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The took out my favorite line!

posted 17 years ago by SueOrder
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At the very end, when King Arthur is telling the boy to live and keep the legend alive, it always bugs me that they took out my favorite part of that conversation in the movie.

In the play, I remember him saying that Merlin (his teacher who lived backward) told him that someday people would discover that the world - like Arthur's table - was round. And if the legend of Camelot was able to survive, maybe someday would sit around the world, as they did his table, and talk about how to make the world a better place.

I hate that they took that line out. Does anyone else remember it or know why they took it out?

[–] FloatingOpera7 17 years ago

A film version of a musical is never the same as a stage musical. And I don't even recall hearing that line in the play/musical. I do remember hearing about it in the Disney animated film "The Sword In The Stone" which was based on White's "The Once And Future King" which was also the basis for the musical. Merlin could see into the future and in fact had visited the future. He told Arthur about the world being round and people getting together to discuss peace between nations, kind of alluding to the U.N. or something. He told him that "man would fly" on planes, etc. This wall all faithful to the novel in which White talks about World War II and etc.

[–] jaddison383 17 years ago

Personally, my favorite line is the very last: "It only proves that we are merely droplets in an endless sea- but some do sparkle! Some do sparkle!" I'm about to cry just thinking about it. Fantastic show. I haven't seen the film.

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[–] chabam 17 years ago

That's my favorite line as well, but I remember it slightly different:

"One of what we all are, Pelle, just a drop in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea, but some of the drops sparkle, Pelle, some DO sparkle!"

I have seen both the play and the film and both use that line....it does make me tear up to hear it. It sends chills down my spine!

[–] laurence01 17 years ago

Yes I think the OP id mistaken by that line being at the end. My own memory as does yours sugests that the dialogue at the end is the same in both the play and the film.

[–] hachmom-1 17 years ago

Infact its one of the few parts of the movie that were barely tampered with, thank goodness....you must remember that by the time the film came out that film had taken on alot of historic and sentimental connotations and many people were watching it especially for that scene.And its one of those great moments that not ever Josh Logans closeups could ruin....

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[–] chabam 16 years ago

I totally agree! I always forget how terrible the movie is and always question why I'm watching it until that last scene when I remember that it's worth suffering through to see and hear that line.

[–] hachmom-1 16 years ago

When the play was originally on Broadway alot of folks wanted to cut the downbeat ending....but Alan Lerner maintained that the ending was the whole reason he wrote the show...so I guess he would have agreed

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[–] GinaRenee 16 years ago

I don't remember that at all, and I've seen "The Sword in the Stone" many times. Actually, when Merlin visited the future, he hated it and told Arthur it was "one big modern mess!"

[–] ladyzara2781 16 years ago

I think that part about living backwards and the world being round is actually in the beginning of the show, in a flashback to his youth right before Nimue calls Merlin away forever.

[–] nutsberryfarm 8 years ago

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true.

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