beautiful dance sequence from the movie excalibur

[tyciol]

Too bad Arthur ended up being a rapechild.

Still, you have to respect how, in spite of the rape and illusions, that Uther impregnates his wenches without removing his platemail. Like a boss.

[mwells219]

what's wrong with the sound?

[mwells219]

back when men fought for important things like pussy, not like today where people fight for oil or god.

[sparktank]

kinda sucks this is the only video on youtube...that sound in the beginning is terrible!!!

[Keltlady]

cant hear sound great movie tho

[elrond70]

No kidding! Really? Did you put that together all by yourself, or did you need a slide rule? You see, movies generate what are known as discussions. Try it sometime. It will make you seem less antisocial.

[TowedHaulProductions]

Its a film -guys not real!!lol

[elrond70]

Katrine Boorman is a very beautiful actress that works in France. She is not average. Her looks are immaterial. Her father filming a rape scene with her barely out of her teens is whacked.

[WatchRyder]

@elrond70

That's dedicated and brave acting for you.

I hate to say this, but it adds to the movie and sets Uther up for his demise later...

[elrond70]

How could John Boorman film his own daughter being raped? Gabriel Bryne got horny every time the director yelled "Cut! Okay, do it again! Action!"

[JuanMacready]

@elrond70 How could Uther fall for the director's average looking daughter?

[QPAOIU]

The music is wickety wack. Can you fix it? No sound at all. Save the clip!

[AlexKatiee]

can anyone please tell me the title of the song used in this scene?

[stinky472]

Igrayne's Dance. It is part of the Excalibur soundtrack.

[AlexKatiee]

@stinky472

where can i get this soundtrack? my son has a project for band & this is his favorite movie - we watched the credits @ the end of the movie but it didn't list all songs/music played - thanx!

[FMAStudent]

Does anyone have Igrayne's " love " scene?... where Uether bones her... you know.

[serotine9]

that's a pity :-(

 I can't hear the music...

[LilyofAscholate]

Written history is not always accurate. History is written by the victors and typically masculine oreinted. The Arthurian Legends are just that, legends and fall into some of the realms of Mythos. The period of Arthur has been speculated through out the years and will continue to be so. As no true evidence has been "proven".

Also Ancient Celts did dance, it was a celebration of life during Belthane, and and other times of life, it was a practice to cloistering women from men.

[LilyofAscholate]

correction: it was NOT a practice to cloister the women from the men. Please accept my apology for that typo

[ImperialGuard9001]

@LilyofAscholate Arthurian Age is consider to be Sub Roman Britain.

[drakudhfg]

Yeah..., there's no sound for me.

I mean, Igraine's hot and all, but I'm kinda here for the music, so...

[katycoyote]

no this is morganne , stupid

[baraxor]

The one dancing is Morgana's and (the future) Arthur's mother, Igraine.

[bookkeeper57]

High born Celtic women did NOT dance like that for visiting guests; especially not the lady of the manor. If this was Igraine, of course she was raped.

[LilyofAscholate]

Legend has it Igraine was not high born, nor was she from Britianna. Legend says she came from across the waters veiled in mystery and mists.

[baraxor]

According the compilations of the "Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts" of Peter Bartrum, Eigr (Igraine) was the daughter of Amlawdd Wledig, who was a great-great-great-grandson of Cynan Meriadoc (progenitor of the Dukes of Brittany, leader of the British auxiliaries in Magnus Maximus Clemens's failed attempt to become Western Roman Emperor in 388)

[EyeLean5280]

For this point in history, I can't think of a single culture in which royal or even noble women danced, except for certain religious rites and even then, only in the company of intimate female friends.

Dancing in larger, mixed-gender groups was for low-class women (folk dances) and slaves (entertainments of the type we see here).

[bookkeeper57]

Thanks EyeLean5280 for pointing that out.

What I wanted to say, but much better expressed.

[EyeLean5280]

Well, you're the one who first pointed it out - it might not have occurred to me to question it.

I haven't read the original legends (though I have read parts of Le Morte d'Arthur). Do you know if Igraine dances in any of the early writings? Because if she does, it could be pertinent to the point of the story: Gorlois was grossly trampling upon sexual propriety so he, his progeny & England paid the ultimate price.

Kind of like Paris's abduction of Helen leading to the destruction of all Troy.

[bookkeeper57]

That's an apt comparison with Troy. No record of Igraine dancing in anything I've read of Arthurian literature, including Le Morte d'Arthur. I think you're seeing an example of artistic license here.

[EyeLean5280]

Ah, yes. Hollywood and its "artistic license."

[WatchRyder]

@EyeLean5280

Wrong, it's very easily a fact in the royal courts to have a 'harem' of women for the kings pleasure and maybe his favourites.

King Henry I was famous for his harem of mistresses along with King John, you can't seriously say he didn't have them dancing to the minstrels beat can you?

[EyeLean5280]

@WatchRyder, There's no need to get snippy. If you have a point, please just make it like a grown up.

I am very well aware of the tradition of royal mistresses in Western Europe. I would not agree that the word "harem" exactly applies, though I understand what you're getting at.

I believe the Aurthur legends are set in a time & place that predate minstrels and courtly dance, which came later. If you have a primary source refuting this belief, I'd be interested to correct my view.

[EyeLean5280]

@WatchRyder, BTW, Henry I (I presume you mean of England) was a Norman king who reigned in the 12th century. Arthur Pendragon was a Celt reigning in the 6th, little more than 100 years after the fall of Rome. The Saxons hadn't even taken England yet. You're not talking about the same culture or time period at all.

So again, please cite a credible (primary is best) source.

[WatchRyder]

@EyeLean5280

I'm not even intending to refer to the same culture, you have to understand that the Normans were norseman anyway and very similar in culture to the Celts.

Hence it should not be a surprise that a similar trend of women for the rulers pleasure but dancing etc did not continue onwards

[EyeLean5280]

@WatchRyder - I presume you have no source, since I asked you twice and you provided none.

And without a source, I'm afraid I'm not convinced. Britain under Rome was not much like the culture of the Normans. And the Celts themselves aren't exactly the closest of cousins.

[WatchRyder]

@EyeLean5280

I totally agree that prior to the Norman times it was different, but what I'm saying is that the Celtic peoples left behind when the Normans came along mingled with the new-comers.

There was about half a million people living in England when about 10,000 Normans arrived in 1066, that's more than easy for a native population to stand without being too diluted. Even with the Saxon people prior to the Normans.

So the Celtic way will of been there also, mostly in the West Country

[an147]

No music?

[escapefromobamastan]

The kid that played Morgana's young son was Boorman's son.

[t5y665yrty56]

can you believe thats the directors daughter.

[baraxor]

The hottest dance of the year 471!

[mrsparkle001]

Oh man, did they delete the music to this?

[3piper]

What happened to the Music?Could not hear it

[lineth67]

it s true...

[linebackertwo]

Superb sequence. I soooo wanted this music on CD but never released

[mclarenf45]

Katrine Boorman is soo hot !

[VictorLepanto]

Silly woman, otta have more sense. Go out in a dress like that & not wear a slip. Really though I don't think women back then actually danced like that. Not Baronial class broads anyway.

[t5y665yrty56]

is that the directors daughter and i thought dario argento was rough

[Apophisguard]

Yes, it is the director's daughter.

[SSCxLGTxMTz]

Are you made the Alliance

[kaserock]

I MUST HAVE HER!

LOL

yea the Alliance was my favorite part!

[Nemetos]

The Medieval Baebes did an excellent version of this, called - " Igrayne's Dance " . Worth looking up - also a lot of their stuff is great.

[DonVicente67]

I bet the cover is worth listening to. This is a nice piece of music. Which cd of medieval babes is it on?

[54spiritedwill54]

I love this song!

[hollywoodwerewolf]

Igraine is a sexy woman. Uther had no chance. In fact he spilled his load into his rusty armor as she danced. Pity his squire who had to clean it out.

[FMAStudent]

omg !! lol.

dude, it's part of the medieval hazing process. want to be a knight? start off as a squire cleaning out your master's spooge from the insides of his armor. lol. just think, mate. back then. if u were a remotely good looking guy and some mean fella couldn't get laid by a chick. Well....... you would get introduced to Excalibur in a whole new way. Where's proposition 8 when u need it?

[catbird007]

I quess somethings never change

[straywolf77]

Come, Igrayne! LOL

[cosmicdingo]

My kingdom for a can openere, heh-- Igrayne is played by Katrine Boorman, who's a cute girl , but not a trained dancer.Still, ballet classes musta been hard to come by in them days. She hoochies it up pretty good, I reckon. I agree, the nude scene must have called for a lot of father/daughter trust.

[jenniferbabe]

i's male Lion , to Hell with "alliance" , She's Hot Beautiful Delicious Sweet Yum YUMMY

[Venuux]

amazingggggggggggggggggggggggg­ggggggg

[Colombiana333]

This scene is wonderful!!!

[AnnAlinn]

she sucks at dancing..

purely my opinion..

The style's fine but I think she's akward and uncomfortable..

[Camalot777]

The director of this movie was eager to have a sex scene. He was going to make a movie version of Lord of The Rings, but have a scene where Frodo and gladrial have sex. But instead, he disided to make a movie about King Arthur.

[Eidelmania]

Topanga day's, hippie goddess.

[Metatron300]

I can't believe that Katrine Boorman is John Boorman's daughter because I think it's awkward, embarassing, and even morbid to think that a father directs an actor to "suck" his daughter's breast and then lie spread out fully nude in a simulated sex scene.

Just my opinion.

[Sclorched]

sounds pretty hawt to me

[MediStalgia]

Only qualm I have about that scene is how Uther's actor is still fully clad in armor while making love.

[TheNilesEdge]

Oh, I have no problem with that, haha. He doesn't take off the armor because he's completely overwhelmed by her, and the armor only adds to the raw, animalistic masculinity and sexuality. I want him on top of ME taking me any way he pleases after seeing this scene.

[jrmetmoi]

@TheNilesEdge I hope you're a man because what woman would take scalding hot metal plates of heavy armour by a roaring fireplace? Madness!

[TheNilesEdge]

@jrmetmoi LOL wow, that's an old comment! And I still use the sex scene as fap material. :D

[kocsogarc]

She is his daughter, check imdb. I agree, this must have been a bit ... embarassing.

[AnnaHeidiBourne]

Why? Sex is a natural thing.

[kocsogarc]

Is that scene to be found on youtube?

[kaserock]

Are You Mad!!!!!"The Aliance!"

1:23 Now That's your right hand Knight!

my favorite part....watch this movie too many times!

[sweetprism00]

great scene, but I don't get the end when she gasps for air and then falls down or whatever... ???

[elliottwaxer]

I'm not really sure either, but maybe in that time facial expressions were everything like how certain clothing represents a particular action if you catch my drift. So because Uthor took a fancy the Duke* totally took offense, heck if I know, but I think the Duke* had Igrayne dance to spark that fancy in his wife so there would be continued war and Uthor would possibly be killed in the process.

Eh, or it could just be the dancing style similar to what you see at Renaissance Faires...

[sweetprism00]

hey...you could be onto something... that makes a lot of sense :-) It may be she was exhausted from swishing her head around metallica style.

[p3rdyp1nkr0ses]

I think it has to do with the time, its the medieval period, and women were property back then. I believe she gasped for air and bowed because she knew her "lord" was upset, so she submitted herself accordingly. This movie is an awesome depiction of what it was like back then, although EXTREMELY graphic.

[elliottwaxer]

Too true, excellent actors, legitimate mythological story, a true masterpiece in filmography.

[Cosmoline]

You'll understand when you're a little older LOL

[WatchRyder]

@sweetprism00

Exhaustion and ecxtasy from the dancing.

I've seen this when I was in Asia at a staged dance show.

The two girl dancers got totally carried into 'another place' and became like two love-sirens really going at it (clothed and simulating).

[sophiamirrenfan]

O, sorry, i saw it was Katrine Boorman.

[sophiamirrenfan]

Is this Helen Mirren dancing?

[asUtoob]

When you gotta have something(one)...

You just gotta have it.

Between primal instinct and civil duty...

Instinct wins. ALWAYS! }:^}

[sapphire2200]

I wanna fuck, right now! where´s my girfriend!!! this is one of the greatest movies on medieval stuff, 5 stars for posting this video, great movie, btw. I think Lancelot is a tosser. Arthur should have grabbed all the women and have a massive orgie!!! The queen will present hereself in due time lol! Great movie, one of the best :)

[AnnaHeidiBourne]

Lovely scene. Powerfull erotic. :)

[sapphire2200]

what a classic, unbelievable movie, 5 stars for this great scene

[LDD86]

Man, everyone wants to bang her....

...table.

[Kennashi]

lol

[p0werc0rdz]

@LDD86 thats right hehe

[ClaraDarko]

One of my favourite movies too, this scene drives me crazy, love it, so intense with the amazing music by great Trevor Jones.

[castlezania]

You cut off the spitting at the end :)

[pillcounter75]

I love this song!

[AnnaHeidiBourne]

It's out on a CD

[igrayne01]

Great clip! :)

[applegatemonsoon]

One of my favorite movies too, and did you know that Katrine Boorman was the director's daughter? Must have been strange for her father to film her intense sex scene which comes right after this dance scene. If you haven't seen Excalibur you must!

[Ashworth6]

I didn't know that, I had always assumed she must be John Boorman's wife or sister or something. But his daughter? Yeah, that is a bit weird, it must have been even more awkward for Gabriel Byrne. I think it demonstrates just how committed Boorman is to his craft.

[AnnaHeidiBourne]

His daughther was also raped in this movie.

[sweetprism00]

she was? When? You mean by Uther?

[AnnaHeidiBourne]

Yeah.