{"id":1713,"date":"2021-12-17T03:38:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T08:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2021\/12\/17\/ben-affleck-knows-the-real-reason-the-last-duel-suffered-at-the-box-office\/"},"modified":"2021-12-17T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:56:00","slug":"ben-affleck-knows-the-real-reason-the-last-duel-suffered-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2021\/12\/17\/ben-affleck-knows-the-real-reason-the-last-duel-suffered-at-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck Knows the Real Reason &#8216;The Last Duel&#8217; Suffered at the Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/affleck-on-last-duel\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/mcdladu_h3025.jpeg?itok=Uy-D6xiV\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Affleck says the whole industry has changed. <\/p>\n<p>\nI loved <em>The Last Duel<\/em>. It was a complex and interesting movie that contained some amazing performances and a story that showed how terrible life was for women, as well as how different perspectives on a crime can cloud any person&#8217;s memory but open an audience to what really happened.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnfortunately, the movie didn&#8217;t do well at the box office. When asked about it, Ridley Scott blamed millennials on their phones, disinterested in being challenged or paying attention. But recently, Ben Affleck answered the same question with an especially nuanced answer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAt a screening of his new film, <em>The Tender Bar<\/em>, The Hollywood Reporter said that Affleck answered with, \u201cRidley is at the stage in his career where, obviously, he\u2019s completely unencumbered by concerns about what people think.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, that got a great reaction, but Affleck then expanded on why he thought people didn&#8217;t go see the movie.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/affleck-on-last-duel\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Author: Jason Hellerman<br \/>\nThis article comes from <i>No Film School<\/i> and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/affleck-on-last-duel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>read on the original site.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Affleck says the whole industry has changed. I loved The Last Duel. 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