The topic of King Arthur in movies always attracts these ppl who take it waaay too seriously but also don't know much abt it. Like baseballhttps://twitter.com/anne_theriault/status/869035171428917252 …
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It's really excruciating when ppl pretend like King Arthur is the origin of liberal democracy or something
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Like trying to make the Golden Age of Baseball be about America's innocence or whatever
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I haven't seen the new King Arthur so this isn't about that
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I still remember an interview with a prof who earnestly explained why Monty Python and the Holy Grail was the most "authentic" Arthur film
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Bc by satirizing it with an outsider's eye and not trying to identify with it they got much closer to what the tales are actually like
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Instead of projecting onto it to make it a goddamn political metaphor or epic love story or whatever
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But isn't that what myths are for, projecting what's important to the current culture? This is why we have superheroes, no?
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Sure, sure. King Arthur is just so hard to do without getting maudlin though
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Or bombastic like Boorman's Excalibur (which I love).
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