She went to the king of France to ask for orders, in the name of God. The Dharma King agreed and entrusted him with an important task. From that moment on, this uninvolved country girl, with a pious heart, shouted her oath in the middle of a large group of brutish men!
Joan of Arc, with what a firm belief she embarked on a difficult journey. A miracle happened! The French army was broken, and the British army was retreating. The king is the king, and the people are the people. When war becomes clingy, politics takes on a shameless face. The King of France wanted to sign an armistice because he wanted to be a real King of France for a long, long time. He's not Joan of Arc and doesn't go through fire and water like she does with a real man. He was just wearing a gorgeous and graceful imperial robe, with such a gentleman's hairdo, walking squarely, thinking about the glory of ascending the throne.
This day has finally come. He seemed to forget that this was Joan of Arc, a nineteen-year-old country girl, who had exchanged her young life and the blood of French soldiers. French Enthronement Ceremony. Joan of Arc, standing beside her, she is proud of her French emperor today.
Peace is always sweet love, and cracks will naturally appear over time. Joan of Arc said to continue the attack until all the lost ground was recovered. His Holiness lay lazily in the bathtub, slackly listening to the recovery plan. He finally did not agree, preferring to settle in a corner of France, and he was already satisfied. Persistent Joan of Arc, she continues her offensive plan. Unfortunately, reinforcements did not arrive at the critical moment. The French army guarding the city refused to open the door to rescue Joan, citing the danger of endangering the safety of the people in the city. Joan of Arc was captured by the British army.
The British rejected the huge ransom from the French King brought by the archbishop. They did not understand how this girl, who was full of idyllic atmosphere, could lead thousands of troops to defeat the impregnable walls of the British army. The British must execute Joan of Arc, their heartbreaker, their dreadful mortal enemy. Joan of Arc is the nightmare of the upper echelons of England.
Name should be one of the easiest things to think about in this world, especially for despicable and shameless guys. Soon, Joan of Arc was convicted of the heinous crime of offending the gods and blaspheming God. She is a witch, not only the British see it this way, it is surprising and angry that the French people who were once rescued by Joan of Arc also stubbornly think so.
Until death, Joan never compromised. When she appeared in front of the British nobles in handcuffs, anklets and blue robes, those pampered women exclaimed God! In the end, Joan of Arc was executed at the stake. The Vatican made Joan of Arc a saint, five hundred years later. The last subtitle of the film says so.
The whole film is majestic, but it pays attention to the characterization of the characters. Joan of Arc with short hair, wearing heavy silver-gray armor, with a complex and anxious expression, walked through the army firmly. Reminiscent of the ancient Chinese heroine Hua Mulan. The difference is that those French soldiers knew from the beginning that their general was a girl. Robert McKee said in "Story" that there are several versions of Joan of Arc's personality. In this film, she should be Shakespeare's Joan of Arc, the crazy Joan of Arc. Even if you die, you have to move forward bravely.
The story of Joan of Arc meeting the gods has long been widely circulated in French history. Whether it's true or not, this is not the subject of the film. Joan of Arc is an ordinary person after all, but she is an extraordinary ordinary person. She took the lead with an arrow in the chest and was carried back to the barracks. She would cry in pain and cry hoarsely. At that time, she was the girl Joan of Arc. Of course, her injuries were indeed serious.
Joan of Arc suffered the arrow wound because she could not bear the French retreat. She wants to attack, and she has such an earth-shattering heroism in her nature. She rushed up the high ladder, only to be shot in the face by the British army on the city wall. Those brutish French soldiers looked at Joan of Arc in a coma and babbled, anxious like a child. In the hearts of these rough and heroic soldiers and generals, Joan of Arc, she may really just be an immature girl. She shouldn't be here at all, the nineteen-year-old flowery, Joan of Arc, she should be wearing a long cotton white dress, running happily in the fields and meadows. She should have fallen in love and blushed for the first appointment. However, Joan of Arc was not like that at all, how incongruously matched her soft body and delicate face with an astonishing iron will! This kind of will gives her the power to forget her own safety and danger, and fight the invaders to the death for every inch of her own country's land! The film depicts those soldiers, reminding me of the heroes of Liangshan in ancient China, just as forthright.
The tone of the film has always had a heavy metal flavor. The savage and cruel slaughter on the battlefield, the screams of the dead before their death. A naturalistic style. Joan of Arc was a national hero, but in the end she was burned alive as a demon. It was not until five hundred years later that Zhaoxue was rehabilitated. If this was the will of God, why was it so late?
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