Pointlessness

With my Bio practicals done, I shall now pay a little tribute to my favourite actor in my Language Arts appreciation film, Heath Ledger, who acted in the movie, A Knight’s Tale. May you rest in peace in heaven. We will remember you, your works, forever. Enjoy!

-= Quotes From A Knight’s Tale =-

He wanted you to know, he changed his stars afterall.

The poor can marry for love.

I will hurt you, until your insides are out, you outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails… I will rip apart! You will have pain, lots of pain.

Prince Edward: Your men love you. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough.

William: Well perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

Chaucer: Bed him well, my lady. Bed him well.

-= Bloops and Blunders=-

1. During the scene when William was learning to dance, Chaucer got punched in the nose… so he put a cloth in it to stop the bleeding. In one brief shot the cloth went from his left nostril to the right, then back again.

2. On the jousting scene where William loses his helmet, he has a monstrous bruise under his right eye (in the late afternoon).  That night at the banquet, there is no trace of the bruise. So far as I know, even a black eye doesn’t completely heal that quickly.

3. During the last jousting scene against Adhemar, William has a piece of red string tied around his neck. While he is riding down to knock Adhemar off of the horse, you see the string in one shot, but not in another, then it is back again.

4. At the end of the film, when Heath Ledger has defeated Rufus Sewell, he is seen with a puncture wound on the upper right side of his chest. In close up the wound is seen to be bleeding through a hole in his jacket but in the next shot it is shown just as a red blob on his jacket with no hole in it. And when the jacket falls open you can see there is no wound underneath. In the next close-up the hole in the jacket is back.

5. When William is in the stocks, the Prince lifts his hood and his henchmen take their swords out of their sheaths and place them on the ground. In the next scene you see the Prince approaching William and one of the henchmen takes out his sword again and place it on the ground again.

6. In the scene where Sir William (Heath Ledger) is preparing to fight Adhemar (the “bad guy”) he is talking to Geoff Chaucer.  In the background in the stands, you see a figure in a yellow dress (Jocelyn) talking to a figure in brown clothing (John Thatcher).  Jocelyn leans over to speak to John, and then they sit down.   In the next shot, when William is told that Jocelyn had arrived, he looks into the stands, where Jocelyn is again standing, leaning over to speak to John.  They then sit down again.

7. Just prior to when Prince Edward is Knighting William (after William takes a knee), they do a wide shot to show where everyone is, and Chaucer is sitting in front of the stocks directly in the middle. After he is knighted, Chaucer is sitting to the left of Roland (as you face the stocks) and then at the end of the scene, he is back in the middle.

8. After William Thatcher loses agains Count Adhemar, he wins a gold jouster figure for best “sword on foot”. Right after that, he cuts it in two with an axe. You can see that the figure is already cut in two, and that William almost doesn’t touch the figure.

9. In the scene where William is about to fight The Prince, William starts charging towards him. William is already past halfway there when The Prince sets off yet they seem to still make contact in the middle of the stadium.

10. In the first cathedral, the Bishop raises his hand before he extends it to Jocelyn and we see the underside of his ring. It is obvious that his ring is a costume ring because it’s not closed in the back. This is confirmed on the DVD commentary.

11. When William first fights Adhemar, Adhemar picks up his lance. Then, he shuts the visor on his helmet with the hand that he held his lance in. The lance miraculously disappeared, then reappears as he rides up to fight William.

12. In the Paris tournament, when William stops losing and starts winning, the 3rd knight he faces (the one whose helmet he knocks off) sets off with his lance in his left hand, but it switches to his right. Also, in the shot from behind the opponent, William moves his lance away from his adversary as they ride by.

13. When Chaucer is introducing William at the end of the movie, he stands in between the chairs of Prince Edward and the lady. When it cuts to a side view showing William’s father to the Prince, Chaucer is no longer in between the chairs. Not to mention the fact that the Prince is looking at the railing (where Chaucer just was). The very next shot, he is back between the chairs.

14. Right before William meets the nude Chaucer, he can been seen riding his horse about 5 feet in front of the wagon carrying his equipment. The camera angle changes to a wide view and the wagon is now in front of him.

15. When William is training there is a scene when he falls into the water in his full suit of armor. Each time the camera angle changes the bubbles from the water can be seen on different sides on the lance. Happens about 4 times during the scene.

16. Worth mentioning, because we see it written on screen: in French, Jocelyn is a man’s name — even its pronounciation is different. For it to be a woman’s name, it has to be spelled Jocelyne.