King Arthur (2004)

Actors: Keira Knightley (actress), Clive Owen (actor), Mads Mikkelsen (actor), Til Schweiger (actor), Stellan Skarsgård (actor), Ray Winstone (actor), Graham McTavish (actor), Ivano Marescotti (actor), Ned Dennehy (actor), Ioan Gruffudd (actor), Stephen Dillane (actor), Clive Russell (actor), Joel Edgerton (actor), Ned Dowd (producer), Jerry Bruckheimer (producer),

Plot: Based on a more realistic portrayal of "Arthur" than has ever been presented onscreen. The film will focus on the history and politics of the period during which Arthur ruled -- when the Roman empire collapsed and skirmishes over power broke out in outlying countries -- as opposed to the mystical elements of the tale on which past Arthur films have focused.

Keywords: 300-a.d., 452-a.d., 4th-century, 5th-century, ambush, ancient-rome, archery, armor, arrow-in-chest, arson
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War,
Taglines: Rule Your Fate Rule Your Destiny The Untold True Story That Inspired The Legend

Quotes:

Guinevere: [to Arthur] Is there nothing about my land that appeals to your heart? Your own father married a Briton. Even he must have found something to his liking.

[while Marius and his men are preparing to attack Dagonet, an arrow flies out of nowhere and kills Marius; his men look and see Guinevere aiming a bow at them]::Lancelot: Your hands seem to be better.

Lancelot: You look frightened. There's a large number of lonely men out there.::Guinevere: Don't worry, I won't let them rape you.

Lancelot, Arthur, Bors, Gawain, Tristan, Dagonet: [the knights line up on the hill near the fort and charge towards the Saxons] For Arthur!

Arthur: Knights... Brothers and arms... Your courage has been testet beyond all limits.::Bors: Yes::Arthur: But I must ask you now for one further trial.::Bors: Drink.::Arthur: We must leave on a final mission for Rome before our freedom can be granted. Above the wall, far north, there is a Roman family in need of rescue. They are trapped by Saxons. Our orders is to secure their safety.::Bors: Let the Romans take care of their own.::Gawain: Above the wall is Woad territory.::Galahad: Our duty to Rome, if it ever was a duty, is done. Our pact with Rome is done.::Bors: Every knight here has laid his life on the line for you. For you. And instead of freedom you want more blood? Our blood? You think more of Roman blood than you do of ours?::Arthur: Bors! These are our orders. We leave at first light, and when we return your freedom will be waiting for you. A freedom we can embrace with honour.::Bors: I'm a free man! I will choose my own fate!::Tristan: Yeah, yeah, we're all going to die someday. If it's a death from a Saxons hand that frightens you, stay home.::Galahad: Listen, if you're so eager to die, you can die right now! I've got something to live for!::Lancelot: Enough. Enough!::Dagonet: The Romans have broken their word. We have the word of Arthur. That is good enough. I'll prepare.

Lancelot: Arthur! This is not Rome's fight. It is not your fight. All these long years we've been together, the trials we've faced, the blood we've shed... what was it all for if not for the reward of freedom! And now when we are so close, when it's finally within our grasp... Look at me! Does it all count for nothing?::Arthur: You ask me that? You who know me the best of all?::Lancelot: Then do not do this. Only certain death awaits you here. Arthur, I beg you! For our friendship's sake, I beg you!::Arthur: You be my friend now and do not dissuade me. Seize the freedom you have earned and live it for the both of us. I cannot follow you, Lancelot. I know now that all the blood I have shed, all the lives I have taken have led me to this moment.

Arthur: Pelagius told me once: "There is no worse death than the end of hope."::Guinevere: You and I are not the polite people that live in poems. We are blessed and cursed by our times.

Vanora: Land of bears and land of eagle. Land that gave us birth and blessing. Land that called us ever homewards. We will go home across the mountains. We will go home, We will go home, We will go home across the mountains. We will go home singing our song. We will go home across the mountains. Hear our singing, hear our longing. We will go home across the mountains. We will go home, We will go home. We will go home across the mountains.

Cerdic: You come to beg a truce, you should be on your knees.::Arthur: I came to see your face so that I alone may find you on the battlefield. And it will be good of you to mark my face, Saxon, for the next time you see it, it will be the last thing you see on this earth.::Cerdic: Ahhh, finally, a man worth killing

Guinevere: My father told me great tales of you.::Arthur: Really? And what did you hear?::Guinevere: Fairy tales. The kind you hear about people so brave, so selfless, that they can't be real.