Brian Helgeland Quotes

Brian Helgeland includes these aspects by setting the scene with music and people wearing dirty and torn clothing. In some scenes, you can see people begging for food or money and you notice that they are dirty and unsanitary. Also, at the beginning of the film when William, the main character, wins his first joust and they trade it for some silver coins. You see that the three friends, William, Wot, and Roland are quite poor and have not had a decent meal for some time.

Also, outside the jousting ring, you can see poor people struggling to make a living by mending armour, or selling warm wine and cat kebabs. This is shown in most of the places William visits while he is competing in the jousting tournament and this suggests that the majority
of people were poor. It also suggests that you would not be able to make a comfortable living and live a long life without being born into a family that is of noble class or higher.

To conclude, Brian Helgeland has made a humorous and romantic movie but he also uses different scenes to show how tough life can be for the poor back in the middle ages. He does this by including dirty fellows with torn clothes not as the main focus but in the background of the scenes. Because of this, the director shows that the majority of people were poor and that you could not have a long life without being of noble class or higher.