Kingdom Of Heaven Individual Thinking Quotes

Since the beginning of time, people all over have been lucky enough that there has always been dreamers who ‘think outside of the box’. Without these dreamers, it would not be possible to have great inventions, theories, and the world would not be as an exceptional place. These dreamers did not stop at “because that's how it is”, but dreamers forced an explanation, and if one could not be given, dreamers don't stop until they find the answer. In the movie Kingdom Of Heaven, the idea blasphemy and thinking for yourself was frowned upon and was even considered a reason to kill someone. Yet, Kingdom Of Heaven reveals the importance of individual thinking by making Bailon rebellious, by showing the corrupt church and by having the main idea that …show more content…
Balian makes peasants, shop owners and just any man who was willing a knight, which to the priest is absurd. This scene was a great example of one man making the world a better place, because no matter the social ranking, each man was going to fight for Jerusalem. When Joffrey dies, he gives Balian specific tasks, rules and advice to complete while he is ruling and from that comes the iconic quote, “
“What man is a man who does not make the world better.” This quote is so essential to the idea of one man's individual importance because it was the first time Balian was introduced to the idea of living for himself not living through God's will, and this is an influential quote that helped Balian become the powerful leader he is.
“There, at the end of the world... you are not what you are born... but what you have it in yourself to be.” Balian grew greatly in this movie as a person and as a leader and became a completely different person from the one viewers saw when his wife had died. The Kingdom Of Heaven gave the viewers insight on what it was really like to live in the crusades and the battle with self importance verse religious