Paul Moran
July 12th, 2004, 06:31 PM
http://www.vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=2152&page=1 In the great John Ford classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, it is said that when a historian has a choice between recording the truth or a legend, he should print the legend. But in the case where a legend has been done and redone to the point of utter familiarity, sometimes it’s good to go back to the source and discover what actual events inspired the mythmaking. Such is the idea behind Touchstone’s new King Arthur. In an interview several years ago, producer Jerry Bruckheimer said that he’d wished he’d made Gladiator; now, in King Arthur, he makes his wish a reality with a film that is comparable in many ways to the Ridley Scott epic. And yet, despite its basis in actual history, this King Arthur manages by the time of its finale to create a legend of its own — the origin of the British nation under its first king and queen.
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