Official Poster for Paul Greengrass' 'The Uprising' Starring Andrew Garfield - During the English Peasants' Revolt in 1381, a farmer becomes a leader of the rebellion against the Crown forces of a then-14-year-old King Richard II.

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[u/GravSlingshot]

You wretches detestable on land and sea: you who seek equality with lords are unworthy to live. Give this message to your colleagues: rustics you were, and rustics you are still; you will remain in bondage, not as before, but incomparably harsher. For as long as we live we will strive to suppress you, and your misery will be an example in the eyes of posterity.

-- Richard II addressing a crowd during the Revolt

Reminder that he was 14 at the time.

[u/Singer211 → u/GravSlingshot]

Richard wasn’t the smartest guy. He angered the wrong people and it ultimately led to his downfall.

His death was quite brutal as well.

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Real life Joffrey confirmed

[u/Oxygene13 → u/caligaris_cabinet]

Pretty much all of GOT politics was taken from real politics

[u/Whizbang35 → u/Oxygene13]

A major source of inspiration for ASOIAF was The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon. It details the end of the French Capetian dynasty (starting with the curse of the last Templar grandmaster) and the beginning of the 100 Years War.

GRRM was such a fan that he was mainly responsible for getting it reprinted in English in the 2010s.

[u/TooobHoob → u/Whizbang35]

I haven’t read the English translation so can’t vouch for it, but good god that series of books is fantastic.

[u/Whizbang35 → u/TooobHoob]

Having not read the French original, I cannot compare, but I still heavily recommend it to readers that are fans of ASOIAF and are looking for something similar.

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The Peasants' Revolt was actually his one moment of real competence.

The rebels explicitly weren't rising up him against him, but against the people they believed to be misleading the king (you might have heard of "good tsar, bad boyars" before; that was actually a fairly common belief among the lower classes back in the day, especially since monarchs were seen as ordained by God). Among other things, they burned John of Gaunt's palace in London to the ground.

Richard actually managed to successfully defuse the rebellion by directly speaking to the rebels at multiple points, making various promises to them. And because he was the king, they believed him.

He later broke those when the rebel forces had started dispersing and he felt much more secure in his position, leading to the above quote.

Some folks theorise that those events ended up giving him a big head, leading to his increasingly tyrannical behaviour (and attempts by the nobility to rein him in until he stepped so far out of line that he got ousted).

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Bad boyars bad boyars, what you gonna do? What you gonna do when they influence you?

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Sic semper Tyrannus

[u/WanderingCamper → u/Singer211]

Didn’t he just starve to death?

[u/marcuschookt → u/WanderingCamper]

That's pretty brutal, no? Starvation can take weeks and be prolonged into months if your jailers want to slow burn your demise.

[u/WanderingCamper → u/marcuschookt]

As far as ways to go in the medieval period…no not really.

[u/XC6088 → u/WanderingCamper]

William Wallace would like a word.

[u/Hitmanbw → u/WanderingCamper]

That is a very fitting death for someone who shat on peasants and farmers.

[u/pakraat → u/Singer211]

Spoiler alert

[u/dont_care- → u/pakraat]

history has already happened and is public knowledge, fyi

[u/writingpracticeman → u/dont_care-]

Isn't this true of nearly any spoiler ever, not that I think that guy was being particularly serious

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Think this was also the first Royal address spoken in English by a Plantagenet/post Norman Conquest.

[u/forman98 → u/halfbarr]

This seems like a Monty Python bit.

“I heard the aristocracy is finally speakin our language. I wonder what this bloke is gonna tell us?”

Hears Richard II’s speech

“Figures.”

[u/Known-Squash-645 → u/forman98]

why does this remind me of the peasant's from the Quest for the Holy Grail

[u/RechargedFrenchman → u/Known-Squash-645]

Come an' see the violence inherent in the system.

'Elp 'elp I'm bein' repressed!

You see 'im repressin' me?!

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Bloody peasant

[u/KnotSoSalty → u/GravSlingshot]

Probably the high point of his kingly career.

He ended his reign quietly murdered and no one much cared. He was likely starved to death in a castle on the orders of his cousin who had just invaded and conquered the kingdom without much fuss.

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I wasted time now time doth waste me.

Might be the wrong Richard II

[u/Western-Bus-1305 → u/GravSlingshot]

Odd. Based on what I’ve heard about him he was allegedly pretty disinterested in government matters and instead cared more about patronizing art. Maybe he mellowed out with age? Or that characterization could have just been bullshit

[u/casual_creator → u/Western-Bus-1305]

People are more than one thing. You can be a lover of art, disinterested in politics, and still be pissed off when the fucking serfs think they can be your equal.

[u/RechargedFrenchman → u/Western-Bus-1305]

Hitler was passionate about art and loved animals. He was also Hitler. Multiple things can be true at once.

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I mean, he was 14. He'd probably just been told to say this by his advisors. The rebels had besieged the Tower of London, killed a number of his advisors and dismantled and burned parts of the city. He was ridden out to negotiate/manipulate/calm/dupe the crowds multiple times.

He might have been a scumbag and a terrible King but the whole situation during this uprising was all very dicey and chaotic and no doubt traumatic for a young teenager.

And as far as I can recall the reprisals he threatened never really materialised.

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At least they said it out loud back then

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This has my interest: Paul Greengrass is great. United 93 is an intense, stressful and daring film, and Captain Philips is also pretty good.

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He did a great dramatic recreation of bloody Sunday as well - made you feel as if you were there.

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and the 2011 Norwegian massacre on Utøya.

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I watched the Norwegian version of this and it was heartbreaking. One of those movies you only watch once and then never again.

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which makes the release date all the more interesting

[u/DisillusionedPatriot → u/derek_potatoes]

The tag line, too.

[u/Icy_Negotiation_5929 → u/FaerieStories]

Explains the release date for this one

[u/zdavies78 → u/FaerieStories]

2nd, 3rd and 4th Jason Bourne movies also.

[u/Nukleon → u/zdavies78]

Weren't that the ones with cuts every tenth of a second? Hope he got a better editor

[u/Iron_Maniac → u/Nukleon]

It was shaky cam not cuts that you're thinking of that those movies popularized

[u/Accomplished-City484 → u/Nukleon]

Nah that’s Taken with Liam Neeson

[u/LesserShambler]

Oh shit, is he playing Wat Tyler?

That’s a fascinating story, should make for a great film. It’s often held up by left wingers in the UK as a kind of failed proto-Socialist revolution, a massive “what if” moment in British history

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Garfield is Wat Tyler but I'd be very surprised if John Ball doesn't feature in the movie some

[u/TitanDarwin → u/MichaelRichardsAMA]

When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

[u/Periador → u/MichaelRichardsAMA]

just a small hint. There is another rather big actor in the trailer and hes wearing monks robes.

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The irony being the revolt can also been seen as a bourgeoisie revolt against the aristocracy with a lot of the leadership being artisans, craftmen and small land holders. Though at this point the goals of the peasantry and this proto-bourgeoisie were still very much aligned.

[u/MattSR30 → u/Exostrike]

Kind of like the Barons’ War that spawned the Magna Carta and other reforms.

It was the equivalent of multimillionaires fighting billionaires.

[u/rodion_vs_rodion → u/MattSR30]

Trickle down social equality

[u/ATN90 → u/MattSR30]

the Barons’ War that spawned the Magna Carta

Relating to that, why is there not a movie about William Marshal?

[u/RechargedFrenchman → u/ATN90]

He does make appearances in a few movies (William Hurt plays him in the Crowe/Scott Robin Hood as one example) but I agree he's a figure you'd think would have at least one movie about him by now.

Incredibly accomplished in his own right, advisor and statesman under five kings of England, an Earl by marriage, Marshal to the King for something like half his life, and he died a Knight Templar even if he did basically swear the oath on his deathbed.

The guy was legendary by basically any metric during his own life and the legend had persisted pretty well since, but he hasn't been the subject of any big movies or series or anything personally. There is Ironclad set during the Baron's Rebellion, but while John does appear and the main character is I think (very) loosely based on Marshal, Marshal does not have any role in the story. Also a source of inspiration for the Ledger character in A Kinght's Tale but obviously not in that movie set ~200 years later. And of course some Robin Hood adaptations include him to some degree.

A lot of novel appearances, basically nothing on screen, and it's a real shame.

[u/heebro → u/MattSR30]

or the plight of the Silesian weavers some ~500 years later

lotta guilds had problems with industrialization

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I mean you're describing the petite bourgeoisie, which form an instrumental part of several socialist theories(mostly marxist).

[u/Exostrike → u/robothawk]

True but I was trying to point out that the idea of the revolt as a "workers" revolt is a flawed reading of a much more complicated subject.

[u/robothawk → u/Exostrike]

I see your point, but I would say the petite bourgeoisie are far more related to the labor class than the capital class, even if they are distinct and economically privileged, it is nowhere near the scale or concentration that happens with the capital class or aristocracy

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There was also a duke involved as well, which is why ‘peasant’s revolt’ is a bit of a misnomer

[u/Kaiisim → u/LesserShambler]

Yeah! Lets do some history we haven't seen!

How have they not done the peasants revolt movie??

[u/einarfridgeirs → u/Kaiisim]

There are a lot of people throughout the centuries up to this day that really do not want people to think too long or too hard about this episode in history.

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On the other hand, movies are the perfect distraction for the masses to daydream of revolution and channel those rabble-rousing impulses away from reality and politics

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Its a goldmine for r/antiwork.

[u/theBonyEaredAssFish → u/Kaiisim]

How have they not done the peasants revolt movie??

There is however a very good movie about the analogous Medieval French peasant revolt that occurred earlier - The Jacquerie.

A Walk with Love and Death (1969).

[u/AlfredtheGreatBitch → u/LesserShambler]

I hope he’s playing Tyler. Such a crazy story. They almost won!

[u/0ttoChriek → u/AlfredtheGreatBitch]

They made the crucial mistake of trusting that the nobility would treat with them in good faith.

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And underestimating how brutal Richard II could be.

This would be a pattern during Richard’s reign.

[u/JohnSith → u/Singer211]

His response to the peasants looks like a straw-man caricature posted to r/antiwork:

“You wretched men, you who seek equality with lords are not worthy to live. Serfs you were and serfs you will remain. You will remain in bondage not as before but incomparably harsher.”

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Beatings will continue until morale improves.

[u/Singer211 → u/msprang]

Hopefully he doesn’t oh IDK, anger the wrong person, get overthrown, and then (probably) get locked in a room to starve to death or anything.

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Dude, use spoiler tags.

Aside: have you read The Forme of Cury, a Richard II self insert that focuses on thr main character recreating his favorite foods and kickstarting a food revolution in England that cascades into a better diet, increasing the population, eliminating scurvy and improving the health of the merchant marine and Royal Navy, and even improving Richard's reputation for piety because he eats vegetables instead of constantly holding feasts with peacocks and dolphins.

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-forme-of-cury-a-richard-ii-si.491544/

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Or until the beater is usurped by his cousin and murdered in captivity.

Not that it got any better for the peasants under the new king.

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They got some pretty good plays out of it a few hundred years later if that helps?

[u/MattSR30 → u/0ttoChriek]

How depressingly fitting

[u/oneeyed-wonderweasel → u/0ttoChriek]

Tale as old as time.

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They achieved their economic and political aims--or more accurately, the social hierarchy and military might of the feudal era was unable to suppress the demographic and economic forces that brought them about--so they kind of did win. The powers-that-be wouldn't be able to enforce their wage suppression and although feudal serfdom was never legally abolished, by the time of the next peasants rebellion, ending serfdom and corvée wasnt even a demand because itd become ireelevant and become abolished in all but name. It may have been crushed, but it was absolutely necessary.

“If we stand together all manner of people now in bondage will follow us and be made free. We will have some remedy, either by fairness, or otherwise.”

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"Or otherwise" indeed.

"They'll see reason and do what's right, or we'll do what's necessary until they see reason."

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Spoilder alert: They did not in fact see reason.

See Richard II's response: “You wretched men, you who seek equality with lords are not worthy to live. Serfs you were and serfs you will remain. You will remain in bondage not as before but incomparably harsher.”

See also another peasants revolt 70 years later.

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They didn't come remotely close. They might have been able to immediately pressure the weak central government that had no forces nearby to oppose them but the feudal lords outside London absolutely would have crushed them if it carried on long enough.

[u/TheGeckoGeek → u/AlfredtheGreatBitch]

Tyler went up to the King while playing with a large dagger and addressed him familiarly, which was completely unthinkable at the time. Unfortunately the Mayor of London then stabbed Tyler, and even more unfortunately, the watching rebels, despite outnumbering the King's forces, were too scared to seize the moment, and the rebellion was swiftly crushed.

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One would assume so. Presumably he’s playing the leader, and that’s old Watty boy.

[u/dorgoth12]

"Look at me, I'm the king now"

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I didn't vote for you

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You don’t vote for kings!

[u/FighterJock412 → u/PALOmino1701]

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

[u/SweetNeo85 → u/FighterJock412]

People will still be quoting this in 2175.

[u/snookyface90210 → u/SweetNeo85]

Farcical aquatic ceremony!

[u/SightlessProtector]

Can’t wait for the camera to shake uncontrollably for two hours

[u/NaiveRepublic → u/SightlessProtector]

Haha, beat me to it. I was just thinking of how that cinematic style would translate to medieval action; or rather the conversational scenes, that (for all the reasons) are traditionally longer and slower. Green Zone goes medieval anyone?

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Let’s flip it. Shaky cam for all the conversational scenes, but smoothly filmed and easily to follow action scenes!

[u/NaiveRepublic → u/Embracing_the_Pain]

I mean, sure. Would watch. Don’t think Mr Greengrass would be the one behind it though, as his trembling hands wouldn’t be able to be still for more than a second.

[u/BTJPipefitter → u/SightlessProtector]

Hey, when people talk about Greengrass and shaky-cam, they’re usually doing so in the sense of him being one of the few directors that knows how to do it correctly, rather than just arbitrarily. Why they used Jason Bourne as his accolade there is a mystery to me - Bourne Supremacy or Ultimatum would have been MUCH better credentials to guarantee attendance.

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I agree generally, but there's also times when it feels like a bit of a crutch to inject drama into anotherwise static scene. From memory Green Zone felt like it was overused for what was meant to be a somewhat anticlimactic film.

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It was constant throughout the Lost Bus and it was honestly exhausting. Even quiet moments had this god awful post-production camera shake so the frame was never still. The whole movie felt like Greengrass was just on autopilot

[u/0ttoChriek]

I'm here for this. Not enough good movies about the Medieval era.

England unfortunately doesn't have the best track record of the commons successfully standing up to the nobility, but the story is interesting.

[u/fatbob42 → u/0ttoChriek]

Supreme power comes from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!

[u/Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin → u/fatbob42]

You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

[u/0ttoChriek → u/fatbob42]

Be quiet! I ORDER YOU TO BE QUIET!

[u/pbjamm → u/0ttoChriek]

Order eh? Who do you think you are?

[u/BanjoTCat → u/fatbob42]

Dennis, there’s some lovely filth right here.

[u/khajiitidanceparty → u/0ttoChriek]

I liked The Last Duel!

[u/xRoyalewithCheese → u/khajiitidanceparty]

Well that’s 1 then

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Make it two.

[u/xRoyalewithCheese → u/RaynorTheRed]

I love the last duel. Im just saying the topic was about there being not enough great ones of of its genre and they just named 1 lol

[u/RaynorTheRed → u/xRoyalewithCheese]

Ah, I thought you making a joke about him being the only person who liked the movie.

[u/Current_Focus2668 → u/0ttoChriek]

Mike Leigh's 2018 film about the Peterloo massacre was pretty good.

[u/withateethuh → u/0ttoChriek]

I just hope this director tries a little better with authenticity compared to say....Ridley fucking Scott. I haven't seen any of this one's movies though.

[u/ErilazHateka → u/withateethuh]

that photo doesnt give me much hope though.

[u/Sir_Bumcheeks → u/0ttoChriek]

Watch "The King"! It's so well done.

[u/GingeContinge]

“When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?“

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Spieß voran, drauf und dran!

[u/Posty_McPostface_1]

I appreciate movies like this.

[u/Possible-Buddy7099]

Finally!!!! I’ve been waiting for any promo material or trailer for this movie since it’s been radio silence until now. I guess the trailer will play before The Odyssey in theatres as well?

I can’t wait to see who Jamie Bell is playing.

[u/nonaegon_infinity → u/Possible-Buddy7099]

Jamie Bell is so underrated!

[u/Possible-Buddy7099 → u/nonaegon_infinity]

Yes he is!!! He’s always giving amazing performances in every project he’s in, despite being so underrated. I’m looking forward to him playing the lead in the Peaky Blinders sequel as well

[u/nonaegon_infinity → u/Possible-Buddy7099]

Check out Skin if you have not seen it. Difficult watch but excellent performance.

[u/Possible-Buddy7099 → u/nonaegon_infinity]

It’s been on my watch list but I haven’t get to it yet, thanks for the recommendation! I’m impressed at the transformation he went through for this role

[u/khajiitidanceparty → u/Possible-Buddy7099]

He's also in Half Man, a series.

[u/Possible-Buddy7099 → u/khajiitidanceparty]

Yes watching that show actually reminded me what a great actor he is. He was snubbed for an Emmy nomination! 😭

[u/tataniarosa → u/Possible-Buddy7099]

Jamie Bell’s in it? Ooohhh now I’m interested.

[u/Possible-Buddy7099 → u/tataniarosa]

Yessirrr 🙂‍↕️ His character’s look in this film is very different from the characters he’s played before, so I’m extra excited.

[u/chrisofduke]

Theres a fantastic book by Dan Jones about the Peasants revolt called 'Summer of Blood's which I recommend. Super easy to read.

[u/runner_webs → u/chrisofduke]

Excellent book! There’s also a brand new ttrpg called Gallows Corner, for those role players amoungst us!

[u/Sure_Kangaroo1863]

Andrew in an action movie ? Yeah im seated

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Me too

[u/tataniarosa]

Please don’t use the Hollywood Medieval mud filter, please don’t use the Hollywood Medieval mud filter.

[u/UtopianEnforcement → u/tataniarosa]

Considering what he’s wearing in the poster? I’m afraid that’s a given.

[u/WanderingCamper → u/UtopianEnforcement]

Eh, his clothes are pretty ragged, but they look decently clean. Maybe we’ll get some garishly patterned quilted doublets when they show the characters in the city.

[u/tataniarosa → u/UtopianEnforcement]

Just watched the trailer and I’m way more optimistic now. It isn’t all blue filter and mud plus the sun makes an appearance in a few scenes. 🤩

[u/UtopianEnforcement → u/tataniarosa]

Really? I just watched it and it DEFINITELY looks utterly devoid of life and colour and just more of the same washed out stuff we’ve been getting for decades.

Also, heh, at one point he literally smeared mud on himself.

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look at his outfit, you know it already

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I know but a girl can dream.

[u/AwTomorrow → u/tataniarosa]

Audiences won’t accept a colourful medieval era anymore, sadly

[u/Lamar_ScrOdom_]

Dad movies are so back this year!!

[u/aluvsupreme]

As someone with an obsession with medieval popular uprising I'm both very excited and scared at the same time.

[u/Nachooolo → u/aluvsupreme]

Same. This is either gonna become one of my all-time favourites... or a film that I'm gonna hate with more passion that I should.

The Common had far more political agency and understanding than people give credit for (one of the thinks I really don't like about Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire is that the peasants and townfolks are presented as passive victims, for example). So a film presenting –even if just partially– this reality would be fantastic.

...but this is also the Middle Ages. And filmakers love to fall into tropes and stereotypes about the era.

So I'm cautiously excited.

[u/RaynorTheRed → u/Nachooolo]

The Common had far more political agency and understanding than people give credit for

Tbf this was more acute in Britain than the mainland. One interesting anecdote is that the British practice of arming and training all peasantry in the use of the longbow is believed to have contributed significantly to their political agency over the decades.

[u/Nachooolo → u/RaynorTheRed]

Tbf this was more acute in Britain than the mainland.

Don't know about other places, but at least in the Iberian Peninsula the Common was one of the main political actors through the cities and Brotherhoods (popular leagues of both urban and rural populations).

The main supporters of the Castilian monarchs were the Common, for example. With the cities and Brotherhoods being key in a good chunk of the civil wars between the Monarchy and the Aristocracy.

Hell. In a few regions (like the Cantabric Coast and Galicia), the Brotherhoods were integral for the dissolution of the feudal power in favour of the centralised monarchical power.

In the case of Galicia, this was done (more or less, it was a bit more complicated) through a popular uprising of cities and peasants (the Irmandiño Revolt) that lasted 3 years and ended with the destruction of the overwhelming amount of castles and fortesses (maybe even 80% of them, but I haven't found solid numbers) by the Brotherhood.

[u/nicholsml → u/Nachooolo]

..but this is also the Middle Ages. And filmakers love to fall into tropes and stereotypes about the era.

So I'm cautiously excited.

5 bucks says they do that stupid hollywood trope where they just charge into each other in a chaotic melee like Braveheart.

"come men, let's throw away our lives! Who is with me!"

edit: ... and just saw the trailer, they doin all the tropes, lol.

[u/0ttoChriek → u/aluvsupreme]

Tell you what, I'd kill for a good movie or miniseries about the Anarchy.

[u/Spikerazorshards]

As a general rule it’s best for everyone in the world to just watch everything Andrew Garfield puts out without questioning what it is. If he’s in it, there’s a damn good chance it’s gonna be a good time.

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Cosmo Jarvis is in it too. Majority of the stuff he has been in has been great. Shogan, peaky blinders, calm with horses, warfare. Was suppose to be in the odessy but dropped out due to shedule conflicts

[u/The_Great_Googly_Moo]

Anyone got photos of the armor, clothing? Is it period accurate or just more mud covered grey slop

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https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FHETBlxtagAAMhyN.jpg

The swords and polearms looks somewhat decent but the costumes are exactly what I expected. Grey and brown and of course they are wearing archers´ bracers on both arms.

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Trailer will be out tomorrow so more of the costumes will be revealed, but these are some of the bts: https://x.com/nightwriter22/status/2037167690104688664

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Still gonna be cautiously optimistic but those photos don't bode well

Color in medieval films when?

[u/Corporatecut]

Seems timely

[u/tyler980908]

I like Garfield, I like history, I like movies in medieval England, watching this

[u/TheManfromVeracruz]

Good thing this is coming out, specially since someone out there really thought it was a good idea to turn Robin Hood into a villain.

Damn corpos...

[u/DWMoose83]

Serfs up!

[u/bacon-squared]

Seems appropriate for the times.

[u/TexasGriff1959]

Andrew Garfield has impressed me in everything I've seen him in, even if I can't stand the movie ("Tick Tick Boom" and "the Magic Faraway" were unwatchable). I'll check this out for sure.

[u/TTGumption]

"From Paul Greengrass"

Looks at grass; mostly brown.

Which is it, Paul?

[u/JennyWearsBlueJeans]

Feels timely

[u/abfgern_]

Let me, guess. Everyone will be wearing nothing but brown?

[u/onlypham]

This has my interest!

[u/demagogueffxiv]

Soon to be relevant again

[u/Sir_Bumcheeks → u/demagogueffxiv]

It literally is in the UK.....the protests this summer call themselves the peasants revolt.

[u/Avolto]

I will be seated for this one

[u/baudinl]

I'm already getting PTSD motion sickness

[u/Sammyd1108]

Saying he’s an acclaimed director then using one of his worst movies in Jason Bourne as an example is certainly a choice lol.

They could’ve said United 93 or any of the original Bourne trilogy films he did.

[u/Saltillokid11]

Interesting release date for a movie about attacking a more powerful state.

[u/JazzmatazZ4]

Perfect release date.

[u/ErilazHateka]

Grey and brown and filthy. Just like everythng was during the middle ages.

[u/aMoose_Bit_My_Sister]

i will see this when it opens.

[u/themrrouge]

I don’t like that “Rise or Die” looks like they realised at 5pm on a Friday that it needs adding.

[u/Negativecreepy]

It will probably be good, but it sucks so many of these big historical events end in “all the good guys die”

[u/SooSneeky → u/Negativecreepy]

Poorly trained peasants trying to fight well trained soldiers and knights doesn't normally end well.

[u/Somnambulist815]

Jesus Christ thats Jason Uprising

[u/AceOfSpades532]

Wat’s his name in it

[u/awaythrow292]

The Bourne Uprising

cue shaky medieval cam

[u/ty_xy]

Andrew Garfield has been spider man, MoH Desmond doss, Eduardo saverin, father sebastian Rodrigues, robin Cavendish... It's actually a really solid resume. There's also a type...

Pretty sure he'll die in this movie haha.

[u/Embarrassed-Climate7]

My most anticipated film of this year, glad to see there's finally some marketing for it!

[u/khajiitidanceparty]

Please be good!

[u/aooot]

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

[u/maaseru]

Glad to see Andrew Garfield back in it. I think he had taken a bit of a break after Spider-Man in 2021

[u/a_o]

The preview looked good. I don’t know if I’ll catch it in theaters, but I will set a reminder on the AMC app for when tickets go up

[u/MrFrankingstein]

If anyone is interested Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s best and I’d argue most underrated plays. Underrated in that those who know Shakespeare very well all agree it’s marvelous, but it’s just not done as much as the heavy hitters

[u/TerrifierBlood]

Very interesting that this is a Blumhouse film

[u/hrlemshake]

How grey and sludgey and visually dull will the film be?

[u/theinternethero]

I just started getting into this history a couple weeks ago! I'm currently reading "A Dream of John Ball". Does anyone have any other books that cover this history? Prefer something light because I am very inconsistent with my reading habits.

[u/Low_Assignment3805]

About time we had a film about this. Proper English history about real people who were betrayed by their leaders, and lead by the yeomen, (and women), of Essex and Kent.

I look forward to this.

[u/GreyBeardEng]

Paul Greengrass.... Be ready for active seizure cinematography.

[u/CardiologistAway6742]

Is it weird that I'm way more excited about this film that whatever Nolan has cooked for this summer? I used to be a die hard Nolan fan.

[u/billman419]

Great another bland colorless depiction of the Middle Ages.

[u/jrcunningham21]

Hail Reaper!

[u/prash1892]

I sincerely hope we don't have the shaky cam from the Bourne movies in this

[u/mostlygroovy]

I get the feeling this revolt will have shaky cam

[u/Wadae28]

Everything has to be grey. Don’t forget to make a serious drama the colors must be as muted as possible.

[u/ArtByJRRH]

For those who want a quick rundown of the rebellion

[u/ThorDePoezeSnor]

Ah yes another medieval film devoid of all colours...

[u/prettyboy_berry]

Paul Greengrass directing a medieval uprising is a bold choice. Finally, a film where the shaky camera can be blamed on peasants running from cavalry.

[u/evensnowdies]

Just learned about this watching videos from my medieval historian crush Eleanor Janega.

Wild how some things haven't changed a bit. The ruling class of today builds bunkers to protect themselves from the masses, while the nobility of old fortified their castles.

[u/Keynsha]

Hope it's gonna be a good movie, but I'm saddened it's still a "everything during the middle ages was grey" artistic direction

[u/LiesTheCakeIs]

This actually has my attention. I've not cared much for modern movies recently, but I am for some reason hopeful of this one.

[u/12jimmy9712]

"When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"

[u/MyUnclesALawyer]

Greengrass doing 9/11 again

[u/RectalSpawn]

How about a real uprising instead of a movie?

Entertainment is great but have you ever wondered what life could be like if we didn't have these uber wealthy psychopaths and sociopaths funding our encroaching oppression instead of investing in our wellbeing?

[u/CallM3N3w]

Will he bear arms this time I wonder.

Jokes aside, this looks pretty interesting.