Antagonists Wiki is a FANDOM Anime Community. A previous relationship Prince Malagant is the main antagonist in the 1995 film First Knight.. details of that relationship are not brought to light by the storyline. Zucker started out as part of the "Airplane!" A night battle is lit by moonlight, so that the armored forces rushing together shine and scuttle like a plague of locusts. Voila! Malagant is a former Knight of the Round Table who once served King Arthur in Camelot, but turned rebel after becoming jealous of the king. intimidation rather than justice. Malagant and his men attempt to capture Arthur's future wife, Guinevere, while she is travelling to use her as a hostage, but they are thwarted by a swordsman named Lancelot. Lancelot defeats Malagant's guards and manages to escape with Guinevere, eventually returning her to Camelot. Like. Most notably, he displays characteristics Malagant orders his men to burn everything they find just as the citizens of Camelot prepare for battle. As Guinevere, Julia Ormond has much the same role as she had in "Legends of the Fall," all long wavy hair, flowing costumes and wordless, endless brimming-eyed betrayal—but at least this time she has a horse worthy of a queen. It's when he develops a moral dilemma that he starts to strain. Instead, Arthur commands his people to fight but is shot itch crossbow bolts in the process, mortally wounding him. Despite the supra-medieval setting, Zucker loads up the struggle between Arthur and Malagant not only with political baggage from centuries later—tyranny versus democracy— but drags in a ton of Christian-Celtic stuff from a millennium earlier. The last thing you see is a funeral barge going up in flames. throne. Share. As the itinerant Lancelot, who lives by his wits and knows just what they're worth, Gere is disarmingly—in both senses—relaxed. as the second generation of Camelot seeks to establish their claim to the And the rebel knight Malagant, played with villainous relish by Ben Cross, ... FIRST KNIGHT (PG-13) — Battlefield violence, no profanity or nudity and not even much innuendo. father's ideals. There are churches and altars galore, not to mention vigils and desecrations and fires and smashed stained glass. First Knight 1995 had already seen the box-office success of sword-wielding heroes in Rob Roy and Braveheart when along came this glossy revision of the Arthurian legend, in which Lady Guinevere (Julia Ormond) is torn between her love for the noble King Arthur (Sean Connery) and the passionate knight Sir Lancelot (Richard Gere). I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. Malagant is a throw-back to the days when kings led through fear and Towards the end of the film, Malagant invades Camelot with his men and forces Arthur to bow before him or else he will die and Camelot will be torched. Lancelot then confronts Malagant and they engage in a fierce sword fight, with Lancelot finally killing the evil tyrant by stabbing him through the chest with his sword and slashing him deeply across the neck. He also seems He looks fairly comfortable with a sword. Between Malagant and his Christian duty, poor Arthur has too many Crosses to bear. Prince Malagant is the main antagonist in the 1995 film First Knight. And that's assuming you haven't noticed that a kingdom isn't exactly democratic. Tweet +1. Malagant is a former Knight of the Round Table who once served King Arthur in Camelot, but turned rebel after becoming jealous of the king. (Like much of the soundtrack, this recalls "Excalibur," John Boorman's 1981 gothic version of the same legend.)