The Review On Movie About King Arthur

King Arthur and his Knights of Round Table, is not just about a king from medieval period, charged on horseback wearing a shining armor and a wonderful sword in hand gathering Knights around a table fighting for the chivalric code. It is a tale of passion, love, death, suffering, noble deeds, chivalry and destruction. Being a classic romantic narrative, King Arthur and his Knights of Round Table is a tale of bravery and loyalty. King Arthur is the most famous character from the literature of middle English period. But, whether or not there was a king named Arthur is a matter of dispute, as the accounts of Arthur, whether real or fictitious, were passed on by word of mouth for over 500 years. The basis of the tales are historical writings that are injured over centuries by various types of forces and fashioned by history. 

This not just a story but a tragedy of a king losing his queen and finally his kingdom. In the 12th century several accounts of Arthur were written, and in the late 12th century huge number of French writers took up his story. There were many writers writing about King Arthur but the most important of them was Chretien de Troyes, a writer writing under the patronage of Countess Maree who is the daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Works by Chretien probably gave the point to Malory to start his work. The model which Geoffrey presented in his book was more of political nature while, on the other hand, the model which was represented by Chretien de Troyes was of heroic origin highlighting the bravery, valor, chivalry and loyalty of King Arthur. In the year 1470, the most famous of prose romance i.e. ‘

The whole book of King Arthur and his noble knights of the Round Table’ was written by Thomas Malory. Further, in 1485, William Caxton produced the first printed known version of Malory’s original text under the title ‘Le Morte D Arthur’. Caxton’s version was the only known manuscript of Malory’s version until the discovery of an earlier manuscript in 1934 in a safe. This earlier manuscript was dated between 1471 & 1483 written probably by 2 scribes. Caxton’s version formed a base for Howard Pyle’s graphic book entitled ‘The Story of King Arthur and his Knights’. Also, there happens to be a movie based on Pyle’s book, ‘The Kid who would be King’ directed by Joe Cornish. The story revolves around a boy named Alex who happens to be of 12 years old and, one day, all of a sudden, he comes across the sword of King Arthur, Excalibur, in the stone at a construction site, from then on, his life took a turn which happens to be really adventurous. Here, one can very well see the coming together of old-world mythology & the modern world. Just like Arthur, Alex reunites his friends as well as his enemies. They became knights and join forces with the legendary wizard, Merlin, against Arthur’s half-sister Morgana and her army of supernatural warriors. This movie appears to be a modern adaptation of Pyle’s work, which in turn, based on Caxton’s Le Morte D’ Arthur.