Test audience reactions to “The Messenger”
By LOUIS B. HOBSON — Calgary Sun
HOLLYWOOD — It would seem American movie audiences need a few history lessons.
At early test-screenings of The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, audiences expressed concerns that the heroine dies at the end of the movie.
“People wrote on their comment cards that we should not have burned Joan. They felt that someone should have rescued her,” recalls the film’s director, Luc Besson.
“Many people were also puzzled as to where the story was taking place and they would have like us to have a love story for Joan.”