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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
In the Latest Movie of 2017 "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword", which has the origins in European literature, Ritchie takes these fantastic elements and presents them from their first minutes in a prologue full of giant creatures and magic. It is said that we perceive a difference in the construction of the villain, since Jude Law feels more emotional than in the subsequent scenes, thus wasting an interesting opportunity.
Later we have a sequence that will define what will be the style of the film, one that only a filmmaker like Ritchie could do: the passage of the boy Arturo to his adult stage, with fast editing cuts, fleeting camera movements and fast music.
It is explained that they present different sequences that play with the narrative of the time, between flashbacks and flashforwards of the events that the different characters are narrating. Undoubtedly, Ritchie and its editor-in-chief, James Herbert, require the viewer to pay slightly more attention than usual so as not to get lost in the narratives. As the story progresses and we can see the mystical presence in the path of our hero, we know that we are facing a much more literary and less "historical" King Arthur. Here magic plays a crucial role among our heroes, but as it is a story of origin, do not expect to see the magician Merlin although there are connections with him.
As mentioned earlier, Jude Law achieves a role that meets dry, but promised for much more, as it is perceived that there was more than just the sight of Ritchie in presenting the complexity of Vortigern. Although he has moments and phrases that present him as the threat to win in this film, his final encounter with Arturo is generic and simply seeks to screen.
It is mentioned that Charlie Hunnam sought and literally fought for the role, with screen tests where he effectively had to fight, and shows that he fulfilled the job to be a not so well known face and prevent him from falling into the problem he had Troy with Brad Pitt, where the star overshadowed the character he played. Here clearly that does not happen.
The rest of the cast is there to fulfill the support functions, they do not stand out because the story itself is from Arturo, but they do have witty moments and dialogues from time to time. King Arthur: The legend of the sword presents a vision with a director who has an already very marked style and is well supported by the dizzying and epic score by Daniel Pemberton, in addition to an ambience achieved correctly through the cinematography of John Mathieson (Gladiator, Crusade).
Originally the film would be released in July 2016, it was subsequently moved to February this year, then in March and finally arrived this May 12, 2017. It is then notorious that the film received various changes throughout these delays and many of These are evidenced in his last act and leave to the side the vision of the director replacing it with something more generic.From the moment it was announced that Guy Ritchie would make a afdah film about the legend of King Arthur, it was natural to think about the style that would have such production of Warner Bros. Here we have an Arthur who grew up in the streets of Londinium, all through the seal of the director: editing and music.
