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British actionspycomedy film[1][5] directed and co- produced by Matthew Vaughn. The screenplay was written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, based on the comic book series Kingsman, created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar. It follows the recruitment and training of Gary "Eggsy" Unwin (Taron Egerton), into a secret spy organisation.

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Eggsy joins a mission to tackle a global threat from Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson), a wealthy megalomaniac. The film also stars Colin Firth, Mark Strong, and Michael Caine. Kingsman: The Secret Service premiered at the annual film marathon Butt- Numb- A- Thon on 1. December 2. 01. 4, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 2. January 2. 01. 5.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics who highly praised the stylized action sequences, the acting performances, villain, score, and its black humor, though some of the violent and sexual scenes were criticized for being too over the top. The film has grossed over $4. Vaughn's most commercially successful film to date.[6] In 2. Empire Award for Best British Film. A sequel, titled Kingsman: The Golden Circle, was released in September 2. Vaughn and the main cast returning.[7]During a mission in the Middle East in 1.

Lee Unwin sacrifices himself to protect his superior Harry Hart. Hart, blaming himself, returns to London to give Lee's widow Michelle and her young son Gary "Eggsy" a medal engraved with an emergency assistance number. Seventeen years later, Eggsy, having dropped out of training for the Royal Marines despite his intelligence and capability, has become a stereotypical chav.[8][9] After being arrested for stealing a car, Eggsy calls the number. Hart arranges his release.

Hart explains that he is a member of Kingsman, a private intelligence service founded by wealthy British individuals who lost their heirs in World War I. Hart, code name "Galahad", explains there is a position available, as agent "Lancelot" was killed by the assassin Gazelle while trying to rescue Professor James Arnold from kidnappers. Eggsy becomes Hart's candidate. Other candidates are eliminated through dangerous training tests run by operative "Merlin", until only Eggsy and Roxy, a candidate he befriended, are left. Eggsy is unable to complete the final test – shooting a dog he has raised during the training process (unaware that the gun holds blanks) – and Roxy is named the new "Lancelot". Meanwhile, Merlin discovers that Professor Arnold has returned to work as if nothing had happened.

Hart attempts to interrogate him, but a chip in Professor Arnold's neck explodes, killing him. The detonation signal is traced to a facility owned by Internet billionaire and philanthropist Richmond Valentine, who has recently offered everyone in the world SIM cards that grant free lifetime cellular and Internet connectivity. Hart, impersonating a billionaire philanthropist, meets Valentine face- to- face.

Hart learns of Valentine's connection to an obscure hate group's church in Kentucky, and travels there, wearing glasses containing a video transceiver. Eggsy watches as Valentine activates the SIM cards in the church, triggering a signal that causes the parishioners to become murderously violent. Hart's spy training leaves him as the only survivor. Outside the church Valentine explains what happened, then shoots Hart in the face. Eggsy returns to Kingsman headquarters and finds that Chester "Arthur" King, Kingsman's leader, has a scar on his neck just like Professor Arnold's. King reveals that Valentine plans to transmit his "neurological wave" worldwide via satellite network, believing the resulting "culling" of the human race will avert its extinction.

Only those Valentine has chosen, willing and unwilling, will be unaffected. King tries to poison Eggsy, but Eggsy switches glasses and King poisons himself. Eggsy, Merlin and Roxy set out to stop Valentine. Roxy uses high- altitude balloons to destroy one of Valentine's satellites and break up the network, but Valentine quickly secures a replacement from a business associate. Merlin flies Eggsy to Valentine's base, where he masquerades as King. Eggsy is discovered by a failed Kingsman recruit, Charlie Hesketh, leading to both Eggsy and Merlin being cornered.

On Eggsy's suggestion, Merlin activates the implanted chips' failsafe, killing almost everyone with a chip. An angry Valentine activates the signal and triggers worldwide pandemonium. Eggsy kills Gazelle and uses one of her sharpened prosthetic legs to impale Valentine and kill him, stopping the signal and ending the threat. In a mid- credits scene, Eggsy, now a full Kingsman agent, offers his mother and half- sister a new home away from his abusive stepfather Dean, who flatly objects to Eggsy's suggestion. Eggsy then dispatches him in exactly the same manner that Hart dealt with one of Dean's henchmen earlier. Hanna Alström and Bjørn Floberg appear as Crown Princess Tilde of Sweden, and Swedish Prime Minister Morten Lindström, respectively. Jack Cutmore- Scott portrays Rufus Saville, and Lily Travers portrays Lady Sophie.

Jonno Davies played Lee Unwin, Eggsy's father and a former Kingsman candidate who sacrificed himself to save Hart. Nicholas Banks, Nicholas Agnew, Rowan Polonski and Tom Prior portrayed, respectively, Digby Barker, Nathaniel, Piers and Hugo Higins, the other four Kingsman candidates. Fiona Hampton played Amelia, a Kingsman employee who masquerades as a candidate in order to "die" during the first test.

Richard Brake played the interrogator during the penultimate test, Ralph Ineson the police interviewer after Eggsy's arrest, whereas Corey Johnson starred as a fanatic church leader, and Velibor Topić portrayed the biggest goon in the bar fight scene. Tobias Bakare and Theo Barklem- Biggs play Eggsy's friends Jamal and Ryan. Production[edit]The project originated when Mark Millar and Vaughn were at a bar discussing spy movies, lamenting that the genre had become too serious over the years and deciding to do "a fun one."[1.

To have the time to make the film, Vaughn had to opt out of directing X- Men: Days of Future Past, which he called "a really tough decision".[1. He reasoned that if he did not do it, "somebody else .. Then I would have written a bloody screenplay that no one would want to make."[1. Colin Firth joined the cast to lead the film on 2.

April 2. 01. 3.[1. It was initially reported in 2. Leonardo Di. Caprio was in talks to play a villain,[1. Vaughn himself later denied that he was ever considered stating that he came as close to playing the role "as I am to becoming the Pope."[1. Instead the role of the villain went to Samuel L.

Jackson, Jackson took the role, in part because of a career long dream to be in a James Bond movie. As he felt that this was unlikely to come true he took on the role stating "I felt like this was an opportunity to play a really great Bond villain.” [1.

Jackson's character has a notable lisp, a choice he decided to make based partially on the stutter he had as a kid. In September 2. 01. Vaughn cast Sophie Cookson for the female lead, preferring a newcomer over more obvious candidates like Emma Watson and Bella Heathcote.[1. Mark Hamill was cast as Professor James Arnold, a reference to his character in the source comic book being named "Mark Hamill".[1. Filming[edit]Principal photography began 6 October 2. Deepcut, Surrey,[1. Skyfall.[2. 0] The Alexandra Road Estate in Camden[2.

The Stuff of Future Memory- Arthurian Legends told in Popular Pictures and Movies. There is not just one true version of the legend either, because we know very little of the origins of the myth. The story was part of the oral Celtic tradition, must have been told and retold before it was written down and most of these early versions have perished in time. The Round Table was not mentioned until the 1. Watch Don`T Look Now Online Metacritic. Wace, who also gave Arthur's sword the name Excalibur. And a couple of decades later Crétien de Troyes introduced Lancelot as Queen Guinevere's lover and Perceval as the grail hero.

In later chronicles Perceval is surpassed by the perfect knight Galahad. That is another reason for Arthur's longevity: his court is always open to new heroes and the ideal background for new story- lines. Like Lancelot, Perceval and Galahad, Merlin and Tristan were also drawn to his court at different times in the Middle Ages. An example of a modern hero that joins the Camelot court is Prince Valiant, the main character of Hal Foster's cartoons, published in several American Sunday papers from 1. Prince Valiant dreaming of his beloved Aleta. In: Hal Foster's Prince Valiant. Medieval Arthurian legends(Chrétien de Troyes, the Vulgate Cycle and Thomas Malory)As far as the medieval Arthurian stories (from the 1.

The first one is the episodic novel in verse, in which the hero often starts his quest from Arthur's court and returns there after his mission is completed, which usually does not take more than two years. Chrétien de Troyes poems have been imitated widely in medieval Europe, but have never been surpassed, partly because the imitators lacked his subtle use of irony and mystification. In his courtly vision the love between Lancelot and Guinevere was not yet burdened with guilt and the Grail was not yet the cup of Christ.

The second type is the chronicle in prose, in which the rise and fall of the kingdom is depicted. Watch Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Streaming. This is where the celebration of courtly love is overruled by Christian ethics.

The story does not evolve around one or two heroes, but is a mixture of many different story- lines, all tied together, not unlike modern soap operas. There is however one difference, the Arthurian chronicles actually have a point to them; the events lead up to the death of Arthur and the decay of civilisation, triggered by sins like adultery and incest(Adam and Eve). We are left with some hope though: Arthur is carried away to the isle of Avalon and rumour has it that he will return. The most important Arthurian chronicle of the thirteenth century is the Lancelot en Prose, also called the Vulgate Cycle. Supernatural phenomena are present in both the poems, in which the fantasy of the old Celtic fairy- tales is still recognisable, and the chronicles, in which the wondrous world has a more Christian connotation.

The last of the medieval Arthurian writers is Thomas Malory, whose Morte D' Artur seems like one big rèsume of all the previous writings about king Arthur and his knights. His work is usually the starting point for modern Anglo- Saxon versions of the legend. Lancelot Crosses the Swordbridge and Lancelot imprisonned in Gorre (from Lancelot du Lac, French, early fourteenth century) In many different versions of the legend Lancelot crosses the swordbridge in pursuit of Guinevere who is abducted by an evil knight, Meleagrant. In Chrétiens Chevalier de la Charette it shows how far he is willing to go in the name of love.

In the Vulgate Cycle it is embedded in many other adventures and Lancelots love of Guinevere is tainted with guilt. Malory mentions the abduction in his Morte Dartur, but not the swordbridge, either because he was in a hurry to tell the story and left out lots of details or because he thought crossing a bridge as sharp as a razorblade was just too improbable. The abduction of the queen is still part of the action in several modern versions of the legend, with a little imagination one can even detect a faint echo of the swordbridge story in the movie First Knight.

Galeholt watches the lovers (Lancelot and Guinevere) first kiss as the seneschal and ladies converse. Pierpont Morgan Library 8. Chrétien de Troyes (While reading the summaries below keep in mind that the original stories were written in Old French and in verse) Chevalier de la Charette (Knight of the Cart)"Meleagant seizes Queen Guinevere and takes her to Gorre, his fathers country. Kay attempts to save her, but fails miserably. Gawain sets out for the rescue. On the way he meets a nameless knight who is very eager to retrieve the Queen.

A dwarf invites both knights to ride a cart (a very shameful thing in those days) in order to reach their goal, and where Gawain refuses, the nameless knights only hesitates for a few seconds before he mounts the cart. Gawain and the nameless knight part at a crossroad. Gawain will try to reach Gorre through the underwaterbridge, the other knight heads for the swordbridge. After a lot of delays the knight reaches the swordbridge and crosses it although it is sharp as a razor. The knight arrives in Gorre and agrees to fight Meleagant. Queen Guinevere recognises him as Lancelot.

When he is about to win the duel, it is postponed. Afterwards the queen treats him as if he has failed her. Lancelot has no idea what he has done wrong.

With an aching heart he rides on to find Gawain, but is attacked by Meleagants men. Only after rumour has it that Lancelot is dead, Guinevere is sorry about giving him the cool treatment. She forgives him the short hesitation before mounting the cart, which was the reason for her animosity. When Lancelot turns up again, the lovers enjoy a passionate night together. Meleagant accuses the queen of adultery with Kaye, but it is Lancelot who defends her honour.

Again the duel is stopped when Lancelot has the upper hand. They agree to fight again in one years time at king Arthurs court. Treacherous Meleagant tricks Lancelot into a tower from which there is no escape." (Chrétien left the story unfinished at this point, but it was continued by Godefroi de Leigni). Lancelot escapes from the tower and reaches king Arthurs court just in time for the duel. He finally defeats Meleagant."In Chrétiens stories (written between 1. In Erec et Enide the hero Erec gets preoccupied by his love for Enide to such an extent he forgets his knightly duties. In the end it is Enide who helps him to get his act together.

In Chevalier au Lion it is the other way around. Yvain is so busy to be a good knight that he forgets his lady Laudine. When she denies him her love because of that, Yvain goes mad. He has to do a lot of good deeds to be worthy of his ladies pardon. Chevalier de la Charette the "amour" is dominant. During the course of the adventure Lancelot frees a lot of prisoners, but it is just a side- effect.

His main objective is Guinevere, his love for her is perfect, and it has to be, even a few seconds of doubt are reprehensible. It is doubtful wether Chrétien agreed with this ideal of courtly love.

He was obligated to reflect the ideas of his maecenas, in this case Marie de Champagne. The humorous undertone in his writing might have been his way to put the extremeties of the court into perspective. In his last poem Chrétien introduces another element: spirituality. There are two heroes: Gawain whose adventure is more or less "traditional", and Perceval: Conte du Graal"Perceval grows up in the woods, because his mother does not want him to die on the battlefield like his older brothers.