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| | Encyclopedia: King Arthur |
 | | King Arthur, a motion picture released on July 7, 2004, claiming (despite being heavily criticised for its historical inaccuracies) to be more historically accurate about the legend with respect to new archaeological findings; similar in story line to Jack Whyte's books. | | | Arturius: A Quest for Camelot Summary of war leader theory using evidence in the Annals of Ulster, Annals of Tigernach and Adomnan's Life of Columba. | | | History Main article: History of Christianity See also: Timeline of Christianity The history of Christianity is difficult to extricate from that of the European West (and several other culture-regions) in general. |
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| | King Arthur (2004) |
| | Although the theory for the 'historical Arthur' the film runs wtih does has a strong basis (although, in spite of how it's advertised, the movie's just based on a hodgepodge of theories, not a single theory), there's still some issues a history buff like me can take with it. | | | The film doesn't go into much detail, but the Sarmatians were a people from modern day Iran who might have been related to the Scythians, who might have inspired ancient Greeks to write about Amazonian female warriors. | | | Between being the subject of a petty king, brutally killed in an attack by Anglo-Saxon invaders, or seeing society and the economy collapse around you, you would probably be pretty screwed. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: King Arthur [2004]: DVD |
| | OK, I'll accept the film makers have let themselves in for criticism with the unnecessary historical disclaimer at the start of the movie but I would still say that nowhere is it stated you can't use legends of the past and bend them slightly to produce new variations on a theme. | | | You hope the film has been neutered by the marketing people and that the director's version will be something grander, something with substance, some tale which will enchant you and weave a pattern of eroticism and mystery... | | | I also liked the way that every time you Keira Knightly, she was wearing something different, even if this was impossible as she had just been saved and was wearing rags, but suddenly she gets a dress that is the wrong era. |
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| | King Arthur (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | King Arthur is a film first released in the United States on June 28, 2004, dubbed as "The Untold True Story That Inspired The Legend" by Touchstone Pictures. | | | The makers of the film claim to present an historically accurate version of the Arthurian legends, supposedly inspired by new archaelogical findings. | | | This is possibly only the second Arthurian film in which Lancelot dies at the end while Arthur does not. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_(movie)
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| | King Arthur (2004) |
| | The film correctly sees that in order to become the symbolic figure bridging pagan England and modern Christian England that Arthur is in myth, that the Christianity of the time would have been solely represented by the Catholic Church. | | | The greatest contrast can perhaps be seen in the fact that, while the thrust of this film is Arthur declaring his independence from Rome and a big battle where he overcomes the Saxon hordes despite being massively outnumbered, such scenes or even any equivalent thereof do not even appear in the Arthurian legends. | | | What we have is a film that pays lip service to telling the historical story of King Arthur, but only really appropriates the names of Arthur, Guinevere, Merlin et al to mount a standard historical spectacle. |
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| | King Arthur (2004) |
| | This film owes more to the influence of the current trend of CGI driven action flicks than it does to any "recently unearthed" archaeological finds. | | | On the way they find a Roman torture chamber containing a muddy young girl, Guinevere (Keira Knightley). | | | That Arthur (Clive Owen), actually Artorius, was a general of a garrison patrolling Hadrian's Wall in Celtic lands around 450 CE preventing the northern and southern factions from engaging in open warfare. |
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http://www.hometheaterinfo.com/king_arthur_(2004).htm
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| | KING ARTHUR (Clive Owen, Keira Knightley) MOVIE INFO - TheMovieBox.Net |
| | For centuries most historians believed that King Arthur was only a legend, but that legend was based on a real hero whose actions changed the face of Britain and the world forever. | | | Arthur sees his duty is to free them from their servitude to Rome so they may return to their ancestral homeland in Sarmatia. | | | Although, as a dedicated Christian he is desperate to return to Rome to influence the budding religion, his first loyalty is to his pagan Knights. |
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http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2004/IJKLM/King-Arthur/main-page.html
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| | King Arthur (2004) reviewed by AllZone4DVD.net |
| | At the beginning of the film Rome was his beautiful and glorious homeland and his faith in the Christian religion was what he held onto during times of hardship. | | | The film is often very dark during the forest, night and some battle scenes, so Im happy to tell you that the film never suffers from the lack of quality or artifacts that can result in such scenes. | | | While many of the actors were believable in their roles, and while Clive Owen is a great actor, I didnt think that he had the screen presence to really make me believe that he could demand the loyalty and dedication of his followers that he supposedly did. |
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| | King Arthur [2004] Shaking Through.net: Movies: Review |
| | Fortunately, just such an individual exists: Arthur, born of a British mother and Roman father, a gifted warrior, penitent Christian and believer in personal freedom. | | | Artorius (just Arthur to his fellow knights and close friends) and his band of brothers manage to save the young Pope-in-training and usher him off to safety, which leads to the final showdown with a Saxon warlord (the great Stellan Skarsgård, affecting a weary, "what am I doing here?" demeanor) and his unwashed horde. | | | The love triangle between Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) falls flat as well, primarily because there's simply not enough time between battles to establish the requisite degree of interpersonal tension (making goo-goo eyes at one another does not count). |
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http://www.shakingthrough.net/movies/reviews/2004/king_arthur_2004.html
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| | King Arthur (2004) |
| | Keira Knightley is Gwen and she's a kick-ass warrior babe, but every other woman in the film stands in the background as subservient and docile as can be. | | | The only constructed buildings in the film look as though they were just completed and utilize construction methods completely unavailable until this century and are so clean they sparkle. | | | The direction and acting are fine enough, and there are some very wonderful actors in the film, including the aforementioned Ms. |
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http://www.filmmonthly.com/Video/Articles/KingArthur/KingArthur.html
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| | HSX : Movies : Market : MovieStocks® : King Arthur |
| | The film will concentrate on the political intrigue behind King Arthur's court, which rose to power in Britannia in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire. | | | Uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer will be putting his spin on Camelot with King Arthur. | | | This latest retelling of the English legend will attempt to cast the story in a historical context. |
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| | IFILM - Movies: King Arthur - |
| | A more historical and political, rather than mythical, look at the time Arthur would've lived in than has been seen heretofore onscreen. | | | See what else is in theaters in the Summer Movie Guide! |
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| | King Arthur (2004): Reviews |
| | The film combines the plodding sincerity of a Ph.D. dissertation with the brains of a high-concept Jerry Bruckheimer- produced blockbuster (which it is), and no one benefits. | | | Merlin looked like that homeless guy on bum fights. | | | Better than other historical films that I have been watch. |
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http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/kingarthur
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| | King Arthur (2004) - Trailers & Clips - Moovees.com |
| | Although the legend of King Arthur has not been historically established as fact, this film will attempt to place King Arthur within his possible historic context, smack between the fall of the Roman Empire and the long road through the Dark Ages (roughly set in the 5th or 6th centuries). | | | King Arthur (2004) - Trailers & Clips - Moovees.com | | | Access a complete list of reviews in our review archive. |
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| | bibloi.com ¦ film review ¦ King Arthur (2004) |
| | that may have something to do with the fact that this film’s violence has been | | | Arthur and his knights, among whom we find the eloquently burping Bors (an | | | Arthur, in this version of events, is the Roman general Arturius, who is at the |
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http://www.bibloi.com/performingarts/film/2004/arthur.html
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| | Scifilm -- Reviews, KING ARTHUR (2004) |
| | As in any historical film, cinematography plays a key part. | | | Arthur and his knights grudgingly accept the assignment. | | | Many feel that Arthur may have been a real man, a Romanized Celt of the Fifth Century who led the battle against the invading Saxons and who emerged as the leader of a brief period of peace and glory which we know as the "age of Camelot". |
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| | Filmtracks: King Arthur (Hans Zimmer) |
| | King Arthur: (Hans Zimmer) In the post-Gladiator age of history dissertations made into huge, blockbuster films, King Arthur seems to fit the mold quite appropriately. | | | -- Thursday, September 2, 2004, at 5:57 p.m. | | | -- Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 2:04 a.m. |
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| | Parent Previews: King Arthur |
| | Arthur is also eager to go back to Rome where he hopes to influence the fledgling Christian religion. | | | Maybe more than his deeds, his vision of a better world is what makes the legend of King Arthur endure. | | | Still bound by an ancient Roman law, the group is pressed into sober and gruesome battles, all in the name of a far-flung leader many of them neither know nor believe in. |
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| | FilmJerk.com - Film Review: "King Arthur" |
| | Whats even more curious is the films marketing angle, which places central focus on Keira Knightley, yet it takes the picture an hour to get to her, then pushes the actress into the background for the rest of the show. | | | And Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) is not a man ruled by his desires, but by his allegiance to Arthur and a yearning to end his warrior days. | | | His Arthur is a story told in the misty and snowy mountains of Britain, a land caked in mud and rain, and ruled by many. |
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| | The History Before the Myth: King Arthur: the Movie (2004) by H. Arthur Scott Trask |
| | Ignore the critics who have panned this film. From the reviews I have read, most of those who have done so, know nothing of the history of the period, and have misinterpreted their own confusion and bewilderment as products of a weak script, rather than their own ignorance. | | | In the film, the native Britons are known as Woads, after their habit of painting their skin with blue dye from the Woad plant, and they are depicted as residing north of Hadrians Wall, in what is now Scotland. That would make them Picts, who actually made common cause with the Saxons | | | We cannot help noticing too that if Arthur had been a radical individualist and solipsist, concerned only with enjoying his rights and maximizing his comfort and possessions, he would have returned to Rome; but then there would have no heroism, no legend, and no movie. |
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| | King Arthur (2004) |
| | Striving for historical accuracy, the filmmakers transform the wizard Merlin into a tribal leader, his face smeared with blue warrior paint. | | | While that film is a trifle overwrought, Boorman's extravagantly imagined version of the Arthurian legend has the narrative sweep and romantic pathos sorely lacking from King Arthur. | | | Of the supporting cast, Skarsgard (Insomnia) comes off best, even if he has been made up to resemble a Judas Priest roadie. |
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http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=123621&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13
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| | King Arthur (2004) |
| | This is not Braveheart or Gladiator, but it is a film worth seeing and appreciating. | | | My high hopes for the movie, King Arthur, were dashed before the film even opened in theaters, by critics who were panning the movie from advanced screenings. | | | Since then, I have seen the legend of King Arthur mutilated in films such as First Knight and The Mists of Avalon. |
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| | Aquarian Concepts Community Film Review: King Arthur |
| | This film portrays the events which may have taken place early on to bring the souls together who would later create a vision called Camelot. | | | Arthur's faith in God and belief in goodness shapes the destinies of all around him. | | | Arthur is a soldier in the Roman army, apparently born of a Roman father and an English mother killed by the English tribes when Arthur was a young boy. |
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http://www.aquarianconceptscommunity.org/f_kingarthur.html
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| | King Arthur (2004): Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley, Hugh Dancy - PopMatters Film Review |
| | Arthur here is a standard liberal do-gooder, deciding that he not only needs to free the serfs he finds being abused by Alecto's tyrannical dad (including the aforementioned Guinevere), but also take them along with his knights, over difficult terrain as they are pursued by the pitiless Saxons: "Freedom is yours by rights," he announces. | | | Their distrust is exacerbated by their perception that the Christian-inclined Arthur is selling them out for a God who doesn't look after them. | | | The primary differences between these plots -- in which a hero learns humility and sacrifice from beleaguered natives -- are Arthur's survival (he is, after all, going to be king) and the girl's contributions. |
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| | King Arthur (2004) - MovieWeb |
| | July 5th, 2004 - Orange finds out the truth behind the King Arthur Myth... | | | Historians have thought for centuries that King Arthur was only a myth, but the legend was based on a real hero, torn between his private ambitions and his public sense of duty. | | | Before he can, one final mission leads him and his Knights of the Round Table- Lancelot, Galahad, Bors, Tristan, and Gawain - to the conclusion that when Rome is gone, Britain will need a leader to fill the vacuum. |
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| | village voice > film > King Arthur by Michael Atkinson |
| | For his part, Owen doesn't get to act so much as intone regally, but his sad, intent gaze does a lot of the story's spadework. | | | We're back to the fifth century, and Arthur and his knights are Sarmatian warriors (Indo-Iranian, by way of the Caucasus) conscripted by Rome to guard interests in the wilds of Britain. | | | The attempts at period authenticity are admirably nasty, as when the Saxon leader Cerdic (Stellan Skarsgard) interrupts a soldier from raping a Brit with the disgusted question, "What kind of offspring do you think that'd produce?" before killing both rapist and victim. |
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| | slant // magazine.com: Film Review - King Arthur |
| | slant // magazine.com: Film Review - King Arthur | | | The film's 452 A.D. Britain, perpetually awash in frigid gray snow or billowing black smoke generated from post-war fires, is a coarse, desolate brown wasteland that, in its dull gloominess, is a perfect setting for Owen's turgid Arthur. | | | King Arthur's dour war story may be what legends are technically based on, but it's certainly not the stuff they're made of. |
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| | King Arthur (2004) : Forum |
| | REPLIED Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:11:31 AM The Once and Future King by T.H. White is also very good, but it's extremely long. | | | REPLIED Tuesday, March 30, 2004 04:59:20 PM Shocking that you've never heard of it. | | | REPLIED Sunday, April 04, 2004 09:38:07 AM Rostron2 said: |
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| | "One of the reasons this film works is that we don't feel as if we're watching these people through the scrim of history and legend -- they feel immediate, even contemporary." | | | "A line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, goes, When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. And while King Arthur may be closer to fact, I prefer the legend. | | | "King Arthur offers a revisionist portrait of the legendary leader and warrior that expends almost all its energy on one bloody battle sequence after another." |
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| | "Among the most memorable of Arthur's band of brothers is Bors (Ray Winstone, "Sexy Beast''), who appears to believe he's in a sequel to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail.'' Bors dotes on his dozen or so children when he's not getting drunk or bashing someone's brains out." | | | Metro Newspapers, San Jose: "The failed comedy relief is by Ray Winstone, a crude knight named Bors, who tells dick jokes that are inelegant by the standards of a dick joke." | | | Yahoo and others: "Winstone, so excellent in Sexy Beast, here provides sporadic, much-needed comic relief as a knight whose girlfriend has given birth to so many of their children, they've assigned them numbers rather than names. |
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