Historian and curator. Museums, Victorians, and medicine.
Currently curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds
Jack Gann
Loading...
Toy Company: At long last we have created the Chattermax from classic Bluey episode 'Don't Create a Chattermax'
We have a copy currently on display in our Anne Lister exhibit. Lister wrote that reading Aristotle's Masterpiece (in a copy confiscated from a maid) left her "in a high state of excitation".
Historian Anna Clark suggests the book was the origin of Lister's knowledge of the clitoris.
It should be something fondly remembered by millennials as a quotable cult fave, but having little impact on those born since its release.
A Knight's Tale - the sweet spot between Gladiator and Shrek and nowhere near as commercially successful or influential as either - fits that bill pefectly.
To be the definitive millennial movie it must be something you couldn't imagine made in another age.
A Knight's Tale - a sports movie for kids raised on Horrible Histories - is pure millennial in both its approach to wilful anachronisms and surprising moments of historical accuracy.
As a historian, I'd say period pieces say more about the moment they were made than either the time they are set or stories with contemporary settings.
So the obvious answer is: A Knight's Tale
And Heath Ledger is obviously the definitive millennial movie star.
A Knight's Tale is far more of its moment than The Dark Knight or even Brokeback Mountain.
