Canterbury Tales


In The Classic Canterbury Tales, One Of Geoffrey Chaucer's Characters, The Nun's Priest, Tells The Story Of Chanticleer. This Is Not A Pointless Addition To The Kid's Cartoon World, But Rather A Remake On A Classic Story.

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Although the story maybe be similar to the Nun's story from the "Canterbury Tales". But it doesn't follow the story that much. Personally I believe the story is based off a play called "Le Chantecler" by Edmund Rostand. If you know of Rostand he wrote Cyrano de Bergerac. So yes it is a remake but not a classic. Chnatecler only relates more to Rock-a-doodle because in his play the Rooster believes he causes the sun to rise. While the "Canterbury Tales" only talk of a Rooster who has a dream of death. His wife dismisses it and he later, ironaically, gets killed. But it is possible Rostand was influenced by the "Story of Chantecler". Sadly his play never was that famous, ironically never was that movie. Older literature and it's adaptions just don't get the recogintion it deserves. Well atleast the non-classic ones.

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Overall i tie part of it to the literature head factor that goes into education. While books have never gone out of style, a lot of students get turned off to a certain point when they treat older material as texts to be read and studied more than enjoyed.

Something like Le Chantecler is not a front runner and probably isn't something most people would discover until they start looking for off-key stuff. And really if you write yourself off that path from high school, a lot of people are just not likely to discover it.

One thing to always remember is that things often get dusty more than gone. As times goes on distribution gets easier for us humans, so things can often pick up new fans as long as it has some longevity. Which basically something really needs to be unmemorable to not have that. If it can be found on the internet it can regain relevance. Doubt it'll ever be a "classic" but yeah drama about a delusional rooster that learns a lesson, why the hell not tell more people about it.

Not sure exactly why this movie version has him more like Elvis, but this is Don Bluth....it's kind of his thing.

Gamefaqs has a far worse population than IMDB

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I know! i just read the Nun's Priest's Tale today in school and i was like "It's Rock-a-Doodle!"
i still think thats so cool. but only like one other person got as excited about it as i did.... i'm such a dork... lol

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i had that same reaction last year when i read it in english. fortunately, there were 5 or 6 of us who knew what it was, so we convinced our teacher to let us watch it in class lol

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wow!That's amazing, i wish i we would have done that! lol

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That probably won't happen in my class, it's pretty much go, go, go until the end of the year, so there's no way we'd get to see it. I'm glad I found this though, because this is one of those movies I watched when I was a kid and forgot about when I got older, like Labrynth and Once Upon a Forest...though none of these movies have anything in common.

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