March 27, 2010

The Sword in the Stone (1963).

My second post of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Cards has a comment by David Ponce that states that Merlin was a cool magician. But it was curious that the great Arthurian mage came to my mind as the lovely Disney's version. So I though that I must post something about this movie.

It is a great movie, not one of the best from Disney, but it was cool to the limit. I didn't have the opportunity of seeing it until I was a grown-up. Back in the pre-VHS era, you have to go to the cinema to see a movie. And this movie was nine years older than I was! So I have to wait to see it at home (first in a VCR and then in glorious DVD). As I could find this VHS was from 1991 (I was 19).

But I had an ally in my childhood. A friend of my grandparents has a daughter that own a copy of the comic (in spanish). They gave me the book as a gift and I read it again and again until I knew it by heart. So when I watched the movie for the first time I was aware of almost anything.

[via davelandblog]

I found in a bakery a tiny Archimedes that I bought to my child a few months ago. It was nice to see that this movie is not forgotten. How cool it could be to be a child that goes to be Merlin's pupil and gets transformed into a squirrel, a fish and a bird. That watch a mighty combat between two of the great magians in a battle of wits and lastly but not least, becomes one of the greatest kings ever. Boy, that was the fabric of my dreams!

It was the last movie Disney himself was involved, just a little before his pass away in 1966. It was curious to see that many Disney movies of that decade came from English background.

To finish the post, here you can se a commercial and the magician's fight scene. Enjoy!