Posted on 04/03/2017 7:13:12 AM PDT by C19fan
We get a once and final look at the once and future king in the latest trailer for Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. With Charlie Hunnam in the title role and Jude Law as his treacherous uncle Vortigern, the film hits theaters May 12.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
Will there be the obligatory homosexual character or homosexual theme as part of the plot??
Who keeps funding Guy Ritchie films? People who need to write off LOSSES on their taxes, I’m thinking! ;)
IMHO ‘Baby I’m gonna leave you’ is Led Zeppelin’s BEST Ballad.... far better than the oft celebrated Stairway to Heaven....
What?
The whole point of King Arthur is that he was native British, not Saxon.
Excalibur basically followed the Victorian era telling of the legend. It’s visually beautiful, but like the Victorian illustrators they put them in late medieval armor. The real Arthur if there was one would have been fighting the Saxon invaders around 500 AD, so that’s all wrong. I liked the 2004 King Arthur retelling it as at least looking right for the period.
All movies are now required to have at least one homosexual (Merlin, maybe), an oppressed minority, a subtheme regarding human-caused climate change, and a puppy.
I think that anachronism, and the Wagner music, added to the fairy tale atmosphere of the movie.
“Will there be the obligatory homosexual character or homosexual theme as part of the plot??”
Not edgy enough.
They went with bitranslesbialien and the injustices they face from ignorant and intolerant Christians.
“and a puppy”
LOL!
That’s funny...
OMG!! Nice trailer. By nice I mean that I love the trailers that scream out: “wait for the DVD.”
Oh, and an evil Christian. A must-have for Hollywood these days.
The Who was better
...and they wrote their own songs.
IMO the Arthurian Legends are just that-legends. Sure there might have been some late-Roman era version of Arthur, but all the stories from Le Morte d'Arthur are stories/legends and there is no point IMO in trying to be historically correct about a bunch of people and events that never existed (at least not in the form that Malory wrote).
I prefer the Excalibur approach to King Arthur. I also like Knights of the Round Table from the mid 1950's. It is stilted and corny and removes the magic from the story; but it looks splendid in 3-strip technicolor and cinemascope.
...and they wrote their own songs.
I see what you did there.
not even close....not by a mile...
Dennis: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ‘cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up!
Dennis: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
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