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Power of Invulnerability

posted 12 years ago by liscarkat-2
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Near the beginning, when Harvey's character meets Harrison's character, they begin their friendship with a huge battle. Harrison shoots Harvey with an arrow, which clearly embeds itself several inches deep in the right side of Harvey's chest. Harvey appears to be genuinely shocked and stunned by the impact and penetration, and falls off of his horse, landing chest-down on the arrow, which would have made the wound even worse. But when Harrison, thinking he's dead, approaches on foot, Harvey grabs his ankles, knocks him to the ground, and they continue their fight. When they finally declare a truce and stop grappling, Harvey is fine! No injury, no blood, nothing. The movie goes on as though it never happened. Did he have a thick piece of padding under his clothes to absorb the arrow's point, or what? It's never explained.

[–] Carycomic 9 years ago

Maybe he was the secret owner of that talisman mentioned in the title of the novel this film was loosely based on.

[–] mdonln 9 years ago

The secret of the talisman, as Saladin tells Kenneth, is sleep. There was sleeping powder in it that helped people fall and get some sleep. Sleep, he said is what the body needs to heal itself.

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[–] Carycomic 8 years ago

Thanks for the info. :-)

[–] Eric266 8 years ago

I thought the same thing when I watched the movie the other night. However, while he was not wearing armor, I believe he was wearing some kind of chainmail. With chainmail over top of a leather tunic could conceivably stop an arrow from a distance. It might have even stuck in his chainmail like in the movie.

Not saying this wasn't some poorly filmed goof, just trying to give an explanation.

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