Post by Deleted on May 19, 2023 7:12:31 GMT
This is an extraordinary saga that was written by someone both a historian of great achievement (awarded the highest honor bestowed upon someone working in the literary domain) and a writer of great talent. That saga is as close to reality as its author could make it but of course history is a little sketchy about events that took place seven hundred years ago so Maurice Druon had to fill the gaps with what his long experience of medieval history allowed him to guess.
IOW, It's highly educated guessed vivid fiction about the events that led to the hundred of years' war between France and England. It's filled with surprises and plot twists and it makes you feel like you were there when it happened. If history had been taught this way when I was a student I might have chosen to be a historian myself which would have been a mistake but I digress.
Anyway, you have the books, six of them which have been adapted to television twice (as far as I know) and the adaptations are breath taking.
The first one in 1972, it's the one I prefer myself although the second one is very good. Great actors, great mise en scene.
The second one in 2005, is more modern in every way, which is not always a good thing, and it casts Gérard Depardieu among other people.
They are both acquirable through the usual means but if you want a free viewing I supposed you can also get one with sites like Youtube (or others, mostly others, youtube has gone to shit lately like some of you may know).
It appears that this saga (the first adaption more specifically) is what inspired Game Of Thrones. With the difference that this is real and there are no dragons and undead and things like that.
