A Kight's Tale
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Information About A Kight's Tale

Release Date Movie: May 11, 2001 Genre: Action, Adventure,Comedy
Release Date DVD: September 25, 2001 NPAA Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 132 minutes User Rating: 6.5/10

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Story Behind A Kight's Tale

Inspired by "The Canterbury Tales," this is the story of William, a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, they stumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way.
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Actors in A Kight's Tale

Actor Charecter Name
Heath Ledger Sir William Thatcher/ Ulrick Von Lichtenstein
Rufus Sewell Count Adhemar of Anjou
Shannyn Sossamon Jocelyn
Paul Bettany Geoffrey Chaucer
Laura Fraser Kate the Farrier
Mark Addy Roland
Alan Tudyk Wat Falhurst

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Trivia in A Kight's Tale

  • Plenty of effort was expended creating lances that would splinter convincingly without taking out the stunt riders as well. The body of each lance was scored so it would break easily, and the tips were made of balsa wood. Each was also hollowed out, and the hole filled with balsa chips and (obviously uncooked) linguini to make convincing splinters.
  • The initial scene of the two knight's jousting in the first scene of the movie is actually footage of Heath Ledger's stunt double in an accident. During filming of a later scene in the movie, the lance of the stunt double's opponent moved off target and hit him in the head. The double fell to the ground unconscious. The entire footage was used for the introduction.
  • The younger version of William has different colored eyes but Helgeland didn't feel it would be fair to make the young actor wear contact lenses.
  • A medieval version of The London Eye (a large Ferris wheel) can be seen in the aerial shot of London. The shot is not computer generated but is of a model which cost $500,000.
  • Keep watching after the credits for an extra scene.

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    Bloopers in A Kight's Tale

    1. The Eiffel Tower is seen in the long shot of Paris; the London Eye appears in the long shot of London. These are both shots of specially constructed models/mattes and the modern landmarks are there deliberately as jokes.
    2. While Adhemar is being prepared for the final joust, his page puts on his helmet and begins to close the visor with his ungloved hand. In the next shot, Adhemar closes the visor again with his own, gloved, right hand which, as far as we have seen, is already holding his lance (he is holding the horse's reins with his left hand).
    3. Chaucer has cloth stuffed up his left nostril to stop a nosebleed, which switches to the right side in one shot, and then back to the left again. Looking closely, it appears that the film has been reversed to keep the direction of movement constant as Chaucer backs away from Will - leaving it would have created a more jarring error.
    4. Several shots during the final joust have an over-exposed, milky appearance caused when a camera assistant dropped and split a film magazine on the final day of shooting.
    5. During Sir Ulric's first sword match, his armor has obviously been patched and welded before the damage is done in the joust and Kate fixes it.
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