Continuity mistake: In the scene at the end when King Arthur's funeral raft is floating away, you see white smoke coming from the wood at the foot of the raft. Cut to the shore, and the flaming arrow is lit and shot. Cut to the raft, and the flaming arrow hits the now smokeless raft in the spot where the smoke was. Cut to the shore, then back to the raft, where the fire begins to grow on both sides of the raft, nowhere near the now smokeless and flame-less spot where the flaming arrow hit in the previous shot.
First Knight (1995)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Jerry Zucker
Starring: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross
Arthur (Sean Connery) is killed in that sudden attack on Camelot. Richard Gere kills Malagant. Arthur is cast off to sea in a floating funeral pyre (viking style).
Nicol Williamson
More mistakes in First Knight
King Arthur: This is the heart of Camelot, not these stones, not these timbers, these palaces and towers. Burn them all and Camelot lives on, because it lives in us. Camelot is a belief that we hold in our hearts.
Trivia: Prince Malagant describes the oubliette where he imprisons Guinevere as just having "walls of air." This is a reference to the fate of Merlin, who was sealed away in a "prison of air."
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