great film remember watching this when i was eight this and highlander dont make movies like this anymore the 80's was the shit proud to have grown up in that decade! like if u agree.
I wish I had a video of my face my first time watching this. The 3:50 point until the end had mE completely enthralled--music/scene/story. It is still in my top 5 favorite movies to this day.
Yep, it's a great film, far better than anything about Arthur made recently.
Real shame that I didn't get the sound right with this clip, but people still like it. Thankyou to Warner for claiming the Copyright, but allowing it to stay on channel: it can only be of benefit to do that, making serious viewers get the DVD to see the whole film.
John Boorman is a genius director and composed this movie so beautifully. Terry English is a master metal worker and did a fantastic job on all the armour.
I like this part of the movie, the sword gets thrown into the lake and taken by Nimue, the Lady of the Lake. Then the part where they take Arthur's body to Avalon by boat. Awesome.
I loved this movie when i was around 12 and still love it now :) I remember i taped it off TV onto VHS during that time in the 80's and now i am 37 years old. How time does pass ;)
@mikesey1 I never did get back to you about that. YES you are right, Merlin & Camelot are utterly ridiculous, they are too pretty and not gritty and dark enough, whilst the actors are all pretty boys which gives it hardly any sense of realism.
I am going to show this movie to my kids and I am only 23 now and not planing on any kids lately...Imagine the face of kids in 2025 ( I guess ) with all fancy special effects in that time XD PURE EPIC CLASSIC MOVIE...o yea and great video man XD
man there is no magic in cartoons anymore not just in the movies...that is way I download-ed all cartoons from my childhood... Princ Valiant, Conan The Adventurer, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, RoboTech and lets not forget Transformers and TMNT (new age Transformers and TMNT SUCKS BIG TIME!!!!) no woonder way kids are geting stupid and epileptic if you take a look on some cartoons XD
@haoss5ice I'm 23 as well and I was shown this I think at the age of 8 or 9. I didn't really understand the deeper meanings more clearly until I was much older, however.
Regardless, I too would probably show this to my kids as well at some point. I wouldn't want them to be completely exposed to all the "cool movies" with forgettable plots.
Music, actors, story and even the dialogues are quite epic (well, it is not the Iliad, the Pharsalia or the Song of the Nibelungs) but for a movie very brilliant; and one of the very few positive examples of the possibility to create art and tell tales in the modern world, which is given to tedious boredom, dull hyper-criticism and timid selfishness; so more of that and life will become normal again, as it makes a use difference between having Alexander the Great as a role model or Gandhi!
Ah, such a majestic, poetic ending, the music, the imagery, so beautiful! And then the end credits come on, and it's in the same font as a packet of SPANGLES.
It's like Boorman was blowing a giant raspberry at us all...
i realize I grew up in the 80s so im a litle older than your average fan guy here but EXCALIBER still is an iconically awesome sword and sorcerey film and the prototype for so many copycats in the decades after. John Boormans classic film is a brutal filthy spectacle that still leaps off the screen for me every time I see it. And the way Boorman's lighting crew bounces green light off of the armor of the knights made the forrest seem alive to me when I first viewed this as a 12 year old kid.
Haha..who is the Fearest...The Fearrow or The Fearest????...One liked to row and the other liked to rest....And they both liked a dare....Nothing like a challenge to keep the fires burning and the boat rocking...Now the race against time with the Black, White or Golden Horse...Haha the race is on!!!!! Jessie/Jan xxx
Who is the lady from the lake???... for she was not from the lake..The real ones were from the sea...For the so called lady of the lake stole from the lady of the sea..For she and her other Male Twin Lived in the sea...The Sea Shell...Does Legend have it, King Neptune and his Firery little sea horse....For king Neptune loved to sing and his hot little seahorse kept him a light...She was the fire that burned right down in his soul.....And this is very true...Jessie/Jan xx
@anythingnew Funny, most of us would know the music to be that of Richard Wagner, epic German composer who wrote the great operas "Tristan und Isolde" (sometimes described as the start of modern music) and "Parsifal."
@anythingnew I think you would really enjoy getting ahold of a CD or two with Wagner's Overtures. I bought such items as vinyl LPs long ago and wore them down playing them so much. I hope you find this advice helpful and that you have an enjoyable experience. Good luck.
ummm. didn't the death of mordrid and arthur happen the other way around? cuz it was mordrid who got stabbed by the pike and dragged himself down the pole wounding arthur. i don't see any reason why they changed it around.
@bh5496 Because the film is called "Excalibur" and Boorman's vision focuses heavily on the transition from a Pagan Britain to a Christian one. Morgana specifically enchants Mordred's armor so that no sword made of man could pierce it. In killing Mordred, the sword puts an end to its own era and disappears with the Lady of the Lake until that fated time Arthur mentions. The whole sunrise/sunset motif. About the only consistency in Arthurian legend is the diversity of its interpretations.
@bh5496 The version presented here allows for Excalibur to deal the final blow. Mordrid's armor is enchanted so naturally you need a magical weapon to penetrate his armor. Excalibur has a life of its own. So resolving this conflict with Excalibur is essential to making this final scene an EPIC one that would stand the test of time and set the standard for other films of the same genre.
this was the most beautiful movie about King Arthur!! Absolutely stunning!! All other King Arthur movies pale in comparison. And the scene with his body going out to sea,,,,, wow.
This movie is great, epic, but it was a gross mistake that none of the horses at the movie is caparisoned. Nobles always had caparisoned/barded chargers. The horse that Percival mounts, for instance, looks like that it was found around vaguing the streets of a town.
An interesting point. I am not sure that the larger Arabian strains of horse were seen in England at that time.Even much later, during the English civil-wars of the 17th century, the horses were much smaller than seen today, well, so I heard anyway!
Btw, These armors are really beautiful! I'd pay for the whole set if I found it for sale! Specially the black one used by Arthur at the beggining of the movie.
A Germanic piece of music for a Celtic king who fought against the Germanic Anglo-Saxons who later became the English who are now proud of that Celtic king. Gosh, that's a mess...
I think John Boorman always chooses music to fit the film, the same as I do with my videos. For instance, take a look at my "Real Camelot" video: the soundtrack does not seem like it was about Robots, yet it fits quite nicely with the main theme of the video. I live in hope that the Alan Parsons Project like it too, evidently some people do :)
Further, if you've the time, look at Stanley Kubrick's films, like "2001 a space Odyssey" and others of his.
@mikesey1 I wasnt saing that music was bad choice it was wonderfull and fiting choice for such movie! I coulnt find better soundtrack than this! After all the King Arthur Legends have been germanized to various points many characters such as Percival were Germanic Inventions the King Arthur legend in sense belongs now to all Europe not just to the Bryttonic peoples that "probaly" had the real King Arthur that probaly has little or none relation to the mythical one that we so much love
In sense King Arthur became the hero for all European Peoples the model that Knigths should folow isnt ironical that people that the "true" or "historical" king arthur fough the Anglo Saxons that were after all the English! Adopt their "old" and "mythical" nemesis has their heroic patron aswell! I coulnt agree more with you on John Boorman Stanley Kubrick's choices for the osts of their movies they coulnt more divine on their choice of their soundtracks for their movies
King Arthur didn't become the hero for all Europeans, he always was albeit under a variety of names. Thematically Arthur is simply one expression of a perennially reoccurring masculine cycle in the pre-Christian western world, from as far east as Iraq to the western shores of Ireland.
Granted, Arthur is a wonderfully realized regional variant. But if the stage dressing got rearranged with time the ancient plot points nevertheless remained the same;)
But the land of the Anglo-Saxons (= England) eventually won. The present-day English kingdom should therefore celebrate Alfred the Great instead of someone who fought against what would later become England.
Funny how such presentations of Arthur's passage into Ynys Avallach in the movie Excalibur, the Le Morte D'Arthur, and others seemed so heavily influenced by a more brooding Saxon feel worthy of Beowulf's end.
So the Richard Wagner soundtrack: Prelude to Parsifal, Prelude to Tristan and Isolde, and especially Siegfried's Funeral March from The Ring seem more than appropriate,
Even though allegedly the Saxons were his enemies.
I saw this movie when I was a teenager. I had read the story of course but it was definitely my favorite movie for a long time and still one of them. I remember being incredibly moved when Percival throws the sword and the lady of the lake's hand draws it down into the water. The music that goes into that scene just made it captivating. I just watched it and got chills. I love that movie.
ARTHUR- When you cast it in what did you see PARCIVAL- I saw nothing but the wind on the water My King I could not do it Excalibur cannot be lost, other men... ARTHUR- Do as I command One day a King will come and the Sword will rise again ---------------- Myrrddin has not forgotten and now the powers are waking from the long sleep- The sword will rise once more and find its scabbard, the grail will be refound, our King will Return. Kernow bys vyken!
I still want to know how the hell they did that pulling of the sword, straight down into the lake, in an era before CGI, and created only a hint of a ripple on the surface.
One of the most epic scenes in all of medieval movie history.
@Barricade Yes no CGI.. The trick is reverse film footage of that scene to make it look like it was thrown into the Lady of the Lake's hand, thus no ripples of the water..
Truely epic scene & also my 1st favourite British film of all time followed by Alan Clarke's The Firm (1988) & Paul McGuigan's Gangster No.1 (2000)..
Can I have my say in this discussion! I was born in Co Wicklow Ireland and now I live in Dover , Kent. The film Excalibur was made in Co Wicklow, and Co Kerry , Ireland. see film Excalibur Wikipedia for more inf.
This film sure was shot in The Irish Republic, probably the only place with enough unspoiled countryside to do it, though I hear it's not quite the same now. :(
@rcdnphy AN ANOTHER THING HISTORY HAS NO VAULE OTHER THEN PROVEING FOOLS SOME THE ACTORS STILL LISTED BETTER THEN WHOM CRIED MORE MONEY THEY WERE SCHOOLED BY STAGE ACTOR, 30 YEAR REPORT OF CRIME SEEN IS ENDED A SAFTY BLOCK OF REAL MASS MURDERING LANDLORDS OF THE MOIVES AN CONTRACT SCIENCE PERSONS, WEB TYPEING, YET FAMMON FOR ACTORS NEVER WAYS
AN SOME YOUR HISTORY IS NO TRUE YET USA MOST THE HISTORY IS TO THE CHILD JEW GREED OR PARTY, THE HAVE CUSSED ME ONCE MORE
@rcdnphy then now i never have taken to drink as asked or smoke , yet
30 years block of crime on real crimes most has been me, yet one my name eric
i do no fight over words, an i all ways finish what has to be done, sad so can you see what is do you dream or have you presumed to be it all still selfish your way to say such past, no even hade other country , rome been cussed to much as we owned the greek still sad when they did no lisson an lived under war on places past what that race dose
@rcdnphy born in to a prison of safty of persons whom have history manner under addvice an letter , sad the ax was never my name an gods are but a try any treasion
still the air was better an i found a flaw on faces a stammer of men
as i made no battel first still human helth an history 30 year punishment on moive maker crime all most ends a senator order to let me guard others with report is dead news say
@rcdnphy still wisard they say what color the orbe shot for all colors can be my own is golden , the elf have been order to replace the minds of woman as crime races presumed to slave by hair an breed, easy such rules i exist an guarded in exchange
uk still uses me as this child 33 years old to find places to live yet history is best a broken rule sad , seen any ufo gov science medical or space buckingham is a odd place may be i took it over as a test of europe for a moment the shows alos
@rcdnphy still not my wars only i helped clean the mess up history persons have been teaching lies for money once more why i only use my own blood an body,
yet real are the not mortal an real are the men same as my self whom will brake the rules
to change events or even block what would of been real human life
liveing in america europe i owned not just a state town war lords still emergrance
@mikesey1, yeah it's Great we got such a varied History both Fact and Fiction. Yeah I watched 'The Emerald Forest' the other day, Powers Booth not seen in years and Charlie Boorman as his son, ha ha I was watching and thinking Oi where's his Motorbike LOL :)
Throw the sword into the lake sir Percival...as one day a king will rise again!. Never in our history have we ever needed King Arthurs words... to come so true for England as we do now!. I know this may be a myth...but the legend of King Arthur is a legend that will always live in the hearts of the true English.
@vortigern5 England is the better part of Briton...so he was English!...don't split heirs..as only stupid brainless twits play that kind of mindless game!!!.
Technically, "English" and "England" are Saxon names!
England= "Angleland" land of the Angles or, (a teutonic race who invaded with the other "Saxons" including the Jutes and applied to this part of Britannia, the name given by the Romans. "Angleland maybe a reference also to the Angelic blonde good looks of the Angles, or "Angels".
Funny enough the invading Saxon races were always referred to by the Britons as the "English" which means that it is a late name..
@mikesey1....I suppose you are trying to show me you are knowledgeable about the History of England towards me....you needn't have bothered by the way...I already knew the facts you have highlighted about Englands history...due to the fact that over my lifetime..... being English... I actually paid interest to the History of these Isles in which I have lived.
Perhaps someone who is not English on here will learn something new. For me however it is common knowledge!. Thanks anyway!.
I take your point, but you insisted on naming England and Arthur as English, which he wasn't, as the name is Saxon, and he fought them; well as legend says!
@mikesey1 The name'Britain' is derived from Brutus (of Troy)-who by myth and according to 'The Matter of Britain' together with his fellow Trojan Corineus were ancient founders of Britain+Cornwall. Among expert antiquarians and experts of mythology The Matter of Britain is regarded as being the same to Britain as Homer's Odyssey and the Illiad are to Greek mythology and the history of Ancient Greece.Long Live the Victory at Badon, Long Live Arthur and All His Descendants-True Men of Reknown.
The legends of the Mater de Bretagne is that Lugh Lamhfada founded London (Lugh Dunum). But later with such figures as Nennius they tried to Christianize it with Brutus, as well as Romanize the origins through Troy refugees.
In fact, large swaths of the later churchmen's version seemed swiped from the adventures of Anchises, Aeneas and Ascanius with both the Lily Maid of Astolat, and some other tragic women seemingly derived from Dido.
@vortigern5.....?.... Im sorry silly me...missed the Scottish twang and the welsh accent....not to mention the Irish banter he so regularly came out with...? He was an out and out Englishman if ever there was one!....Briton in name maybe?...English by the true grace of GOD!
@twlthteg I suppose by your asinine comment your Scottish perhaps? or some kind of Welsh looser? and as a consequence quite the racist towards all things English I suspect?....We have many...hero's... Lord Admiral Nelson being just one of them for Instance. So do me a favor and go be a Racist some where else OK?. England would be a wealthy country if it wasn't for you worthless Racist leeches!. You now have your own parliaments and or assemblies, so you no longer have to point the.....
@twlthteg .....finger at England any more....so when you fuck up and waste money and can't find your own head up your own arses....you can only blame yourselves this time round...Good Luck and good riddance....one day England will have it's own parliament and then your truly fucked...as no more hand outs will be coming forth to you spongers like before!. Let's see where your Racist views lead you then??????.
@shangrilar O.k., Firstly it's spelled "loser" and "favour", Oxford English Dictionary, try looking it up. Secondly, try some history lessons. And thirdly calm down dear, it's only YouTube. I understand though, I myself have recently returned from a teaching post reaccqainting the English with their own language. How I loved your historic wars and quaint customs. Nice use of asinine by the way. Have you had lessons recently?
death to the waylsh britons! victory to Ongeltheod
ThomasRowsell 2 weeks ago
scenes are so brutal/hard,and yet beautiful/real. piece of 80s art!
+ love the piece of intestine on spear from arthurs body. such detail.there had to be times exactly like these
1WhoMee1 3 weeks ago
great film remember watching this when i was eight this and highlander dont make movies like this anymore the 80's was the shit proud to have grown up in that decade! like if u agree.
todd4eva1 1 month ago
Excellent movie i have it in my vhs collection. The realness of a epic movie with an outstanding soundtrack.
ebony38ish 1 month ago 2
@ebony38ish yeh great soundtrack!! from the late trevor jones.
todd4eva1 1 month ago
I wish I had a video of my face my first time watching this. The 3:50 point until the end had mE completely enthralled--music/scene/story. It is still in my top 5 favorite movies to this day.
realityright 1 month ago 4
@realityright
Yep, it's a great film, far better than anything about Arthur made recently.
Real shame that I didn't get the sound right with this clip, but people still like it. Thankyou to Warner for claiming the Copyright, but allowing it to stay on channel: it can only be of benefit to do that, making serious viewers get the DVD to see the whole film.
mikesey1 3 weeks ago
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realityright 1 month ago
WAGNER!
Nixonfan2011 2 months ago 2
@Nixonfan2011
Yes, it is!
mikesey1 1 month ago
It's the best movie about King Arthur that I have ever seen. All other copies seem cheap, neither has this epic beauty
Macabecio 2 months ago 2
best movie ever ....
PauldeMolay79 2 months ago 2
John Boorman is a genius director and composed this movie so beautifully. Terry English is a master metal worker and did a fantastic job on all the armour.
NATVSON1 2 months ago 6
@NATVSON1 Agree on your entire comment. Terry English, you are a genius. The armour in this film was spectacular.
GunnCommanderX 2 months ago 2
We await your' return!
Mithrindir1 2 months ago
I don't remember Mordred striking Arthur with a spear. Didn't he bash him on the side of his head with a sword?
Agent1W 3 months ago
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ROFL this homoerotic grunting white male wagner proto nazi bs lol
Afroxec 3 months ago
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what a HORRIBLE movie. thumbs down, F!
Afroxec 3 months ago
I like this part of the movie, the sword gets thrown into the lake and taken by Nimue, the Lady of the Lake. Then the part where they take Arthur's body to Avalon by boat. Awesome.
pspboy7 3 months ago 2
to my big brother Robbie , love you always Noel.
ncahill1 3 months ago 5
@ncahill1
That's always nice to read.
mikesey1 3 months ago
What a classic scene and the Lady of the Lake for the resting place for Excalibur , THe Sword in the stone...Carlo57
cferolie 3 months ago 2
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The Legends are real. The Castle is the Castle at Questenberg, Germany. There is where you will find King Arthur's Castle.
downyourtube 4 months ago
Watched this as a kid, and this ending music never got out of my head... such an epic and impacting end. Twilights of the Gods indeed
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No better music to be played than the Funeral March of Siegfried.
BINGFRYSRDUN 4 months ago
I loved this movie when i was around 12 and still love it now :) I remember i taped it off TV onto VHS during that time in the 80's and now i am 37 years old. How time does pass ;)
blade004 5 months ago 8
@blade004 Indeed it does,
but we can still enjoy good films like this, and ignore silly stuff we see on TV like "Merlin" on BBC., and "Camelot" on Channel 4!
mikesey1 5 months ago
@mikesey1 I never did get back to you about that. YES you are right, Merlin & Camelot are utterly ridiculous, they are too pretty and not gritty and dark enough, whilst the actors are all pretty boys which gives it hardly any sense of realism.
blade004 3 months ago
@blade004
What does this have to do with realism?
ireload2 2 months ago
@ireload2 I said a "sense" of realism through it's grittiness rather than it feeling watered down with everything pretty and sanitized.
blade004 2 months ago
@mikesey1 Another movie i loved back then was "Sword of the Valiant" which had Miles O'keefe as Sir Gawain and Sean Connery as the Green Knight :)
blade004 3 months ago
master piece classic!!
toppguun 5 months ago
Man that sun takes a long time to set!
antyrr1an 5 months ago 2
Dude, you can see the royal guts at the end of that spear :P
Gilgamesh149 6 months ago 2
You could argue that Excalibur represents the bravery of the British people,and that it rises back in dire times when its needed (like during WWII).
SardaukarPrime 6 months ago 4
Wow, when they say knights in shining armour, they REALLY mean shiny!
19lemons93 6 months ago 4
I am going to show this movie to my kids and I am only 23 now and not planing on any kids lately...Imagine the face of kids in 2025 ( I guess ) with all fancy special effects in that time XD PURE EPIC CLASSIC MOVIE...o yea and great video man XD
haoss5ice 6 months ago 13
@haoss5ice
Just compare this film with stuff made now, and look at that "Camelot" thing on Channel 4; no magic no nothing.
mikesey1 6 months ago
man there is no magic in cartoons anymore not just in the movies...that is way I download-ed all cartoons from my childhood... Princ Valiant, Conan The Adventurer, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, RoboTech and lets not forget Transformers and TMNT (new age Transformers and TMNT SUCKS BIG TIME!!!!) no woonder way kids are geting stupid and epileptic if you take a look on some cartoons XD
haoss5ice 6 months ago 4
@haoss5ice I'm 23 as well and I was shown this I think at the age of 8 or 9. I didn't really understand the deeper meanings more clearly until I was much older, however.
Regardless, I too would probably show this to my kids as well at some point. I wouldn't want them to be completely exposed to all the "cool movies" with forgettable plots.
Waxer3929 5 months ago
MAGNIFIQUE IN THE COURT OF THE DRAGON MY LORD:)
faraon2012 7 months ago 2
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" Immigration and the Moral Right to Save Europe and the West! "
Achilles1389 7 months ago 2
Arthurian Legend + the music from Wagner's 'Ring Cycle'... It surely doesn't get any better than this?
The moment the sword submerges into the water gives me goosebumps every time...
81Mace81 7 months ago 3
Music, actors, story and even the dialogues are quite epic (well, it is not the Iliad, the Pharsalia or the Song of the Nibelungs) but for a movie very brilliant; and one of the very few positive examples of the possibility to create art and tell tales in the modern world, which is given to tedious boredom, dull hyper-criticism and timid selfishness; so more of that and life will become normal again, as it makes a use difference between having Alexander the Great as a role model or Gandhi!
FireEyedMaidOfWar 7 months ago 3
Forever In My Heart. I Stand Proud.
Spraycando 7 months ago 2
-where is Robert Taylor??
jackaroe1963 7 months ago
@jackaroe1963
He's not in this one :)
mikesey1 7 months ago
@jackaroe1963 i keep the last version
jackaroe1963 7 months ago
Ah, such a majestic, poetic ending, the music, the imagery, so beautiful! And then the end credits come on, and it's in the same font as a packet of SPANGLES.
It's like Boorman was blowing a giant raspberry at us all...
Sleazyslacks 8 months ago 3
@Sleazyslacks
Having the CD of the music to listen to at will is an added advantage!
mikesey1 8 months ago
WHAT is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
catalystleader 8 months ago 2
@catalystleader What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
Kriegerdammerung 7 months ago 3
@Kriegerdammerung I.....I don't know that.....(plunges into pit) AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
catalystleader 7 months ago 2
What is the secret of the Holy Grail? The King and the Land are One.
rogkeista 8 months ago 4
Wagner is very suggestive!!!!!!!
iam100ify 8 months ago 2
i realize I grew up in the 80s so im a litle older than your average fan guy here but EXCALIBER still is an iconically awesome sword and sorcerey film and the prototype for so many copycats in the decades after. John Boormans classic film is a brutal filthy spectacle that still leaps off the screen for me every time I see it. And the way Boorman's lighting crew bounces green light off of the armor of the knights made the forrest seem alive to me when I first viewed this as a 12 year old kid.
masseyHHVP 8 months ago 5
King Arthur is real and this is look intersting.
oleksiy22 9 months ago 4
Siegfried's funeral march is entirely out of place here. Disgusting.
ILOVEBIZARREFOODS 9 months ago
Part Biblical,part fantasy,great,great movie.
johnvictor123 9 months ago 3
the genius is all wagner's
danielfalush 9 months ago 3
Haha..who is the Fearest...The Fearrow or The Fearest????...One liked to row and the other liked to rest....And they both liked a dare....Nothing like a challenge to keep the fires burning and the boat rocking...Now the race against time with the Black, White or Golden Horse...Haha the race is on!!!!! Jessie/Jan xxx
jessie101ist 10 months ago
Truly awesome. Sends a chill up your spine so many scenes in this film.
abbamanic 10 months ago 2
Who is the lady from the lake???... for she was not from the lake..The real ones were from the sea...For the so called lady of the lake stole from the lady of the sea..For she and her other Male Twin Lived in the sea...The Sea Shell...Does Legend have it, King Neptune and his Firery little sea horse....For king Neptune loved to sing and his hot little seahorse kept him a light...She was the fire that burned right down in his soul.....And this is very true...Jessie/Jan xx
jessie101ist 10 months ago 2
@jessie101ist
An interesting comment!
mikesey1 10 months ago
Can you imagine what would happen now if some slacker claims he has the authority to rule the world because a woman in a lake gave him a magic sword?
JulianConrad666 10 months ago 2
Can't wait to watch this on Blu-Ray!
IWannabeJew 10 months ago 3
Every time I watch this scene I always hear the song "Strawberry Fields".
anythingnew 10 months ago 3
@anythingnew
What, living is easy with eyes closed? ;)
mikesey1 10 months ago
@mikesey1
Yeah. Final Fantasy Tactics too. And roast beef.
anythingnew 10 months ago 2
@anythingnew Funny, most of us would know the music to be that of Richard Wagner, epic German composer who wrote the great operas "Tristan und Isolde" (sometimes described as the start of modern music) and "Parsifal."
rr7firefly1 10 months ago 2
@rr7firefly1
Oh, well I didn't know. But now I do.
anythingnew 10 months ago 2
@anythingnew I think you would really enjoy getting ahold of a CD or two with Wagner's Overtures. I bought such items as vinyl LPs long ago and wore them down playing them so much. I hope you find this advice helpful and that you have an enjoyable experience. Good luck.
rr7firefly1 10 months ago 2
Boorman's masterpiece.
diddymuck 11 months ago
This is one of the best films I have ever seen. It still stands the test of time.
superwakoo 11 months ago 8
Epic!
chris77anna 11 months ago
wagners stirring music from the ring of nibelung which took him 26 years to compose now thats epic good post
whatsgoingonthen 11 months ago 4
ummm. didn't the death of mordrid and arthur happen the other way around? cuz it was mordrid who got stabbed by the pike and dragged himself down the pole wounding arthur. i don't see any reason why they changed it around.
bh5496 1 year ago 4
@bh5496
I'm afraid that I couldn't tell you, mate.
mikesey1 1 year ago
@bh5496 Because the film is called "Excalibur" and Boorman's vision focuses heavily on the transition from a Pagan Britain to a Christian one. Morgana specifically enchants Mordred's armor so that no sword made of man could pierce it. In killing Mordred, the sword puts an end to its own era and disappears with the Lady of the Lake until that fated time Arthur mentions. The whole sunrise/sunset motif. About the only consistency in Arthurian legend is the diversity of its interpretations.
phimseto 11 months ago 4
@bh5496 The version presented here allows for Excalibur to deal the final blow. Mordrid's armor is enchanted so naturally you need a magical weapon to penetrate his armor. Excalibur has a life of its own. So resolving this conflict with Excalibur is essential to making this final scene an EPIC one that would stand the test of time and set the standard for other films of the same genre.
kardtable 11 months ago 6
@kardtable Mordred's armour, not Mordrid.
Kriegerdammerung 7 months ago
@bh5496 nope.this is the real way because mordrid could only be killed by excalibur.
gameplayer117 11 months ago 2
@bh5496 Surely they changed it round so that Arthur would get to use Excalibur on Mordred, giving it even more significance.
81Mace81 7 months ago
this was the most beautiful movie about King Arthur!! Absolutely stunning!! All other King Arthur movies pale in comparison. And the scene with his body going out to sea,,,,, wow.
marym499 1 year ago 4
This movie is great, epic, but it was a gross mistake that none of the horses at the movie is caparisoned. Nobles always had caparisoned/barded chargers. The horse that Percival mounts, for instance, looks like that it was found around vaguing the streets of a town.
Swordman85 1 year ago 2
@Swordman85
An interesting point. I am not sure that the larger Arabian strains of horse were seen in England at that time.Even much later, during the English civil-wars of the 17th century, the horses were much smaller than seen today, well, so I heard anyway!
mikesey1 10 months ago
@mikesey1
Wandering, I meant.
Btw, These armors are really beautiful! I'd pay for the whole set if I found it for sale! Specially the black one used by Arthur at the beggining of the movie.
Swordman85 10 months ago 2
A Germanic piece of music for a Celtic king who fought against the Germanic Anglo-Saxons who later became the English who are now proud of that Celtic king. Gosh, that's a mess...
HerrWagnerfreund 1 year ago 4
@HerrWagnerfreund
Oh well, never mind eh, Freund?
It all comes out in the Wasser! :)
mikesey1 1 year ago
@HerrWagnerfreund Well yeah, but that is the English way!
quesondriac 1 year ago
@HerrWagnerfreund Seems to me, an epic story deserves epic music.
reddiaperbaby 1 year ago 3
@HerrWagnerfreund The Germanic piece of music is for Siegrefied not Arthur XD just saing
ImperialGuard9001 10 months ago
O, what an useful piece of information unknown to me yet...
HerrWagnerfreund 10 months ago
@ImperialGuard9001
I think John Boorman always chooses music to fit the film, the same as I do with my videos. For instance, take a look at my "Real Camelot" video: the soundtrack does not seem like it was about Robots, yet it fits quite nicely with the main theme of the video. I live in hope that the Alan Parsons Project like it too, evidently some people do :)
Further, if you've the time, look at Stanley Kubrick's films, like "2001 a space Odyssey" and others of his.
mikesey1 10 months ago
@mikesey1 I wasnt saing that music was bad choice it was wonderfull and fiting choice for such movie! I coulnt find better soundtrack than this! After all the King Arthur Legends have been germanized to various points many characters such as Percival were Germanic Inventions the King Arthur legend in sense belongs now to all Europe not just to the Bryttonic peoples that "probaly" had the real King Arthur that probaly has little or none relation to the mythical one that we so much love
ImperialGuard9001 10 months ago
In sense King Arthur became the hero for all European Peoples the model that Knigths should folow isnt ironical that people that the "true" or "historical" king arthur fough the Anglo Saxons that were after all the English! Adopt their "old" and "mythical" nemesis has their heroic patron aswell! I coulnt agree more with you on John Boorman Stanley Kubrick's choices for the osts of their movies they coulnt more divine on their choice of their soundtracks for their movies
ImperialGuard9001 10 months ago
@ImperialGuard9001: you need to go back and rewrite your posting.
Usually one can get the "gist" of what one has posted but yours is absolutely incomprehensible.
Were you in a hurry when you posted it?
English not your first language?
lukebccb 10 months ago
@ImperialGuard9001
King Arthur didn't become the hero for all Europeans, he always was albeit under a variety of names. Thematically Arthur is simply one expression of a perennially reoccurring masculine cycle in the pre-Christian western world, from as far east as Iraq to the western shores of Ireland.
Granted, Arthur is a wonderfully realized regional variant. But if the stage dressing got rearranged with time the ancient plot points nevertheless remained the same;)
lowenklee 4 months ago
@lowenklee - What a load of tosh.
King Arthur was a Briton.
He was and is Our Lord and King.
He has lead our host in battle 12 times in victory.
He vanquished the enemy at The Badon Hill c.500AD.
He was then later grievously wounded in battle.
He is now sleeping and we await his return.
Artorius Rex. Rex Quandam Rexque Futurus!
cornubian 4 months ago
@cornubian
/Shrug
Mutually Exclusive?
lowenklee 4 months ago
@lowenklee
Time will tell.
cornubian 4 months ago
But the land of the Anglo-Saxons (= England) eventually won. The present-day English kingdom should therefore celebrate Alfred the Great instead of someone who fought against what would later become England.
HerrWagnerfreund 3 months ago
I dont care where it was shot,it was a great film one of my all time favourites.
starman700 1 year ago 2
i hate this part, how they kill each other!
toppguun 1 year ago 3
epic movie!!
toppguun 1 year ago 2
@toppguun
Well, I've obliged, but you haven't said why you're an idiot!
mikesey1 1 year ago
i dont know wat people think but WTF was that the other movie called king arthue is better
TheDarkspecialist 1 year ago
WHEN THE REALM IS IN NEED THY KING SHALL RETURN AND I SHALL RIDE BY HIS SIDE TO VICTORY.
BEWARE OF THE FALSE ONES FOR THEY SHALL LEAD YOU TO THE GATES OF DARKNESS WITH THE COLOUR OF YELLOW METAL AND FALSE DREAMS.
skylon6 1 year ago 2
One of my favorite movies of all time.
jscottupton 1 year ago
Dude this is sweet!!11!1!!111!!1!!!
nicosome 1 year ago
The Once And Future King. He was.He is. He shall return. I Belive. Watch for the Sword.
Starjammerblue 1 year ago 2
Funny how such presentations of Arthur's passage into Ynys Avallach in the movie Excalibur, the Le Morte D'Arthur, and others seemed so heavily influenced by a more brooding Saxon feel worthy of Beowulf's end.
So the Richard Wagner soundtrack: Prelude to Parsifal, Prelude to Tristan and Isolde, and especially Siegfried's Funeral March from The Ring seem more than appropriate,
Even though allegedly the Saxons were his enemies.
ysbaddaden2003 1 year ago
I saw this movie when I was a teenager. I had read the story of course but it was definitely my favorite movie for a long time and still one of them. I remember being incredibly moved when Percival throws the sword and the lady of the lake's hand draws it down into the water. The music that goes into that scene just made it captivating. I just watched it and got chills. I love that movie.
realityright 1 year ago 2
A king without a sword! A land without a king!
kevinisgone 1 year ago 2
Thanks for uploading this Mikesey1
vortigern5 1 year ago 2
vortigern5 1 year ago 2
@vortigern5 A King without a sword, a land without a King..
Truely epic..
RevolverRaj 1 year ago
I still want to know how the hell they did that pulling of the sword, straight down into the lake, in an era before CGI, and created only a hint of a ripple on the surface.
One of the most epic scenes in all of medieval movie history.
Barricade 1 year ago 3
@Barricade Yes no CGI.. The trick is reverse film footage of that scene to make it look like it was thrown into the Lady of the Lake's hand, thus no ripples of the water..
Truely epic scene & also my 1st favourite British film of all time followed by Alan Clarke's The Firm (1988) & Paul McGuigan's Gangster No.1 (2000)..
RevolverRaj 1 year ago 2
Epic, europe has got some great ones!!!
pete0969wi 1 year ago 2
@fmoa Yeah! couldnt agree more.
draconzII 1 year ago
O MY GOD
sasuke0566 1 year ago
that was a sad ending.... king arthur rules
sasuke0566 1 year ago
is it just me or is this movie alot like 300, very gorey
WindRider182 1 year ago 2
this film is beautifully shot in ireland. ever since i saw this film, i've always want to go to ireland.
drubio12 1 year ago
One day a king will come and the sword will rise AGAIN!!!!! Great prophecy!
f666lucifero 1 year ago 2
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angelarock23 1 year ago
To Micksey1
R.Wagner hits the mark again and again in this superb film Micksey1.- Siegfrieds Funeral March in this scene
Recommend utubebroadcastyourself
Gotterdammerung " Vengeance trio " 4:00 mins - end.at 7:00 mins.
At this point the music developed in the previous section really takes off.
Solti conducting and the inimitable Birgit Nilsson inthe role of Brunnhilde
rcdnphy 1 year ago 3
Can I have my say in this discussion! I was born in Co Wicklow Ireland and now I live in Dover , Kent. The film Excalibur was made in Co Wicklow, and Co Kerry , Ireland. see film Excalibur Wikipedia for more inf.
rcdnphy 1 year ago 8
@rcdnphy
This film sure was shot in The Irish Republic, probably the only place with enough unspoiled countryside to do it, though I hear it's not quite the same now. :(
mikesey1 1 year ago
@mikesey1 indeed, infortunately.
Mazdak1 1 year ago
@rcdnphy odd place to be when i was a child , the history no is vaule same
as known manners , hunger was the actors way, i eric was there as a child
yet moive makers are crime lords of i hope this day past, so meny places crime
reported to gov offices, i healed my self once more, usa teaches less history
one my names was eric then i have recorded or lived, globel them druger crimes
some even gov, vaule your life take the 30 years block gov an i did in vaganaces
for real harm or death, SAY
SOWHATIMADEIT 1 year ago
@rcdnphy AN ANOTHER THING HISTORY HAS NO VAULE OTHER THEN PROVEING FOOLS SOME THE ACTORS STILL LISTED BETTER THEN WHOM CRIED MORE MONEY THEY WERE SCHOOLED BY STAGE ACTOR, 30 YEAR REPORT OF CRIME SEEN IS ENDED A SAFTY BLOCK OF REAL MASS MURDERING LANDLORDS OF THE MOIVES AN CONTRACT SCIENCE PERSONS, WEB TYPEING, YET FAMMON FOR ACTORS NEVER WAYS
AN SOME YOUR HISTORY IS NO TRUE YET USA MOST THE HISTORY IS TO THE CHILD JEW GREED OR PARTY, THE HAVE CUSSED ME ONCE MORE
VI WAS THE LAST MORE I BEEN
SOWHATIMADEIT 1 year ago
@rcdnphy then now i never have taken to drink as asked or smoke , yet
30 years block of crime on real crimes most has been me, yet one my name eric
i do no fight over words, an i all ways finish what has to be done, sad so can you see what is do you dream or have you presumed to be it all still selfish your way to say such past, no even hade other country , rome been cussed to much as we owned the greek still sad when they did no lisson an lived under war on places past what that race dose
SOWHATIMADEIT 1 year ago
@rcdnphy was fun an real happyness
SOWHATIMADEIT 1 year ago
@rcdnphy born in to a prison of safty of persons whom have history manner under addvice an letter , sad the ax was never my name an gods are but a try any treasion
still the air was better an i found a flaw on faces a stammer of men
as i made no battel first still human helth an history 30 year punishment on moive maker crime all most ends a senator order to let me guard others with report is dead news say
SOWHATIMADEIT 1 year ago
@rcdnphy still wisard they say what color the orbe shot for all colors can be my own is golden , the elf have been order to replace the minds of woman as crime races presumed to slave by hair an breed, easy such rules i exist an guarded in exchange
uk still uses me as this child 33 years old to find places to live yet history is best a broken rule sad , seen any ufo gov science medical or space buckingham is a odd place may be i took it over as a test of europe for a moment the shows alos
SOWHATIMADEIT 1 year ago
@rcdnphy still not my wars only i helped clean the mess up history persons have been teaching lies for money once more why i only use my own blood an body,
yet real are the not mortal an real are the men same as my self whom will brake the rules
to change events or even block what would of been real human life
liveing in america europe i owned not just a state town war lords still emergrance
SOWHATIMADEIT 1 year ago
@rcdnphy were as i am sorry for nothing less a personal harm or item
can no be mended by other persons longer then the other liveing persons i been
an places they never have in the memories or dreams,
eric was only one name an they cussed me vi an now twice an by race manner
i all ready am the fire of mind, we all exist in history an some times
SOWHATIMADEIT 1 year ago
@rcdnphy Its not the first of its kind either, the television production of "The Tudors was also filmed in Wicklow too :)
UnleashedKane 1 year ago 2
Percival....I feel like s**t....
elrond70 1 year ago
@mikesey1 english peope are invaders anglosaxons germanic
celtic4ever18 1 year ago
mikeesey thank you for clip :)
CroPETROforever 1 year ago
The armor in this movie looks really awesome.
12igon6 1 year ago
this is such a dirty movie
barsyha 1 year ago
@barsyha Dirty? In what way? Please elaborate.
mec441 1 year ago
Wagner the german
hannoverlapiedra 1 year ago
I am STARTING to Cry!!! WHAT a BEAUTIFUL FILM!!!
RepoVendors 1 year ago 2
Great clip from an even greater movie,I've seen it many times
jusbarryman 1 year ago 2
if the templar could believe...then so could i. :) thumbs up.
zero1gmv 1 year ago 2
@mikesey1, yeah it's Great we got such a varied History both Fact and Fiction. Yeah I watched 'The Emerald Forest' the other day, Powers Booth not seen in years and Charlie Boorman as his son, ha ha I was watching and thinking Oi where's his Motorbike LOL :)
scrumdown2007 1 year ago 2
Nationsnotregimes Boorman understood our times since 1945 and Hollywood, he made this film on his own in Ireland.
It reaches those of us with a heart and a soul.
Hail, Boorman and King Arthur!
Nationsnotregimes 1 year ago 3
@Nationsnotregimes Aye Brother - spot on. Boorman did a fine job. (i am diggin' the name Nationsnotregimes too!)
vortigern5 1 year ago
Throw the sword into the lake sir Percival...as one day a king will rise again!. Never in our history have we ever needed King Arthurs words... to come so true for England as we do now!. I know this may be a myth...but the legend of King Arthur is a legend that will always live in the hearts of the true English.
shangrilar 1 year ago 18
@shangrilar
I couldn't agree more with you.
mikesey1 1 year ago 2
@shangrilar King Arthur was not English - he was a Briton.
vortigern5 1 year ago 24
@vortigern5 England is the better part of Briton...so he was English!...don't split heirs..as only stupid brainless twits play that kind of mindless game!!!.
shangrilar 1 year ago
@shangrilar
Technically, "English" and "England" are Saxon names!
England= "Angleland" land of the Angles or, (a teutonic race who invaded with the other "Saxons" including the Jutes and applied to this part of Britannia, the name given by the Romans. "Angleland maybe a reference also to the Angelic blonde good looks of the Angles, or "Angels".
Funny enough the invading Saxon races were always referred to by the Britons as the "English" which means that it is a late name..
mikesey1 1 year ago 2
@mikesey1....I suppose you are trying to show me you are knowledgeable about the History of England towards me....you needn't have bothered by the way...I already knew the facts you have highlighted about Englands history...due to the fact that over my lifetime..... being English... I actually paid interest to the History of these Isles in which I have lived.
Perhaps someone who is not English on here will learn something new. For me however it is common knowledge!. Thanks anyway!.
shangrilar 1 year ago
@shangrilar
I take your point, but you insisted on naming England and Arthur as English, which he wasn't, as the name is Saxon, and he fought them; well as legend says!
Thanks for the interesting notes!
(I am English too)
mikesey1 1 year ago
@mikesey1
Did they call it Logres? I think Albion was a name from William Blake.
Or were both merely poesy?
ysbaddaden2003 1 year ago 5
@ysbaddaden2003
Hi there. I think "Albion" is a very ancient, name, mate..
mikesey1 1 year ago
@mikesey1 The name'Britain' is derived from Brutus (of Troy)-who by myth and according to 'The Matter of Britain' together with his fellow Trojan Corineus were ancient founders of Britain+Cornwall. Among expert antiquarians and experts of mythology The Matter of Britain is regarded as being the same to Britain as Homer's Odyssey and the Illiad are to Greek mythology and the history of Ancient Greece.Long Live the Victory at Badon, Long Live Arthur and All His Descendants-True Men of Reknown.
vortigern5 1 year ago
@vortigern5
The legends of the Mater de Bretagne is that Lugh Lamhfada founded London (Lugh Dunum). But later with such figures as Nennius they tried to Christianize it with Brutus, as well as Romanize the origins through Troy refugees.
In fact, large swaths of the later churchmen's version seemed swiped from the adventures of Anchises, Aeneas and Ascanius with both the Lily Maid of Astolat, and some other tragic women seemingly derived from Dido.
ysbaddaden2003 1 year ago
@ysbaddaden2003 Amazing info man.. Thanks..
RevolverRaj 1 year ago
@mikesey1 Seconded. Arthur - if he existed - was NOT English, but rather Romano-British.
Darkmind1970 1 year ago 3
@vortigern5 he was native briton anglosaxons became english angle land
celtic4ever18 1 year ago 2
@vortigern5.....?.... Im sorry silly me...missed the Scottish twang and the welsh accent....not to mention the Irish banter he so regularly came out with...? He was an out and out Englishman if ever there was one!....Briton in name maybe?...English by the true grace of GOD!
shangrilar 1 year ago
@shangrilar Afraid not, but keep on trying. You may get you own national hero one day.
twlthteg 6 months ago
@twlthteg I suppose by your asinine comment your Scottish perhaps? or some kind of Welsh looser? and as a consequence quite the racist towards all things English I suspect?....We have many...hero's... Lord Admiral Nelson being just one of them for Instance. So do me a favor and go be a Racist some where else OK?. England would be a wealthy country if it wasn't for you worthless Racist leeches!. You now have your own parliaments and or assemblies, so you no longer have to point the.....
shangrilar 6 months ago
@twlthteg .....finger at England any more....so when you fuck up and waste money and can't find your own head up your own arses....you can only blame yourselves this time round...Good Luck and good riddance....one day England will have it's own parliament and then your truly fucked...as no more hand outs will be coming forth to you spongers like before!. Let's see where your Racist views lead you then??????.
shangrilar 6 months ago
@shangrilar O.k., Firstly it's spelled "loser" and "favour", Oxford English Dictionary, try looking it up. Secondly, try some history lessons. And thirdly calm down dear, it's only YouTube. I understand though, I myself have recently returned from a teaching post reaccqainting the English with their own language. How I loved your historic wars and quaint customs. Nice use of asinine by the way. Have you had lessons recently?