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kingdom of heaven directors cut
Sir William:
--- Quote from: Ian on 2013-05-01, 21:06:40 ---Both Arn (the shorter version, which is still quite long) and Ironclad are available on Netflix streaming last I checked if you have the service. Haha, I will admit to liking Season of the Witch, and of course I love Knight's Tale, even though it's total fantasy, it's still awesome and I watch it every time I run across it on TV.
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Took me a couple times to like SotW, but I grudgingly do. lol
I do still like Black Death...it's grim tho, real grim.
If you want one to watch that'll just have you in tears (be it due to laughter or frustration), In the Name of the King is a good one for that. From the horrid dialog, to the wooden acting, to the crappy costumes or the shockingly beautiful set locations...and Gimli and Henry Hill and Burt Reynolds are principals. Its all so horrible its almost a hoot to watch. I'm waiting for the MST3K version to come out.
B. Patricius:
In one of my 400 level classes, we had a discussion about "anthropologically correct" versus "historical accuracy." It was really cool because one student in the class was a history major that took the class to get a more "objective perspective" as he put it. We ended up watching "Knight's Tale" after a discussion ensued, and I of course, having owned it. :)
Is it remotely historically accurate? Kind of ;) there were tournaments, Geoffrey Chaucer and Prince Edward did in fact exist, the Battle of Poitiers did happen, and the armour in one century or another was accurate to the archaeological record. But looking into that movie, with its music, the choice of name for William, his alter-ego "Sir Ulrich," etc, etc, is awesome. It's a contemporary film for a contemporary audience. It's easy for anyone to understand the gist of what's going on, and in fact has made my family better understand why I do what I do as a hobby. So, as a study of the "human condition" as us Anthropologists like to put it, it's a very very good movie.
Sorry, I could go on and on about that film.
Sir Edward:
I'm on the intermission right now between disc 1 and 2, of the directors cut. Heh, I did something stupid and ordered the 4-disc DVD set, instead of the blue-ray. The DVD version has the movie split over two discs, and cost double what the blue-ray does. Doh!
So I ordered the blue-ray too. Now I'm going to have 3 copies of this movie.
Sir William:
It won't hurt Sir Edward, I promise. lol I've got two versions, the theatrical version is still buried somewhere in an obscure box that has yet to be unpacked. The dc is on a mantle of sorts with all the rest of my medieval movies.
Sir Edward:
The director's cut is actually pretty good. It's interesting to see what was changed. It's a shame the theatrical version lost the entire conversation about Balian's war experience, and knowledge of siege engines. This makes everything make more sense later, that he just needs refinement, not 100% training to be a knight from being just a simple blacksmith.
Everything else that was cut, I can see why they did (from the movie studio's perspective), in that removal of it just reduces the film to the core plot. Re-adding those scenes makes it into a broader, more artistic piece.
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