden-keywords=B00004YA8W%7C%20B00004VYH1%7C%20B000WMFZNS%7C%20B000WMF ZMY&link%5Fcode=qs
The way the story was presented I'm not so sure Alfonso was complicit but Urraca certainly was. -
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anblq10 — 16 years ago(November 04, 2009 12:12 PM)
To slightly edit this and add in some missed detail:
The Moors attack and Rodrigo helps to win the battle and is told that they are his prisoners. The King's army comes led by Count Ordonez and he demands that Rodrigo hand over the prisoners to him. Rodrigo then decides to make them pledge to never attack the King and quite possibly Spain again and they agree. Rodrigo frees them and then Ordonez informs Rodrigo that he will be charged with treason for letting the Moors go. At the castle, the trial starts in which Rodrigo's father is trying to defend his son and his son's actions. Jimena's father than says how any person who lets the enemy go is a traitor to which Rodrigo's dad refutes this claim and calls Jimena's dad a liar. Jimena's dad then slaps Rodrigo's dad which shames him and takes his honor to which Rodrigo feels like he needs to get it back. -
cada123 — 16 years ago(December 03, 2009 09:29 PM)
In addition to the previous posts: Rodrigo did not set out to kill Jimena's father. He crossed swords with him, yes, but at the point where Rodrigo "dinged" him, he felt he had satisfied his own father's honor. It was Jimena's father who then insisted on continuing the fight to the death - which cost him his own life.
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Rueiro — 12 years ago(March 29, 2014 04:14 AM)
In those days they had this thing called "code of honour among knights" that today we find ridiculous and maybe childish, but this was just the way their society worked. When Rodrigo frees the Arabs he is accused of treason to the King by Jimena's father. Don Diego takes that as an insult to the family's honour, and calls the other a liar before the entire court. As a king's knight, Jimena's father can not tolerate such a calumny that brings disgrace to his name and reputation, so he slaps Don Diego to demand a duel. Don Diego is far too old to fight, so Rodrigo will take his place. Nevertheless he gives Jimena's father a chance to cancel the duel by taking his insult back and the whole thing will be forgotten. But the proud man refuses -again the question of personal honour- and so they fight.