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Filming in his beloved Ireland (County Kerry and Wicklow), it’s impossible to underestimate the power of the imagery in Excalibur. Boorman’s Britain is a Celtic hybrid where people speak in Welsh, Irish, Cornish and Scottish brogues, where pagan necromancy is disappearing in favour of Christianity and the central ethos is of harmony with nature; 'you and the land are one', Arthur is told. The use of green, in particular, is quite astonishing, none more so than in the ethereal lighting seen throughout not only the woods but inside the castles and even reflected in the pristine shine of the armour and of Excalibur itself. A symbolism at its most potent in one of the most beautiful, symbolic sequences ever filmed, as Arthur leads his knights from Camelot for the last time to their date with destiny, riding through a barren landscape when the flowers and trees magically transform themselves into full bloom as the rejuvenated king leads his knights through a row of budding blossom trees. All accompanied by the greatest ever use of Carl Orff’s immortal ‘O Fortuna’ as could be offered. - Allan Fish, Wonders in the Dark [via The Dancing Image]