A Knight’s Tale is a movie directed by Brian Helgeland starring Heath Ledger, a young actor who has been in many well-known movies, as William Thacher, a man whose main goal in life is to change the stars and become a knight. In A Knight’s Tale, you follow William Thacher, who worked for a knight who passed away within the first minutes of the movie. When this happens William jousts in his place. He wins the joust which leads him and his friends to create the idea of competing in other tournaments. His friends are Wat and Roland who are poor men and stand by William played by Alan Tudyk and Mark Addy, respectively. William started to go by the name of Sir Ulrich Von Lichtenstein and with help of their newfound friends, Geoffrey Chaucer and
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One of the main topics about knighthood in the movie was the tournaments that William was apart of. In history, tournaments were popular among royalty. It was popular because it was used for celebrations such as the birth of royalty or marriage. Royalty also enjoyed participating in the joust, but for some like King Henry the second it led to their death just as it did with the knight William was a squire for in the beginning of the film. A Knight’s Tale had similar facts. In the movie, the royal family always had front row seats to watch the jousts. At one part of the movie, the Prince Edward of Wales joins into the jousts. In both the movie and in history royalty plays a major role in tournaments, in both royal families both watched it and or took part in it. Both had a barrier between the knights and blunt lances. In A Knight’s Tale, it showed the weapon with a dull top and showed the barrier between the two opponents. In history “The introduction of blunted weapons and a tilt (barrier) to prevent the horses from colliding made jousting safer” ("Tournaments." Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Student). The setup of the jousts was the same both in history in A Knight’s Tale including the inventions of boundaries and blunted weapons. A big similarity is in how both in the film and in the past, knights wanted honor and would die before losing it. In the movie, a competitor of Williams told him “I
One of the main topics about knighthood in the movie was the tournaments that William was apart of. In history, tournaments were popular among royalty. It was popular because it was used for celebrations such as the birth of royalty or marriage. Royalty also enjoyed participating in the joust, but for some like King Henry the second it led to their death just as it did with the knight William was a squire for in the beginning of the film. A Knight’s Tale had similar facts. In the movie, the royal family always had front row seats to watch the jousts. At one part of the movie, the Prince Edward of Wales joins into the jousts. In both the movie and in history royalty plays a major role in tournaments, in both royal families both watched it and or took part in it. Both had a barrier between the knights and blunt lances. In A Knight’s Tale, it showed the weapon with a dull top and showed the barrier between the two opponents. In history “The introduction of blunted weapons and a tilt (barrier) to prevent the horses from colliding made jousting safer” ("Tournaments." Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Student). The setup of the jousts was the same both in history in A Knight’s Tale including the inventions of boundaries and blunted weapons. A big similarity is in how both in the film and in the past, knights wanted honor and would die before losing it. In the movie, a competitor of Williams told him “I