The Music...

I thought I was the only one who felt that way. It was SUCH a distraction. I'd tried to take it as tongue-in-cheek humor, but then I just stopped watching the movie. Nothing's worse than a bad soundtrack--not that any of the songs were bad, but when featured in this movie...

You may have missed the entire point of the movie...

Yeah I started watching it today, and it seemed good, then "We Will Rock You" started and I just felt awkward watching it. A medieval movie with this kinda music? I stomached it until about a quarter into the movie then just stopped. It would have been a lot better had it not had such music, and instead had a more medieval-esque score.

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I understand the director and producers were trying to be "edgy" or "artsy" with the soundtrack, but I agree. It's more negative than positive to me. I understand why those like it, but it overall is more a distraction than not.

I can sympathize. I play and sing early music, and started a duo with my wife to play Renaissance fairs precisely because the vast majority of music you hear at Renaissance fairs is from centuries after the Renaissance.

That said... I suspect that had the score entirely been the pastiche of Romantic era European symphonic music that comprises the vast majority of movie soundtracks, nobody would have said an [expletive] word about the anachronism of the soundtrack, even though it would have been just as blatantly wrong--because it's what people are used to.

I love early music, but one of the things they intended to do was to cast some things in terms a modern audience could identify with, making famous knights like famous wrestlers, with over the top announcers. Nowadays most of the time we hear early music in a hoity-toity concert setting, with programs, translations of lyrics, and the need to educate the audience about the music, its context, the composer, etc. Nobody going to a theater to see a movie would read a program before the show of the sort they hand out for a concert.

Yeah I hated the stupid over played rock songs. It was a very poor and half assed attempt at being stylish.

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I agree. It is not that they chose modern music for a period movie, it's that they picked songs that didnt match. A good example of picking the right modern music for a period movie is Marie Antoinette. In the movie the director picked music that displayed that Marie was a teenager just like teenagers now and how she lived in a life that was fun, privileged, and without many worries. So yes, it can be done right, but for this movie it's not like they were actually putting any thought into it. So disappointing.

Someone tasted my tongue and told me I tasted like the color crimson with a faint of violet.

I feel so sorry for people who don't get this movie. Its such a fun, irreverent, bold, delightful film. What a shame to miss that.

A Knight's Tale is iconoclastic in the truest definition of the word; it seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. Helgeland took elements from most every traditional story; good vs. evil, true love, the triumph of the underdog, etc, and spun a classic story. Then he turned it on it's ear by incorporating classic Rock&Roll into a period piece. Absolutely brilliant. And irreverent, fresh, anachronous, fun, timeless, classic, charming, tongue-in-cheek, rebellious, self effacing and yes, great.

From the moment we recognize "We Will Rock You", we know we're in for something different. And that's what A Knight's Tale is, something delightfully different, and for the most part it is the music that makes it so.