At 2:52 PM +1200 4/21/06, Adele de Maisieres wrote:
They did the same thing with "A Knight's Tale". Decent story, fun
characters and okay clothing but the music......Very rock and totally out
of place (along with the icky lampshade hat on his girlfriend).
Now, see I thought the music and the "medieval punk" really MADE
the movie. It would have been boring w/o it, IMO.
Snerf. I thought they might as well have kept the jousting, plumped
for a modern setting and achieved less net total anachronism.
I confess I prefer it when historically inspired movies include such
anachronisms as obviously modern rock music -- it helps the audience
keep in mind that they are watching fiction, and that they shouldn't
believe what they're seeing is real after the reel ends.
So anachronism, especially deliberate anachronism, in movies is fine
with me as long as the movie isn't trying to fool people into
believing it isn't anachronism -- I'll take A Knight's Tale and
Shakespeare In Love over Elizabeth or That Film Whose Name Shall Not
Be Uttered any day!
Sharon
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Sharon Krossa, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resources for Scottish history, names, clothing, language & more:
Medieval Scotland - http://MedievalScotland.org/
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