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Trivia for
Excalibur (1981)
* Igrayne, The Lady of the Lake, and young Mordred were all played by director John Boorman's real-life children: Katrine Boorman, Telsche Boorman, and Charley Boorman.
* The initial fight scene in the movie had to filmed three times. It was filmed at night and the first two times, all the film came out underexposed due to a fault in the exposure meter.
* United Artists told John Boorman that he could cast anyone as Merlin except Nicol Williamson.
* The location for the Duke Of Cornwall's castle is now a housing estate.
* Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson were initially reluctant to work with each other as they had both been in a disastrous production of Macbeth and were not on speaking terms.
* Some of the crew agreed that Gabriel Byrne's Irish accent made "One night with Igrayne" sound like "One night with your granny".
* The Charm of Making spoken by Merlin & Morgana is an attempt at Old Irish that translates to:
"Serpent's breath, charm of death and life, thy omen of making."
The phonetic rendering, as spoken in the movie, is:
/ana:l nathrakh, u:rth va:s bethud, dokhje:l djenve:/.
In Irish, the phrase is:
'Anáil nathrach, ortha bháis bheatha, do thuar dhéanamh'
which is pronounced similarly but not exactly as in the movie.
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Memorable Quotes from
Excalibur (1981)
Arthur: Now, once more, I must ride with my knights to defend what was, and the dream of what could be.
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Merlin: For it is the doom of men that they forget.
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Arthur: Move aside. This is the king's road--and the knights you joined arms against were his very own.
Lancelot: I await the king himself. His knights are in need of training.
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Uther: The sword. You promised me the sword.
Merlin: And you shall have it; but to heal, not to hack. Tomorrow, a truce; we meet at the river.
Uther: Talk. Talk is for lovers, Merlin. I need the sword to be king.
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Merlin: Now look, I once stood exposed to the Dragon's Breath so that a man could lie one night with a woman. It took me nine moons to recover. And all for this lunacy called, "love," this mad distemper that strikes down both beggar and king. Never again. Never.
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[Arthur has broken Excalibur on Lancelot's chest]
Arthur: My God, Merlin. What have I done?
Merlin: You have broken what could not be broken. Now, hope is broken.
Arthur: My rage broke it. My pride broke it. This most excellent knight, who fought with fairness and grace, was meant to win. I used Excalibur to change that verdict.
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Arthur: Merlin, where are you going?
Merlin: Where do you think? You have a kingdom to rule.
Arthur: But how? I don't know how.
Merlin: You knew how to draw the sword from the stone.
Arthur: That was easy.
Merlin: Was it? I couldn't have done it.
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Merlin: It is a lonely life, the way of the necromancer... oh, yes. Lacrimae Mundi - the tears of the world.
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Merlin: You must remember, there's always something cleverer than yourself.
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Merlin: You're not listening... well, your heart is not. Love is deaf as well as blind. That's it.
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Arthur: Any man who would be a knight and follow a king... follow me.
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Merlin: Looking at the cake is like looking at the future, until you've tasted it what do you really know? And then, of course, it's too late.
[Arthur takes a bite.]
Merlin: Too late.
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Merlin: Good and evil, there never is one without the other.
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Merlin: When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
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[About Lancelot]
Arthur: Will he live?
Merlin: Yes.
Arthur: And he and Guinevere will...?
Merlin: Yes.
Arthur: Merlin, will I ever have a son?
Merlin: Oh, yes.
Arthur: Just "yes"? No riddles? That frightens me.
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Merlin: He who draws the sword from the stone, he shall be king. Arthur, you're the one.
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Mordred: Come father. Let us embrace at last.
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Perceval: I can't lose faith, Lancelot. It's all I have left.
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Merlin: You brought me back. Your love brought me back. Back to were you are now. In the land of dreams.
Arthur: Are you a dream Merlin?
Merlin: [soflty] A dream to some.
[Yelling]
Merlin: A nightmare to others.
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Merlin: The future has taken root in the present.
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Merlin: Ooh, that plan is well known. You'll have to do better than that.
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Uther Pendragon: To kill and be king, is that all?
Merlin: Perhaps not even that.
Arthur:
"The fellowship was a brief beginning,
A fair time that cannot be forgotten;
and because it will not be forgotten,
that fair time may come again.
Now once more I must ride with my knights
to defend what was, and the dream of
what could be."
Merlin:
"You will be the land,
And the land will be you.
If you fail, the land will perish;
If you thrive, the land will blossom."
Arthur:
"I have lived through others
Far too long! Lancelot carried my
Honor and Guenevere my guilt. My
Knights have fought my causes.
Mordred carries my sins. Now,
At last, I shall be King."
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