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	King Arthur - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Britain.
		Arthur, who is described as his kinsman, agrees to the request, and fulfills the demands of Olwen's giant father Ysbadden, which includes his hunt for the great boar Twrch Trwth, described at length by the author.
		Arthur was a casualty in his last battle, the Battle of Camlann, which he fought against the forces of Mordred.
	open-encyclopedia.com /King_Arthur (2216 words)

	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.
		It would appear that the Arthur depicted in the film is based most closely upon Ambrosius Aurelianus, the Romano-Briton who fought against the Saxons in the 5th century, and was probably the leader of the Romano-British and Celts at the Battle of Mons Badonicus.
		In the film, Tristan is portrayed as having a hawk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Arthur_(movie) (1423 words)

	Encyclopedia: King Arthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace.
		Arthur, who is described as his kinsman, agrees to the request, and fulfils the demands of Olwen's giant father Ysbaddaden, which includes his hunt for the great boar Twrch Trwyth, described at length by the author.
		Kevin Crossley-Holland's The Seeing-Stone, At the Crossing-Places and King of the Middle-March.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/King-Arthur (10931 words)

	King Arthur (2004)
		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.
		Arthur discovers that Rome is about to abandon Briton and leave the population to be over taken by the Saxons.
		Arthur and his troops have one last mission, to free a politically connected Roman boy imprisoned by a pagan group.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /king_arthur_(2004).htm (1067 words)

	village voice > film > King Arthur by Michael Atkinson
		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.
		Arthur (Clive Owen) is a devout Pelagian, and his quiet evolution from obedient soldier to rebel king (once he silently realizes he's been fighting for years not for the Romans but for the Britons) is adroitly brushed in between sword-thwacks.
		However anthropologically accurate King Arthur may or may not be, it turns out to be as much of a swoony valentine to a social ideal that never existed as any other Arthurian text.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0427,atkinson1,54851,20.html (760 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, KING ARTHUR (2004)
		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".
		Arthur, Lancelot and the other Samartian knights like Bors, Gawain, and Galahad, dream of the day they will be given the freedom to return to their dimly remembered homeland.
		In ignoring the legendary underpinnings of the Arthur story, the movie merely becomes the tale of one brief period in the life of the King and his Knights.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/kingarthur04.html (1412 words)

	King Arthur (2004) reviewed by AllZone4DVD.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It seems that in recent time historians have decided to correct the tale of King Arthur and unfortunately turn it from a romantic, magical and heroic tale, into one of a 5th century soldier of Rome, serving Roman-Imperial England against the savage battle-driven Saxons with the aid of a warrior version of Guinevere.
		The story essentially begins as King Arthur (Clive Owen) and his band (Sarmatian Knight’s that have been compulsorily enlisted for 15 years of service to Rome), are about to gain their freedom.
		The film is often very dark during the forest, night and some battle scenes, so I’m happy to tell you that the film never suffers from the lack of quality or artifacts that can result in such scenes.
	www.allzone4dvd.net /review_details.htm?id=1254 (1657 words)

	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.
		Arthur has been away from Rome so long he forgot it was ruled by an autocracy, not a republic, for a really, really long time by then.
	www.coldfusionvideo.com /goodbadugly/kingarthur.html (2152 words)

	King Arthur (2004)
		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.
		In this purportedly "fact-based" depiction of King Arthur set in Britain, circa 450 A.D., the once and future king (Clive Owen) is a knight of the Roman Empire, along with the noble Lancelot (Ioan Gruffud) and Galahad (Hugh Dancy).
		King Arthur probably won't appeal to viewers seeking a traditional version of the Arthurian legend.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=123621&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (600 words)

	King Arthur (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I have been a huge King Arthur fan ever since the night that I sat in an empty theater, in my hometown, awestruck by John Boorman's Excalibur.
		Since then, I have seen the legend of King Arthur mutilated in films such as First Knight and The Mists of Avalon.
		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.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0349683 (533 words)

	FilmJerk.com - Film Review: "King Arthur" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		Arthur’s enemy here is not his heart or trust, but the Saxons, lead by the evil Cerdic (an easy, toothless performance by Stellan Skarsgard).
		What’s even more curious is the film’s 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.
	www.filmjerk.com /new/article960.html (925 words)

	King Arthur [2004] Shaking Through.net: Movies: Review
		Arthur will beat back the Saxon invaders, take a native woman to be his queen and usher in an era of peace and prosperity not seen in Britain since...
		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.
		But King Arthur doesn't add anything unique to the Arthurian legend, instead coming across as a History Channel-meets-Braveheart popcorn drama too self-serious to be fun and too fast and loose with its selection of sketchily known facts to be taken seriously in the field of Arthurian studies.
	www.shakingthrough.net /movies/reviews/2004/king_arthur_2004.html (661 words)

	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.
		Clive Owen, is 'Artorius' or Arthur, the hero of Roman and British parentage eulogized in the ancient Celtic poem.
		Arthur sees his duty is to free them from their servitude to Rome so they may return to their ancestral homeland in Sarmatia.
	www.themoviebox.net /movies/2004/IJKLM/King-Arthur/main-page.html (340 words)

	King Arthur (2004): Reviews
		A nutty, often enjoyable farrago of craft and cinematic sampling, King Arthur moves fast and loose, and is almost aggressive in its absence of an original idea, in and of itself a Bruckheimer trademark.
		King Arthur is a snooze, overcast and drizzly both on location and on the pages of the script.
		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.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/kingarthur (1512 words)

	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.
		The contribution of composer Hans Zimmer to King Arthur is one that could have been predicted four years ahead of time, with regurgitation of style that matches Fuqua's stereotypical shaky-camera/quick-cuts methodology shot for shot.
		His music for King Arthur is growling and menacing, glorious and majestic, and invigorated by an energy not heard from Zimmer for several years.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/king_arthur.html (3435 words)

	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.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/kingarthur04.htm (1287 words)

	Aquarian Concepts Community Film Review: King Arthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		Arthur's knights are Sarmatian indentured servant soldiers to the Roman army on the verge of being released from their bloody contract.
		Merlin is leader of the English tribes who recognizes Arthur's destiny as a leader; he is a spiritual mystic but without the fanciful magical powers of wizardry usually characterized in him.
	www.aquarianconceptscommunity.org /f_kingarthur.html (411 words)

	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 Hadrian’s 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.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/trask4.html (440 words)

	Parent Previews: King Arthur
		King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have long been the stuff of legend and movie scripts.
		Arthur is also eager to go back to Rome where he hopes to influence the fledgling Christian religion.
		Younger audiences are more apt to enjoy the story of a boy sent back in time in A Kid in King Arthur?s Court or the animated story of Arthur?s childhood in The Sword and the Stone.
	movies.go.com /parentpreviews/review?rid=1221 (621 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: King Arthur [2004]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Arthur's Knights have been given their last mission to save a child from the Saxon onslaught...
		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...
		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.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002ZUHD8 (1629 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: King Arthur [2004]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		So when "King Arthur" wants to locate the "true story" of Arthur in the last days of the Roman occupation of Brittania I find that to be an intriguing idea.
		Arthur is a true believer who has taken the teachings of Christianity to the level of the equality of all human beings, while the only other Christians we see in the film are engaging in torture and slavery.
		Arthur embodies the best of both Roman and Christian virtues, which makes him a most unique individual, but this film really does some serious retroactive Church bashing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000621P8S (1208 words)

	King Arthur (2004)
		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.
		And there are several "knights" whose names and characters have just been dreamt up for the purpose of the film, and on and on and on.
		The direction and acting are fine enough, and there are some very wonderful actors in the film, including the aforementioned Ms.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/KingArthur/KingArthur.html (994 words)

	Amazon.com: movie info: King Arthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Arthur was not a figure of the middle ages, he was not an Anglo-Saxon and there was no magical sword in the stone.
		For years I have felt disdain for the manner in which the English have claimed King Arthur as their own - here at last is a movie that goes some way to setting the record straight.
		Arthur himself is a half Briton, half Roman who takes command of a group of Samatian (sp?) cavalrymen guarding Hadrians Wall (historical evidence also points to this being an accurate account).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JN26?v=glance (1872 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - King Arthur
		evisionist mythmaking of the most bland variety, the Jerry Bruckheimer produced King Arthur purports to tell the true tale of the ancient British hero and his valiant Knights of the Round Table by stripping away the magic, mystery, and majesty of the fable and replacing it with grim n' grimy realism.
		The film's 452 A.D. Britain, perpetually awash in frigid gray snow or billowing fl 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.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1078 (155 words)

	King Arthur (2004): Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley, Hugh Dancy - PopMatters Film Review
		Skeptical at first, the knights eventually accept Arthur's self-admittedly schizzy allegiances, to his British heritage as well as the Romans (his "other" name is Arturius, and that sword of his, Excalibur, is a family heirloom rather than supernatural implement).
		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.
		The movie's liveliest creature, she inspires Arthur to action, half-flirting and half-competing with Lancelot for the future king's attention.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/k/king-arthur2.shtml (1207 words)

	King Arthur (2004): Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley, Hugh Dancy - PopMatters Film Review
		As Jerry Bruckheimer's production of King Arthur begins, a title card informs us that "historians agree" the legend of Arthur and his knights is based in fact.
		Set in the fifth century, the film aims for a more "realistic" King Arthur, sans sorcery and before he was made a king.
		Rather, Arthur and Lancelot's relationship is indicative of an unfortunate mini-trend in recent movies, reshaping classic stories into stoic action epics.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/k/king-arthur.shtml (944 words)

	King Arthur [2004] - TutorGig Store - UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This film steps away from the 'traditional' to create a new warlord - inheriting the qualities of Roman civilisation and Roman military skill - leading his men in the fight against alien invaders.
		The erotic potential, the gore and violence, the language, and the drama are all kept on a low burner - the film was marketed at a young audience (12 year olds) in Britain, so the film was inevitably neutered.
		Also at teh begging of the film they said it was going to be accurate, which i woul kust like to say it was completely not.
	www.tutorgig.co.uk /store/PRB0002ZUHD8 (1319 words)

	MCN: King Arthur
		It's thrilling to see the bad guys go crashing to their icy doom, but a little dreary in retrospect: that's as good as the film's going to get.
		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.
		Britain needs a king -- someone not only to defend against the current threat of invading Saxons, but to lead the isle into a new age.
	www.moviecitynews.com /arrays/king_arthur.html (507 words)

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