Word: arthurian
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First Knight's most obvious departure from the traditional legend, however, is the substitution of "Prince Malagant" for the traditional Arthurian villains...
...hard fans of Arthurian literature, this film falls short by altering many key aspects of the original story...
...film's Malagant, who does not exist in traditional Arthurian legends, is supposedly a fallen knight of the Round Table who seeks to rule Camelot for himself...
...suburban adultery: "One can easily imagine Guinevere and Lancelot as Gwen and Lance, furtively smooching on the 18th tee during a country-club dance, or stealing glances across a crowded PTA meeting." Still, Schickel admits, "the scenery is always pretty" and "every era has the right to reinvent the Arthurian legend according to its lights...
...photo which accompanied the feature looked promising. Michael looked vaguely Byronic, Rebecca looked poetically consumptive. Since they were both English concentrators, I expected articulate, coherent, even "Trollopian" sentences. I looked forward to casual allusions to Chaucer, a deconstructed double entendre here, a joke in Arthurian English there. I was disappointed...