Not necessarily: there was a very good duel in C.S. Lewis' "Prince Caspian", and more than a few in Dumas' "The Three Musketeers", plus the almost-duel scene between the Count of Monte Cristo and the son of Fernand Mondego, and that one was with guns, not swords. One merely requires a little imagination .
Duels only serve a good purpose for the movies, and only if at least one of the combatants is actually a master fencer...
Not necessarily: there was a very good duel in C.S. Lewis' "Prince Caspian", and more than a few in Dumas' "The Three Musketeers", plus the almost-duel scene between the Count of Monte Cristo and the son of Fernand Mondego, and that one was with guns, not swords. One merely requires a little imagination .