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 (DIR) Post #AspEb64kh5dR9UMPYG by LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot
       2025-04-06T20:29:58Z
       
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       "I dreamt of the dragon""I have awakened him. Cannot you see, all around you, the dragon's breath?"This evening's viewing: revisiting one of my all-time favourites, Boorman's Excalibur, which succeeds where other Arthur fulms fail, because it embraces the myth.#film #films #movies #BritishFilm #Excalibur #KingArthur #myth #mythology #1980sFilm
       
 (DIR) Post #AspGPMEezD4RhiWbHk by LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot
       2025-04-06T20:50:14Z
       
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       @michaelmeckler I love that you can hear "Uisge beatha" among the Charm of Making, the Water of Life, which is still a Gaelic name for single malt whisky to this day!The film is full of contradictions like that - it's the Dark Ages, but they have medieval plate armour and castles. Boorman said when faced with accuracy or playing to the myth, he chose the mythic every time. And he was right
       
 (DIR) Post #AspGZeNaNlIas9bjm4 by mhagdorn@toot.berlin
       2025-04-06T20:52:07Z
       
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       @LordWoolamaloo I haven't seen that in years
       
 (DIR) Post #AspJ9Lpb1NhngBrPXM by scotdowser@mastodon.scot
       2025-04-06T21:20:57Z
       
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       @LordWoolamaloo Still the best iteration of the myth on film. "But the earth is being torn apart, its metalsstolen, and the balance is broken and thelines of power no longer converge. In fact, Inearly didn't make it in one piece."The armour was aluminium, which they front-lit with green light to give it that ethereal sheen.#EXcalibur #film