My Weekly Spock: Happily Ever After-ing in Camelot
I found this great still from the 1973 stage version of Camelot. I bet it was lovely (if heartbreaking for King Arthur)
I really need to get back into the habit of posting videos here xD
Anyway, I have a lot of feelings about Avalon High… and here they are.
this video takes the crown for longest ever excalibanter that will ever be ever
(haha I also watch terrible movies when I am sick!)
- Why is Avalon High set in America. Ha, I think it’s just that that was what the director knew, also I think arthuriana is quite a shared legend nowadays. The legend is so shared that people from everywhere love it.
- The movies messed the plot completely. When you’ll read the book, the characters are other people (Will is Arthur, and Allie is not Arthur). The movie ended up trying to surprise the viewers who knew the book (that’s why they try to make us believe Will is Arthur) and ended up messing it all up.
- They also messed up Mordred and Merlin. But Mordred in the movie helped them and teached them, again, because in the book he is Merlin and they tried to convince us that it was exactly like in the movie (and Marco is Mordred, that’s why such a good character like Kay ended up being cliché villain in some scenes)
Basically the whole movie is messed up because the movie tries to be like the book at the beginning but then try to give a big surprise and mix all the characters around.
MEDIEVAL TIMES: THE LADY OF THE LAKE
And ne’er did Grecian chisel trace
A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace,
Of finer form or lovelier face!
Lancelot: What’s the matter now?
Merlin: What’s the matter? When I got up this morning and went to wash my face… (he shows Lancelot the fish in the bowl). It may seem funny to you but he’s nothing but a bundle of pranks and mischief.
Lancelot: He’s only a boy, Merlin, you were a boy yourself once.
Merlin: Never!
Lancelot and Merlin discuss Brian’s unruly behaviour in The Ruby of Radnor
Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for Le Morte D’Arthur by Thomas Malory, 1893-1894
The Collected Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, 1967
Key to the castle – Galahad Receiving the Keys to the Castle of the Maidens – Artwork by Edward Austin Abbey
Hush, child
The darkness will rise from the deep
And carry you down into sleep
OT3 ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
G: Oh, Arthur.
A: I can’t watch him die…There’s still so much I want to say to him… He cannot die.
Artwork by Frank Schoonover