Sharon wrote: > 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!
Hear hear! I love "A Knight's Tale," and the thing I love the most is that the STORY is pretty close to medieval. William gets to be a knight at the end, he doesn't decided that "we are all knights in our hearts," or something stupid like that. The lady he loves says she would marry him and live in a hut with pigs, and he tells her she doesn't know what she's talking about. Etc. The ananchronisms are to help people understand the medieval story. It doesn't change history and pretend to be accurate, or give characters stupid pop-psych reasons for their actions (my mom died and my dad married a peasant -- angst, angst!). Once I got over the shock, I thought the costumes were a fun meld of medieval and modern, and I enjoyed seeing the influences. My favorite anachronistic moment was when Adhemar is off fighting and he gets the results of the tournaments -- a big pile of illuminated documents -- like the sports section of the morning newspaper. Marie Antoinette sounds rather interesting. I will keep an open mind. Gail Finke _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
