I find myself constantly fascinated by this film, enough that it has made its way to become one of my all time favorite movies. Don't get me wrong, the story itself is extremely cookie cutter. It's a pretty cut-and-dry underdog story with a feel good end that pretty much works for any audience. Yet, despite it's simple outlook, it has a strange way of throwing a wrench in the works. For a fairly simple story set deep into the middle ages, it has extremely modern music.
Modern music in a historic setting is not exactly ground breaking in the film industry, but the difference is with A Knights Tale, the modern music is all diegetic, it takes place within the cannon of the story. The film starts with audiences chanting "We will rock you" at a joust match. This is just the first of many similar scenes in which medieval characters interact with modern music. This diegetic use of modern music is something I haven't seen in any other film yet. I think this kind of direction in a movie is fun and exciting and I would love to see more of it in other films.
Since I cannot legally link to the full movie, I have attached a link to the film trailer on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH6U5y086hw
I have seen parts of the movie before. Even though I cannot remember it well, I still remember that I was interested at the story. I have a great interest in medias with historical and medieval themes regardless of either having a fantasy genre or not. It always gets me enthralled just by reading or seeing the stories that have those themes for the setting. I think that those stories serve as a great source and inspiration for creating interesting story plots. I also think that the use of a medieval time line, or any other historical time period, has more ideas to create challenges that characters would struggle to overcome in the past compared to what we can do now. I think its a very fun setting to use for creating stories that could have action, comedy, drama, adventure, tragedy, and many more.
ReplyDeleteI felt this movie had many similarities to the Romeo and Juliet Leonardo Decaprio was in. While, it took itself serious to a degree, it had many parts that made the viewers question how much it took itself serious, such as the music, which you mentioned. Even though one film took the setting into account, and the other only kept the speech in tact, it felt like the inspirations were similar.
ReplyDeleteI have not heard of this movie before, though I find it an interesting choice to curate. While it has a very standard take on the underdog story, the tale provides a somewhat comical reintroduction of humanity's humorous primal view of savage fighting, similar to what we had in early roman times,
ReplyDeleteIt romanticizes the idea of a strong man going to fight and facing danger in his journey to complete his dreams.
I watched this movie in history class and fell in love with this. I agree with Michael about the Romeo and Juliet connection. I think this would fall under our first assignment with Pride and Prejudice. I think Romeo and Juliet could be classified as a storyverse because of all the stories that have used it. It is pretty much one of the most used plot in romance and drama movies and books. It just took the Romeo and Juliet into a medieval setting and gave the Romeo character more of a background.
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