Icon Needed

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

I humbly beg of anyone who has the time and inclination to make me an icon for the character Geoffrey Chaucer from the movie "A Knight's Tale". I will repay you with many happy thoughts and virtual hugs.

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[pathetic30plus.livejournal.com]

I've only seen the movie once, a long time ago, feel free to hate the icon ;) :D

[scissors--.livejournal.com]

he is...blond in the movie? That's just odd. I read the book and assumed he was black, in some way 0.o *confused*

randomly jumping in

[alchemy-4-arson.livejournal.com]

Well, historically Chaucer the person was English, and in that era being English meant being some shade of white. But I haven't read the book, so I don't know if the book played with that concept.

I liked his portrayal in the movie. Although, I remembered him being somewhat redheaded, not ice blond. Then again, it's been a while. ::shrug::

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

No I love Paul Bettany (not enough to spell his name right obviously but) did no one read my post about not sticking up pictures of stupidly cute men? ;D

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Icon is awesome. Zero icon-hate here! Thanks!

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Assumed black *hair*, or assumed black skin? (Only asking because, you know, of the real Chaucer being white and all.) Book? From the movie you mean?

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

No, I must have missed that post. Don't seem to be many people paying attention to it around here. ;D

[scissors--.livejournal.com]

Well i dearly hope the movie was made after the book and not the other way around 0.o

I thought, dunno. It just sais 'the black knight' (or actually, 'the blak knight', but those 14th century people were just wacky), so i was thinking along the lines of gothic!chaucer, or somesuch. Def. not black skin though, since even chaucers dream-vision-africans are white :)

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

No they really don't!

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

Didn't realize there had been a book -- assumed the screenplay by Brian Helgeland was original. I believe the Black Knight refers to Prince Edward of England.

[scissors--.livejournal.com]

-heee you -are- geoff chaucer :D

Well 'book', the tale of the knight in the canterbury tales, of chaucer. But it's getting all confusing now, because in some secondary literature i found chaucer was narrator and the knight himself, except for 'the book of the duchess' in which the black knight was John of Gaunt...somewhere i must've gotten the mental image of chaucer as a supersexy gothic in armour, i guess 0.o

[scissors--.livejournal.com]

that sounds awfully confusing now that i re-read it :S

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Ok, gotcha. I was basing the fandomhigh character entirely (pretty much) on the movie character. But, yeah, I understand what you mean about the different references in Chaucer's work. Doesn't help that he never finished, of course. (And I hope no one thinks that I'm such a dumbass that I didn't know the actual Geoffrey Chaucer had written a book!)

[geoff-chaucer.livejournal.com]

And, uh, obviously you can see which two characters I'm playing, as that last post should have been as geoff_chaucer. Oops!