Don't get me wrong, I loved the soundtrack it has some of my all time favorite songs, it just seemed kind of out of place in a medieval film.
"I really wish Gia and Claire had became Tanner" - Honeybeefine
If you watch the movie with director's commentary, the director mentions the out of place music all the time as a joke.
He says things like "No one told me that Queen wasn't around back them." "How am I supposed to know that Bowie didn't write dance music in the 1500s?"
If it had been a dramatic film, the songs would have been ridiculous and a Korngold/Steiner/Newman type orchestral score would have been appropriate (although also anachronistic). At first I didn't like the idea of a rock-song accompaniment, but I quickly realized the movie wasn't serious and the modern songs worked perfectly. Similar approaches were taken decades ago in the Broadway musical "A Connecticut Yankee" (1927), and the movie "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1949), medieval comedies that featured 1920s-style and 1940s-style pop songs, respectively.
shareIt's supposed to be modern versions of what would have been playing and sung at actual joust tournaments.
Think of it like Translation Microbes.
I liked it and thought it worked great. ππ
shareIt made the entire film look like a cheap Renaissance faire that had lost its mind.
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