#king arthur (2004) 20th anniversary

[ka20th]

King Arthur (2004) 20th anniversary celebration 1-7 July 2024 - prompts!

Here are the prompts for the 20th anniversary celebration event! Each day has a theme and some suggested sub-themes - feel free to interpret them however you like!

Day 1 - Monday 1 July: beginnings

first meetings, leaving Sarmatia, arriving in Britain, settling in at the Wall

Day 2 - Tuesday 2 July - love

platonic, romantic, OTPs, OT3s

Day 3 - Wednesday 3 July - loyalty

to Arthur, to Rome, to each other, loyalty tested, proven, broken

Day 4 - Thursday 4 July - home

where is home? Rome, Sarmatia, Britain, each other?

Day 5 - Friday 5 July - sacrifice

what do you lay down your life for? is it worth it?

Day 6 - Saturday 6 July - loss

what does it mean to be the one left behind? how do you carry on afterwards?

Day 7 - Sunday 7 July - endings

happy or otherwise, after the battle, everybody lives, a brave new world

All fanworks are welcome - just remember to tag us @ka20th and #ka20th so we can see and reblog your contributions. And have fun!

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[sasha-br]

This week begins the 20th anniversary of the little movie that could, King Arthur (2004).

I don’t have the room or the words to say how much this film means to me or how it taught me to write and how I still have friends that I love that I met because of it.

I had life altering experiences, an amazing trip to the UK, one to New York, and two to North Carolina. I have spent the majority of the 20 years thinking or reading or writing about KA or some iteration inspired by it.

It encouraged me to create what I consider some of my best work and brought me to people I had no idea were out there, people like me and people that taught me to be a better friend and person.

Thank you to Cat, to Karen, to Kaarlo and Maria and Amera and Gissey. To Shelley and Laura and Rhonda. Thank you to the folks that still read and comment.

Thank you, Lancelot and Arthur (and my modern Arthur and Lance). I love you boys so much ❤️❤️⚔️

Happy anniversary OTP and KA!

I will be hopefully posting some “drabbles” this week in the AO3 collection here:

I will be cross posting here as well.

❤️⚔️🍷

[nocompromise-noregrets]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: King Arthur (2004) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Gawain (King Arthur 2004), Galahad (King Arthur 2004), Tristan (King Arthur 2004), Lancelot (King Arthur 2004), Bors (King Arthur 2004), Dagonet (King Arthur 2004), Arthur Castus Additional Tags: First Meetings, Languages, Language Barrier, Triple Drabble Series: Part 1 of King Arthur 20th Anniversary Summary:

A band of Sarmatian boys get to know each other on their long journey to Britannia, at the start of their fifteen years' servitude to Rome.

All right, here we are! This is the first of a series of double and triple drabbles written to mark, celebrate and commemorate the 20th anniversary of 'the little movie that could', King Arthur. I've been in this fandom since the very beginning, made a stalwart friend (hi @sasha-br!) and the film still holds a very special place in my heart. Come and join the party at @ka20th!

Posted here under the cut as well, since AO3 is about to go down for planned maintenance...

They were boys when they left Sarmatia, when the Romans came to collect them, boys of thirteen, fourteen, pressed into servitude by the defeat of their forefathers. They left their families behind, one by one, a sullen, growing band of lads herded across the plains, and gradually they forged new bonds, speaking together in their own tongue, partly because they did not yet know the Romans’ language but more because they knew it annoyed the legionaries tasked with rounding them up. They all had words they used differently, words the others didn’t understand, especially Tristan, the boy from furthest east, the one the hawks seemed to follow, overhead - but they understood each other and the Romans couldn’t eavesdrop, which was what mattered.

The bonds strengthened as they rode westwards, suffered through the sea crossing, rode again, west and north, through the cold, wet, grey and green land that would be their home for the next fifteen years. They would be men when they were free to return home, men grown and seasoned - if they lived, but none of them mentioned that.

They speculated all the way there what their posting would be like, their commanding officer, but when they met him, he was little more than a boy like them, born in Britannia but freshly back from Rome, full of idealism and hope; and he greeted them in their own tongue, a courtesy none of the other Romans had granted them, and for that they began to allow him into the brotherhood they had formed. The fortress was cold, the people strange, the boys could only communicate with them by gestures, but their new commander - Arthur - translated, taught them the language, acted as their conduit from their old world to the new, and gradually they learned how to settle in.

[sasha-br]

Oh, my babies. Happy anniversary, King Arthur!

     KING ARTHUR (2004)      dir. Antoine Fuqua

[osloucosanos20]

Liam Neeson Filmography Challenge

​LIAM NEESON - COMPLETE FILMOGRAPHY

Movies (86)

1978: Pilgrim’s Progress

1979: Christiana

1981: Nailed

1981: Excalibur

1983: Krull

1984: The Bounty

1985: Lamb

1985: The Innocent

1986: If Tomorrow Comes

1986: The Mission

1986: The Delta Force

1986: Duet for One

1986: Hold the Dream

1987: Suspect

1987: A Prayer for the Dying

1988: Satisfaction

1988: High Spirits

1988: The Dead Pool

1988: The Good Mother

1989: Next of Kin

1990: Darkman

1990: The Big Man (also titled Crossing the Line)

1991: Under Suspicion

1992: Husbands and Wives

1992: Leap of Faith

1992: Shining Through

1993: Ethan Frome

1993: Ruby Cairo

1993: Schindler’s List

1994: Nell

1995: Rob Roy

1996: Michael Collins

1996: Before and After

1998: Les Misérables

1998: Everest

1999: The Haunting

1999: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

2000: Gun Shy

2000: The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition

2002: K-19: The Widowmaker

2002: Gangs of New York

2002: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

2002: Martin Luther

2003: Love Actually

2003: Coral Reef Adventure

2004: Kinsey

2005: Kingdom of Heaven

2005: Batman Begins

2005: Breakfast on Pluto

2005: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2006: Home

2007: Seraphim Falls

2008: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

2008: The Other Man

2008: Taken

2009: Five Minutes of Heaven

2009: Ponyo

2009: After.Life

2009: Chloe

2010: Clash of the Titans

2010: The A-Team

2010: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2010: The Next Three Days

2010: The Wildest Dream

2011: Unknown

2012: The Grey

2012: Wrath of the Titans

2012: Battleship

2012: The Dark Night Rises

2012: Taken 2

2013: Third Person

2013: Khumba

2013: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

2014: The Nut Job

2014: The Lego Movie

2014: Non-Stop

2014: A Million Ways to Die in the West

2014: A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014: Road

2014: Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet

2015: TAK3N

2015: Run All Night 

2015: Entourage 

2015: Ted 2 

2016: A Monster Calls

2016: Silence 

Total Count: 62

Television

1978: Play for Today

1980: BBC2 Playhouse

1981: Charlie was a Rich Man (TV Movie)

1983: Across the Water (TV Movie)

1984: Ellis Island

1985: Women of Substance

1985: Arthur the King (TV Movie)

1986: Miami Vice

1987: Sworn to Silence (TV Movie)

1988: Screen Two

1994: Subaru Primal Quest, San Juan Islands

1995: Lumière and Company

1995: Out of Ireland

1996: Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome

1996: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

1998: Intimate Portrait

1998: Eco-Challenge Morocco

1999: Omagh the Legacy: Claire and Stephen’s Story

1991-2001: Sesame Street

2000: The Man Who Came to Dinner (TV Movie)

2000: Touched by an Angel

2000: The Directors

2000: Empires: The Greeks

2000: The Endurance

2000: Inside the Space Station (TV Movie/Documentary)

2001: Revenge of the Whales

2001: The Greeks

2001: Evolution

2001: Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration

2002: Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York

2002: Har Haosher

2002: Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (TV Movie/Documentary)

2002: Liberty’s Kids

2002: Gala Paramount Pictures Celebrates 90th Anniversary with 90 Stars for 90 Years (TV Movie)

2002: The Maze (TV Movie/Documentary)

2004: Patrick

2004: Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (TV Movie/Documentary)

2005: The Suite with Dave Karger (TV Series Documentary)

2005: The Simpsons

2010: Cubed

2010: The Big C

2011: Life’s Too Short

2011: A Child’s Garden of Poetry (TV Movie)

2011-2014: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2014: Family Guy

2014: Rev.

2014: Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys

Total Count: 1

Other

1991: Revolver (Short)

2001: Journey into Amazing Caves

2005: Batman Begins (Video Game)

2008: Fallout 3 (Video Game)

2013: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds Alive on Stage! The New Generation

2014: Save NYC Horse Carriages (Short)

Total Count: 0

[ricardosousalemos]

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1984-2014

The saga of Nick Cave didn’t begin with the Bad Seeds or the Birthday Party–not even with the man himself. Its genesis lies instead in the first chapter of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita, which Cave’s father, a high school English teacher, read aloud to him shortly after his 12th birthday inside their house in a small town in Victoria, Australia. Cave later recalled his father transforming with every recited syllable, a mortal under the spell of the written word. “I felt like I was being initiated into this secret world,” he said, “The world of sex and adulthood and art.” Cave’s naturally didn’t grasp the intricacies of Nabokov’s masterpiece at his tender age, but the young man’s encounter with Lolita’s sordid romanticism and melodic prose constituted his coming-of-age and his artistic awakening.

Cave’s new box set Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds is a testament to the literary soul of his music. The deluxe edition assumes the form of a case-bound, 36-page book of essays and photos (256 pages in the super deluxe edition, packaged separately), bundled alongside 3 CDs and a DVD comprising concert footage and band interviews. While technically a compilation, it’s easier to think of the release as a novel in three parts, detailing Cave’s evolution from obscure goth-rocker, to Americana deconstructor, to rock’s very own Nabokov, all while honoring the Seeds who joined him for the long, slow march to the pantheon.

Disc one details the band’s early years in the mid-'80s and early ‘90s and the growing pains therein. The seething title track to 1984’s From Her To Eternity is the perfect opening chapter; the vestiges of Birthday Party’s post-punk in its arrangement (the dread-laden piano plunks, the spooky poetry, the incessant dissonance) show that Cave and company had yet to come into their own. In time, they moved to Berlin, drifting away from rudimentary din to gothic grandeur over the span of their next five albums, whose contents comprise the bulk of the disc. Ironically, the first of these Berlin-brewed albums, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), marked the beginnings of Cave’s love affair with Southern blues. The romance was inevitable: Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, et al. were the original murder balladeers, tragedians strumming similar tales of blood, sweat, and sin. Accordingly, 1986’s covers album Kicking Against The Pricks (represented here by the Seeds’ take on Hooker’s “I’m Gonna Kill That Woman”) found the Seeds honoring their thematic forebears.

A few months after the tribute, Cave’s creative loci shifted yet again. Frequently regarded as the band’s opus, Your Funeral, My Trial found the Seeds welding the blues to the pre-existing, cabaret-tinged balladry of his debut, recasting the aloof artist as a funhouse-mirror version of the everyman. Consider “Scum,” the album’s seething indictment of “a miserable shit-wringing turd.” The climactic highlight is typically regarded as Cave’s clap-back at his former roommate, journalist Mat Snow (according to the Snow's account, a disgruntled Cave revealed him as the song's subject during a tense conversation following Snow’s pre-emptive criticism of The Firstborn Is Dead). Upon closer examination, however, the purported autobiography reveals itself as a condemnation of the traitor immemorial, fueled through historical allusion (“Judas, Brutus, Vitus”) and grotesque imagery (“He said that I looked pale and thin/I told him he looked fat/His lips were red and lickin’ wet/His house was roastin’ hot/In fact it was a fuckin’ slum”). With the fluid, genre-blurring, Your Funeral, My Trial, and its follow-up Tender Prey (1988), Cave challenged our notions of the blues as a static art form; its modern incarnation called for innovation, not just appropriation.

Lovely Creatures proceeds on to the band’s halcyon days in the mid ‘90s—a period that saw Cave’s apotheosis as a world-renowned auteur. Let Love In (1994) and The Boatman’s Call (1997) are the most well-represented here with four tracks apiece, and for good reason. Along with 1996’s Murder Ballads, these three albums provide the most compelling evidence for Cave’s storied reputation. Here, we observe Cave coming into his own as a storyteller, an echo of the awakening he experienced as a child. His formalistic shift from poetry to prose positions “Do You Love Me?” “Stagger Lee,” and “Red Right Hand” as metaphysical novels rather than songs, where the forces of sex and death grapple for supremacy. The spirit of the old Romantics is alive and well, too: namely, their ceaseless search for sublime love, the only solace in a world of pain. “There’s a man who spoke wonders/Though I’ve never met him,” he groans on “(Are You) The One I've Been Waiting For?” invoking Christ’s chaste wisdom as he anticipates his lovers’ arrival. Two tracks apiece from No More Shall We Part (2001) and Nocturama (2003) round out the proceedings, but their overblown drama pales in comparison to the preceding panorama, the apex of Cave’s compilation, and arguably, his entire career.

By the time their 20th anniversary rolled around in 2004, Cave and company’s primordial madness had long since cooled, earning them a heretofore unimaginable reputation among critics as a beacon of gothic melodrama. In fact, during this interim—2004 to 2013, chronicled on the final disc—the old Seeds ceased to exist. The departure of original keyboardist/guitarist Blixa Bargeld one year prior to 2004’s double album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus left behind an unmistakable void, particularly on the LP’s intimate latter half (“Breathless,” “Babe, You Turn Me On,” “O Children”). The void deepens with five selections from 2007’s Americana doomsday spell Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Harvey’s final outing with the band. It’s somewhat of an underwhelming swan song for him, considering the frequency with which Warren Ellis’ violins take center stage (most spectacularly on the LP’s haunting, hymnal eight-minute closer, “More News From Nowhere”).

Four highlights from 2013’s Push The Sky Away ("We No Who U R," "Jubilee Street," "Higgs Boson Blues," and the title track) provide a fitting conclusion to Lovely Creatures’ majestic arc: the polar opposite of “From Her To Eternity,” a profound juxtaposition. And yet, however satisfying the collection’s finale, listeners who’ve kept up with Cave in the four years following Push The Sky Away will undoubtedly walk away from the experience a bit unsettled: not because the music itself is engineered to do so, but because Cave omits Skeleton Tree–his most powerful monument to death and grief–from the Seeds saga. Perhaps, this absence is owed to timing (Lovely Creatures was in progress when Cave’s son Arthur died). Consider Skeleton Tree, then, an epilogue to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ triumphant journey.

All chronologies are stories by definition, but when it comes to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, such a descriptor proves laughably insufficient. Their trajectory encompasses not just a band’s career, but a perversion of the monomyth that resides in all of our brains. Instead of King Arthur or Odysseus, we have Cave, a chain-smoking, gunslinging poet who sees God in the eyes of a woman and bowls of soup; who stalks through Berlin boudoirs with heroin in his veins, daring the devil to take him by the Red Right Hand only to dodge his scythe like a stuntman; who sifts through puddles of blood and piles of money in search of meaning, only to be greeted by the void. “The spiritual quest has many faces–religion, art, drugs, work, money, sex,” he mused, addressing 1998 Vienna Poetry Festival, “but rarely does the search serve God so directly, and rarely are the rewards so great in doing.” Lovely Creatures presents the definitive display of these anguished labors and sweet fruits they bore over twenty years—an unmovable feast, immortalized.

[ka20th]

King Arthur 20th anniversary celebration, 1-7 July 2024

King Arthur turns 20 on 7 July 2024! There will be a week-long celebration here on Tumblr with fic, art, meta and all other fanworks welcome - your mod @nocompromise-noregrets is currently collecting theme/prompt suggestions with the aim of having a theme and a few sub-themes or specific prompts for each day (love, home, honour, sacrifice, that sort of thing). Please feel free to reply to this post or send an ask with your ideas!

Rules and FAQ are here, and a prompt post will be coming soon!

[ka20th]

King Arthur (2004) 20th anniversary celebration day 7: endings

happy or otherwise, after the battle, everybody lives, a brave new world

It's day 7, the last day of our anniversary celebration, so we end with endings. Or is the ending just the beginning of another chapter? Does everyone in fact live?

Tag us @ka20th and #ka20th in your posts and we'll reblog them here - and if you're posting to AO3, please feel free to add them to our collection here!

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[sasha-br]

Day two of the @ka20th celebration, prompt Love.

I love you, OTP!

[ka20th]

King Arthur (2004) 20th anniversary celebration day 1: beginnings

first meetings, leaving Sarmatia, arriving in Britain, settling in at the Wall

It's here! Today is the first day of our celebration of the 20th anniversary of King Arthur's release and appropriately enough, we start with the theme of beginnings.

Tag us @ka20th and #ka20th in your posts and we'll reblog them here - and if you're posting to AO3, please feel free to add them to our collection here!

(please note that AO3 will be down for planned maintenance between 07:00 and 17:00 UTC today - check what time that is for you here)

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[sasha-br]

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[sasha-br]

Here's my piece for @ka20th King Arthur's 20th Anniversary Celebration! Prompt, loss.

Take a guess at what I wrote about. ;)

[sasha-br]

This is the death scene I wrote for Arthur in The Only One, a post movie AU where Lancelot has survived and come to reconcile his friendship/love with Arthur, where he’s now living outside of Rome. It’s the sequel to Felt Like A Lifetime, which is the first Arthur x Lancelot long!fic I wrote for this fandom.

I don’t know if I could kill off Arthur if I were to write this now, but I am very proud and attached to these two stories (although FLAL needs a lot of work) and I’m very touched and happy for all the love I got for these two pieces.

Thank you, tiny!fandom. Happy anniversary, King Arthur!

[nocompromise-noregrets]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: King Arthur (2004) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Dagonet & Lucan (King Arthur 2004) Characters: Dagonet (King Arthur 2004), Lucan (King Arthur 2004) Additional Tags: Sacrifice, Self-Sacrifice, Canonical Character Death, Angst, Triple Drabble Series: Part 5 of King Arthur 20th Anniversary Summary:

Dagonet hadn’t set out to lay down his life, when the eight of them stepped onto the ice.

Written for day 5 of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of King Arthur, prompt 'sacrifice'. Come and join the party at @ka20th!

[sasha-br]

Day three of @ka20th King Arthur's 20th Anniversary celebration, prompt: loyalty.

Sorry, Lancelot. I owe you for this.

[sasha-br]

Here's my first entry for the @ka20th sponsored celebration of King Arthur's 20th anniversary! Prompt: beginnings.