I have not watched this movie in a long time, so this comment is purely based on my memories. If I remember correctly, Arthur managed to pull the sword out during the film's opening act, but decided to hide that fact because he didn't understand it. The reason why he pulled it at the end, rather than just obliging to Ector and Kay, was because of him being pure of heart. Granted, I don't know what Merlin's animal transformation trials and the battle with Mad Madam Mim had anything to do with that... *but* I do have a potential explanation: Alongside his pure heartedness, unlike Ector and Kay who just used Arthur/Wart, all those trials that he himself faced could have proved that if he could get through those trials, he'd be ready for anything. Surviving the dangers in nature, as an allegory for what he would have to face when he'd become king... it's just that he became king at such a young age, when he really wasn't ready for it.

@Jay_76

26 күн бұрын

I think you're thinking of a different version. Unless there's some Extended Cut or something I'm unaware of, Arthur pulls the sword, towards the end, during the tournament, someone puts it back, telling Arthur to prove he did it the first time, a couple others, including Sir Kay, try to pull it out and fail, before Arthur succeeds in front of everyone, become King.

@SmokeTheHorsehog

26 күн бұрын

@@Jay_76 No, that is in fact the version I am talking about. I watched the version where he first finds the sword at the beginning, and it's not brought back until the end of the movie.

To bad king arthur in legends ruins his own kingdom

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I don't see what's wrong with the idea that the sword recognized Arthur's innate worthiness. The fact that Arthur took to Merlin's education was a sign that he would be a good king. Arthur put in effort and was rewarded. Yes, the chain of causation between those things is vague. But the movie takes place in a magical, not logical, world. I don't think it ruins the message of the movie that Arthur was rewarded by magic or fate rather than by the logical outcome of his actions and choices.

@AddyLovestar

25 күн бұрын

Merlin spends the entire film trying to teach him the IMPORTANCE of logic. So I think the lack of logic matters a very great deal

@Impacatus

25 күн бұрын

@@AddyLovestar Merlin is literally a wizard. He taught Arthur the importance of education, curiosity, the life of the mind, wonder maybe. Which Arthur learned. It's been a long time since I've seen the movie in full, but I don't remember Merlin teaching Arthur anything that's incompatible with the idea that Arthur could have greatness thrust upon him.

You have to consider the pretext. In theory a society operates on merit ie. those of merit run the society, but in a broken society, those of false merit run the society, not the worthy.

@AddyLovestar

26 күн бұрын

I don't see what that has to do with him stumbling on the sword

@amochswohntet99

26 күн бұрын

@@AddyLovestar his stumbling on the sword could be a message that the society is broken

Arthur starts off seeing him self as a Wart over the story Merlin is only showing him if you keep thinking you are a Wart because others are telling you are growing beyond that will never happen. As the story goes on he is shown that he has to speak up don't let what others say keep you from showing everyone who you truly are and to keep moving forward dealing with life in your own way even if that means you make a mistake. Even if you want more freedom ( being a bird) if you take it to far going place you shouldn't (going into Mim's house) trouble will find you. If you are not honest with people from the start and they mistake you for someone you are not you even if you didn't mean to you will hurt them in the end as they risk everything for you (Squirrel falls in love with him). In each event when Arthur was turned in to an animal he was at a disadvantage and could only run while relying on others that he could still turn the tables if he believed him self a little more and turn the tables not completely as he was still inexperienced.The fight between Mad Madam and Merlin is to show Arthur that when everything has gotten so far out of his ability to do anything if you have people on your side they will have your back. The ending was not he had completed his transformation or finished his hero's journey that he had only made it to the start that he had barely even started his path to the person he could be and there was still a lot more he needed to do before he had his round table of equals.

@AddyLovestar

24 күн бұрын

I feel that very little of this is implied or even present in the film itself