Not Giving Up In A Knight's Tale

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My connection, not giving up, is shown through these four texts: A Knight’s Tale (directed by Brian Helgeland), Gladiator (directed by Ridley Scott), The Help (directed by Tate Taylor) and 127 Hours (directed by Danny Boyle). A Knight’s Tale shows the connection not giving up when the main character, (William, a young squire with a gift for jousting) forges genealogy documents in order to enter a jousting competition. Despite not being a knight, he gains popularity and wins a number of tournaments. After William is found guilty of not being a knight, his friends say it’s best to run but he replies with “I’m a knight, and a knight would not be so cowardly as to run”. When William was little, he told his father he wanted …show more content…
He gains fame throughout the games, and despite not wanting to compete, he uses his newfound power to try to overthrow the corrupt emperor. He doesn’t give up, much like William, as they both are born a certain way and they change their stars despite all odds. The theme not giving up is shown with this quote: “Today i saw a slave become more powerful than the emperor of Rome”. The director was showing, again, that we don’t have to follow the path we were born into. This quote was said by Lucilla, the previous emperor’s daughter. It is also shown during Maximus’s final battle against the emperor, when he says “My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the north , General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the …show more content…
He spends 127 hours (more than 5 days) stuck with limited rations and only his video camera to talk to. He tries chipping away at the rock with a pocket knife, but nothing makes it budge. As he gets more and more desperate, he resorts to cutting off his arm to escape. Like Skeeter, he showed a lot of courage, but in a different way. The director used his video camera to show Aron’s thoughts throughout the movie, as he updated the camera each

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