Comparing Excalibur And Merlin

The tales of King Arthur draw viewers into the story with the sense of pagan and Christian references. In the films of “Excalibur” and “Merlin” the tale of King Arthur is told in differing ways, yet the main point of the great King Arthur stays the same. One main difference between the movie “Excalibur” and “Merlin” is the way it was told to the viewers. In “Excalibur” the story of Arthur was played out scene by scene. The story wasn’t told by a single person, it was acted out with dialogue and in a chronological order. Comparing to the movie “Merlin” which on the other hand was told by a single person, that person being Merlin himself. The story was told the way Merlin remembered it, with his dialogue explaining what was happening throughout