Film Analysis Of Perceval, The Story Of The Holy Grail

There are many forms of adaptation; it can be described as an altered or amended version of a musical, text, composition, etc., adapted for filming, broadcasting, or production on the stage from a novel or literary source. Throughout the years there has been many adaptations of medieval literature and other literary sources. Chreiten de Troyes, brought us Perceval, The Story of The Holy Grail back in the 1100s AD. It was brilliantly brought to the film industry by Eric Rohmer in 1979. Although the origin literature was made in the 1100s, Rohmer makes this film very colorful complete with basic props and styleful backdrops along with an incorporation of singing to explain certain points of the plots. Many times throughout the film, the characters

Among these techniques Rohmer used expansion, Anti- House Style and celebration. The use of these adaptations helps the filmmakers create their own stories and possibly add a unique touch to how they tell the story. Eric Rohmer uses these techniques to give the viewers a taste of what medieval entertainment and styles were like. Thomas Leitch describes many other forms of adaptation but for this film I will be explaining how Rohmer uses expansion and superimposition to tell Chreiten de Troyes of Perceval, and the Holy Grail. Perceval leaves his home, against his mother’s wishes after he encounters some knights and is amazed by them. He goes on a quest to be knighted, and encounters many different events and adventures. He meets King Arthur and gets knighted, he then goes on and meets many other people, like a hermit, damsels etc. Unfortunately, on his journey he finds out that his mother dies and he must go to the church to forget his

The story of king Arthur has multiple adaptations, and there many different forms of King Arthur. Back in the days Chreiten de Troyes wrote the story of Perceval, and The Holy Grail. This story was then adapted by Eric Rohmer in his film Perceval de la Gallois. Eric Rohmer went on to use a few of Thomas Leitch’s forms of adaptation. The modes of adaption that he used were expansion, compression, Anti-House style and celebration. In Thomas Leitch’s writing he explains expansion as adding on new parts of a story, compression as shortening a story to fit a certain time frame, and Celebration is kind of celebrating someone’s work or making a tribute to it. This adaptation of Perceval really brought on an interesting twist to Perceval. Rohmer added elements such as a choir singing every time an important event in the plot happens, and the simple background like the fake trees to try to get that medieval feel to it. The film’s artificiality, irony, and different ways of telling the story can really stop the viewers from gaining a lot of attachment to the story, it the same time it makes you use your brain to really think about the story. Perceval is one of the many Arthurian tales that have been adapted throughout the