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Actors: Milla Jovovich, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Tchéky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, Pascal Greggory, Timothy West
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc |
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THE MESSENGER is a movie co-written and directed by the French director Luc Besson in 1999. Eight nominations for the French Academy awards, but the film won only two of them (Best Costume design and Best Sound).
From her childhood, Joan, the illiterate daughter of a farmer, has visions of her future: she claims she has been chosen by God to chase the English army out of France and bring the dauphin of France into the cathedral of Reims for his crowning. At the age of 19, Joan persuades the future Charles the VIIth to let her lead his army against the English. Revered by her soldiers, Joan recaptures the city of Orleans.
After Charles's crowning, the entourage of the king prefers to negotiate with the English power rather than to choose an expensive confrontation. Joan goes on with her quest but with a small army and without the open support of King Charles. She will finally be taken prisoner by the English army in front of Compiègne, France and sent to the local religious authorities.
Joan's trial is first public but the judges decide soon to go on in private. The opinion of the judges can not be objective as the English allies, present in the city, wait impatiently for Joan to be sentenced to death.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- middle ages
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Political Plotlets:
- managing/preventing conflict with other nations
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
Legal Thriller Plotlets:
- military on trial
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- champion of justice
Age:
- a teen
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- clairvoyant
- can see into the future
- super strength
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- wild
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/butch/lez (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Prairie?
Yes
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
Misc setting
- prison
- fort/military installation
- castle
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- hundreds
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- rough sex
- flamed
- decapitated
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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