Today's December Comfort Watch: A Knight's Tale, a cheerfully ahistorical fable about medieval jousting that plays fair with its audience, from the first strains of Queen to the final chords of AC/DC: whatever.scalzi.com/2023/12/21/t...
Delighted to learn just now that it was Alan Tudyk! I watched this 100 times as an emo tween, and never since.
We love that movie... perfect hero, perfect villain... and Chaucer...
Total comfort movie
That's up there with Princess Bride as one of my favorites.
It’s like a day at the Ren Faire.
Such a delightful romp!
Bowie himself oversaw the remix of Golden Years to go from medieval to the actual song with Tony Viscotti and Carter Burwell.
Remember when the Joker, Vision, Robert Baratheon, and Wash were stuck in The Canterbury Tales?
I love it. The ringer did a great piece about it "the crowds were filled with Czech-speaking extras, they didn’t understand any of Bettany’s English...they didn’t realize they were expected to break into applause,” Addy says. “So I kind of led the way and Brian said, ‘I like that, we’ll keep that."
It's so wonderful. It's heartwarming nonsense and I love it unapologetically.