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* In the opening battle scene against the Germanic barbarians in ''[[Gladiator (film)|Gladiator]]'', the Roman legions advance in a decent formation -if a bit crooked due to rough terrain- until the German horde smashes into them. When that happens they immediately break up into a swirling melee. Although they win the battle, the scene ''does'' (perhaps unintentionally) illustrate the reason formations were so necessary to the Romans in the first place- in the morass of single combats that followed, the huge Germanic chieftain is almost unstoppable until he's brought down by sheer weight of numbers, demonstrative of the manner in which the powerful but undisciplined barbarians made war.
* In the 2010 ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)|Robin Hood]]'', you see a line of defenders form a spear wall behind their gate. when the enemy horses drive through...ther're gone. in other battles, you see french soldiers make a few thin lines, but they dissolve before the enemy is within striking distance at no provocation. so, there were formations, but they never got used...I really dont know what the director and or fight choreographer was thinking.
== [[Literature]] ==
*Justified(possibly) in [[The Iliad]]. While there is a lot of heroic melee fighting and dueling, the Greeks before the classical era may indeed have fought much like Celts. Certainly people at the time did not all throw away the thing in disgust because they had been in battles and nobody fought like that as if they had we wouldn't read it today.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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