Violence In Excalibur

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In the 1981 movie Excalibur directed by John Boorman Arthur 's teenage life is explained and the events that lead Arthur to become king. The movie is based on violence, peppered with sex and it portrays the manner of how Arthur was taken away from his mother without her consent. King Pendragon wanted to have Arthur’s mother for the night, he made an agreement with Merlin to make his desire come true. The king promised to make a child upon her and give Merlin the child once he/she is born because he wanted to nurse the baby. Although in the movie Merlin is not revealed to nurse Arthur as a baby, Merlin appears years after when Arthur has become a young man, When Arthur pulls the sword from the stone and sees that his father is kneeling the teenage

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