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June 4, 2001 |
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A Knight's Tale |
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����������� I was very surprised when I walked in the theater to watch A Knight's Tale on Friday.� I thought this was going to be a serious story about knighthood and chivalry.� Instead, I got rock-and-roll at jousting tournaments, a gambling-addicted writer, followed by the usual knight trying to win the girl's heart, and proving to everyone that he is the "man." |
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����������� When the movie started, everyone was startled to hear the song "We Will Rock You," as the crowd at the jousting tournament was singing the words and banging the beat.� While the crowd is getting into the song and waiting for the tournament to start, Will (Heath Leadger) finds out the knight he works for is dead.� Will quickly gets into the knight's armor and wins the tournament for himself and his two friends (Mark Addy and Alan Tudyk).� Since Will has wanted to be a knight his whole life, he decides to take the money he won and travel to jousting tournaments all over Europe under the name of Ulrich Van Lichetnstein.� What was Lichetenstein"s main goal?� It was to go and participate in the "World Championships" in London.� |
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As Will and his friends are walking towards their first big tournament, they meet a poor, gambling-addicted writer named Geoffrey Chaucer.� Chaucer tells the men he will write Will's heritage rights if they let him tag along to the tournaments.� Of course, they need these papers to enter the tournaments, so they agreed.� Throughout Will's travels to different tournaments, he meets a princess Jocelyn (Shannyn Sossamon) and falls in love.� What he did not realize was that he was competing with his worst enemy (Rufus Swell) in jousting, as well as for the heart of Jocelyn.� |
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����������� The plot of this story comes from the Canterbury Tales, of course with a little twist.� As the competitors come out, they have a large introduction, people with banners cheering them on, and their very own theme music in the background.� Then, added in to the story, is the usual princess making the knight prove his love by doing something totally off the wall.� In this case, Will was to lose the tournament.� Once Jocelyn realized what she had done, she told Will to begin to win, and he was badly beaten.� Not only did his love for her cost him the tournament, it almost cost Will's life.� |
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����������� After fighting his way to the top of the list at the tournaments, and to the World Championships, officials found out that Ulrich was actually Will, and he was arrested.� Seeing his bravery and courage, the prince of England knighted Will, Sir William, and he was able to compete in the World Championships.� The princess found Will's father, whom he had not seen in years, and brought him to see his son win the tournament.� |
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����������� I would definitely recommend this movie to those who enjoyed the modern Romeo and Juliet.� This movie was great fun, had great comedy, and great action.� For women, it is filled with love and romance and what every girl would love to happen to her. (Have a guy fight for her love.)� For the guys, it has lots of action and fighting.� A Knight's Tale is an action packed movie with a good mix of romance and laughter.� |
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