Kingdom of Heaven

This movie was about a central character bailian (played by Orlando Bloom), who was a small blacksmith and worked to become a knight after his father took him to Jerusalem. He became a hero to the christians as saladin's army was marching on to jerusalem. He lost the ultimate battle but was able to win the hearts of his fellow citizens in Jerusalem.

I think the following quote best summarizes the character of Bailian;
"As he did in GLADIATOR, Scott explores the theme of a man who chooses his fate, instead of accepting the fate given to him at birth."
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I think this is a good movie as we can analyze the movie using at least three of the corrigan's six approaches to film. The first approach I can take is historical. as the plot of the movie revolving around the Crusades has been written about in the western and middle eastern societies. There can be a debate here because the movie shows more of a european thinking of the crusades. The formalist approach will be good as well because not many can argue that the movie does have very good battle scenes. The director, Ridley Scott, lives up to his acclaim to deliver a good movie. You can get a glimpse of it in the trailer of the movie. We can also do a genre analysis and see how this movie fits into the genre of epic action movies.