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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Like really from a modern POV, King Arthur is kind of a doofus, and the tales are just a bunch of weird shit happening in a row
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The Sword and the Stone captures this really well, whereas TH White's sequels fall headlong into having to say something Important abt today
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Which makes sense, bc Merlyn in that book IS T.H. White projected into the past, and as he reverse ages he becomes more like the author
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(Don't tell me you didn't pick up on Merlyn literally being the author, it is extremely bloody obvious)
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