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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1646281" data-attributes="member: 5171">Actually, to butcher from memory some of what I remember from my Arthurian Lit class back in college, "La Morte D'Arthur" wasn't so much a deepening as a reimagining.  King Arthur was given a lot of traits he'd never had before in order to make him more similar to the relatively recent Norman Kings -- he was described as flying into a kingly rage, for example, which is what the Normans were said to do.  And Lancelot was added.  And Myrdden's name got changed because the Norman kings had trouble figuring out that a double-D was pronounced "th" in English at the time, and kept thinking that Arthur's wizardly advisor was named "Excrement-Head".There's actually an ineresting tradition by which the legend of King Arthur and Camelot get grabbed and modified by different governments and cultures as a propaganda tool, from the Norman kings with Arthur's transformation to the "no more 'might makes right'" deal that turned King Arthur into a proponent of Democracy, and even to the Kennedys, who made a conscious effort to connect JFK with metaphors for Camelot.The professor even showed us a turn-of-the-century handbook for an organization that was somewhere between the KKK and the Boy Scouts that taught young boys "good white values" by "training them in the tradition of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table".Personally, as far as the movie goes, I thought it was odd to have what looked like the old chief-king version of Arthur with Lancelot in 6th-century Britain, but I guess tossing Lance back in time is doable...</blockquote>

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