Line #5 Awesome/Excalibur


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4	* "Nobody shall have the sword! Nobody shall wield Excalibur but '''MEEEEEEEEE!!!'''"
5	* More of an AwesomeMomentOfCrowning, but young Arthur has knocked down Uryens, one of the knights battling against him. Arthur tries to compel by sword-point to get Uryens to pledge loyalty to him as King, but Uryens refuses to pledge to a lowly ''squire''. Arthur realizes he's right, ''hands him Excalibur'', kneels in the hip-deep water, and requests that Uryens ''knight him'' first. Uryens actually stands there staring at the sword that could grant him kingship if he keeps and strikes the defenseless Arthur down (and his fellow rebelling knights are encouraging him to keep it!)... and then he quickly knights Arthur, hands him back Excalibur, and kneels before Arthur accepting him as king.
6	** "I am your humble knight, and I swear allegiance to the courage in your veins. So strong it is, its source must be Uther Pendragon's. I doubt you no more!"
7	** Even ''Merlin'' never saw that coming.
8	** Made even more awesome by the fact that Uryens is visibly ''trembling'' as he holds the sword -- after he was perfectly calm with it at his neck.
9	* Perceval going up against Sir Gawain with no training and no armor, and only reluctantly relenting when his knight shows up and tells him that he'll take over from here?
10	* Uryens, former leader of the rebelling knights, with his dying breath urging Perceval to never give up on the quest or the King Uryens once rebelled against. His pleas reignite Perceval's drive.
11	* [[HyperCompetentSidekick Perceval]] proving himself worthy and succeeding after a [[TheDeterminator twenty year grueling quest]] for the Holy Grail, resisting the seduction of [[TheVamp Morgana]] who corrupted many other knights, surviving [[TheAntiChrist Mordred]] and his forces hunting down and murdering loyal knights, restoring the king, the land, planting the seed of redemption in [[FallenHero Lancelot]] and saving the day. In the end he completes Arthur's destiny by returning Excalibur to the Lady Of The Lake to bestow upon another King when the day comes, and is the SoleSurvivor and LastOfHisKind of the Knights of the Round Table, with the duty of telling the legend of Camelot falling to him.
12	* At the end of the film when the first part of the ''Carmina Burana' is playing and the land is blooming because Arthur has drunk of the Grail and relearned that he and the land are one, so he and his knights ride out for one final battle.
13	** "Guards! Knights! Squires! ''PREPARE FOR BATTLE!''" Oh, hell yes.
14	** Pretty much the last 10 minutes of the film. Starting with the above mentioned scene it is just straight-up awesome. Merlin coming back as a dream, Merlin's vengeance on Morgana, the battle, Lancelot being a badass one last time, Arthur and Mordred killing each other (including the marvelous line: "Come father, let us embrace at last"), and of course Perceval throwing Excalibur into the lake and then seeing Arthur being carried away. All toped off by that shot of the lady of the lake holding Excalibur with the sun rising in the distant and accompanied by "The Death of Siegfried" from Wagner's Twilight of the Gods.
15	* Guenevere gives back Excalibur to Arthur, which means she was the one who drew the sword from the stone where Arthur left it. She is one of two characters who managed to draw the sword from stone.
16	* "A dream to some... a nightmare to others!"
17	* Arthur being told by Kay, his beloved adopted brother and Seneschal that Merlin told him in a dream he would fight well in the battle the next day against Mordred. It takes several viewings to realise it, but by the way Arthur and Kay look at each other and embrace, Kay knows he will die the next day. Sends chills down your spine. We never see Kay's fate; he's in the battle at Arthur's side and promptly disappears, but it's obvious what has happened, unless there is a deleted scene of his fate somewhere.
18	* "Lancelot's with us!" Even the old wound which he ''still has'' is overcome by the need to do good for Camelot. The fact that Lancelot probably also died along with Arthur makes it all the more poignant.
19	** Lancelot's arrival and sole presence reinvigorates his king and fellow knights enough to turn the tides of the battlefield, leading to Arthur's victory.
20	* Arthur sailing with the three queens into the sunset to that stirring music, whilst Perceval is the sole surviving knight and carrier of the legend and must feel a loneliness incomparable. The viewer is left to wonder when Arthur will ever return to our Mordred-stricken world.
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