Word: knights
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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...
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Tangible passion, believable battle scenes and all the flair one would hope to find in the retelling of the most famous medieval myth are present in Columbia Pictures's First Knight...
...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...
Richard Gere's Lancelot is a cheeky existentialist, Sean Connery's King Arthur is a temporizing leader for the Clinton era, and Julia Ormond's Guinevere is all up-to-date feminist spunk. The Camelot of Jerry Zucker's "First Knight," says TIME's Richard Schickel, is more a modern gated community than a myth-enshrouded, 6th century realm. And the great romance that was played out there -- legend's ur-Triangle -- comes across as not much more consequential than suburban adultery: "One can easily imagine Guinevere and Lancelot as Gwen and Lance, furtively smooching on the 18th tee during...