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Some thoughts on “King Arthur” vis-à-vis the DCEU

This’ll be short.

Watched “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” (2017), Guy Ritchie’s vision of it. Music by composer Daniel Pemberton is only the tip of the iceberg of why I LIKE IT.

Very “BvS” deja vu for me, in that I don’t completely understand why critics dislike is as much as they do. Don’t really care. I LIKE IT SO DARN MUCH. Casting. Dialogue. Visuals. Humor. Action. Costumes. Just the sequences (I think they’re brilliant). And perhaps the list will go on as I watch it again, and again, and again.

Audience ratings are far higher anyway. To each his/her own.

Also, thematically (and a bit style-wise), it’s kind of like “The Lion King” meets “The Gladiator” (and not just because of Djimon Hansou) meets “300” (Mr. Snyder, hi!), all movies I adore. Story-wise, it also made the legend of Excalibur so much more interesting to me.

Anyhoo. More on that later.

The whole time, this was in my head: this film might as well be Charlie Hunnam’s Oliver Queen DCEU audition (if he’d seriously consider it. I mean, I know he acknowledged it at one point). The character is basically Oliver Queen in a medieval fantasy AU. Sword holster in lieu of a quiver. Come on.

In conclusion, CHARLIE HUNNAM for Oliver Queen and RYAN POTTER for Tim Drake.

(See what I mean about my DC obsession? I watch these movies and I’m thinking about how they can be incorporated into the DC Universe. Haha!)

“the biggest heart of all”

Damian: “… Add that to the pile of rookie mistakes I’ve been making.”

Oliver: “Eh, go easy on yourself, kiddo. We were all new once. And you’re training under him. That’s like jumping into the deep end of the ocean.”

D: “Bat – the boss doesn’t seem very happy with me.”

O: “Hmm. Not talking much. Acting grumpy.”

D: “Yeah.”

O: “That’s just the way he is. Green Lantern took him to a theme planet once. The whole planet, one big amusement park. I asked him how it was, you know what he said? [in Batman’s voice] ‘Enjoyable.’ That’s it!”

D: “Because he doesn’t care…”

O: “Wrong. It’s the opposite. Underneath, he cares more than any of us. He has the biggest heart of all. That’s why he has to hide it so well.”

From “Batman Unlimited: Mech Vs. Mutants”