![]() ![]() Tristan washes ashore in Ireland, where he is found by the beautiful Isolde (Sophia Myles), daughter of King Doochadh. However, Tristan is apparently killed in battle, and his body is put on a funeral boat, set afire, and sent out to sea. But when Donnchadh arrives in Cornwall, his plans are thwarted by Tristan (James Franco), the adopted nephew of Lord Marke. Lord Marke (Rufus Sewell) has emerged as a man who could be a unifying figure, which regires King Donnchadh (David O'Hara) to take him down. All that means is that the story takes place during the Dark Ages, at a time when Ireland had conquered the Britons, who remained a divided people. The story is set after the fall of the Roman Empire, which was when Odoacer deposed the last ruling emperor in 476 A.D. There are many version of the tale of Tristan and Isolde from antiquity, so director Kevin Reynolds ("Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves") and screenwriter Dean Georgaris ("Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life") have consdierable leeway in telling their version (i.e., what they do with the tale is as legitimate as what Wagner did with his operatic version). The story is called "Tristan and Isolde," but the figure of Lord Marke plays a pivotal role and at its essence the biggest difference between this and the Camelot tale is that this time the story is told from the perspective of the knight and not the king. I understand that in promoting "Tristan and Isolde" they want to sell audiences on the idea of a romance with dead people at the end of it, but Shakespeare's tale of woe goes back to the Greek myth of Pyramus and Thisbee, as the bard amply demonstrates in "A Midsummernight's Dream." In the featurette on this DVD they eventually get around to the fact that the story of Tristan and Isolde is really the precursor to that of Lancelot and Gueneviere, because these are not simply a pair of starcrossed lovers but two-thirds of a tragic love triangel. They keep telling me that "Before Romeo and Juliet.There was Tristan and Isolde." Well, before there were Romeo and Juliet there were Harold and William at the Battle of Hastings. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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