That would be like explaining bebop to an ant. Literally what part did you not understand? They go painstakingly out of their way to explain it to you.
NTA but this is pathetic. If you're going to insult someone for not liking a movie by saying they were too dumb to get it, or are a child, you better be prepared to defend that position. That you aren't shows you're full of shit.
You're a brainlet trying to sound smart, don't be so pathetic and admit you don't know everyrhing please, it's embarrassing
Literally what part did you not understand? This is childish action schlock.They have copious flashbacks to remind children like you what the point is. I demand an explanation for your "UHHH EXPLAIN DIS 2 MEEH" attitude.
It was mostly visually interesting but the giants scene looked like garbage. Overall I didn't love it. It's a very boring subversion of a very boring story. "What if the brave knight wasn't super brave!?!?" Who cares? The film is so obvious, I don't know what OP is on about. I assume this is a veiled "I don't like brown people" thread.
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He's not even a knight, as he repeatedly says. I don't know why they made Gawain so pathetic that he couldn't even fight back against the robbers, he isn't that way in the book.
This was my experience. The book isn't a spooky A24 horror story like the movie. It's fundamentally a tale of chivalry about a heroic knight, even if it is unusual in that the hero personally considers himself to have failed his quest, even though outwardly he succeeded and notably survives at the end unlike in the movie. The Gawain of the movie bears almost no resemblance to the one of the book in backstory, character, or motivation. The Green Knight was made by people who either didn't like or didn't understand the source material, and that was really disappointing to me as someone who loves it.
I thought it was clear that the green knight was going to kill him in the final scene when he says "now, off with your head." In the book Gawain presents himself to be beheaded and the Green Knight makes two feints that fully miss, and then with the third merely knicks his neck to reflect how Gawain acted properly for the first two days at the manor then on the third fell slightly short by not declaring and returning the green girdle, and relying on magic to protect himself from the green knight despite saying he trusts his fate to god. Then the true identity of the green knight is revealed, its shown that it was all ultimately just a test, and there's a discussion of what it all meant, and he returns to camelot and is greeted as a hero even though he considers himself a failure. The most important theme of the book is an examination of chivalry and how despite being a great knight Gawain feels he's failed because you can only "win" chivalry by dying properly, but that's no victory at all. This was absent from the movie which just wanted to make a spooky horror film.
I haven't read the book. That sounds like a much more satisfying ending and thank you for sharing that. I want to read this now. The film ending seemed obvious but what you describe elucidates the message better.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight itself is a cynical deconstruction of Arthurian Romance, that isn't the problem. The issue is that it's done in a much more interesting way than The Green Knight.
Did I like what I watched? Not really, the visuals were nice I guess.
What was the point of the movie? Who knows.
It's just weird for the sake of being weird like 90% of A24 slops.
I get that the mother made up the journey for the boy to become better and him realizing that in the end by seeing a potential future if he ran away but I totally didn't like the middle part.
The point reveals a bit of itself if you see Lowery's previous movie A Ghost Story. Lowery is interested in exploring death as something we are uncomfortable dwelling on or dealing with.
There's a character in Ghost Story who obnoxiously steps out of the mystification of this who rants at party revellers over how everyone will die eventually. I'm sure the Arthurian tale appealed to him in how it too approaches the matter in Gawain's horror at mortality
A Ghost Story, and this sounds like a meme or a gay post, nearly made me vomit because a loved one had just died when I watched it. It's a horror story but only for those that have experienced loss I think.
What was the point of the opening scene with the barn being burned down? That was totally unconnected to the rest of the movie and never brought up again. The book starts with a very brief prologue about King Arthur being descended from the refugees that fled the end of the Trojan War. Was the opening scene supposed to be the sack of Troy?
Something that exceeded your intellect. Stick with marvel movies, child.
Since you understood it why don't you explain it to me
That would be like explaining bebop to an ant. Literally what part did you not understand? They go painstakingly out of their way to explain it to you.
NTA but this is pathetic. If you're going to insult someone for not liking a movie by saying they were too dumb to get it, or are a child, you better be prepared to defend that position. That you aren't shows you're full of shit.
This guy can't read more than one sentence.
>projecting
Literally what part did you not understand? This is childish action schlock.They have copious flashbacks to remind children like you what the point is. I demand an explanation for your "UHHH EXPLAIN DIS 2 MEEH" attitude.
You're a brainlet trying to sound smart, don't be so pathetic and admit you don't know everyrhing please, it's embarrassing
what'd you like about the Green Knight?
It was mostly visually interesting but the giants scene looked like garbage. Overall I didn't love it. It's a very boring subversion of a very boring story. "What if the brave knight wasn't super brave!?!?" Who cares? The film is so obvious, I don't know what OP is on about. I assume this is a veiled "I don't like brown people" thread.
He's not even a knight, as he repeatedly says. I don't know why they made Gawain so pathetic that he couldn't even fight back against the robbers, he isn't that way in the book.
a fun ride
He literally offered to explain it to them, you are on Cinemaphile grow a pair.
This was my experience. The book isn't a spooky A24 horror story like the movie. It's fundamentally a tale of chivalry about a heroic knight, even if it is unusual in that the hero personally considers himself to have failed his quest, even though outwardly he succeeded and notably survives at the end unlike in the movie. The Gawain of the movie bears almost no resemblance to the one of the book in backstory, character, or motivation. The Green Knight was made by people who either didn't like or didn't understand the source material, and that was really disappointing to me as someone who loves it.
>even though outwardly he succeeded and notably survives at the end unlike in the movie
He survives in the movie...
I thought it was clear that the green knight was going to kill him in the final scene when he says "now, off with your head." In the book Gawain presents himself to be beheaded and the Green Knight makes two feints that fully miss, and then with the third merely knicks his neck to reflect how Gawain acted properly for the first two days at the manor then on the third fell slightly short by not declaring and returning the green girdle, and relying on magic to protect himself from the green knight despite saying he trusts his fate to god. Then the true identity of the green knight is revealed, its shown that it was all ultimately just a test, and there's a discussion of what it all meant, and he returns to camelot and is greeted as a hero even though he considers himself a failure. The most important theme of the book is an examination of chivalry and how despite being a great knight Gawain feels he's failed because you can only "win" chivalry by dying properly, but that's no victory at all. This was absent from the movie which just wanted to make a spooky horror film.
I haven't read the book. That sounds like a much more satisfying ending and thank you for sharing that. I want to read this now. The film ending seemed obvious but what you describe elucidates the message better.
I felt that the "now off with your head" line was the green knight teasing him a bit but that he was ultimately going to be fine.
>tale of chivalry about a heroic knight,
~~*Hollywood*~~ will never understand something honest and beautiful, it's always a cynical deconstruction
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight itself is a cynical deconstruction of Arthurian Romance, that isn't the problem. The issue is that it's done in a much more interesting way than The Green Knight.
gonna watch this tonight thanks OP. meant to do it a long time ago.
Decent quest movie with a good ending
Postmodernism, OP. You just saw Arthurian Romance being deconstructed. Did you like it?
Did I like what I watched? Not really, the visuals were nice I guess.
What was the point of the movie? Who knows.
It's just weird for the sake of being weird like 90% of A24 slops.
I get that the mother made up the journey for the boy to become better and him realizing that in the end by seeing a potential future if he ran away but I totally didn't like the middle part.
a cautionary tale on wasted time
The point reveals a bit of itself if you see Lowery's previous movie A Ghost Story. Lowery is interested in exploring death as something we are uncomfortable dwelling on or dealing with.
There's a character in Ghost Story who obnoxiously steps out of the mystification of this who rants at party revellers over how everyone will die eventually. I'm sure the Arthurian tale appealed to him in how it too approaches the matter in Gawain's horror at mortality
A Ghost Story, and this sounds like a meme or a gay post, nearly made me vomit because a loved one had just died when I watched it. It's a horror story but only for those that have experienced loss I think.
I can feel you, bro
That was yet another terrible movie
all these movies just look like exercises in color correction to me, touched up to oblivion.
Something "deep", written by a literal moron.
>Arthur's nepew
>Pajeeto knight
What were they thinking?
What was the point of the opening scene with the barn being burned down? That was totally unconnected to the rest of the movie and never brought up again. The book starts with a very brief prologue about King Arthur being descended from the refugees that fled the end of the Trojan War. Was the opening scene supposed to be the sack of Troy?
It was an allusion to me burning all of your funko pops after I made love to your mom.
>loses the axe to the robbers
>suddenly it appears after he finds the skeleton head of that spirit girl
??
I didn't watch it because they cast a pajeet tbh