New King Arthur Movie

Therin · Gloompf. Iggle! Gender: Joined: 24 Sep 2002

...I've never heard of Kiera Knightley...

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Ming · DOOM! Gender: Joined: 13 Jan 2003

Dude! She's in Pirates of the Carribean!!

(She's also in Love Actually, but don't ask me how I know that...)

itti · Junior Otaku Age: 36 Gender: Joined: 26 May 2004

well... faye, that reply was very mixed... Confused

i kind of like the melodrama in the story.... okay, but one vote for yes. thank you.

what she the main chick in Pirates? if so, when did she get so freakishly tan? (difference between Pirates and the picture above)

Shandriz · Your Death Shall be Swift Gender: Joined: 28 Sep 2003

Keira Knightley was indeed the lead chick in Pirates. She was also in Love Actually, as mentioned. And in the Disney Movie "Princess of Thieves" (I've never seen it, but want to desperately)

At any rate, she roxxors. The movie is -awesome- as it goes more for historical accuracy than myth accuracy.

VAGUE SPOILER: I'm glad that a certain person who shall remain nameless dies, and am sad that the other two knights who died do.

SPOILER OVER:

You should all see it at least once ^_^

Therin · Gloompf. Iggle! Gender: Joined: 24 Sep 2002

...

It can't be that true to life. Lancelot, and everything that had to do with him, was a creation of the French, who didn't want to be left out of the story. In truth, he never existed.

Shandriz · Your Death Shall be Swift Gender: Joined: 28 Sep 2003

I never said it was -completely- historically accurate. But Arthur's at least a Roman, and Merlin is just an older man who wants to preserve his people. He's called the "Black Mage" but he's really just a very very smart man.

Therin · Gloompf. Iggle! Gender: Joined: 24 Sep 2002

Right, but through his sheer pervasiveness in the story, you cannot really be historically accurate at all until you remove him. I mean, turning a magician into an old guy is all well and good, but that just removes the magic. The simple lack thereof does not alone make a movie anywhere near accurate, and I forward that since they are willing to kill off one of the coolest parts of the story, namely the magic, then they absolutely should have removed Lancelot. Therefore: I'll be waiting for DVD.

GAAZ · MOD Black Sheep Commander Gender: Joined: 14 Oct 2002

DIdn't King Arthur Die signing a treaty when one of the knights got stung by a bee and thought it was an attack so he drew his sword and Arthur got Mortally wounded?

And Lancelot was Banging Guenivere on the side so I always hated the most "Chivalrous" Knight in the world.

I ain't done seen the movie and don't want to really...Can someone either E-mail me the entire plot and stuff or post a spoiler to see if I'm missing anything?

Silver Adept · Otaku Lord Age: 42 Gender: Joined: 20 May 2003

Lancelot and Gwen's affair, as best I can tell, was an addition to the legend by some very women-hating monks quite a bit of time after the legend itself came into existence. Good Christian values, and all that, for the time.