The Black Knight: Film Analysis

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The French to me are being mocked the most. Cause they say the most ridiculous things that make no sense. They are obsessed with animals and will use them as ammunition. When King Arthur and his group made a huge bunny to hold people inside and when the french see’s the rabbit, they will be inside the rabbit in the castle. Well that didn’t work. The Black Knight is mocked by being cocky but is just too easy to defeat. In the film it makes him look like a fraud. Dangerous and most vicious monster protecting the Holy Grail is just a rabbit. I mean it’s one crazy SOB. Mainly every single person in the film was mocked in ways to mock them.
The thing with the coconuts are a way to make the sound of riding a horse. Throughout the entire film. To

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