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* The source material (mostly Malory's ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur|Morte Darthur]]'') is treated in a very syncretist kind of way, [[Composite Character|merging many characters]], events and elements. This arguably allows the movie to display many more Arthurian motifs than would have been possible to show in a two-hour movie by staying truer to the original story, all while cleverly avoiding the [[Compressed Adaptation]] effect.
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=== ''Excalibur'' provides examples of: ===
 
* [[The Ace]]: Lancelot
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The film sometimes takes liberties with the original legend (many of these alterations [[Ret Canon|became canon in popular culture]], and have later been re-used in other Arthurian movies), and as already mentioned, merges together many characters and elements of the Arthurian tales, most notably: