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.

Knightriders (1981)

Actors: Tom Savini (actor), George A. Romero (editor), George A. Romero (writer), Ed Harris (actor), Holly Hunter (miscellaneous crew), Stephen King (actor), Ken Foree (actor), George A. Romero (director), Reid Rosefelt (miscellaneous crew), John Hostetter (actor), John Harrison (actor), Joe Shelby (actor), S. William Hinzman (actor), Bingo O'Malley (actor), Patricia Tallman (actress),

Plot: A travelling troupe of jousters and performers are slowly cracking under the pressure of hick cops, financial troubles and their failure to live up to their own ideals. The group's leader, King Billy, is increasingly unable to maintain his warrior's rule while the Black Knight is being tempted away to LA and stardom, as they all have to ask why they were here in the first place.

Keywords: armor, biker, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, code, death-of-protagonist, drunken-father, female-knight, gay, homosexual, husband-wife-relationship
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama,
Taglines: The Games...The Romance...The Spirit...Camelot is a state of mind.

Quotes:

Bontempi: So, what's your name?::Marhalt: Marhalt.::Bontempi: I mean your "real" name.::Marhalt: [matter-of-factly] Marhalt.

Billy: I had another dream.::Merlin: That right?::Billy: Black bird again. Same black bird::Merlin: Way you get knocked around, you're bound to have some weird dreams, Billy.

Merlin: If I didn't believe in magic, I'd still be treating gall bladders, prostates and stuff like that. See, magic ain't got nothing to do with organs and glands and busted necks. Magic got to do with the soul, man. Only the soul's got destiny. It got wings. It's can fly. That's magic. The body? The body's just got a few minutes down here in the dirt with the rest of us.::Billy: You see things before they happen.::Merlin: That's probability. Some things is just sure to happen. Seeing em comin' ain't nothing to get excited about.::Billy: No, you taught me too good, magician. You taught me to believe. That black bird's gonna get me.

Linet: Everybody here made a conscious, adult decision to be here. To be with you. When you go crazy, you force them to rethink that decision. You've got to...::Billy: Compromise.::Linet: Change doesn't have to mean compromise. We're bigger now. Things are different. Christ, we've got an overhead.::Billy: Publicity helps the overhead by bringing in more crowds, more suckerheaded American driftwood that can't tell the difference between me and Jim Jones, or Charles Manson, or the Great Wallenda. That kid... that kid thinks I'm Evel Knievel!::Linet: That kid thinks you're Billy Davis! Sir William the Knight! You're his hero!::Billy: I'm not trying to be a hero! I'm fighting the dragon!

Steve: [angry in the wake of Bagman's beating by local police, and Billy's refusal to consider promotion for the troupe] Dammit, Billy, you're all stone-broke most of the time. And you take in every damn longhair that knows how to make a pair of sandals, and you wanna pick up the Blue Cross tab? Do you have the slightest idea what gas is selling for, or two-by-fours, or hamburger or anything else?::Billy: You think it's breaking up?::Steve: It's money, Billy. It's all to do with money. Money makes the world go round, even your world.::Billy: No, it's just getting too tough. It's tough to live by the code. I mean, it's real hard to live for something that you believe in. People try it and then they get tired of it, like they get tired of their... diets. Or exercise. Or their marriage. Or their kids, or their job, or themselves... or they get tired of their God. You can keep the money you make off this sick world, lawyer, I don't want any part of it. Anybody who wants to live more for themselves doesn't belong with us. Let them go out and buy some pimpy psychiatrist's paperback that says it's okay, don't ask me to say it's okay, it's NOT okay!::Bagman: [breaking the awkward silence] Once, I was in a jail in Alabama, and I got my ass kicked, just like I did last night, only then it was because I was a nigger-lover. [Merlin begins playing his harmonica] Well, I woke up in the morning, and I didn't even have energy enough to lick my wounds. I found out I'd given up. So I tried to kill myself. Tried to cut my wrists with a bedspring. [Laughs] See, I'd found out that I'd given up on it all because of where I was, what was all around me. Well, last night I get my ass kicked, and I came up laughing. Because now, I'm in Camelot.

Bagman: You see, the way I see it is this: You got two separate fights. The one for truth and justice and the American way of life and all that. That's gotta take a backseat to the one for staying alive. You gotta stay alive! Man, you can have the most beautiful ideals in the whole world, but if you die, your ideals are gonna die with you! The important thing is we gotta stay together, we gotta keep the troupe together. And if keeping the troupe going means that we have to take some of this promoter's money, then I say let's take it and get some sleep!

Billy: [waking a disoriented Bagman, who was asleep by the campfire] There's not two different fights, there can't be two different fights. You got to fight for your ideals, and if you die, your ideals don't die. The code that we're living by is the truth. The truth IS the code! I can't let people walk on that idea, I can't!::[He rises, heads to the motorcycles]::Steve: [waking as Billy starts his motorcycle] What the hell's going on?::Merlin: [who has been watching silently all along] Billy's using your bike.

Alan: There can only be one king, Morgan. You can't just split off and start over again whenever you want. We both know that inside. There can only be one king at one time. That's the law.

Billy: [touching the butterfly on Merlin's head] Oh, my master... I love you. Goodbye.

Alan: My king. If you'll allow me, I will fight for you in defense of the crown. These others will challenge... [chuckles emotionally] Shit, I can't talk like that. Morgan's agreed to fight, and if you promise to sit on your ass and stay out of the way, there's still some of us that'll fight for you.::Billy: [through his tears] All right.

The War Lord (1965)

Actors: Henry Wilcoxon (actor), Belle Mitchell (actress), Richard Boone (actor), Maurice Evans (actor), James Farentino (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Charlton Heston (actor), John Alderson (actor), Vittorio Nino Novarese (miscellaneous crew), Folmar Blangsted (editor), Niall MacGinnis (actor), Woodrow Parfrey (actor), Vittorio Nino Novarese (costume designer), Hans J. Salter (composer), Leslie Stevens (writer),

Plot: A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.

Keywords: 10th-century, bare-chested-male, based-on-play, castle, hairy-chest, medieval-times, norman, sword-and-shield, virgin
Genres: Drama, History,
Taglines: He Battled Two Empires For The Love Of One Woman.

Quotes:

Draco: This place has the dimensions of heresy.

Chrysagon: [of Bronwyn] She has a calm face.::Draco: So has a cow.

Priest: Well, now, fertility. Some say it's pagan. But who's not pagan in some matters?::Draco: True, true! I love the speech of scholars.::Priest: These young folks here think of nothing but frolic. "Desist!" I tell them, but they will go a-wantoning. So, lest the Devil take them, I preach them a text from holy writ. "Increase and multiply," I say. "Replenish the earth." And oh! how they obey me.

Chrysagon: From under his right hand, I took that sword. I've lived twenty years with that cold wife.

Draco: That naked strumpet wears our father's ring!::Chrysagon: Then honor it, and her!

Draco: Did I say it was a turning world?