A Knight's Tale

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A Knight's Tale is a 2001 film about a peasant squire who takes up the identity of his master after an untimely demise so that he can compete in jousting tournaments.

Directed by Brian Helgeland. Written by Brian Helgeland
He Will Rock You.

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William Thatcher

  • William: [In a letter to Jocelyn]It is strange to think, I haven't seen you since a month. I have seen the new moon, but not you. I have seen sunsets and sunrises, but nothing of your beautiful face. The pieces of my broken heart are so small that they could be passed through the eye of a needle. I miss you like the sun misses the flower; like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter. Instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world your absence has banished me to. I next compete in the city of Paris, I will find it empty and in the winter if you are not there. Hope guides me, that is what gets me through the day and the night. The hope that after you're gone from my sight, it will not be the last time that I look upon you.
  • William: If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon. Stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever.
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Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Chaucer: You're good. You're very good. (facing the noblemen/women) My lords, my ladies, (facing the crowd) and everybody else here not sitting on a cushion! [crowd roars] Today... today, you find yourselves equals. For you are all equally blessed. For I have the pride, the privilege, nay, the pleasure of introducing to you to a knight, sired by knights. A knight who can trace his lineage back beyond Charlemagne. I first met him atop a mountain near Jerusalem, praying to God, asking his forgiveness for the Saracen blood spilt by his sword. Next, he amazed me still further in Italy when he saved a fatherless beauty from the would-be ravishing of her dreadful Turkish uncle. In Greece he spent a year in silence just to better understand the sound of a whisper. And so without further gilding the lily and with no more ado, I give to you, the seeker of serenity, the protector of Italian virginity, the enforcer of our Lord God, the one, the only, Sir Ulllrrrich von Lichtenstein! [crowd roars] Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
  • Chaucer: [singing] He's quick, he's funny, he makes me lots of money, Lichtenstein! Lichtenstein!
  • Chaucer: Good people! I miss my introduction. [crowd roars] But please,... but please I pray you, hear it now. For I would lay rest the grace in my tongue and speak plain. Days like these are far to rare to cheat it with heavy handed words. And so I'm afraid without any ado, what so ever. Here he is one of your own, born a stonethrough from this very stadion and here before you now. The son of John Thatcher, Sir William Thatcher.[crowd roars]
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Wat Falhurst

  • Wat: Uh, betray us, and I will flog you, until your insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip... all the p... ugh. Pain, lots of pain.
  • Wat: We're the sons of peasants. Glory, and riches, and stars are beyond our grasps. But a full stomach, that dream can come true.
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Dialogue

William: Oi sir, what are you doing?
Chaucer: Uh... trudging. You know, trudging?
[pause]
Chaucer: To trudge: the slow, weary, depressing yet determined walk of a man who has nothing left in life except the impulse to simply soldier on.
William: Uhhh... were you robbed?
Chaucer: [laughs] Funny really, yes, but at the same time a huge resounding no. It's more of an... involuntary vow of poverty... really.
William: I can't explain it. She makes me feel like a poet.
Roland: Well you may feel like a poet, but you sound like an idiot. You don't even know her name.
Jocelyn: Better a silly girl with a flower than a silly boy with a horse and a stick.
Wat: [Calls after her] It's called a lance, hello?
Jocelyn: What are you wearing to the banquet tonight?
William: Nothing.
Jocelyn: Well, that will create a sensation, for I shall dress to match.
William: Don't you ever get tired of putting on clothes?
Chaucer: [mutters to William] I think she's talking about taking them off my lord.
Adhemar: Why didn't Ulrich finish him?
Jocelyn: He shows mercy.
Adhemar: Then he shows his weakness - for that is what mercy is.
[Standing over Adhemar]
Wat: You have been weighed.
Roland: You have been measured.
Kate: And you have absolutely...
Chaucer: Been found wanting.
William: Welcome to a New World. God save you, if it is right that he should do so.
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Other

Adhemar: You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly beat me?
John Thatcher: Change your stars and live a better life than I have.
Kate: The moon at least, her breasts were not that impressive
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Taglines

  • He Will Rock You.
  • He didn't make the rules. He was born to break them.
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Cast

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