Oh yeah, went to see King Arthur last night. Needless to say it was interesting. Now, kudos for Hans Zimmer, for yet another awesome soundtrack. It was about the best thing in the movie. Plot wasn’t complicated, in fact, I don’t think there was much of a plot. Very little was actually seen of Guenivere, even though I thought she was an awesome character.
Now, for the issues I had with it. A) timeline was completely screwed (the “Arthur” they’re describing existed several centuries previous to the events in the movie). B) Lancelot didn’t exist until Chretien de Troyes added him. C) It was quite predictable, the Saxon invaders sucked and couldn’t plan their way anywhere. They were obviously underprepared and going to lose. D) According to legends, the roundtable was disbanded after the death of Arthur, the movie starts at the point of disbanding.
The plus: They got Merlin right.
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So glad you posted this! and I plan to see it, and we’d been wondering if it was anything close to historically accurate. (We weren’t holding our breath.)
Our consensus?
“Hopefully, will go see it. She’ll know!”
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Actually, if they had left out the Saxons, it would have been fairly close to history. The Arthur that did exist was fighting the picts from the north. But they didn’t, so they screwed it up. 🙂
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I remember reading something about the movie, and in it they said it was supposed to be the truth behind the legend. No love traingle between Arthur, Guenivere, and Lancelot, no Knights of the Round Table, and such. I haven’t seen it yet, so I don’t even know if the stuff said in that article was right. But I just thought I’d share.
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I haven’t read an article with that in it, but the previews, and the beginning of the movie admit to “this is the true story of Arthur” (thanks for passing that on). As you haven’t seen the movie yet, I won’t give spoilers. 😉
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