Continuity: During the scene when William was learning to dance, Chaucer got punched in the nose... so he put a cloth in it to stop the bleeding. In one brief shot the cloth went from his left nostril to the right, then back again.
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In the scene where William is about to fight The Prince, William starts charging towards him. William is already past halfway there when The Prince sets off yet they seem to still make contact in the middle of the stadium. See more...
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A Knight's Tale (2001)
Directed by Brian Helgeland, starring Heath Ledger, Laura Fraser, Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon (add more)
A Knight's Tale mistakes
Continuity: On the jousting scene where William loses his helmet, he has a monstrous bruise under his right eye (in the late afternoon). That night at the banquet, there is no trace of the bruise. So far as I know, even a black eye doesn't completely heal that quickly.
Continuity: At the end of the film, when Heath Ledger has defeated Rufus Sewell, he is seen with a puncture wound on the upper right side of his chest. In close up the wound is seen to be bleeding through a hole in his jacket but in the next shot it is shown just as a red blob on his jacket with no hole in it. And when the jacket falls open you can see there is no wound underneath. In the next close-up the hole in the jacket is back.
A Knight's Tale trivia
"The Knight's Tale" is one of the chapters in Geoffrey Chaucer's, "The Canterbury Tales."
Ulrich von Lichtenstein was a real knight, but not such a great one. He boasted that he would give a golden ring to any knight who beat him in the joust. In one month he gave away 271 rings.
There was a period of about a year in Geoff Chaucer's life when historians have no records of what happened to him. This film is supposed to be set in that year.