In fact the eyewitnesses said repeatedly that, far from being the out-of-control figure portrayed in the film, she, quote, 'speaks little, demonstrates remarkable prudence in her speech' she was able to hold her own against trained theologians and devise 'new stratagems that two or three of the most experienced commanders could not have done', etc. The evidence also contradicts the film's version of Joan as a twitchy, hysterical neurotic, which has led many viewers to come away from the film with the notion that she was insane - despite the fact that, as many scholars have pointed out, we can prove that she certainly did not suffer from schizophrenia or other form of mental illness. Sir William Glasdale, and comforted dying English soldiers. Those who knew her consistently said that she wept whenД®nglish troops were killed, tried to save even the more vile To the evidence in the original documents, in which her compassionДЇor English soldiers is repeatedly described by the eyewitnesses. Than religion, for which they inserted an entirely fictitious rapeДЄnd murder scene near the beginning in order to give her a reasonДЇor seeking vengeance against the English - in stark contradiction Scriptwriter, that Joan must have been motivated by revenge rather But, having determined that all warfare is condemnedД«y the Bible, the film's creators decided, according to the Lived in an era in which the Church itself had many orders This is modern 'Woodstock Christianity' being translated, ironicallyД®nough, into a war film about a medieval military saint who Probably more properly translated 'Thou shall not murder',ДЄ distinction neither he nor the scriptwriter seem willing to Well as the fact that the specific commandment he cites is The many Divinely-sanctioned wars mentioned in the Bible itself as If Besson is trying to say that Joan's decision to carry a bannerДЄt the head of an army violates the Ten Commandments, he's ignoring Tried to stop her troops from killing prisoners and so forth and She didn't take part in any 'massacres', and in fact 'Thou shalt not kill' - that's a commandment.' Of course, even if her motivation was good, to have her country free, it was wrong to participate in the massacres. Luc Besson had the following to say about the film's take on the subject: 'If she wanted to be a good Christian, a good person. Nor, good motives aside, is it respectful of the heroine: both the director and scriptwriter have confirmed that the film's intent was to show, in essence, that Joan allegedly betrayed her religion by leading an army (hence the lurid 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' message, the scene with a bloodied Jesus figure who asks her why she's hurting Him, the business with her 'conscience' (played by Dustin Hoffman) at the end, and so forth). While the scriptwriter, Andrew Birkin, has said that he made sure the end result was far more historical than what director Luc Besson and distributor Sony had originally planned (don't ask.), and Birkin seems to have had good motives, the end result nevertheless bears little resemblance to the time period, people, or events in question. I suppose I should know better than to present a historian's view of a film of this sort, but such is what I do. Luc Besson's film 'The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'

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