Post by Keith Heitmann on Feb 2, 2005 17:14:46 GMT -5
I was bored today so I popped in my copy of the new "King Arthur" today.
I have to say that I much prefer this version, which at least has some archaeological backing of the facts, instead of the fairy tale-myth of a medieval "King Arthur" as depicted in movies like "Excaliber".
I had to laugh at the official reviewer of the "King Arthur" soundtrack at Amazon, because he said that the film makers ingore the little things like "The Lady of the Lake" and "the sword in the stone".
Oh, come on! Everyone knows there is no "Lady of the Lake", and the movie does address the sword issue mentioned in a flashback scene of Arthur as a young boy rushing to his dead fathers burial site and pulling the sword stuck in the ground as a marker. I find that more plausable than some magical sword encased in solid rock.
I had another good laugh and wondered if the critic even watch the film because he tried to slight the film again, this time he said that instead of being a Briton, Arthur is "of eastern european in origin."
This guy must have watched the film with his eyes closed!
Arthur is indeed a Briton, and a Roman. His father was a Roman commander and his mother a local woman from the Woads, the local tribe. His friend Lancelot, which the movie introduces first as a young boy in Sarmatia, and the other Sarmatian "knights" are of eastern european origin.
Rome is on the decline and about to pull out of Britannia. Arthur and his "knights" rescue a roman family and the serfs from the advancing Saxon tribe. Arthur decides to stay behind as the Romans leave Britannia to its fate at the hands of the Saxons. With Rome leaving the island Merlin, the local Woad chieftan makes an alliance with Arthur, with whom he has fought many battles against. Gweneviere, having been rescued from starvation and torture at the hands of the Roman he was sent to rescue earlier fights with the Woads and Arthur and his knights in a big climactic battle at one of the Roman forts along Hadrian's Wall, where two of the knights are killed, but the Saxons are stopped and their leader killed.
I have to say that I much prefer this version, which at least has some archaeological backing of the facts, instead of the fairy tale-myth of a medieval "King Arthur" as depicted in movies like "Excaliber".
I had to laugh at the official reviewer of the "King Arthur" soundtrack at Amazon, because he said that the film makers ingore the little things like "The Lady of the Lake" and "the sword in the stone".
Oh, come on! Everyone knows there is no "Lady of the Lake", and the movie does address the sword issue mentioned in a flashback scene of Arthur as a young boy rushing to his dead fathers burial site and pulling the sword stuck in the ground as a marker. I find that more plausable than some magical sword encased in solid rock.
I had another good laugh and wondered if the critic even watch the film because he tried to slight the film again, this time he said that instead of being a Briton, Arthur is "of eastern european in origin."
This guy must have watched the film with his eyes closed!
Arthur is indeed a Briton, and a Roman. His father was a Roman commander and his mother a local woman from the Woads, the local tribe. His friend Lancelot, which the movie introduces first as a young boy in Sarmatia, and the other Sarmatian "knights" are of eastern european origin.
Rome is on the decline and about to pull out of Britannia. Arthur and his "knights" rescue a roman family and the serfs from the advancing Saxon tribe. Arthur decides to stay behind as the Romans leave Britannia to its fate at the hands of the Saxons. With Rome leaving the island Merlin, the local Woad chieftan makes an alliance with Arthur, with whom he has fought many battles against. Gweneviere, having been rescued from starvation and torture at the hands of the Roman he was sent to rescue earlier fights with the Woads and Arthur and his knights in a big climactic battle at one of the Roman forts along Hadrian's Wall, where two of the knights are killed, but the Saxons are stopped and their leader killed.
