Sentences with phrase «instead of a sorcerer»

It's true that screenwriter David Franzoni (Amistad, Gladiator) has discarded or downplayed the most romantic elements of the Arthurian legend — there's no quest for the Holy Grail, no Camelot, and Merlin is just a weird old king instead of a sorcerer — but much of what he's put in his script comes from the oldest versions of the myth, not from new scholarship based on fresh archaeological findings.

Not exact matches

Protestants were trying to rediscover the ancient Church, but instead they created a dancing array of sorcerer's apprentice brooms, all trying to sweep one another clean.»

Instead of another National Treasure film, though, this time we've got The Sorcerer's Apprentice — inspired by [and including an homage to] the Mickey Mouse / Sorcerer's Apprentice short from Fantasia.

As of now, we're not even entirely sure who the main villain would be, though the likely choice is Baron Mordo, a pupil who gets upset when Strange becomes the sorcerer supreme instead of him.

When traditional medicine fails him, he travels to remote Kamar - Taj in search of a cure, but instead discovers the mystical arts and becomes a powerful sorcerer battling dark forces bent on... [Read More]

In the film, Wong is instead, «a master at Kamar - Taj training the fellow disciples and sorcerers,» as well as a «protector of the Sanctum relics and these ancient ritual books.»

She is a young apprentice sorceress who has in order to graduate from Sorcery Academy to retrieve a magical sphere from the Sorcerer's tower.But instead of the sphere she finds an old book with a picture of curry instead.