John Boorman's 1981 cinematic release of the film Excalibur is regarded as one of the finest interpretations of Arthurian legend ever to be expressed creatively though film. Boorman, an imaginative film director, who is well known throughout Hollywood for his ability to create unique environments to tell a story, is able to create a dark and mysterious medieval world in which to convey the legend of King Arthur's reign. Besides the ambitious medieval sets, complete with enormous castles, malevolent forests, and underground crystal caves, Boorman is able to tell his story with a sort of under current of symbolism and imagery found in nearly every frame. Through his use of lighting, music, staging, location, costumes, dialogue, and even simple camera movement, Boorman brilliantly tells a story underneath a story, in order to represent the raw emotion that the character's hide beneath their outward appearances. John Boorman's Excalibur, through its...