• wieson@feddit.org
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    12 days ago

    From “a knight’s tale”:

    • I’ll win this tournament for you, my lady
    • no, you want to win it for yourself. If you want to impress me, lose it for me
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        11 days ago

        The best part is that the eastern European extras (Polish, IIRC) didn’t speak a lick of English, so that initial yeah was ad-libbed.

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      11 days ago

      I love that movie but thinking about that I’m now bothered.

      If he loses he loses his armor and his horse. Something that’s established early on and part of his charade is that he can’t afford to replace those things, and so must always win.