Joan D'arc

Joan D'arc
a picture of Joan D'Arc

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Joan of Arc Movies.

After watching both movies on Joan of Arc, I noticed lots of things. Based on what I learned at school and what I researched, the first Joan of Arc movie I watched- The Messenger, was pretty inaccurate. From what I learned, the Dauphin was supposed to be a young man. In the movie he was much older. Also I don't believe that she actually started losing her mind when she was captured and being questioned. Then I watched the Joan of Arc movie with Leelee Sobieski. This movie was made before The Messenger, so I figured that this movie would be less accurate. I was wrong. I found that this particular Joan of Arc movie moved through each event that happened to Joan more thoroughly. As for the character Joan herself, I noticed something about this as well. In The Messenger, Joan seemed to already have weaponry skills in her first battle, even though before that scene, she clearly stated that she did not know how to fight. In the other movie, she did not fight at all, she did raise her sword, but she never used it to actually slay anyone. Also in that movie the King of France seemed to have been tricked into having Joan captured, and he soon felt sorrow after hearing about her trial. In The Messenger, it seemed that the King wanted to have Joan captured by the English. My opinion for future projects on Joan of Arc is to watch the  Joan of Arc movie with Leelee Sobieski as Joan.

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