just saw excalibur
did she really just break the bond between arthur and lancelot for some dick?
Just saw excalibur
Sebastian Garcia
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Lincoln Adams
Welcome to women.
Gavin Edwards
Came here to post this.
Daniel Clark
Yes. she does in every version of the story.
Charles Ross
Lol yeah.
Bentley Parker
Yes. In original arthurian stories there's a lot more to it. Basically, Arthur started spending less and less time with her, while Lancelot, who was essentially her guardian, became the object of her affections. It was customary in medieval romance stories for courtly love, which was basically a cucked knight liking a woman he can't have, to be seen as the true ideal of chivalry. The story of lancelot is a massive subversion of that medieval trope, and it is why it's so memorable to this day. But all of that is lost because of Excalibur's run time. there simply isn't time to show and establish that. So in the end, she betrays her husband for Lancecock's jousting pole.
Tyler Fisher
So, did he lance her a lot?
Justin Davis
reminder that the majority of early Lancelot-cycle Arthurian stories were openly satirical of 13th and 14th century rulers and not pure fantasy in their own right
Chretien de Troyes wrote the OG Lancelot Knight of the Cart which was basically just a 200 page takedown of the lady who paid him to write it
Dylan James
Honestly the worst part of Excalibur was the golden age of Camelot scenes. It looked like a fishtank.
The Grail Quest act is one of my favorite sequences in film.
Julian Wright
James Perez
Levi Lopez
At first she didn't like him that much, though she was flattered by his honesty. Then Arthur sentenced her to death, Lancelot was wounded defended her honor. I think Excalibur does a MUCH better job of portraying Guenevere sympathetically than most Arthurian stuff. Arthur seriously wronged her, even though he loved her.
God damn this movie is good.
Caleb Watson
>tfw reading Morte d'Arthur
>gets to the Lancelot chapters
>suddenly gets very personal feeling
Malory was a sad dude.
Jack Richardson
Boorman's original cut was 3+ hours and apparently featured a lot more scenes with Lancelot and Guinevere.
Ayden Bennett
>did she really just break the bond between arthur and lancelot for some dick?
All she broke was her marital vows, Lancelot's the one who fucked his best friend's wife.
Ian Kelly
>implying any of that is an excuse to fuck your husband's best friend
She wanted to fuck Lancelot even before that. She was a whore. She plunged the kingdom into years of turmoil because she couldn't control herself.
Daniel Jones
>the VIRGIN Vulgate Cycle vs the CHAD Carolingian Cycle
Jordan Bell
Owen Myers
How come books and songs written in the middle ages and early renaissance feel more primitive and alien than either the Iliad or Odyssey? Is it just the translations?
Jonathan Morris
save the moralizing for someone who gives a fuck. Her moral degradation and slavery before her passion are (1/2 of) the essence of the work, and it's part of Boorman's greatness in conceiving the story that he doesn't shy away from that in anyway. The psychology of characters is the root of drama.
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Jackson Kelly
>Her moral degradation and slavery before her passion
>boo hoo i want to fuck lancelot and not my husband woe is me
Ian Nguyen
will we ever get Arthurian kino again?
Mason Mitchell
Why are you putting all of the blame on her and not Lancelot?
Juan Rivera
Why would anyone even bother when Excalibur exists?
Oliver Cruz
those feet, made by a true artiste
Anthony Fisher
I'm not. They're both to blame but the post I was replying to was about Guinevere.
Michael Cox
Based foot appriciator