The Effect of Browning on the Middle Ages

I think it's to do with, you know, the Western world's slight discomfort with its past and particularly its Christian past. And what you see now in medieval films is that that's happening on mass that the whole thing has gone brown. So how could we change people's perception of the Middle Ages in the story by creating that same surprise that you have when you walk into San Chapelle? I thought about that many times.

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