This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then…
Damn, I’m neither deep into history nor into movies, but I always found those scenes to be immersion-breaking, because well, apparently I was right to think that it made no sense to have your archers pause shooting. And yeah, now I’m wondering how this didn’t bother the directors producing these movies.
Do you just get used to it, if you’ve watched lots of movies and don’t question it anymore?
Or do you say, fuck it, it’s a trope that viewers expect, like how knives always make a shing sound, even though they don’t do that in reality…?
Damn, I’m neither deep into history nor into movies, but I always found those scenes to be immersion-breaking, because well, apparently I was right to think that it made no sense to have your archers pause shooting. And yeah, now I’m wondering how this didn’t bother the directors producing these movies.
Do you just get used to it, if you’ve watched lots of movies and don’t question it anymore?
Or do you say, fuck it, it’s a trope that viewers expect, like how knives always make a shing sound, even though they don’t do that in reality…?