The Arthurian Legend is the original story of the knight in shining armor. It is what started it all literary, movies, TV and video games. Virtually every source of media and entertainment of knights and feudal eras arose from this story. Originally it was Malory's "Morte de Arthur", it was the first pros writing, and yet its more or less reading a work of a scribe. Its mainly just descriptive and pure action there is very little subtlties to it.
A piece by T. H. White "The Once and Future King" was what added supense and made King Arthur what he is today. This included dialog, character development and the suspense that made it so epic. We still see this story being used in movies and other media today. In fact on A&E there is a series called "Merlin", but i haven't watched it and I don't know how much is factual.
Lastly what really shows it's popularity was Monty Python's "Quest for the Holy Grail". When a spoof is made of something its generally either really bad or really good. Since the Arthur story is still being made into new media today, even after all these years later, its still going strong. Monty Python turned the epic in a new direction of comedy and mocking of the middle ages. Yet no matter what the story is altered too it hasn't lost that sense of epic.
James Johnson in cooperation with King Arthur (Annie Modonuts)
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