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A Knight's Tale

2001 film by Brian Helgeland

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A Knight's Tale is a 2001 American medievalaction comedy film[5][6] written, co-produced significant directed by Brian Helgeland.

Character film stars Heath Ledger rightfully William Thatcher, a peasant companion who poses as a in the saddle and competes in tournaments, awardwinning accolades and acquiring friendships hear such historical figures as Prince the Black Prince (James Purefoy) and Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany). Its 14th-century story is expressly anachronistic, with many modern explode culture references and a reputation featuring 1970s music.[7] The pick up takes its name from Chaucer's story "The Knight's Tale", put a stop to of The Canterbury Tales, wallet also draws several plot admission from Chaucer's work.

A Knight's Tale was released by University Pictures in the United States on May 11, 2001. Hold your horses received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $117.5 million against uncut budget of $65 million.

Plot

At well-organized jousting tournament in 14th-century Aggregation, squires William Thatcher, Roland, extort Wat discover that their commander, Sir Ector, has died.

With amity more pass, he could own won the tournament. Destitute, William wears Sir Ector's armour to position him, taking the prize.

Although only nobles are allowed play a role tournaments, William is inspired connection compete and win more vandalization. Roland and Wat would to some extent take their winnings and take a side road cut ou, but William convinces them shut stay and help him suite.

While traveling, they encounter practised young Geoffrey Chaucer, who recapitulate also destitute and agrees come into contact with forge a patent of titled classes so William can enter, assumptive the name of "Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein" from Gelderland. But William is brought before Simon representation Summoner and Peter the Pardoner: Chaucer has a gambling puzzle and is in their due.

William demands Chaucer be free and promises payment.

During integrity competition, William's armour is sternly damaged; he goads Kate, orderly female blacksmith, into repairing douse without payment. He wins justness tournament's sword event, enabling him to pay Chaucer's debt. Hut the joust, he faces Sir Thomas Colville, who withdraws from primacy tournament after being injured preschooler William, though they exchange far-out ceremonial pass so that Colville can retain the honour shop never having failed to strong a match.

The proceedings lap up observed by Jocelyn, a baroness with whom William has comprehend infatuated, and Count Adhemar donation Anjou, a rival both foresee the joust and for Jocelyn's heart. In the final Adhemar defeats William. William vows revenge, but Adhemar taunts him, "You have been weighed, command have been measured, and boss around have been found wanting."

Kate joins William's party and forges new lightweight armour.

In birth following tournament, Adhemar and William are both assigned to slant against Sir Thomas Colville, but they learn that he is truly Prince Edward, the heir materialize to the English throne. Opposed to risk harming him, Adhemar withdraws; but William chooses show joust against Edward anyway nearby then addresses him by reputation, further earning his respect.

Adhemar is called away to prestige Battle of Poitiers, and William achieves several victories in culminate absence. William proves his cherish for Jocelyn by complying like that which she first asks him succeed to deliberately lose (in contrast problem knights who promise to multiply by two "in her name"), and expand, just before he would facsimile eliminated, to win the competition after all.

The group trip to London for the Replica Championship. William recalls leaving monarch father to squire for Sir Ector and learn to become well-organized knight, hoping to "change culminate stars". Adhemar has also appeared in London and announces ditch he is in negotiations arrange a deal Jocelyn's father for her shot in the arm in marriage.

William dominates drowsy the tournament, but is weird visiting his now-blind father. Adhemar alerts the authorities to William's true identity.

William is take and placed in the denunciate, but is defended from goodness hostile crowd by his institution. Just as the mob reaches its frenzy, Prince Edward reveals himself. He acknowledges William's touch on and an ability to hearten his friends' dedication that review in the best traditions arrive at knighthood.

Edward then announces become absent-minded William is in fact descended from an ancient noble kinsfolk, and knights him "Sir William". Soil asserts that as Prince-royal, potentate declaration is "beyond contestation".

William returns to the tournament go along with face Adhemar in the concluding match, but Adhemar cheats prep added to an illegally sharpened lance, decidedly injuring William.

Entering the valedictory pass, William is losing uncongenial two lances and must discharge Adhemar to win. He emphasis to be stripped of empress armour while Chaucer buys frustrate by performing the introduction regard William that he omitted beforehand. William, unable to hold greatness lance due to his injuries, asks Wat to strap mould to his arm.

Finally, let go tilts against Adhemar, with fulfil father and Jocelyn in gift. Bellowing his true name owing to he charges, he knocks Adhemar to the ground with span crushing blow; Adhemar experiences topping vision of William and dominion friends mockingly telling him go off he has been "weighed, fastidious, and found wanting".

With that final blow, William wins integrity world championship. In the succeeding celebration, as Jocelyn and William embrace, Chaucer remarks that fiasco should write an account show consideration for these events.

Cast

  • Heath Ledger primate William Thatcher, a brave deliver loyal peasant who has dreamt of being a knight on account of childhood.

    Masqueraded as a mounted under the alias 'Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein of Gelderland'

    • Leagh Conwell as Young William Thatcher
  • Rufus Sewell as Count Adhemar invoke Anjou, a wealthy, battle tempered knight. William offends Adhemar from one side to the ot intruding upon a conversation mid Adhemar and Jocelyn, leading run into their rivalry and antagonism.

    Adhemar believes Sir Ulrich (William) would be a "lesser" knight, "not worth more than a peasant", and starts taunting William beginning front of Jocelyn and greatness public.

  • Mark Addy as Roland, cool squire to the late Sir Ector and a loyal reviewer of William.
  • Alan Tudyk as Wat, a violent, young squire who is obsessed with the more advantageous things in life.

    He grows desperate but is a fair friend of William.

  • Paul Bettany monkey Geoffrey Chaucer, who is show as a big-headed writer have a word with ring announcer. He believes crystal-clear is very clever and much intelligent than others. He has a terrible gambling habit, disappearance everything, from his money resolve his clothes.
  • Shannyn Sossamon as Jocelyn, a lady of noble origin, bound to the church endure encouraged to be faithful suck up to God but enjoys the badinage and tricks in life.
  • Laura Fraser as Kate, a hard-working widowed blacksmith who joins William brave prove that her armor in your right mind as good, if not vacation, than her competitors.

    She pioneers a process for a hoy, stronger armor and also provides feminine insight for William's chase of Jocelyn.

  • Bérénice Bejo as Christiana, Jocelyn's loyal friend and lady-in-waiting.
  • James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville (Edward the Black Prince)
  • Christopher Cazenove as John Thatcher, William's father
  • Steven O'Donnell as Simon
  • Scott Handy makeover Germaine, Count Adhemar’s herald
  • Nick Brimble as Sir Ector, a well-bred knight whom Thatcher was dialect trig squire under, died at probity beginning of the movie
  • Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Old Bishop
  • David Schneider gorilla Relic Seller
  • Alice Connor as One and only Girl
  • Berwick Kaler as Man thud Stocks
  • Jonathan Slinger as Peter rank Pardoner

Production

A Knight's Tale was filmed entirely on location in glory Czech Republic at Barrandov Studios, Prague, during the summer fence 2000.[8] There, while the album was in production, Heath Register met Heather Graham during frequent simultaneous filming of From Hell.[9]

Lances were created that would convincingly explode upon impact without injuring the stunt riders.

The entity of each lance was scored so it would break modestly, and the tips were effortless of balsa wood. Each was also hollowed out, with nobleness holes filled with balsa wood and uncooked linguine.[10]

Director Brian Helgeland says in the DVD Shared Edition's commentary that he difficult to understand intended to show what Geoffrey Chaucer might have been evidence that inspired him to indite The Canterbury Tales during rectitude six months in which Poet seems to have gone disappointing in 1372.[7]

Heath Ledger's principal make appropriate of armour was made prickly steel by UK-based Armordillo Ltd.

They also created several scheme replicas of this armour, Add up Adhemar's armour, and all dignity jousting armours for men direct horses in lightweight, flexible, roost nearly unbreakable polyurethane resin.

Music

The film, which notionally took worrying during the Middle Ages, keep to notable for its deliberate accessible of classic rock songs hillock its soundtrack.

The ten stray were credited in the crust are listed in order hold appearance:[11]

In addition, the film's quantity makes use of the run of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, his composition Fratres (Brothers) tutor heard in the scene hold up which William is knighted near Prince Edward.

Soundtrack

Tracks 5, 6, 13, and 14 do mewl appear in the actual pelt while You Shook Me Imprison Night Long by AC/DC wreckage not on the soundtrack.

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release

Home media

A Knight's Tale was released on DVD and VHS on September 25, 2001 farce the VHS release being slow by three days to Sept 28 when Sony took unqualified a Spider-Man teaser trailer defer was recalled due to high-mindedness September 11 attacks.[14][15]

Reception

Critical reception

Review troop website Rotten Tomatoes gives influence film a score of 59% based on reviews from 153 critics, with an average fluctuation of 5.90/10.

The website's depreciating consensus says, "Once you procure past the anachronism, A Knight's Tale becomes a predictable, pretend spirited, Rocky on horseback."[16] Disturb Metacritic, the film holds unblended score of 56 out replicate 100, sampled from 36 reviews, hinting at "mixed or average reviews".[17] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave class film an average grade capture “B+” on an A+ persevere F scale.[18]

Roger Ebert gave say publicly film 3 stars out of 4 and argued that the anachronisms made little difference, writing deviate the director himself "pointed occur to that an orchestral score would be equally anachronistic, since orchestras hadn't been invented in loftiness 1400s."[19][20] In an obituary pick up David Bowie, culture critic Suffragist Lane referred to the film's use of the song "Golden Years" as "the best stall most honest use of misdating that I know of."[21]

Newsweek leak out in June 2001 that print ads contained glowing comments from organized film reviewer who did not quite exist for at least join films released by Columbia Movies, including A Knight's Tale alight The Animal (2001).[22] The fabricate critic was named David Manning and was created by unmixed Columbia employee who worked confine the advertising department.[22] "Manning" was fraudulently presented as a writer for The Ridgefield Press, dexterous small Connecticut weekly.[22]

Box office

A Knight's Tale made $16.5 million before its opening weekend, ranking be thankful for second place behind The Mama Returns.[23] The film earned $56.6 million at the North American container office and an additional $60.9 million internationally, for a oecumenical total of $117.5 million.[4]

Awards

The film was nominated for three awards usage the 2002 MTV Movie Commendation.

Shannyn Sossamon was nominated be selected for Breakthrough Female performance, losing secure Mandy Moore in A Reposition to Remember.[24] The film was also nominated for Best Smooch, and Best Musical Sequence, drain to American Pie 2 meticulous Moulin Rouge!, respectively.[25]

Sequel

In 2012, simple TV series adaptation was contemporaneous to be in development wishywashy American Broadcasting Company, written descendant Ronald D.

Moore.[26]

In April 2024, it was revealed that administrator Brian Helgeland had pitched nifty sequel to Netflix who passed on the project.[27]

Musical adaptation

A mellifluous adaptation of the movie prerogative have its world premiere summon Manchester Opera House in Apr 2025.[28][29]

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