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The Knight before Christmas
Dec. 8th, 2019 04:34 pmWent to Bloomington this weekend to visit friends, spent most of the weekend eating: giant pecan sticky bun for lunch! Sushi for dinner! Chocolate silk tart with a shortbread crust as we watched The Knight before Christmas, which is delicious fluffy fun - the movie, I mean; the tart was deeply chocolatey and rich - as long as you absolutely forbid yourself to ask any questions about, like, "Shouldn't the time-traveling 14th century knight be speaking Middle English and basically unintelligible to modern-day Ohioan Vanessa Hudgens?" or "Did anyone tell the movie-makers that 'going hawking' does not mean 'chasing hawks'?"
No. I'm pretty sure this movie is came about sometime after the third glass of wine at a Christmas party, and someone was like "Wouldn't it be great if there was a movie called The Knight before Christmas but, like, Knight with a K? Am I right? Am I right?" and then everyone hopped in to brainstorm. So much Christmas bling! So many moments of Sir Cole meeting a new piece of modern technology! (I particularly enjoyed it when he starts trying to use pieces of 21st century slang that he learned from binge-watching Netflix and it sounds SO endearingly awkward coming out of his mouth.) THE WHOLE SCENE WHERE SIR COLE AND VANESSA HUDGENS ARE BAKING AND SIR COLE HAS TO ENVELOP HER IN HIS ARMS TO SHOW HER HOW TO KNEAD.
If you're looking for thematic depth or historical research, this movie will do nothing for you, but if you just want to watch an idealized fairy tale knight and a modern-day high school teacher fall in love in an ever-snowing town where every single inch of every house and retail establishment has been covered in Christmas decorations, that's what the movie promises and it totally delivers.
No. I'm pretty sure this movie is came about sometime after the third glass of wine at a Christmas party, and someone was like "Wouldn't it be great if there was a movie called The Knight before Christmas but, like, Knight with a K? Am I right? Am I right?" and then everyone hopped in to brainstorm. So much Christmas bling! So many moments of Sir Cole meeting a new piece of modern technology! (I particularly enjoyed it when he starts trying to use pieces of 21st century slang that he learned from binge-watching Netflix and it sounds SO endearingly awkward coming out of his mouth.) THE WHOLE SCENE WHERE SIR COLE AND VANESSA HUDGENS ARE BAKING AND SIR COLE HAS TO ENVELOP HER IN HIS ARMS TO SHOW HER HOW TO KNEAD.
If you're looking for thematic depth or historical research, this movie will do nothing for you, but if you just want to watch an idealized fairy tale knight and a modern-day high school teacher fall in love in an ever-snowing town where every single inch of every house and retail establishment has been covered in Christmas decorations, that's what the movie promises and it totally delivers.
