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Forming the Castle: The Sword in the Stone

First shot of animation: Magic glitter sparkles turn into a sword

While 101 Dalmatians built an aesthetic from the xerox process, The Sword in the Stone is just trying to cope with it. The character animation is fun and expressive, but it’s not in support of much of anything. Four animal chases and the kid is crowned, the end.

The opening narration stresses kings are a necessary part of the natural order. Terrible things happen without one, like hawks trying to eat squirrels. I’m not sure what makes Wart a good king, aside from Kay and Ector being total morons. It’s also not clear how turning into a bird will benefit him so much more than basic literacy. Did not like this one very much.

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Having read the original novel "The Once And Future King" it only further annoys me that there were so many good ideas that Disney just didn't do, but then you have to accept that Disney adaptations will always cut the deep stuff out.

The original novel has Wart turned into a falcon to live among the royal hawks, and learn their conflicting attitudes between "I'm happy serving my lord" versus "I spit upon humanity for these shackles". These lessons are what make Wart into a good king, by teaching him empathy and compromise amongst the common people.

Also Merlin is an eldritch horror, being born in the 1990s and aging backwards. He has nightmares of WW2, but he knows it must happen, condemned forever to see a world advance the other way of him, but at least he can entertain folks with wooden trains in the 10th century.

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