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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Dvd

Arthur learns about his royal lineage after he pulls the Excalibur, a magical sword, from a stone. Along with Sir Bedivere, he sets out to destroy King Vortigern, who had killed his father.

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is a 2017 epic fantasy action adventure film directed by Guy Ritchie who co-wrote the film with Joby Harold and Lionel Wigram from a story by Harold and David Dobkin, inspired by Arthurian legends. The film stars Charlie Hunnam as the title character and Jude Law as the tyrannical king Vortigern who is attempting to kill him, with Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Djimon Hounsou, Aidan Gillen, and Eric Bana in supporting roles.

Plot

Mordred, an iron-fisted warlock, and his armies lay siege to Camelot, seeking to establish the dominance of mages over humankind. Uther Pendragon, king of the Britons, infiltrates Mordred’s lair and beheads him, saving Camelot. Uther’s treacherous younger brother Vortigern, who covets the throne, orchestrates a coup and sacrifices his wife Elsa to moat hags to become a demon knight, who kills Uther’s wife Igraine and slays Uther in combat. The only survivor is Uther’s son Arthur, who drifts away in a boat and ends up in Londinium, where he is found and raised by prostitutes.

Arthur grows into a skilled fighter and man of the streets. Arthur and his friends confront a group of Vikings who had mistreated one of the prostitutes, forcing them to pay her restitution. Afterwards, the brothel is raided by the Blacklegs, Vortigern’s minions, and Arthur learns that the Vikings were under the king’s protection. Arthur tries to escape the city but is caught and put on a ship with hundreds of other men; the Blacklegs have been forcing all men of Arthur’s age to try to pull a sword that has appeared near the castle from the surrounding stone. Arthur is able to remove the sword but is quickly overwhelmed by its power and passes out. Vortigern meets with him in the dungeon, revealing his true lineage.

Meanwhile, a mage identifying herself as an acolyte of Merlin presents herself to Uther’s former general, Sir Bedivere. At Arthur’s planned execution, the mage uses her magic to stage a diversion while Bedivere’s men rescue Arthur. Taken to Bedivere’s hideout, Arthur initially refuses to help them. The mage persuades Bedivere to take Arthur to a realm called the “Darklands,” where he sees a vision of how Uther sacrificed himself to save Arthur and entomb the sword in stone made of his own body. Arthur learns Vortigern was responsible for persuading Mordred to rebel against humanity, and he returns determined to destroy Vortigern.

With his friends and Bedivere’s men, Arthur stages a series of guerilla attacks against Vortigern, culminating in an assassination attempt in Londinium. The rebels sense a trap but attack anyway, killing Vortigern’s second-in-command. They flee to a fighters’ school run by Arthur’s mentor George, where they are overrun by the Blacklegs. Seeing the mage held at knifepoint, Arthur unleashes Excalibur’s potential, single-handedly killing all of the soldiers. However, as they escape the city, Arthur’s close friend Back Lack is murdered by Vortigern in front of Arthur and Back Lack’s son Blue later that night.

Ashamed of his failures, Arthur tries to throw away the sword, but the Lady of the Lake returns it and shows him a vision of England’s future under Vortigern’s rule. Coming to terms with his responsibility, Arthur reunites with Bedivere. When they return to the rebel hideout, however, they discover the rebel soldiers dead, Vortigern having found them, and an ultimatum: if Arthur does not surrender himself, the captured mage and Blue will die. Arthur travels to Camelot alone, but as Vortigern is about to execute his nephew, a giant snake from the Darklands is summoned by the mage and devours Vortigern’s men. While Bedivere leads an attack on the castle, a desperate Vortigern sacrifices his only daughter Catia and is transformed into the demon knight, confronting Arthur in a separate dimension. Despite his fighting skill, Arthur is beaten, and he is about to submit when he witnesses a vision of his father, convincing him to accept the sword and his identity as his own. Arthur slays Vortigern but blesses him as he dies.

In the aftermath, Arthur dissolves Vortigern’s pact with the Vikings and begins building a Round Table where his knighted friends will meet. Blue and the prostitutes arrive with the crown of Uther, which Arthur accepts, holding the sword aloft before a cheering crowd.

Cast

Charlie Hunnam as King Arthur, Uther’s son, Vortigern’s nephew and the would-be king of Britain who was raised by prostitutes.
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey as the Mage, a woman working for Merlin who supports Arthur and the resistance.
Djimon Hounsou as Sir Bedivere, the leader of the resistance and a former knight of Uther.
Aidan Gillen as Goosefat Bill, a skilled archer, Bedivere’s friend, former knight of Uther and member of the resistance, who later resumes his identity as Sir William.
Mikael Persbrandt as Greybeard, a Viking who has deals with Vortigern.
Jude Law as Vortigern, Uther’s brother, Elsa’s husband, Catia’s father, Arthur’s uncle and the tyrannical and ruthless king of Britain. He is able to transform himself into a demonic knight.
Katie McGrath as Elsa, Vortigern’s wife.
Millie Brady as Princess Catia, Vortigern’s daughter.
Eric Bana as Uther Pendragon, Vortigern’s brother, Arthur’s father and the previous king of Britain.
Poppy Delevingne as Igraine, Uther’s wife.
Annabelle Wallis as Maggie, a member of Vortigern’s Court who helps the resistance.
Kingsley Ben-Adir as Wet Stick, Arthur and Back Lack’s childhood friend who is later knighted by Bedivere under his real name as Sir Tristan.
Neil Maskell as Back Lack, Arthur and Wet Stick’s childhood friend and Blue’s father, who helps the resistance.
Tom Wu as Kung Fu George, Arthur’s Chinese friend and teacher who owns a martial arts school, later knighted as Sir George.
Craig McGinlay as Percy, another of Arthur’s friends who is later knighted as Sir Percival.
Freddie Fox as Rubio, a member of the resistance, later forced to give away the hideout to Vortigern under torture.
Lorraine Bruce, Eline Powell and Hermione Corfield as the three Syrens.
David Beckham makes a cameo appearance as Trigger, a guard who oversees the prisoners who attempt to pull Excalibur from the stone.

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