Amph How do you prefer your historical movies from the Midle Ages?

Romanticized or dirty?

I personally like the real thing, i stopped idolising almostanyone from that period a long time ago. I Ilike the real gruesome reality of it and cutthroatness of the politics (people literally get their throats cut). I think there are so many antiheroes on TV today that there is no reason to idolise these folks. I would prefer not to see the rape scenes after conquest, but everything else. Bring it on, i don't need sympathetic characters from the Mdle Ages.

 

Im not sure what this thread is about, I kind of got caught up in the bad subject spelling, all I can think is I want the "d".

 

I prefer them speaking earlier versions of languages that would be (near-)incomprehensible to modern speakers. With no subtitles.

 

I think if we stick to historical accuracy, we will find some good people popping up here and there to balance the more brutal, hard-scrabble nature of the time. I'd love to see a long-form mini-series based on the Hundred Years War (maybe adapting large chunks of A Distant Mirror).

 

Whippersnappery? That's a banning.

(Seriously, the peasants should be dirty, but you should be able to determine gender.)

 

movies from the middle ages?

 

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote

 

Hwæt! Wé Gárdena in géardagum þéodcyninga þrym gefrúnonhú ðá æþelingas ellen fremedon.

(I wish I could find a translation of "English, mother****er! Do you speak it?!")

 

More dragons, please.

 

No classical music.

 

I used to object to the word **** being used, but then I looked **** in the dictionary and apparently **** has been used as a vulgarity since the 13th century.

 

Well ****.

 

I prefer them, long, languid, realistic, brutally honest to the psychological climate of the times, and Czech.

 

Glowy swords and Patrick Stewart, you can't go wrong.

 

And Liam Neeson, and Gabriel Byrne!

 

What about Dennis the Peasant?

 

Kinda like Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, somewhat brutally realistic but with some out-of-place things like a black Muslim person in 12th century England.

 

Patrick Stewart makes everything better...

 

I came in here specifically to use that as an example of my pet peeve, preachy politically correct insertions that take you out of the story.
I don't even really mind that movie for fun overall but the soapbox moments (and there are a few) are annoying.

 

I could eaily see Freeman burned for whichcraft because he was black and folks weren't ued to the idea.

 

With a lot of silliness, a la Robin Hood Men in Tights

 

I'm usually not impressed by Hollywood's idea of "realism" in medieval movies. I was very active as a medieval re-enactor for more than 10 years and I have a pretty good grasp of what is actually historical and what is just extra gritty and dirty in the name of looking historical. So when I watch a movie, I'd rather it be more escapist fantasy and less misguided "realism." I want my Middle Ages romanticized, idealized, and fantasized as far as they'll go without turning into a fairy tale.

Now I'm in the mood to watch A Knight's Tale.

 

While black people certainly would've been rare, it wasn't inconceivable. There was trade with the Muslim world, and Moorish Spain and North Africa weren't an insurmountable distance away. Also, while a Muslim may have been difficult to accept (though far from impossible), prejudice based on skin color wasn't really a thing yet.

That said, I haven't seen the movie. But it sounds far less annoying than the many secular humanists in Kingdom of Heaven.