A Knight's Tale | Testing The New Armor (ft. Heath Ledger) | Cinema Quest 

I always thought they just realized who he was.

I thought they were scared because they didn’t think he would seriously compete in such weak looking armor

@@Robertsp12345 nah

@@alphaq3368 yeahh

@@alphaq3368 Nah because then you see the other knight struggling to get on his horse lol.

I knew I recognized that face somewhere!

Lydia making armors, Vision introductions and Joker jousting.

Just Do It, Do It!!! 😁😁😁😁

@@erichanastacio9695double dog do it

Nike is the Greek goddess of victory

Aye the shoe company’s symbol is an inverted version of hers. Shes the Goddess of Victory and often seen next to Zeus so when he goes to battle victory is at his shoulder

Too bad that's complete bs.

@@Aethgeir I know... but cool nonetheless

@@Aethgeir i believe they HAD to have heavier armor for jousting, to prevent being dismounted during the exchange.

@@1CrypticNCJousting armor would be more reinforced, with parts of the suit immobile and with less vision etc, but you would still be able to mount a horse just fine. They didnt just slap a slab of thick steel on your chest. Heavy armor could also damage you more in a fall.

​@@Aethgeir yes you are complete bs

Your God Damn right.

You don't love anything

The character Jocelyn IMO is the greatest flaw of the movie: she is just there, without a function except being love interest, is rather annoying and her costumes are horrible (won't even mention the anachronism). The actress did what she could with very little.

Maybe it was supposed to be.a love triangle but didn't pan out. The princess was shallow despite recognizing William's noble traits which seems out of character. The blacksmith girl just became one of the boys after her introduction and not very notable later in the movie. You can remove the blacksmith girl in the later acts and not much would change.

@@rockprime1136 Disregard high maintenance snooty noble, acquire high value tomboy blacksmith

False

The forge is hard, hot work.

@@smokinggnu6584 You could say her looks were... forged.

She's missing the critical ingredient that all royalty has - inbreeding

You might even say _smouldering_ .

A truly tempered woman.

There’s a theory that mythological swords that were said to be unbreakable were just regular swords, but the blacksmith who made it discovered steel and just told everyone it was magic to keep it a secret

@@jonathantadlock-stein2023 The Norse tribes did that, too. They believed that adding the bones of their warrior ancestors or wild animals to the molten metal would transfer their ferocious spirits into the weapons. What it actually did was introduce carbon into the iron, creating a rudimentary steel.

@@Suthek awesome

I mean, even you’re talking about a war horse, the difference in weight is negligible at that point. That world be an animal weighing in at 1200-1400 pounds. The knight is basically a hat to it.

@@seandlax9 any small difference in weight means a small change in velocity, as it takes just that little bit less force to get to high speeds. So if we’re talking about a typical war horse going full pelt, it will be just a smidge faster if the weight on its back is even a bit lighter, that speed is then all transferred into the small point at the tip of the lance upon impact. Sure the difference in speed is negligible, but when you translate it to that small point, even a small difference becomes significant.

He's not too fat for his armor is he?

that was funny boy isn´t it?@@Elthenar

No? you don't like the user's joke? @Elthenar

You should be arrested for this statement.

"Was" 😔

And traveling with Vision.

Yes. Sir. She was a blacksmith before becoming drugsmith.

Gone too soon.

?

Except this came out 7 years before Breaking Bad lol.

Its Nika victory

Yes if you go down with your horse that counts as a dismount.

He is indeed, together with Wash

"Gods I was strong then"

No, those are just roles the actors play.

​@NotDuncan you must be fun at parties...

Well the Heaviest Knight’s armour came about in the Late Medieval period when the excessively powerful Bows and Early hand cannons/Muskets were becoming more prevalent, which eventually led to the point where the drawbacks of heavy armour were outweighed (hah) the perceved benefits. They could withstand bullets and arrows, but could only fight for half as long. So Heavy Armour was rather short lived. This is also why as Firearms improved over time, full body plate was slowly phased out in favour of a single breastplate, with supplemental armour only in key specific areas as the knees, elbows, wrists.

Knight armor was not that heavy, but jousting armor was This is a joust

Goddess of victory.

Read a bit about heat treating steel

There's a bunch that goes into metallurgy, not familiar myself but they grade steel into a ton of categories, apparently 3500 different grades, so I'm assuming the implication is she discovered one of the better variations, think it's usually the amount of carbon that gets in. Wording is just super simplified I guess.

Learn about blacksmithing specifically heat treating before you comment

Nike - goddess of victory ✌️

Just. Do. It.

Irrelevant because this is a JOUST Jousting armor can get up to 110 Pounds and you will need help getting on a horse

This is a comedy not a documentary dude

@@zefyr101 well it sure is a joke

jousting armor was a lot heavier for more protection since they didnt want to get seriously hurt while essnetially sparring and even with the blunt tip and the easy to shatter birch, you would want to minimize the chances of accidents. take probably the most famous example, the frogmouth helmet, it has never been used in a battle (or there arent any notworthy records) it was purposefully made for jousting also the armor composition after he mounted the horse seems good enough, infact taking a look at jousting armor pictures online, you can see that the armor shown here is fairly accurate for an adventure-comedy movie, plate that looks a size too small and large at the same time. in the movie maybe its a bit too small but they prolly cut it so that Ledger has an easier time getting on and off the horse.

@@allorfh2495 I imagine the extra weight also helped put a lot more momentum into their strikes and made them much harder to unhorse. Wearing light armor would just send you flying that much easier.

wahhh, my movies has wamaan in ittt wahhhh

what? This movie wouldn't have been the same without a female blacksmith. William's entire entourage was misfits, people who had been born into the wrong circumstance but managed to change their fate through talent and hard work. That's the entire point of the movie, and Kate was awesome. Not to mention hot.