Susan,
Recently I watched a film entitled, "King Arthur" and it seemed to
interpret Merlin in much the same way that you see him. He comes
across as a seer-holy man.
This film had a dash of pre and post Vulgate material but a large dose
of what little is known of the historical period that Arthur
ostensibly lived. Guinevere is shown tattooed and fighting alongside
of the men. Keira Knightly plays the role of Guinevere and normally I
would have laughed at the suggestion. However she does a creditable
job.
My first impression of this film was that it wasn't very good, but I
simply didn't understand what the filmmaker was attempting to do and
that was to put the story of Arthur into a reasonable historical
perspective. In other words, no hocus pocus.
I like hocus pocus. So I missed that.
However it is a good film in that it twists your viewpoint somewhat
from the Mallory-Mary Stewart myth making and possibly comes closer to
the truth as far as anyone is able.
Bill
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