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In the year 1066, 7000 Norman infantry and knights sailed in warships across the English Channel.
Before long, ambitious Norman knights were looking for new challenges.
Soon after landing in England, William and his knights met Harold’s army near the town of Hastings.
Meanwhile, independent groups of Norman knights traveled to the Mediterranean, inspired by tales of pilgrims returning from Jerusalem.
King Arthur has risen again and again in our collective imagination, along with his retinue of knights, Guinevere, the Round Table, Camelot, and of course, Excalibur.
He introduced tales of individual knights like Lancelot and Gawain, and mixed elements of romance in with the adventures.
The Land of Pi had been ruled by the numbers as anarcho-syndicalist commune, each number with a vote, but, one powerful number from what we'll call the Imperial Senate, engineered a war between some robot things and the knights of the kingdom, and then installed himself as Supreme Emperor, and then Puff the Magic Digit Dragon ate him, and a princess or two, and, well, all the other numbers in the Land of Pi actually.
At this time, medieval books chronicling the adventures of knights and their moral code dominated European culture.
These were literally knights in shining, mirror-polished armor.
And moreover, the knights in "Excalibur" wear their armor everywhere.
The snail might be a symbol of the inevitability of death, which defeats even the strongest knights.
No knights in shiny armor but gangsters in shiny cars.
The costumes of the Teutonic knights are superb and the battle scenes are fairly good for the time.It is however a master piece that is showing it's age.
It does not promote nightmares, but instead it shows much of the culture that must have primarily influenced the design of Jedi knights in Star Wars.
Eisenstein's first sound film retells the battle of the ice of 1242, when the Russians under Alexander Nevsky defeated the Livonian knights, eager to bring Russia under Roman Catholicism.
Made in 1938, Nevsky can be seen as a piece of propaganda: the Germanic knights, with their sinister (and somewhat goofy) helmets are obvious stand-ins for the Nazis.
The butchery by the knights when they enter a Russian town seems a prophetic warning of the massacres of World War II.
Firstly, why did said Knights move the treasure from Europe to America?
The whole concept of the knights templar being underground all these years seemed pretty stupid to me.
It seems a shame that people would spend so much time and effort producing something so poor, when really they could have made something pretty decent out of the premise (albeit not very believable!), but instead we are treated to a rather nauseating and cheesy tale of dragons and knights, that lacks any of the charm to be found in other such fantasy films.
I didn't think I would ever enjoy Power Rangers since my kids stopped watching but I found myself looking for the videos fifteen minutes into "Knights."
If there was anything Akira Kurosawa did wrong in making Dodes'ka-den, it was making it with the partnership he formed with the "four knights" (the other three being Kobayaski, Ichikawa, and Konishita).
It seems the world is being devoured by a huge monster and all of the knights the king has sent out have never returned or if the do return they come back as ashes.
I've seen a lot of films that involve knights on horseback and guys fighting each other with swords dressed in armor but this is the only one with hugely over the top acting and way too out of this world grossly exaggerated dialog.
Why would Arthur and his wife and his knights all wear the same colors?
Towards the film's conclusion the charge of the knights through the orchard to the sound of a choir singing the "Carmina Birana" has to be one of the high points of British cinema.
The plot is concerned with a time travelling doctor who regresses his street walking patient back to a time of witches, imps, dumb knights, fey fights, and singing gravediggers.
Travelling to Camelot, he hopes to join the round table knights and reclaim his fathers throne.
Having read "the knights of the round table" as a child, and "Le Morte D'Artur" in old English as an adult, I have always been profoundly touched by this story of rise, fall, love, hate, betrayal and hope.
It appears that the budget was spent on midgets and a dance choreographer (apparently it is funny when medieval knights, pirates, dwarfs and oompa loompas dance).
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