Rape is also treated in a bizarrely mixed manner. Another Hollywood formula is that to show how strong a woman's character is, she has to deal with a rape scene. Oddly, Joan isn't shown as being raped while in English hands. They've done just about everything else to her. Considering the previously mentioned scene, the English have hardly been shown to be above such things.
Time is another oddly misused element.
The first half hour shows Joan about age ten or twelve, as a perfect and happy and innocent girl full of faith and happiness, then suddenly the film skips to the Court of the Dauphin when she's already seventeen or eighteen. No transition, just a straight jump. David Lynch would have been ashamed or this twisted mess. Backbiting, betrayal, and corruption are fun to watch. And as a pleasant surprize, no gratuitious romance was added.