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God, when I first purchased this movie I though it would be really good since it is about Joan of Arc which I am a huge fan of.
What really bugged me about this movie was how they made it seem so easy for Joan to get the approval of everybody. Like to convince the people that she is on a quest to save Dauphin Charles and France. Yeah right, it took more than a few days to convince.
I like the other Joan of Arc movie much better which is titled as "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc"
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I shared a clip from this video for my social studies class when we were studying the middle ages. The battle scenes seemed pretty realistic.
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The original movie was EXCELLENT !!
I would have rated this DVD five stars...
but I was disappointed to find this DVD
is a shorter/edited version of the original
made-for-TV masterpiece.
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While this is not the first nor the last Joan of Arc to be made, this stands at the top with a wonderfully talented cast, an even story, and a wonderful portrail of Joan's odyssey.
Played to perfection by Leelee Sobieski, Joan was, as we all know, a simple peasent girl in the farmlands of France leading an otherwise unremarkable life. From the time she is a child, Joan hears voices and sees things. She doesn't know that she alone is seeing these things until she seeks advice from her priest. When her village is distroyed by invading English armies, she has a new resolve in her strange voices and visions. She has been ordered by God to go to the French court, appeal to the prince of France, and lead the French army to victory over the English. Without looking back, Joan leaves home.
While she is ernest in her wants, there are other powers at work. How could a simple peasent girl hold these powers over others, especially the soon to be king of France? When Joan meets the Daulphaine, played by Neil Patrick Harris, she presents him proof. Only Joan and the Daulphaine know what really happened when they retreated to the other room, but Joan is given her army. In perhaps a fluke or a true divine act, Joan leads the army into victory over the English, the Daulphaine Charles is crowned, and France's joy is restored.
What this movie does as opposed to The Messenger version is deliver both factual information as well as outlining the quick turn of the church and the crown against her, rather than take an artistic turn (although equally as effective). When Joan's army failed the second time and she began to loose favor in the court and with the church, she was documented as getting before her knees at alters and statues of the saints that she heard. She begged and cried before them "Why won't you answer me?! I've done what you asked!!". When brought before the councils, she speaks of seeing her visions of the saints. Saint Michael, for example, she says, wears a crown with six points on his head. Other established visions of said Saint Michael, have him as wearing a six point crown. Also, while Joan is confined to her prison, in the Messenger version, Joan is confronted only with her own doubts (in the form of Dustin Hoffman). Joan was almost certainly raped, as this version shows us.
Perhaps in no other version is Joan's burning at the stake captured so well as it was with Leelee. She burns, and would be cannonized as a saint hundreds of years later. Truly a wonderful triumph in cinema as well as our hearts.
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The beautiful Leelee Sobieski will steal your heart early in this cinematic epic. The compassion and forcefulness she portrays as Joan of Arc is unmatched. This film moves along well, its integrated continuity of suspense and action will not let you leave your seat, and the dramatic intensity of the story will take you back in time. Even though you know how the story ends, you will find yourself yearning for, and even hoping, that the last minute rescue attempt succeeds.
A Featurette on the DVD about the making of the film explains the extraordinary care and in-depth research by the screenwriters to ensure historical accuracy. Filmed by choice in the Czech Republic for its geographic similarity to medieval France, filming took place in several medieval castles. This cinematic version of "Joan of Arc" is the kind you will want to watch again and again. Lastly, you will want to have a box of tissues on hand before viewing.
{An all-star cast, including Peter O'Toole, Jacqueline Bisset, Shirley MacLaine, Maximilian Schell, Robert Loggia, Peter Strauss, Olympia Dukakis, Powers Boothe, and Neil Patrick Harris}
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