fine i'll talk about the Green Knight
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- 게시일 2021. 08. 19.
- As someone who has written at least one essay that got an A- on the legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I feel I am qualified to discuss the Green Knight from A24.
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Amanda: A KNIFE
KRplus: NO!
Also KRplus "I've got a knife!!" Good clean family fun.
Also youtube: Watch the Paul brothers instead
Everyone (including Amanda): "why do I get ads for knives?"
amanda: i am going to write a TITLE that is so KEYWORDS
Im confused, was the title different before? This one doesnt seem that out of left field
@@lilithium3940 When the video was first posted, the title was something like "a24 green knight dev patel david lowry swell entertainment"
@@johannabelle ooooh lmao she probably kept her editing title up yikes! Glad it's fixed then but i was hella confused at half of the comments
ngl i'm a little sad she changed the title
I clicked immediately purely for the absurdity of the title
Same my dyslexia what like wit
Same !!!
as did i
Lol as well
Same I was like wow she’s really trying to boost the algorithm 😂
“Steal from the rich give to the poor; that fucker” was probably the best way to describe Robin Hood lmao
Yes
This isn’t the rest of the Ice Planet Barbarians series.
Gawain's velvet cloak is embroidered in the shape of a thumbprint! To show that even through the whole journey as it deteriorates and changes, its still uniquely him. The costume designer really impressed me in this film.
yeah, i was a bad film though
@@clamwok no it wasn't
@@Bjjbhcoa86 it was pretty, it was bait for awards, but the story was incoherent and it was clearly all done for style and not substance. It's not a good film.
The whole "King Arthur's robe is literally emblazoned with his many exploits" is genius
@@clamwok I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it, but also other viewers might not weigh story as heavily as you do when assessing whether it was a good film or not. I personally enjoy films with meaningful production design, interesting themes, quality acting, and strong tone, and thus it was a great movie for me and many others, even if the story was "loose".
I like the implication she's been using her English major for evil 0.0
Is there any other way to use an English degree?
that's how i plan to use mine
Ehhh if this is "for good" then she better go back to evil. The claim that Green Knight is homoerotic is so banal and asinine that it's not even worth considering. The only reason people are accepting that random bullshit Zeikowitz stated is because of the current PC culture and trying to force "progressive thinking" into every single bit of literature which grossly abuses the original voice of the author.
The author of the original work was staunchly Christian, with ZERO evidence for anything being homoerotic unless you grossly abuse and stretch thing sin the work.Zeikowitz literally dubbed hundreds and I mean HUNDREDS of works of fiction as Homoerotic. EVERYTHING that man touched, became homoerotic to him. Because he himself was homosexual and he wanted to re-frame everything as homoerotic. He bent his back trying to claim that just because they embraced and kissed, a normal heterosexial act back when the original fiction was written, was proof it was homoerotic... he stated because he found Bertilak attractive, that was homosexual.
The only other claim was Dinshaw who was a complete moron... she got the timeline of her theory completely wrong, and claimed that "extremely descriptive details" meant it was homoerotic because it was "obsession" describing the Green Knight. That wouild apply to EVERYTHING every fiction author was doing at the time when they described something that was not real.
So no, unfortunately, Swell completely dropped the ball on this and went with current "norm think acceptable progressive thought" without actually stopping to think about who the author was or the time it was written.
@@ErgonomicChair Sir this is a Denny’s
@@StickWithTrigger No, Denny's doesn't push hilariously paultry and trash english lit minor stuff. They push really terrible pancakes with runny watery syrup, they don't even have maple syrup.
Swell is injecting a bunch of modern politics crap into this story, which had none of it. Forcing a messag einto the authors' mouth that they never had.
In an interview with David Lowery, he explains that Gawain's mother being Morgan introduces like a whole level of Mother-Son relationship baggage that he sees reflected in his own relationship with his mom, so, yeah, that's a lot!
Hmmmm… i was drinking water when i read that and actually choked lmao I wish i could un-know that little tidbit
i wrote an essay on the homoerotic subtext and phallic imagery in sir gawain and the green knight and i'm pretty sure that's the essay i got my highest grade ever on. this is not particularly relevant to anyone but just wanted to share lmao.
can i read it
@@slylover123 honestly im not even sure i still have the essay dfhdh but if i do you definitely can
would love to read it as well!
this is really funny because my best grade i ever got was about a paper i also wrote for sir gawain in and the green knight and i discussed how the emphasis and imagery of the armor was a metaphor used to shield gawain from acting on his homoerotic feelings and why it didn't work
I vaguely remember it. Was the knight nude when it showed up? I could swear they were going on about his dick in the book
Working title: Sir Gawain Gets His Steps In
My sister described it as "a movie that needed homework" and yeah I think that's the best description
"I kinda want some kisses" - me, while I was watching Dev Patel and Joel Edgerton kiss
eew
I've never imagined the Green Knight as particularly monstrous. Like, he's kind of an analog to the wrestling with god/nature as a human theme you see in the bible and native american myth and the tales of Hercules, right? I always pictured him as human but like, possessed of an inhuman, elemental vitality. So like just a huge, buff dude in green armor who can't die.
He has a green face and green hair in the original poem if I'm not mistaken. That's fairly monstrous and unnatural.
I agree. Literally just pictured a dude with green skin. I enjoying his appearance in the movie!
@@swordsmithing eh, I've seen people with green hair. It looks weird but really not that threatening. He's supposed to look not human, but it's just his massive size that is terrifying.
Yeah it kind of threw me off, esp since in the poem it's made explicit that the knight and the lord of the castle at the end are the same guy, and in this one it's... not? I guess because they wanted to make the green knight more of a force of nature than a dude, so they leaned into the nature metaphor, but it just didn't do it for me
@@LP-tf7cy fair enough, although the green hair in those instances is dyed and not a natural part of the person like it is with the Green Knight. He wasn't a tree in the original, but he was still very otherworldly.
Okay first thing I don't have an English degree. Second thing I did however read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for a senior level humanities course. The class was on medieval literature with a focus on magic within the text. The professor was an expert in WesternEsotericism and Literature of the Middle Ages so most of my analysis comes from her. I disagree with the idea that Gawain's journey was a participation trophy for him being good enough. The text makes it clear he has every right to be a knight. He has all of the 5 attributes of chivalry from his shield; friendship, generosity, chastity, courtesy, and piety. We know that even though Gawain tells the court he isn't worthy he is simply being humble because in his journey he defeats all of the monsters and beasts he encounters. So quickly that the story only spends like a paragraph on it. When he is ready to give in and give up he relies on his chivalry and prays. What does he find right after the house of Bertilak his prayer was answered. In fact he is far more chivalrous and honorable than all of the other knights in the court because he does not fail his mission. The Green Knight calls them out in the court for being all talk and no action. They say they are chivalrous but they only do it for appearances not because they are truly honorable. Gawain however wins both games that the Green Knight gives. To receive the blow he gave and to repay the gifts he receives. The theme of Gawain's story is that following the spirit of chivalry is more important than following all of the rules of chivalry in the same way that Christians are to follow the Christ's spirit not the literal letter of the law.
Bingo nicely said!
Well its a shame that people with English degree and the movie director didn't get that far in reading the wikipedia page.
@@henrygrip8486 they're too busy looking for homoerotic subtext. :p
I agree! (I had to read Gawain twice for school. And yes, I’m an English lit major.)
Does he though? You forget that Gawain purposely lies on the bargain between him and the Lord. He takes the sash charmed to protect him from all harm mainly because of his fear of possibly dying, which comes up later. The sash represents his failure and why the Green knight/Bertilak only nicks his neck on the third swing was his choice to conceal it. And while the Green Knight says he is blameless, Gawande still wears it as do all the other lords of the table as a reminder of honesty. Let alone Gawain was struggling between the codes of chivalry, knighthood and etc. Which one he fails and the other he honors. I'm curious on what translation did you read
The internet: tell me you have a English degree without telling me you have a English degree.
Swell: *does an A24 review*
While also telling us many times that she has that parchment
I feel educated thank u Amanda for using your English degree to inform us on how the green knight is in fact not nearly horny enough
“Changes were made to make the movie more coherent”
The Green Knight: Lake lady/Giants.
i too am pleased by the mere existence of dev patel
I loved practically everything about the movie. Felt exactly as I would expect an old medieval tale to feel, for better and sometimes worse. But it was spellbinding to me and absolutely love the very end.
"hi im amanda you're watching swell entertainment: and today i have a dagger" well thats a threatening introduction
Regardless of however the story was, Dev Patel’s performance was perfection. That last sequence of the film was literal art. He goes through so many complex emotions seamlessly it’s incredible to watch. Arguably the greatest actor of his generation in my opinion. It’s about time he wins an Oscar. I feel like he gets brushed under the rug just because of his ethnicity but I’m at least glad to see the man is getting as thirsted on as Robert Pattinson or Timothee Chalamet. And he’s getting widespread acclaim for his performance so I’m just happy my man’s finally being taken seriously, even if at 31.
Amanda figured out the auto focus. Nice.
rise, dev patel nation. rise.
Im torn. On one hand, it's not a play-by-play re-telling of the same old stories i've read a million times and was honestly refreshing to see it told with "altered events and characters" like most old tales tend to experience over time and generations.
on the other hand, there wasnt much man love so that sucks
The title tho
Need much more homoerotic subtext in my Aurthurian retellings
Maybe even some homoerotic…text
eew
Very confused on the title, but the director is David Lowry not William Lowry
was going to point this out but Austin gets the cigar.
The title seems to be basically the editing file name, I'm almost surprised it doesn't end with "final version"
Wait, what? What's confusing about it?
@@resurrectionist5112 oh no it's been fixed and now we look like fools!
@@Taurusus Oh! Lol, well at least it was fixed quickly. I never even knew the title was edited.
I wanted to like this movie so bad, I was SO excited for it, but I left the theater feeling pretty disappointed. Maybe I was just looking for a more straightforward retelling of one of my favorite pieces of medieval lit, idk. Usually I don't mind changes that are in service to telling a more cohesive story, and I knew going into it that they would have to add some things to make it movie-length, but man so much of it felt like padding that detracted from the message rather than reinforcing it. Ex. Gawain gets the protective girdle at the beginning, just for it to get stolen from him, just to then get it (more or less) the same way he does in the poem later. I kept expecting the scavengers to play a bigger role (I thought the dude might have been the one to cut off the woman's head [the woman was an addition I genuinely liked tbh] since the ax was there, but the skull was way too old), but they were just never mentioned again. I tried looking for a reason Lowery added the scavengers other than just padding, maybe something that would make me go "well it was kind of a useless subplot but oh well I can see the purpose now," and found nothing other than Lowery saying it was meant to be a reference to a movie I'm unfamiliar with, which was just strange and kind of disappointing.
And the game of exchanges at the castle, I totally agree! Gawain never actually gets a kiss from Lady Bertilak in That Scene, so it doesn't really make sense for him to give the kiss like it does in the poem (and believe me, I was hoping for MORE homoeroticism, not for them to cut it a day short! You could at least give him that HJ Gawain). And the ending... egh. It just wasn't right for me, though maybe I'm being too much of a purist. Lots of stuff visually looked great and I felt really immersed at the beginning, but I couldn't help but feel pulled out of it as there were more and more baffling changes. I might feel more warmly to the movie if there were more adaptations of the green knight already (ex. Romeo + Juliet was interesting primarily because it was a new retelling of an old story, but if it didn't have years and years of adaptations to contrast itself against, I'd probably have liked it less) but as it stands... probably not something I'll be rewatching anytime soon.
I too have English Degree disease, if you couldn't tell by *gestures* all of this
The scavengers were another failed test of virtue for Gawain.
The movie is inverted from the poem.
In the poem, Sir Gawain passes all the tests but fails the final test with the green knight.
In the movie, Gawain (not a Knight yet) fails all the tests...but actually passes the final test with the green knight.
I think it actually works and helps re-enforce the honor that Gawain wanted to obtain.
This is exactly how I seen this movie he literally fails every single trial along the way and it helps him grow he actually learns from his mistakes and finally becomes what he truly wants to be at the end a honorable man. As a man who has addiction both substance and sexual I strive to overcome it on a daily basis to be a better man and keep my honor, Sir Gaiwans struggle really resonated with me such a amazing film.
I wouldn't say he succeeded the final test. He ran away from it, and struggled with this dishonor. He wasn't truly a knight and lived a sad and bitter life because of it.
@@lystic9392 No, the running away was a foresighted future, dependent on the green sash given to him by the Lady...complete with all the shame. It's capstone in ruin by the painting behind his throne painted by the Lady who seduced him with the sash...
The movie ends with him literally removing the sash in-front of the Green Knight...
@@killthefoozle Yes I realized this after I went downstairs and I forgot to change my comment. It's true, that was something he saw happen and it didn't actually happen.
It's interesting though I saw this movie with my family and we were all under the impression that he had still failed the final test. None of us were familiar with the poem though.
@@killthefoozle no, if you follow the way the first vision went in the movie then the vision started after he ran away from the first 2 blows.
Tbh my favorite thing about this movie was the way they used the same actors for the different roles but made them look so different it was hard to even tell! Also though, I'm sad they cut my girl Morgouse, everyone leaves her out of stuff and she's so interesting in so many of the tales!
It's not that I don't like when you like things I just get genuine joy from the sheer force in which you are capable of throwing shade
I was SO excited for this movie. The Green Knight is my favorite Arthurian story. I even named 2 of my plants Sir Gawain and Lord Bertilak (rip)
A thorough scholarly critique of Arthurian legends:
"More kisses = better"
"We do a little trolling" the Arthurian tale, essentially.
The way it felt in the movie is that Morgan had schemed the whole thing from the beginning hoping that Gawain WOULD cheat and make real the prophetic vision we saw at the end of the film, thus ensuring he would bring ruin to Arthur and Britain and fulfill Morgan's revenge. Granted, that is a completely different take on Morgause, but that's how it felt like to me when watching the film.
I do have an English degree and my final cap English course was on Arthurian literature and folklore, but I haven’t yet seen The Green Knight. Your review has very much piqued my interest. I honestly don’t mind that Hollywood continues to go back to Arthurian texts for inspiration. Arthur is a basic archetypical hero, and there’s a lot of text to draw from. It’s kind of refreshing to see The Green Knight instead of Guinevere and Lancelot again. However, I also enjoyed the 2006 Tristian and Isolde movie that most people hated. It was ridiculous in a lot of ways, but I thought it was beautifully filmed and told a different part of the Arthurian story than is usually told and I appreciated that. Anyway, great review!
Her review is trash... she doesn't understand that, kissing was a normal non-homosexual act a tthe time. Zeikowits was a homosexual scholar who literally stated EVERY SINGLE WORK OF FICTION was homoerotic. Swell, like who I bet she studied in community college (Zeikowits), doesn't even understand the traidtions or literature at the time. This was a medieval poem.
It wasn't homosexual when they kissed, it was typical greeting or farewell. That was normal at the tim efor men, like in france where kissing is still in high society.
Swell, literally, does nbot understand that it's just how it was. The book was abjectively framing Gawain as hetero sexual, he took her girdle, he broke chivalry for her. Etc etc etc. Swell is injecting modern political think into an ancient work of fiction.
If you do go into this book, if you go into the movie... please for the love of fucking god ignore this review.
@@ErgonomicChair Looking at a text through only an historical lens is a very simplistic and boring way to study and interpret a text.
@@OrangeCat1992 It's also not injecting wordage and message that is not there. It's like the people currently trying to say Tolkein coded Orks as black persons, when he ABSOLUTELY DID NOT. Becaus he outright and completely HATED Allegory. Applying modern ideals and modern viewpoints to historical texts warps their original message and warps what the original author wrote. It's fine if you are doing it for a cute little tongue in cheek "oh what if they meant this!"
But no, what Swell, Zeikowitz, and others are doing are erasing the original work to supplant their own modern popular politics into it. That's completely ridiculous and pardon my english, completely fucking awful. We get to the point where people label Tolkein as this extreme racist, and then just a year after, state he was an LGBT ally. When in actuality... he wasn't either. He was a catholic man who served in the military and had no ill-intentions against Homosexuality, he in fact, didn't even know what it was until his 20's when he served and met a gay man in service. Was he racist? Not particularly for his time, he was somewhat racially biased against SIno's because he saw one carve up his friend in front of him with a knife alive... but yeah. He was not coding people in his works and he wasn't grossly racist.
So to, the Pearl Poet, was not putting homoeroticism in this work. ABSOLUTELY, was not. And leads to people forcing that message in his words, in his mouth. Imagine writing something and then years later peopel twisted and warped what you wrote to fit their own world views. Anti-Colonialists have done it to this book, Progressive scholars have done it, fundamentalist Christians have done it... they all applied incorrect lenses onto this persons' work.
It's not "simplistic and boring." It's correct. It's not abusing these peopel who can no longer answer.
@@ErgonomicChair When you look at art or listen to a piece of music do you never take your own feelings and thoughts in to account when you view or listen to the piece? Or do you absolutely only view or listen to it through the historic lens of the times and experiences artist or composer? Of course you don’t. Why does literature have to be so static in your mind then? Good literature stands the test of time because people can find themselves in it, regardless of the historical context.
@@OrangeCat1992 My own feelings and thoughts are, my own. I don't try and state "this is what the songwriter meant." Because I don't know that. When I listen to Stone Temple Pilot's song Creep, it makes me feel at ease and relaxed. But that's not what the writer meant, it is a song about struggling with failing and failing and failing and reserving yourself to that fate.
I'm not about to go "SCoTt WeILaND wAs ObVIoUSLy saYinG THIS!!!" when it is clearly defined to me exactly what the song meant. Even if it means something to me, I can discuss that, but guess how I will frame it? "This song means this to me, despite it's actual intention. But it is what I take away from it."
The Pearl Poet did NOT mean for The Green Knight to be homoerotic. Not in the slightest, not in the tiniest bit. When framing it to the time period everything in it was period decorum. When describing the Green Knight in great detail it is simply an author's intention to write something in EXTREME DETAIL which no one else has seen. You can go the other way and do Lovecraft don't explain and be vague, but that was not how it was being framed. The Pearl Poet wanted it to be clear to the reader what the Green Knight looked like. He was equally as descritive of various aspects as well, like his ladies' general air or demeanor.
So while you can have a PERSONAL take or view of a thing. When you try and apply that PERSONAL take and claim it is what the author meant... you are doing a disgusting, vile, and horrible thing. I'm not being hyperbolic either, you are inserting words into another person's mouith and robbing them of their own voice for your own amusement. That's vile.
Okay, as an uncultured, uneducated person who has not seen or read The Green Knight… why is Gawain so down for getting his head cut off?
He's really not down at all - he cuts off the Green Knight's head expecting that to be the end of it, thinking this is a really smart way to sidestep the terms of the challenge. But then the guy gets up, and Gawain realizes he's locked himself into a weird magical bargain in front of the entire court.
He embarks on the journey because he has to. Everyone is watching, everyone heard the knight's challenge, everyone saw him cut the guy's head off. He's fully hoping there will be some last-minute exception that will allow him to live when he reaches the knight. (Which there is, but he doesn't get it until he's given up on it and accepted he'll have to keep his word + face the consequences of his actions.)
@@johannabelle Ah, I see. That makes more sense.
I don't mind slow pacing, but this movie just felt uneven, like getting a first act and then just incomplete fragments. The castle segment felt like it should've been earlier and shorter. It just seemed like it was missing most its second act. Would've been interesting to play up the Christianity versus mysticism theme it teases early on but drops.
I absolutely agree I feel like those little challenges he had to encounter before arriving at bertilak's castle/house were unnecessarily long and weren't even that important to the whole story.
I don’t think it wanted to touch that, I think it wanted to focus on virtue being universal and independent of religion.
The Green Knight walks in and says that whatever blow he receives he will reciprocate... The knights say "No". Roll credits
Yea. Exactly. This is exactly how the movie should have been
I guess the thing is the inversion of the myth, in the story Gawain is a good knight and just fails at the end for his fear of death, in the movie Gawain fails in every bit of his quest and and at the end he succeeds, at the doors of forever ruining his life he has that epiphany and changed him for the best, he finds his courage, its uncertain if he lives or dies but he has changed nonetheless
You win the title algorithm Amanda.
I love how Amanda’s call to action for comments is “tell me everything that annoys you.”
My biggest frustration with the movie was the bit that his mom gave him the green sash of protection before he leaves for his journey. Like it adds a loophole since it’s the same green sash that his mother gave him and was stolen from him with the rest of his stuff.
Yes! What is up with that? It is my main question from this movie.
Something I noticed in the movie at the Lord's house. When they are dining on the first day with Gawain, the eggs they are eating have literal plants sprouting out of the top of them. They seems to be hinting that there is a connection to the Green Knight there. I'm also pretty sure we see the Lord's in the face of the Green Knight when Gawain comes upon him resting in the Green Chapel.
The scene between Aragorn and a dying Boromir was hornier than anything in this movie.
The story itself feels like a reckoning with tales of chivalry versus what we know knights were actually like historically.
Comments like this are why us straight guys can't have gay things.
Uhhhh the scene between lady jackoff and Gawain over the sash?! Hello? What?! Boor it had 4 arrows piercing his organs and was covered in his own feces.
Here before a title change
You’ve done it. You’ve made the only type of KRplusr merch I’d ever wear or buy
Are we not counting Excalibur as the perfect Arthurian retelling? I honestly think it ticks all or most of the boxes.
Agreed
"A dream to some...A nightmare to others!"
9:20 Pretty much, yeah! I was disappointed at how little Gawain/Bertilak there was in the movie and felt like I remembered the tales completely wrong. But then I went back to the stories and like, NOPE, didn't remember it wrong, there was a LOT more kissing in the tales.
This title is all over the place man
Lmao what was it? i think she changed it cus this new one seems rather calm
@@kikibara1 “the green knight william lowery a24 dev patel swell entertainment”
I enjoyed this movie but I hold that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is, in fact, a comedy
“I’m waiting for the perfect Authorian retelling”
Is Merlin a joke to you?
Yo I legit love that hoodie, I am also of the opinion that _subtle_ branding is the shit. A Folk Is Not A Billboard.
Your video was actually timely for since I watched it finally two days ago so yay! I’m happy i did get to see it but i definitely agree with your thoughts on how they adapted the tale. I remember reading this in high school but remembered loosely the plot it definitely would have been more cohesive if it sticked more closely with the source material and rather unfortunate them in the title highlighting the Green Knight there wasn’t that much of a presence from the character.
I did watch the green knight.
I wish you talked more about how beautiful the movie is
Also I agree there should've been much more kissing, technically a handie.
It would've been to brain melting if the knight was like "sike there's actually a whole other plot that we just never told the audience about in this movie alone and aren't gonna go into it and just end it here".
The way it ended is better than doing that.
He basically said "Good boy" with "Well done, my brave knight!" 😆
Spoilers!
I enjoyed the film (except for the exceptionally drawn out ending), but my main issue is that the main theme doesn't work. So it's all about Gawain learning how to be a virtuous knight, right? That's theme I got. But he was never an unvirtuous person to begin with. He slept around and drank too much, but that was never a part of the journey. We're never shown that his relationship with Essel is bad (actually the contrary is suggested) or him overcoming his gluttonous drinking. Also what was the plot cul-de-sac with the bandits? They stole the axe and all his possessions, then they never show up again, he gets the axe back through a literal deus-ex-machina.
My impression was that his intentions in the beginning were to gain some abstract ideal of “honor” that doesn’t actually exist, and his obsession with it would inevitably hurt him and everyone else unless he learned to fundamentally change his worldview. Then again, I was a little confused by the meaning of the ending, so I’m open to other interpretations.
@@alexanderwill2847 Yeah, I definitely understand that interpretation, but I see it as a want vs need thing. Like he wants honor, but what he needs is to learn to be virtuous, and that's the central theme in my view.
I agree, I wouldn't have minded the sidequests/tangents added to the movie so much if they were relevant to reinforcing the theme. Like if in the first few conflicts Gawain failed bc of his lack of virtue (maybe he gets drunk and that's why the bandits can steal his stuff, or something) and then grows, or maybe he doesn't shape up until the Bertilak castle/his reencounter with the green knight. Maybe the examples of how he is lacking in virtue could tie in more closely with the overarching plot (ex. show Gawain being held back by his lack of honestly, then reinforce that with the green sash stuff). Either way, yeah the actual events of the movie felt kind of disconnected from its themes and ending, which made me dislike the changes more than I would have otherwise
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College student working on a bachelors degree in English here! I really enjoyed The Green Knight, and as I’m slowly making my way through the original poem I’ve had a really fun time comparing the two and looking at the differences and seeing how that affects the themes and character motivations. The way I look at Morgan being Gawain’s mother is that, initially, her plan with the green knight in the movie is the same as what it was in the book. Perhaps show how hypocritical Arthur’s men are and how they don’t stack up to the legendary status attributed to them, and also scare Guinevere. When Gawain is the one to take up the challenge, it’s my belief that Morgan flips her plan, instead doing what she can to make sure Gawain survives this ordeal. Gives him the magical sash, only for him to lose it later, but through her shenanigans at the Lord’s house, gets it back to him. Speaking through the fox, tries to make him turn back from meeting the green knight, because while the green knight was created by Morgan, I don’t think Morgan has direct control over his actions, so the green knight will act as he was created to act. Ultimately what Morgan would’ve wanted is Gawain to run away from the knight as he does in the vision, so that he may become king after Arthur. The downside of this being, Gawain carries this shame throughout the remainder of his life, that he didn’t live to his word, and this also results in breaking the heart of the woman that loves him, getting his son killed, having a terrible reign as king, and losing the kingdom entirely. I’m not entirely settled on whether Gawain gave himself this vision, perhaps instead of your past life flashing before your eyes, it’s the one he would lead if he runs away, or if the green knight gave him this vision. Regardless, Gawain realizes that regardless of being great and being recognized as such in your life or being king, what matters in the end for him is being honorable to his word, even if that means losing his life. Suffice it to say I have a lot of thoughts on the movie and I feel like I could write a whole essay comparing the movie to the original poem. Thank you for your thoughts!
Prayers for me out here in the UK waiting for them to finally release it here so I can ogle my man Sean Harris (and Dev).
congrats on 250k amanda!
That moment when Amanda accidentally posts tags as her video title 😂
I like watching the reviews where you like the things!!
It’s really frustrating to hear that people don’t watch videos you make on movies you like. The Night House just came out and I Loved It, so as always I wanna watch all the reviews, but only the ones for people who like it so I can listen to other people gush about it. Hope people come around to enjoying you talk about content you like!
I really liked it too. I'm a little torn on whether or not I want some more info on what exactly happened when she died; the entity said that she saw him and he wanted her back. Other than that, great atmosphere, cinematography and acting.
What a coinkydink! I watched it yesterday. I had great hopes for it. I only had seen a few images and heard a few words about it like "amazing" and "surreal".
But I was disappointed. Interesting at the beginning, interesting at the end. Boring in between, for the most part. For some reason I just couldn't get into it...
The visuals however, were brilliant. Probably the only point it did not disappoint. It got me saying wtf a lot, in a good way. Beautiful.
Can't swear in the first 30 seconds. Can't unsheath a dagger in the first 30 seconds.
It's literally 1984 🙄 /s
The 1998 Merlin miniseries with Sam Neill is a perfect Arthurian retelling
I like it when you make videos about movies in general.
As I watched this in the theater, I kept saying to myself "I'd probably enjoy this if I had an English degree".
(thank you for the video, the story makes more sense now, and yes I think I'd prefer your movie version)
I'm sure I'm not the only person who when Gawain turns up at the house of Bertilak, was like: "No no no! Not Castle Anthrax!" And lo and behold, There was Zoot. Lol.
I guess I was thinking of Monty Python because I really got some Terry Gilliam energy from this film. All the way through.
ah yes a new swell entertainment video
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This was great timing for the VOD drop
Oh shit, thanks for the reminder on the podcast. Always looking for more audio to have on in the background while working on stuff! 😊
"Participation trophy of Arthurian tales"
Okay, I think I get it now.
You're so right about the monster fucker thing, like I've seen fanart that made the Green Knight look like an elvish dryad forest Calvin Klein model.
the moment you said you liked the move....I stoped, got tickets for the very last viewing in cinemas here in my country. loved it and got rigth back here
oh my gosh i just watched the movie and was so confused but THANK YOUU
Think of it as the Last Temptation of Sir Gawain.
I only wished they used the same actor for both Lord Bertilak and the Green Knight's role. Also, I coulda sworn we've come a long way with wigs, but... :/
I hope you try Patel's The Wedding Guest (2018).
I did a Camelot inspired escape room. Lots of swords. I wore Outlander earrings, so I could have a sword in my ear.
That was the best intro i've seen in a long time
Wow, I saw the same movie you did but I did not see the same movie you did. Thank you for explaining everything that the movie didn't seem to have explained to me.
I did enjoy that in the original poem La Fey basically summoned the GK to fuck with Guinevere & scare her, which was translated as her being creepily posessed by him while she reads his letter in the movie
I loved this movie, but what I'm mostly bothered by is that, ok, Morgan made The Green Knight to "test her son", however how tf did she know by a fact that out of everyone in the room that day Gawain was gonna be the one to accept the Knight's game? Does his son have a think for chopping off trees or something? Kinda convenient if you ask me.
As a fellow English major, it's good to know that some parts of the movie were accurate, since Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was one of my favorite medieval lit texts.
I am going through all of your videos and enjoying it, i’m all over the place in the timeline though.
that shade of green looks amazing on you
I loved it so much 😭😭
I'm so glad someone else with the proper credentials enjoyed this movie. I myself have an online masters (woowoo).
I too liked it a lot for the same reasons (luscious looking with phenomenal performances). At its core, I thought it followed the original. I didn't mind the changes so much, they served to pad what's a thin myth. Not even the Last Temptation of Christ slant, which makes sense in light of the ending. Good stuff. Good to see a heavy budget spent on something that didn't have a superhero in it.
Oh hey, you leave Lowery alone. The camera obsura was around before christ, though us white people probably only caught on about the time The Green Knight was written.
Amanda waving a dagger around like Faline with her kunai xD
Personally, I love seeing you happy and gushing about some super awesome film. (I'm planning on seeing the film soon, so I'll bookmark this video and come back once I've watched it!!)
Amanda, what would be your take on the strong association of Bertilac's wife with knowledge and specifically, knowledge very much ahead of her time? When she is talking with Sir Gawain she mentions her reading and subsequent contributions to her library's books; she appears to have a heliocentric model of the Solar System lying about; and she manages to effectively shoot a photo in the early Middle Ages. The link is definitely there and her wisdom is paired equally with her sexual allure. If we take a symbolic route, she could be interpreted as the allure of knowledge but that just doesn't seem to fit the tale or its themes. What's your take?
yes i was hoping you would make a video on this
Perfectly agree on your Hot Green Knight take. I guess Venom - Let there be Carnage is THE Monster F*cker movie of 2021, which is fine, it's marvellous. But damn, this was a missed opportunity!
Lmao I just watched this Tuesday, not too late at all! I'm following you on Twitter now too! Have a good day.
She really made the file name the video title
I love this channel.
It’s not too late for me. I’m going through a full-on rewatch binge. It’s only better now.
I am just now realizing that The Green Knight was not a new Green Lantern movie….
Not watching the video all the way through for spoilers, but still gonna leave a comment for that engagement