Deucey  | 30 Jul 2009 5:23 a.m. PST |
What are some movies with good jousting scenes in them. My list is short: A Knights Tale (of course)
Excalibur (judicial duel)
Ivanhoe (old one)
Ivanhoe (remake) What have I missed? |
| Nick Nascati | 30 Jul 2009 5:27 a.m. PST |
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| Rod Langway | 30 Jul 2009 5:44 a.m. PST |
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| Old Slow Trot | 30 Jul 2009 6:38 a.m. PST |
The Black Shield of Falworth,a certain episode of "Family Guy",some documentary about Nostradamus(the part about the French king who was killed during a joust),possibly more. |
| stenicplus | 30 Jul 2009 7:00 a.m. PST |
The Courst Jester of course |
| Waco Joe | 30 Jul 2009 7:05 a.m. PST |
What was the movie that started out with a somewhat surreal scene of two kids getting ready to joust on bicycles? "Once Upon a Time in Mexico"? |
IGWARG1  | 30 Jul 2009 7:05 a.m. PST |
"The Miracle of the Wolfes" (translating from French), also known as "Secrets of Burgundian Court" in Russian: imdb.com/title/tt0055182 |
| Deucey | 30 Jul 2009 7:38 a.m. PST |
How realistic are these Joust scenes? |
| Daffy Doug | 30 Jul 2009 8:31 a.m. PST |
Yes, even today, El Cid has the BEST jousting/dueling scene in a medieval film, ever…. |
| Daffy Doug | 30 Jul 2009 8:32 a.m. PST |
Stenic, you "jest", surely…. |
| richarDISNEY | 30 Jul 2009 10:25 a.m. PST |
Wasn't there a jousting scene in "Unidentified Flying Oddball" from Disney? 
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| jfleisher | 30 Jul 2009 10:33 a.m. PST |
There's two guys jousting on bicycles in the movie "Quick Change" with Bill Murray. That may be what Waco Joe is thinking of… |
| Waco Joe | 30 Jul 2009 10:49 a.m. PST |
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| Mad Guru | 30 Jul 2009 12:29 p.m. PST |
JABBERWOCKY (1977) directed by Terry Gilliam (his first feature film), starring Michael Palin, includes a very impressive, gritty, bloody -- as well as hilarious -- tournament, held to find a champion knight capable of slaying the ferocious monster from which the movie gets its title. Includes the best frogmouth helm I've ever seen in a movie. |
| Daffy Doug | 30 Jul 2009 1:10 p.m. PST |
The ONLY frogmouth helm ever seen in any movie: and the only trout helm too. And the blood was a large part of the hilarity :) Why do I feel like Jabberwocky's tournament is essentially as realistic as they come? (well, aside from the hide-and-seek phase: which would be realistic, if fully armored knights engaged in hide-and-seek: of course, I wasn't meaning to imply that there was anything unrealistic about how it was portrayed: only that I haven't ever heard of knights actually doing hide-and-seek tournaments)…. |
| Jeremy Sutcliffe | 30 Jul 2009 2:20 p.m. PST |
I just stuck "jousting in movies" into Google and came up with this: – link Looks like there are 15 pages to check here. |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 30 Jul 2009 3:56 p.m. PST |
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| Deucey | 01 Aug 2009 7:51 a.m. PST |
El Cid has better jousting than A Knights Tale??? |
| Jeremy Sutcliffe | 01 Aug 2009 1:07 p.m. PST |
Knight's Tale is a fun film. El Cid is more serious. The joust is at a significant dramatic moment as is the joust in Ivanhoe. There is therefore an intensity tto those jousts that completely outclass anything in Knight's Tale |
| HarryHotspurEsq | 02 Aug 2009 11:07 p.m. PST |
The first season of the 2007 series 'The Tudors' has a few nice jousting scenes. Not sure about season's two or three as I've not seen 'em… yet. |
| IronMike | 03 Aug 2009 8:16 a.m. PST |
A lot of people I knew (SCA folk, mostly) gave 'A Knight's Tale' a lot of grief for 'not being period'. My response to this is that AKT wasn't a historical film as much as it was a Sports movie, the 'sport' just happened to be jousting… |
| Deucey | 03 Aug 2009 10:10 a.m. PST |
And jousting WAS a sport. I think for that reason, A Knights Tale captured the spirit rather well. The drive behind the original question was that I want to see good, fairly accurate jousting scenes. And I am thankful for all the suggestions, though I haven't seen the movies yet. |
| Daffy Doug | 03 Aug 2009 3:03 p.m. PST |
I've read somewhere that jousting was staged in the American colonies as late as the early 1700's. Anybody care to confirm or deny that?… |
| Lion in the Stars | 04 Aug 2009 4:39 p.m. PST |
Funny, the SCAdians I know thought that the jousting in Knight's Tale was the most 'historical': ie, the scene was like a modern sport, the same way that jousting was the sport of the time. |
| IronMike | 05 Aug 2009 4:16 a.m. PST |
Lion-
I live in the midwest, a location notorious for it's ludicrously high 'period police' content. I've even seen the PP crowd second-guess museums… |
| skaran | 06 Aug 2009 10:49 a.m. PST |
There is a nice jousting scene in the Katherine Hepburn/Peter O'Toole film "The Lion in Winter" I don't kow what the remake is like but if you want to see a dysfunctional 12th century family in action this is the film for you. |
