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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8868966" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>On the subject of <em>A Knight's Tale</em>, I actually finally got around to watching it a couple months back. I had avoided when it came out because it came out while I was directing a one act play I had written involving a peasant pretending to be a knight and the plot similarities meant I constantly got "oh it's like <em>A Knight's Tale</em>" from people. That and taking a much firmer stance against what I perceived as "anachronism" at the time made me resent it.</p><p></p><p>Now, on the other side of having done graduate work in Medieval Studies. I recognize that basically every piece of modern media dealing with the middle ages is an exercise in rampant anachronism (and for "medieval" fantasy that goes roughly quintuply so) and I appreciate <em>A Knight's Tale</em> precisely for embracing anachronism and wielding it to further its narrative. That said I was disappointed that the subsequent uses of modern music, being more purely a soundtrack element not quite so clearly "in world", did not, in my eyes, quite live up to the opening with <em>We Will Rock</em> <em>You</em> being stomped along to by the crowd as it is in a modern sporting arena. Some sort of Bardcore renditions of the songs would really take it to the next level for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8868966, member: 6988941"] On the subject of [I]A Knight's Tale[/I], I actually finally got around to watching it a couple months back. I had avoided when it came out because it came out while I was directing a one act play I had written involving a peasant pretending to be a knight and the plot similarities meant I constantly got "oh it's like [I]A Knight's Tale[/I]" from people. That and taking a much firmer stance against what I perceived as "anachronism" at the time made me resent it. Now, on the other side of having done graduate work in Medieval Studies. I recognize that basically every piece of modern media dealing with the middle ages is an exercise in rampant anachronism (and for "medieval" fantasy that goes roughly quintuply so) and I appreciate [I]A Knight's Tale[/I] precisely for embracing anachronism and wielding it to further its narrative. That said I was disappointed that the subsequent uses of modern music, being more purely a soundtrack element not quite so clearly "in world", did not, in my eyes, quite live up to the opening with [I]We Will Rock[/I] [I]You[/I] being stomped along to by the crowd as it is in a modern sporting arena. Some sort of Bardcore renditions of the songs would really take it to the next level for me. [/QUOTE]
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