Catching Up

[revdorothyl]

I just returned from spending a week with my family in Wisconsin, during which I told my parents that I'd like to move back there when my current lease expires at the end of August (no sense paying exhorbitant rents here, when I don't have a teaching assignment in the Fall and I KNOW that the social and personal isolation here is not helping either

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[keswindhover]

Welcome back to LJ.

*continues plan to recruit you into my evil scheme to Take Over The World*

[revdorothyl]

I'm ready and willing to do my evil minion bit, when called for, chief!

King Arthur

[klytaimnestra]

What was the director's cut ending? I've only seen the happy one. I thought the movie tried to do interesting things but somehow failed in the end; lots of interesting research and history could not overcome a formulaic plot, or something. But I'll see Clive Owen in anything. Almost anything; not anything he's been in lately, sadly.

Re: King Arthur

[revdorothyl]

It ended with a funeral, rather than a wedding, to maintain the 'tragic' quality of it (you know the old saying, you can tell Shakespeare's comedies from his tragedies, because the comedies end with a wedding and the tragedies with a death?). People SORT of come together around the burial of some of the knights and the cremation of Lancelot, and then the little kid that the one knight had rescued and befriended, goes over to that knight's grave and attempts to pull the sword from it, in his pain and grief and need to strike out. He can't do it, but Arthur (with Guinevere close at hand, I'll admit) tells him, "Don't worry. Someday, you'll be strong enough." Which was what, according to the voiceover commentary, the director had been trying to communicate with his movie -- you don't need magical swords or stones or stuff like that, but if you keep trying, someday you'll be strong enough to do what you have to do.

Re: King Arthur

[revdorothyl]

Oh, and from what my brother said (who'd also seen the theatrical version and stopped in to watch for a few minutes early on), there were many conversations and scenes throughout the movie that were longer in the director's cut than in the theatrical, and since most of the extended scenes seemed to play to the ambiguity and complexity of the characters, that might make it worth taking a second look, if your local library or rental place also has the director's cut DVD on hand.