A Knight's Tale

2001

PG-13

2h 13m

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6.9/10

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William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

Directors

Brian Helgeland

Writers

Brian Helgeland(writer by)

Stars

Heath Ledger

Rufus Sewell

Shannyn Sossamon

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William Thatcher

Count Adhemar

Jocelyn

Geoffrey Chaucer

Kate

Roland

Wat

Christiana

Germaine

Colville

Young William Thatcher

John Thatcher

Simon the Summoner

Peter the Pardoner

Sir Ector

Flanders King of Arms

Philip Lenkowsky

Rouen King of Arms

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Old Bishop

Directors

Brian Helgeland

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Brian Helgeland(writer by)

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10/10

My dad, rest his soul, really liked this and at the time it came out I was a pretentious college student that had forsaken all things fun and couldn't understand what my father could possibly like about it. And now I'm living in a world where someone makes a tweet with the president's head morphed onto Rocky Balboa's body and people are freaking out and screaming "How am I supposed to take it, if not totally literally!" And I'm sitting off to the side, mumbling that it was just a joke, and seeing my old self that hated A Knight's Tale reflected in those people and thinking "I was a real humorless prig for about four solid years, thank every god that has ever been worshiped that I grew out of that." When I first saw it I thought the part where the smith added the Nike swoosh to the armor was horrible because, well, I was pretentious and took life far too seriously.... blatant product placement!... sweatshops!...child labor!.... Corporatism! Whatever! And now that said phase in my life has melted away, it's just a joke and honestly kind of a cute one. And then the same can be said about Chaucer.... and literary genius, how dare they slander such a.... and now that I'm older he was absolutely the best part of the movie wasn't he? Classic rock music in movie about the dark ages and... pandering... unrealistic... blah, blah, blah, and now that that ill informed phase in life wore off, it works on multiple levels and most surprisingly they succeed in using it to make you laugh. I guess the point is that now that I learned to actually enjoy things and not take everything so seriously, so literally, and understand a joke is just a joke, it's a super fun and hysterical comedic romp and to watch it is to love it.

GenerationofSwine12 Jan, 2023