By using classic rock anthems from the 1970s—tracks like Thin Lizzy’s "The Boys Are Back in Town," David Bowie’s "Golden Years," and AC/DC’s "You Shook Me All Night Long"—Helgeland bridged the gap between the audience and the characters.
The keyword here is A Knight’s Tale —note the apostrophe. It belongs to the knight, but the story is about the making of a knight. This is not a biography of a historical figure (though Ulrich von Liechtenstein was a real 13th-century poet). It is a fairy tale about class mobility in a time when your birth dictated your death. A Knight-s Tale