[ SECRET POST #2763 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2763 ⌋

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Re: Vaugely based on #10

[(Anonymous)]

True Blood.

Anna Paquin's casting makes me cringe every time. They killed her hair by bleaching it and she just does not fit the description of the books.

A Knight's Tale and the one movie where the Princess is cursed to be obedient? (Can't remember the name.) I know on an intellectual level they are supposed to be satires, however, the movies didn't quite go out of their way enough I guess to bring this home. I don't know they just make me cringe. And I couldn't get past the "I love Rock'n'Roll" in a Knight's Tale.

Re: Vaugely based on #10

[(Anonymous)]

the one movie where the Princess is cursed to be obedient? (Can't remember the name.)

Ella Enchanted?

Re: Vaugely based on #10

[(Anonymous)]

And I couldn't get past the "I love Rock'n'Roll" in a Knight's Tale.

Then you probably shouldn't be talking about how it failed as a movie. It's fine if you don't want to see it, but saying the movie failed at what it was trying to do when you haven't seen it seems like a snap judgement.

Re: Vaugely based on #10

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt, but the blatant anachronisms in A Knight's Tale ruined the movie for me. I know they were deliberate - I know it was supposed to be funny - but it just hits one of those stumbling blocks in my mind and I cannot get past it. Doesn't mean it's a bad movie, but it does mean that the film did not work for me.

It's silly, because with some things, I have no problem with suspension of belief, and yet with other things it becomes 'no, it is impossible for me to accept this.'

Re: Vaugely based on #10

[(Anonymous)]

It's funny - if it was just the music with everything else staying more or less medieval-y, I'd think it'd have actually been a funny thing to include. But the way just about everyone is more or less dressed in a era appropriate costume, but the love interest chick is constantly dressed in weird, completely anachronistic clothes (as the only person in the whole movie) was what annoyed me the most.

Re: Vaugely based on #10

[kaijinscendre]

The accents on True Blood are what get to me. Those terrible Southern accents. *shakes head sadly*

Re: Vaugely based on #10

[fingalsanteater]

Pretty sure the one where the "Princess is cursed to be obedient" is Ella Enchated, and most people hate the movie but love the book it's based on (me included).

I used to dislike Knight's Tale, but it's better when I learned to enjoy it for what it was, purposeful anachronisms and all.

Re: Vaugely based on #10

[(Anonymous)]

The princess movie is Ella Enchanted. It could go on my list for this thread because I can see it's a pretty decent movie on its own (if a little twee for my tastes), but I hate it because the book is way different and much better.

Re: Vaugely based on #10

[(Anonymous)]

awww, but flagrant anachronism is a medieval tradition! (that's just one of the reasons why making a "historically accurate" King Arthur movie is a losing game).

It's ok if you don't like it, but the anachronisms in A Knight's Tale were my favorite part of A Knight's Tale. It's like this: medieval artists painted Biblical and classical figures in contemporary clothes and settings, not necessarily because they didn't know that fashion changes over time or that the weather is different in Jerusalem than it is in France, but as an emotional shortcut to make the stories feel relevant and meaningful in the present.

The guy who made "A Knight's Tale" put "We Will Rock You" in a jousting scene not because he didn't realize Queen hadn't been invented yet, but as a stand-in for medieval music / chants that would have had the same emotional effect on medieval jousting fans as "We Will Rock You" at a contemporary sporting event, but which would leave a contemporary audience cold (because they aren't familiar with medieval music or it doesn't have the same associations for them).

Also, because it's funny. But it's a slightly smarter funny than some people realized. He's using a medieval artistic technique in a contemporary film set in the middle ages, and (IMO) it kind of works.

Re: Vaugely based on #10

[(Anonymous)]

I think Anna Paquin looks a lot better as a brunette but I don't know, Sookie is blond haired, blue eyed, with big breasts and a booty- so I only see Anna Paquin as missing the booty and the bust.