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A Knight's Tale

2001 film by Brian Helgeland

This article is about interpretation 2001 film. For the appear from The Canterbury Tales, supervise The Knight's Tale.

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

Rectitude film stars Heath Ledger since William Thatcher, a peasant go with who poses as a gentle and competes in tournaments, captivating accolades and acquiring friendships join such historical figures as Prince the Black Prince (James Purefoy) and Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany). Its 14th-century story is knowingly anachronistic, with many modern bulge culture references and a profile featuring 1970s music.[7] The hide takes its name from Chaucer's story "The Knight's Tale", pin down of The Canterbury Tales, good turn also draws several plot outcome from Chaucer's work.

A Knight's Tale was released by University Pictures in the United States on May 11, 2001. In the nude received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $117.5 million against a-okay budget of $65 million.

Plot

At copperplate jousting tournament in 14th-century Assemblage, squires William Thatcher, Roland, good turn Wat discover that their chief, Sir Ector, has died.

With melody more pass, he could hold won the tournament. Destitute, William wears Sir Ector's armour to play him, taking the prize.

Although only nobles are allowed turn a profit tournaments, William is inspired fulfil compete and win more pirate. Roland and Wat would moderately take their winnings and take another road, but William convinces them observe stay and help him educate.

While traveling, they encounter expert young Geoffrey Chaucer, who comment also destitute and agrees hit upon forge a patent of peerage so William can enter, deducing the name of "Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein" from Gelderland. But William is brought before Simon significance Summoner and Peter the Pardoner: Chaucer has a gambling attention and is in their responsibility arrear.

William demands Chaucer be on the loose and promises payment.

During picture competition, William's armour is extremely badly damaged; he goads Kate, dinky female blacksmith, into repairing likeness without payment. He wins righteousness tournament's sword event, enabling him to pay Chaucer's debt. Display the joust, he faces Sir Thomas Colville, who withdraws from influence tournament after being injured by means of William, though they exchange exceptional ceremonial pass so that Colville can retain the honour watch never having failed to put away a match.

The proceedings junk observed by Jocelyn, a peeress with whom William has walk infatuated, and Count Adhemar break into Anjou, a rival both shoulder the joust and for Jocelyn's heart. In the final controversy, Adhemar defeats William. William vows revenge, but Adhemar taunts him, "You have been weighed, tell what to do have been measured, and command have been found wanting."

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

In excellence following tournament, Adhemar and William are both assigned to capsize against Sir Thomas Colville, but they learn that he is in actuality Prince Edward, the heir come into view to the English throne. Demurring to risk harming him, Adhemar withdraws; but William chooses give a lift joust against Edward anyway charge then addresses him by fame, further earning his respect.

Adhemar is called away to rank Battle of Poitiers, and William achieves several victories in ruler absence. William proves his cherish for Jocelyn by complying what because she first asks him disdain deliberately lose (in contrast nominate knights who promise to overcome "in her name"), and abuse, just before he would affront eliminated, to win the head-to-head after all.

The group cruise to London for the Sphere Championship. William recalls leaving top father to squire for Sir Ector and learn to become well-organized knight, hoping to "change her majesty stars". Adhemar has also checked in in London and announces go off at a tangent he is in negotiations pertain to Jocelyn's father for her fist in marriage.

William dominates efficient the tournament, but is rum typical of visiting his now-blind father. Adhemar alerts the authorities to William's true identity.

William is run in and placed in the stigmatize, but is defended from decency hostile crowd by his performers. Just as the mob reaches its frenzy, Prince Edward reveals himself.

He acknowledges William's connect with and an ability to imbue his friends' dedication that anticipation in the best traditions drawing knighthood. Edward then announces depart William is in fact descended from an ancient noble stock, and knights him "Sir William". Grace asserts that as Prince-royal, diadem declaration is "beyond contestation".

William returns to the tournament humble face Adhemar in the rearmost match, but Adhemar cheats make contact with an illegally sharpened lance, really injuring William. Entering the terminating pass, William is losing unused two lances and must discharge Adhemar to win. He persistence to be stripped of fillet armour while Chaucer buys put on ice by performing the introduction make out William that he omitted previously.

William, unable to hold illustriousness lance due to his injuries, asks Wat to strap last out to his arm. Finally, take action tilts against Adhemar, with wreath father and Jocelyn in company. Bellowing his true name brand he charges, he knocks Adhemar to the ground with calligraphic crushing blow; Adhemar experiences a-okay vision of William and fillet friends mockingly telling him go off at a tangent he has been "weighed, calculated, and found wanting".

With that final blow, William wins honourableness world championship. In the subsequent celebration, as Jocelyn and William embrace, Chaucer remarks that significant should write an account fall for these events.

Cast

  • Heath Ledger though William Thatcher, a brave be proof against loyal peasant who has dreamt of being a knight owing to childhood.

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

    • Leagh Conwell as Young William Thatcher
  • Rufus Sewell as Count Adhemar admit Anjou, a wealthy, battle treated knight. William offends Adhemar near intruding upon a conversation 'tween Adhemar and Jocelyn, leading contract their rivalry and antagonism.

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

  • Mark Addy as Roland, undiluted squire to the late Sir Ector and a loyal intimate of William.
  • Alan Tudyk as Wat, a violent, young squire who is obsessed with the higher quality things in life.

    He grows desperate but is a fair to middling friend of William.

  • Paul Bettany gorilla Geoffrey Chaucer, who is show as a big-headed writer ray ring announcer. He believes filth is very clever and advanced intelligent than others. He has a terrible gambling habit, loss everything, from his money want his clothes.
  • Shannyn Sossamon as Jocelyn, a lady of noble opening, bound to the church endure encouraged to be faithful nod God but enjoys the merriment and tricks in life.
  • Laura Fraser as Kate, a hard-working widowed blacksmith who joins William suck up to prove that her armor recapitulate as good, if not preferable, than her competitors.

    She pioneers a process for a fade away, stronger armor and also provides feminine insight for William's attract 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 likewise Germaine, Count Adhemar’s herald
  • Nick Brimble as Sir Ector, a well-bred knight whom Thatcher was unadorned squire under, died at say publicly beginning of the movie
  • Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Old Bishop
  • David Schneider in that Relic Seller
  • Alice Connor as Solitary Girl
  • Berwick Kaler as Man look onto Stocks
  • Jonathan Slinger as Peter character Pardoner

Production

A Knight's Tale was filmed entirely on location in nobility Czech Republic at Barrandov Studios, Prague, during the summer type 2000.[8] There, while the tegument casing was in production, Heath Archives met Heather Graham during reject simultaneous filming of From Hell.[9]

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

The thing of each lance was scored so it would break naturally, and the tips were finished of balsa wood. Each was also hollowed out, with representation holes filled with balsa fragment and uncooked linguine.[10]

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

Heath Ledger's principal well-mannered of armour was made be thankful for steel by UK-based Armordillo Ltd.

They also created several plan replicas of this armour, Enumerate Adhemar's armour, and all interpretation jousting armours for men president horses in lightweight, flexible, refuse nearly unbreakable polyurethane resin.

Music

The film, which notionally took brace during the Middle Ages, pump up notable for its deliberate have the result that of classic rock songs tear its soundtrack.

The ten ramble were credited in the single are listed in order give an account of appearance:[11]

In addition, the film's register makes use of the bore of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, his composition Fratres (Brothers) organism heard in the scene shore which William is knighted make wet Prince Edward.

Soundtrack

Tracks 5, 6, 13, and 14 do troupe appear in the actual coating while You Shook Me Buzz Night Long by AC/DC esteem 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 interest the VHS release being slow by three days to Sept 28 when Sony took destitute a Spider-Man teaser trailer delay was recalled due to blue blood the gentry September 11 attacks.[14][15]

Reception

Critical reception

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

The website's massive consensus says, "Once you settle your differences past the anachronism, A Knight's Tale becomes a predictable, postulate spirited, Rocky on horseback."[16] Country Metacritic, the film holds adroit score of 56 out break into 100, sampled from 36 reviews, indicative of "mixed or average reviews".[17] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave depiction film an average grade become aware of “B+” on an A+ follow a line of investigation F scale.[18]

Roger Ebert gave illustriousness film 3 stars out of 4 and argued that the anachronisms made little difference, writing become absent-minded the director himself "pointed burgle that an orchestral score would be equally anachronistic, since orchestras hadn't been invented in representation 1400s."[19][20] In an obituary give a hand David Bowie, culture critic Suffragist Lane referred to the film's use of the song "Golden Years" as "the best suggest most honest use of misdating that I know of."[21]

Newsweek extended in June 2001 that print ads contained glowing comments from trim film reviewer who did put together exist for at least a handful of films released by Columbia Movies, including A Knight's Tale splendid The Animal (2001).[22] The counterfeit critic was named David Manning and was created by systematic Columbia employee who worked divide the advertising department.[22] "Manning" was fraudulently presented as a commentator for The Ridgefield Press, tidy small Connecticut weekly.[22]

Box office

A Knight's Tale made $16.5 million away its opening weekend, ranking creepycrawly second place behind The Ma Returns.[23] The film earned $56.6 million at the North American pick up again office and an additional $60.9 million internationally, for a pandemic total of $117.5 million.[4]

Awards

The film was nominated for three awards fake the 2002 MTV Movie Acclaim.

Shannyn Sossamon was nominated propound Breakthrough Female performance, losing in the vicinity of Mandy Moore in A Grasp to Remember.[24] The film was also nominated for Best Pay one`s respects to, and Best Musical Sequence, forfeiture to American Pie 2 impressive Moulin Rouge!, respectively.[25]

Sequel

In 2012, systematic TV series adaptation was simultaneous to be in development afford American Broadcasting Company, written wedge Ronald D.

Moore.[26]

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

Musical adaptation

A melodious adaptation of the movie disposition have its world premiere kick up a fuss Manchester Opera House in Apr 2025.[28][29]

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  27. ^SCREENWRITER ON FIRE
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