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"Why stab shit with a sword when you can shoot from a half mile away?" I never said there had to be guns, just any modern technology, computers for example. It doesn't have to be completely modern. Plus why stab shit with a sword when you can get a bow and shoot shit from a half mile away?

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Because plate armor with the padding can negate the effects of a long-range arrow and the knight can keep slogging through a reign of arrows. But a .32 caliber rifle round can certainly punch a hole in metal and kill the man inside.

It also comes around to how at the point we start shooting guns mobility starts becoming an issue and the size of armies makes body-armor for everyone a more expensive feet than needed. And a man with a gun can kill a guy more reliably from a mile than a person firing a bow, and lay out a more constant rate of fire in the modern era.

[quote=@Gentlemanvaultboy]
Watch [i]A Knight's Tale[/i]. It's a really love it or hate it film and you'll realize whether you love it or hate it in the very first scene as you watch a bunch of medieval peasants at a joust pound out the beat to Queen's [i]We Will Rock You[/i]
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The thing is with Knight's Tale is that it uses Queen the same way Shrek uses Queen: to create a disconnect between the scene and reality in order to make a joke about it. But where-as Shrek also uses the medieval world with modern stuff to make one giant joke about modern life and fairy tale, Knight's Tale is much more strictly medieval.

Which is probably something to stop and consider: this sort of thing is usually done to be the set-piece of a comedy. If you're trying to make a serious work with this it ain't going to work because you're going to find yourself forced to explain or take seriously the awkwardness, where as in a comedic environment you can brush it all aside and turn it into a joke to expose some incongruity or awkwardness with the modern world itself.