[Steppes] Kingdom of Heaven

[Sara Duty]

I agree about the princess cutting her hair at the
end. That was very weird and not explained at all. 
All in all a really great movie!

Sara


--- Vicki Marsh <xaraxene at comcast.net> wrote:
> Xene here:
> 
> We didn't make it to the demo tonight, but we were
> able to see the movie at
> our new theater in Cedar Hill.
> 
> Awesome. I did want to stand up and explain to the
> audience *why* a knight
> received the buffet in the knighting ceremony - it
> annoyed me that they
> laughed and thought it was a joke.
> 
> We wished they would have mentioned the Hospitallers
> - the Knights of St.
> John - and described the difference between the
> Templars and the
> Hospitallers.
> 
> Good things - reference to the Italian sword
> masters, but Llywelyn thought
> it came from Fiori - published way after the
> Crusades.
> 
> Llywelyn wanted to explain to the director why a
> blacksmith hits an anvil. I
> wanted to explain to the princess (who looked a lot
> like Colete) that there
> are spies everywhere. The director didn't explain
> the Sinead O'Connor look
> on the princess - was she trying to hide, or was she
> going crazy, or just
> mourning the death of the people and planning to
> take vows and enter a
> convent? No telling.
> 
> The end was kind of bland.  But the armor of Saladin
> was to *die* for. The
> siege engines, the double recurve bows for the army
> of Saladin, the
> balistas, and the large-scale armies were way cool.
> Some of the music sounded like the Cantigas, but
> much of it was hollywood
> modern or Bach.  It didn't quite fit.
> I loved the linen tunics, the wool surcoats, and the
> silk veils. Yummm.
> 
> Still, one that we want for our DVD collection.
> 
> We would love to go see this with Da'ud and Mahdi.
> 
> Check it out.
> 
> Xene
> 
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