The Last Legion tells the story behind the legend of King Arthur. It follows Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of Rome, who is exiled as a child. Romulus and his tutor Ambrosinus escape to Britain to search for the Ninth Legion. They help the Romans defeat invading barbarians in battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, Romulus drives a sword into a rock. Years later, Ambrosinus, known as Merlin, takes a young boy named Arthur to see the battlefield. He reveals that Romulus married Mira and ruled wisely as "Pendragon", and that Arthur is Romulus's son. The film shows the sword exhumed from the stone, with the letters slowly emerging to spell "

1. Ana Nunes 7º A

2. The Last Legion tries to tell the story behind
the legend of King Arthur, immortalized by
the sword Escalibur account, filled with
mystical powers. Arthur and Merlin certainly
have been part of the stories told to virtually
all children in the West, which until then did
not question the origin of the sword, about
an alleged “legend behind the legend”.

3. Main Cast
Colin Firth ... Aurelius
Thomas Sangster ... Romulus Augustus
Sir Ben Kingsley ... Ambrosinus
Aishwarya Rai ... Mira
Peter Mullan ... Odoacer
Kevin McKidd ... Wulfia
John Hannah ... Nestor
Owen Teale ... Vatrenus
Rupert Friend ... Demetrius
Nonso Anozie ... Batiatus
Harry Van Gorkum ... Vortgyn
Robert Pugh ... Kustennin
James Cosmo ... Hrothgar
Alexander Siddig ... Theodorus Andronikos
Murray McArthur ... Tertius

4. The Last Legion is a 2007 film directed by Doug
Lefler. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis, is
based on an Italian novel of 2003 written by
Valerio Massimo Manfredi.

5. The film tries to tell the tale of what was
to be King Arthur's adventures with his
father, Romulus, crowned emperor of
Rome for twelve years in 476 BC which
saw the collapse of the Roman Empire
against the invasion of the Goths that
deposed.

6. Romulus is kidnapped and exiled to the island of
Capri, with his tutor Ambrosinus. AKhund -
each other can find the sword of Caesar. A
group of Roman survivors, especially - is
among them Aurelius and Mira, Romulus and
Ambrusinus release, and all depart for the
Great - Britain.

7. Seek the Ninth Legion, but this did not want to
help, so go to the battlefield alone. At the
time the Romans were about to lose appears
the Ninth Legion and fight the barbarians
getting the better.

8. To honor those killed in the battle, Romulus
takes away the sword and pierces it with
rock. Many years later, Ambrosinus, now
known as Merlin, takes a young boy to the
battlefield to describe it. Merlin, says
Aurelius and Mira, Romulus married and
became a wise ruler and adopted the name
"Pendragon". The boy, Arthur, Romulus
recognizes as his father.

9. With a final farewell scene, the sword of Julius
Caesar is shown in stone, already with moss
growing on the blade and covering the
original inscription, leaving only the letters
that, when read as a single word, is Excalibur.

11. If the Last Legion is not impressive, it does not
disappoint and ultimately more entertaining
with its production of 67 million dollars than
in many other poster that has little to offer.

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