Re:Non-Hollywood-Butchered
[quote=”Logan”]
By the way, have you seen Excalibur by the director of ZardoZ? Excalibur, now there, I thought, was a good fantasy movie loosely based on Le Mort D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, as well as other Arthurian texts (some Mary Stewart in there too). [/quote]
There’s nothing like watching Gabriel Byrne in a full suit of armor make love to a woman to make one wonder how it could have been done…. yee-ouch!
I thought that heavy Wagner score really nailed that one down and enhanced the story for me, (though I don’t approve of his politics….)
(BTW: Did any of you other medieval buffs see the series the two actors who played “Arthur” and “Gueneviere” had after that, Covington Cross, I think it was…. Yet another show cancelled simply because I expressed an interest in it. :roll:)
I now return you to your originally scheduled thread… 😛
Pet;D
EDIT:
[quote=”Logan”]
Oh, something you should really watch if you like Python and historical comedies is Black Adder! The first Black Adder series takes place during the Middle Ages. For more Black Adder info visit this thread: [url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/phpBB2+viewtopic-t-3764-start-15-sid-ef60295f4e4f0b83c678cb2d68a1117d.html]CLICK HERE[/url]
[img]http://www.members.shaw.ca/funky2funky/blackAdder.jpg[/img][/quote]
OMG! I just remembered I had this!!!
[img]http://special.petserrano.com/blackadder.jpg[/img]
I can actually say quite certainly that the series was better than the 1951 book! 😀 I mean, this is hardly the type of witty writing one expects of a Blackadder:
[quote]Chapter One
THE MONTH OF MAY
LONG after it was all over, when he was an old man and a famous man-no less a personage than an Admiral of Her Majesty’s Navy-Tom Cathro wrote in a letter to a friend:
“I have seen much, I have done much; I have adventured in foreign lands and upon the high seas; I have been within a sight of death and wrestled with fear itself. But in all my long days of travel and travail I have known no such terror as gripped me in the heart long ago-long ago when I was a boy; and I encountered for the first time, face to face, the monstrous figure we knew as Blackadder. . . .”
Thus he wrote; and so the tale is told: pieced together in this first part from the fragments of old diaries and letters and other scraps of writing which have come into my hands, and from gossip and hearsay in the village where Tom lived, and where his descendants still live-the village that was the headquarters of the dreaded Loblolly Boys, where the honest folk barred up their doors as the Moonshine went stealthily by-where to this day, they say, on stormy cloud-wracked nights, the great crooked evil figure of Blackadder himself can still be glimpsed on the headland, his arms flung up to the sky, his white face twisted in an eternal rage. . . .
It began, Tom used to say, on an afternoon in May of the year 1803, which ever afterwards was known to him and his friend Harry de Rohan as the Terrible Year.[/quote]
Where are the insults? Where are the novelty breasts and the turnip that looks like a thingy? Where is the cunning plan?