A Knight's Tale (2001)

About this episode

The hosts discuss the 2001 film A Knight's Tale, touching on its themes, characters, and their personal experiences during a covid-related delay.

Sorry we're late, half of us had covid! He's actually fine, he just had no voice for a while. And his personality is odd, but that's normal. This month we revisited the 2001 cult classic A Knight's Tale! Written and directed by Brian Helgeland and starring the late great Heath Ledger, A Knight's Tale is a mostly light anachronistic romantic comedy sports movie period piece coming of age tale... kind of. The manatees talk accents, pasta, what music even existed in medieval times, and whether or not the main character even needs an antagonist. Also, there's like a solid half hour of catching up on account of the aforementioned covid, so this one's EXTRA sleep inducing. (Or you can skip forward.) Float along with us and have a movie night, why doncha?

Topics covered

• A Knight's Tale
• Heath Ledger
• romantic comedy
• sports movie
• medieval times

Keywords

• cult classic
• anachronistic
• coming of age
• accents
• music

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Knight's Tale

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