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King Arthur Compare And Contrast
The film King Arthur tells the story of knights fighting in Briton in the Dark Ages. It began at the time when Arthur and his knights became free of their duties after fifteen years of battle. When they finally returned to their homes, they received a final duty from Bishop Germanus to go and rescue a Roman family from being attacked by the Saxons. Arthur rallies his knights on the journey to go and rescue the family to only find they have been holding pagans down in a secret tunnel. Arthur decides to bring everybody there back to Hadrian's Wall before the Saxons find and kill them all. The event the occurred between finding the family and bringing them back was a small battle between Arthur and his Knights and the Saxons. During the rescue of the Roman family, they found a woman where the pagans were held named Guinevere. She later on got Arthur to meet up with Merlin, the leader of the Woads and Arthur's enemy. (“King Arthur Film”). …show more content…
I will be discussing my viewpoint on the differences in the relationship in both the film and online databases throughout this research paper. Merlin was first introduced to the film when Arthur and his knights were transferring the king through the woods where they were attacked by Merlin and his Woads. The battle ended with the Woads failing to capture the king and Arthur and his knights successfully escaping. Later in the film the viewers got to see the first encounter between Merlin and Arthur with a flashback scene to when Merlin attacked the village Arthur lived in and killed his mother. Arthur didn’t want anything to do with Merlin and his men at the time, but later on benefitted from his

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