Analysis Of 'King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword'

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Trang Nguyen Professor Lockaby ENGL 1102 5 February, 2018 How to make history come alive in movies? Many film directors challenge themselves to rewrite epic films inspired on the legends and they become the successful filmmakers. Guy Ritchie is known for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. who wrote and directed the epic fantasy action adventure "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" with co-written by Joby Harold and Lionel Wigram, inspired by Arthurian legends. However, to compare with the origins of "The Sword in the Stone" by Hudson Talbot, the film is controversial for some reasons: the major plot points of the movie, filming techniques, and the character design and languages…show more content…
After King Uther got his worship from his people, the watchers kept being confused by the next scene of orchestrating a coup of King Uther's brother. The only survivor was Uther's son, who had drifted into a boat and finally in Londinium, where he was found and nurtured by prostitutes. Arthur was survival on the streets from intrigue, cheat, and violence, while the original story tells that Arthur will grow up with Ector's son, Kay and the current king of England, passed away without the heir apparent. In the movie, the director seemed want to speed the story of Young Arthur up in a couple of minuses like a gap which says "15 years later" then the main character is all shown as grown men. Moreover, Ritchie tried to put violent scenes as much as possible; therefore, the film was just about how Arthur created a series of ambushes against Vortigern and had to prove himself as a last direct descendant of King Uther who had the right to own the sword. For the original story, Kay, who had just been knighted, went to London to join a tournament to decide who the new king was. Kay brought Arthur as his master. The first day of the tournament, in a hurry to make it on time, Arthur forgot Kay's sword in the hotel room. Kay ordered Arthur to take it fast. On the way to hotel, Arthur went through an Abby, and he…show more content…
Ritchie used many new tools with special techniques as graphic design that made the movie fancier. However, he forgot that the visual of the movie is still a component creating the plot. At the beginning, audiences can see the colors in the movie were faint and the boring blue light; it was happened throughout of the movie. In King Arthur movie, the Ritchie draws some quick and intelligent warning strings here; he does not want to communicate or tell the story in the usual way, so he has found a way to convey a lot of information very quickly, taking an aggressive approach to providing background information and never slip into the grave. To compare to "The Sword in the Stone'', Talbot brings the readers to the first of the story that make audiences have a clear look of the main plot points of the story. Nevertheless, in the movie, when Arthur's mother fell into the water in the air after being pierced through a sphere through her body, the audiences immediately receive this title with some obnoxious music; it ruined a full of emotional and effective scenery. This scene is an essential part of King Arthur throughout the movie. Because this scene was the most important factor which made Young Arthur loss his memory. In the

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