Post by Minya Collowen on Jun 3, 2004 14:13:05 GMT -5
Also a very good movie, if you haven't seen it, GO RENT IT!!! Mind you there's a bit of *cough* stuff *cough* (implication implication) But it's not TOO bad. It's also about the story of king arthur, but there's a bit of a twist to it. (It's based off the novel) Which i own but have yet to read.
quick summary:
The Mists of Avalon
by Beth Feaker [profile]
Editor's Note: This film was a television miniseries, so it's unrated, but due to the extreme sexual content in several scenes, the reviewer has opted to give it an R-rating. This review references those scenes and is inappropriate for younger readers.
Another telling of the famous myth of Camelot, The Mists of Avalon chooses to focus on the lives of legendary King Arthur’s aunts and half-sister Morgaine le Faye. These are the women who controlled the power behind Camelot, and who meddled and schemed only to inadvertently bring it to its doom.
The story opens with The Lady of the Lake, The Priestess Viviane of the Pagan religion, manipulating Arthur’s mother to bring about his conception by a man other than her husband. Her plot works and Arthur, great King of Camelot, is brought into the world to the shame of his mother. As soon as he is old enough, Viviane returns to take him and his half-sister Morgaine and teach them in the ways of the religion of Avalon, the worship of the “Goddess."
Viviane soon parts the two children and sends Arthur to be taught by the Wizard Merlin, while she herself anoints and trains Morgaine to be her successor as Priestess. Her plan is to manipulate the royal lineage and make Arthur into a King that will embrace both Christianity and Paganism, thus saving the haven of Paganism, the land of Avalon. The children grow up and Viviane deems them ready to fulfill their destinies. Through a wicked scheme she sends them to a night of Pagan rituals, where they will unconsciously sleep together and bring into the world an heir of complete royal blood, to save Paganism from the Christians that threaten to overrun Camelot, since Viviane has decided that Arthur cannot be depended upon to do it.
Morgaine is soon with child, and learns to her shame that it is the child of her own brother. Meanwhile Arthur has become King and married the beautiful Gwenyfar, who convinces him to fully embrace Christianity and completely disown the Pagans that follow the religion of Avalon. But through a curse from one of Arthur’s aunts she is unable to conceive a child by him, so the only heir to the throne is Morgaine’s child, the evil Mordred.
Mordred grows to manhood, but soon bounds out of Viviane’s control. To her horror, he is taught by a wicked aunt to hate his father and all of Camelot. He comes to Camelot and threatens that if he does not receive his birthright of the Imperial throne, he will use his strength to fight with the Barbarians who are plundering their way to England’s heart. Camelot is already crumbling from the Christianity Gwenyfar brought to it, and the affairs between her and Arthur’s favorite knight Lancelot. Once Mordred arrives, the only thing that is certain is its swift and irreversible doom
poster:
pics:
ger...those aren't good pics, not at all, but others are really hard to come by, so you'll just have to look at the above. Oh well.
quick summary:
The Mists of Avalon
by Beth Feaker [profile]
Editor's Note: This film was a television miniseries, so it's unrated, but due to the extreme sexual content in several scenes, the reviewer has opted to give it an R-rating. This review references those scenes and is inappropriate for younger readers.
Another telling of the famous myth of Camelot, The Mists of Avalon chooses to focus on the lives of legendary King Arthur’s aunts and half-sister Morgaine le Faye. These are the women who controlled the power behind Camelot, and who meddled and schemed only to inadvertently bring it to its doom.
The story opens with The Lady of the Lake, The Priestess Viviane of the Pagan religion, manipulating Arthur’s mother to bring about his conception by a man other than her husband. Her plot works and Arthur, great King of Camelot, is brought into the world to the shame of his mother. As soon as he is old enough, Viviane returns to take him and his half-sister Morgaine and teach them in the ways of the religion of Avalon, the worship of the “Goddess."
Viviane soon parts the two children and sends Arthur to be taught by the Wizard Merlin, while she herself anoints and trains Morgaine to be her successor as Priestess. Her plan is to manipulate the royal lineage and make Arthur into a King that will embrace both Christianity and Paganism, thus saving the haven of Paganism, the land of Avalon. The children grow up and Viviane deems them ready to fulfill their destinies. Through a wicked scheme she sends them to a night of Pagan rituals, where they will unconsciously sleep together and bring into the world an heir of complete royal blood, to save Paganism from the Christians that threaten to overrun Camelot, since Viviane has decided that Arthur cannot be depended upon to do it.
Morgaine is soon with child, and learns to her shame that it is the child of her own brother. Meanwhile Arthur has become King and married the beautiful Gwenyfar, who convinces him to fully embrace Christianity and completely disown the Pagans that follow the religion of Avalon. But through a curse from one of Arthur’s aunts she is unable to conceive a child by him, so the only heir to the throne is Morgaine’s child, the evil Mordred.
Mordred grows to manhood, but soon bounds out of Viviane’s control. To her horror, he is taught by a wicked aunt to hate his father and all of Camelot. He comes to Camelot and threatens that if he does not receive his birthright of the Imperial throne, he will use his strength to fight with the Barbarians who are plundering their way to England’s heart. Camelot is already crumbling from the Christianity Gwenyfar brought to it, and the affairs between her and Arthur’s favorite knight Lancelot. Once Mordred arrives, the only thing that is certain is its swift and irreversible doom
poster:
pics:
ger...those aren't good pics, not at all, but others are really hard to come by, so you'll just have to look at the above. Oh well.
