Greetings--
Lady Orla Carey wrote:
I'm willing to bet that the great example Sharon is talking about is that
"A Knight's Tale" doesn't pretend to be history. Several choices by the
director (like the music) make it very clear that it's a "fun" music so
the costumes weren't quite as annoying as they could have been.
Precisely why I was willing to cut "Shakespeare in Love" some slack and
was less willing to do so for "Elizabeth", which was out the same year.
The former didn't try to sell itself to schools as history, whether
costume-wise or in general, and poked fun at itself on numerous
occasions. I liked "Knight's Tale," too--for the added reason that in
the midst of all the funky and fun costumes and in-jokes, there's a
modicum of what the actual historical tourney circuit might have been
like. Oddly enough, there's as much history hiding in there as some of
the so-called "historical" films.
It's the same reason I enjoyed "300" (well, and the buff guys didn't
hurt, either). The clothes were more fantasy and the history mixed with
fantasy--but it felt very much like an epic tale told around the campfire.
Susan
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