The most faithful adaptation of Mallory is "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
Or, at least the first half of Mallory. I haven't finished it. Maybe Mallory got serious later on, but the first half is about as silly as the Monty Python movie. Got a war coming? Have a lethal joust the day before!
See a knight on the road ahead? Must fight a duel or be named a coward. And if you win, the knights relatives will come after you for revenge. Only if you whack each other for a few hours and have a good bloodletting, can you be friends. Then, it's time for a few months of rest and good cheer, and a trip to Arthur's castle for Pentecost.
And the morals! Lancelot threatens to kill Tristram if he has sex WITH HIS OWN WIFE. He must be true to his adulterous romance with the Beale Isolde -- vs. his lawful wife the Emergency Backup Isolde.
Is Le Morte D'Arthur a coherent story or is it the transcript of a late Medieval role playing game played in prison to pass the years?
It truly is a bizarre experience! I still struggle to come up with an accurate description of the tone. Your line about MPatHG being a relatively faithful adaptation is not the craziest thing I've ever heard...
The most faithful adaptation of Mallory is "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
Or, at least the first half of Mallory. I haven't finished it. Maybe Mallory got serious later on, but the first half is about as silly as the Monty Python movie. Got a war coming? Have a lethal joust the day before!
See a knight on the road ahead? Must fight a duel or be named a coward. And if you win, the knights relatives will come after you for revenge. Only if you whack each other for a few hours and have a good bloodletting, can you be friends. Then, it's time for a few months of rest and good cheer, and a trip to Arthur's castle for Pentecost.
And the morals! Lancelot threatens to kill Tristram if he has sex WITH HIS OWN WIFE. He must be true to his adulterous romance with the Beale Isolde -- vs. his lawful wife the Emergency Backup Isolde.
Is Le Morte D'Arthur a coherent story or is it the transcript of a late Medieval role playing game played in prison to pass the years?
It truly is a bizarre experience! I still struggle to come up with an accurate description of the tone. Your line about MPatHG being a relatively faithful adaptation is not the craziest thing I've ever heard...
Maybe think of it as a gangster novel.
Them knights was very gangsta!
(And Sir Thomas Mallory was quite the criminal.)
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Mark Twain referred to the knights as "white Indians" in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Camelot? also great backstory w JFK admin..