February 16, 2021
The Sword in the Stone (1963) ****
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“Blow me to Bermuda!”
“Where… Where did he go?”
“To Bermuda, I suppose.”
Another charming Disney animated feature, this month is going swimmingly. This one, like One Hundred and One Dalmatians before, is animated in a freer, sketchier style than the Princess films, it just breezes along.
Merlin the wizard finds Wart, a skinny, awkward boy, and teaches him all kinds of important things, because he know the future, which is that Wart is destined to pull the sword from the stone and become the true King of England.
One funny thing, I keep thinking that this is the movie where the owl talks about falling in love as being twitter-pated, but as I found out when I was watching Bambi, it’s Bambi! However, it’s so firmly lodged in my skull, that when I was looking for a quote to put at the top of this post, I spent a minimum of ten minutes trying to find the quote where Archimedes talks to Wart about being twitter-pated, instead of Friend Owl telling Bambi, Flower and Thumper.
I am reminded that it has been a really long times since I read The Once and Future King, (the film is based on the first section, originally published as a stand-alone book), and I really should get onto that.
365 Films in 365 Days 