![]() ![]() ![]() I think you’re exactly right-everyone knows the name, but very few people could tell you really in any detail what the war was that she was fighting in. ![]() Because I think everybody knows Joan’s name, but people are less familiar with that. Otherwise why are we looking at her in a field in Domrémy in the first place? But I wanted to see the world into which she erupted, as a different way of understanding how that happened. Because obviously, if you’re seeing it backward, there’s an inevitability to this iconic figure becoming something important. And to try to understand how it came about. But instead to tell the story of the war that had been raging in France for twenty years before she appeared in the historical record, if you like, and then to be able to see quite how shocking, quite how extraordinary her appearance was. ![]() Not with hindsight, not from the perspective of those trials at the end of her life and after the end of her life. The way I thought of it was telling the story forward, not backward. So in a sense, everything that we know from those sources is filled with hindsight of one kind or another and with-contamination is a dramatic word, but it’s all shaped by the judicial processes that the information emerges through. ![]()
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