Green Knight: 25 Things You Missed

[@ScreenRant]

Which character is your favorite from the movie? Let us know why!

[@CaughtInTheLoop]

The fox was the best

[@theod9548]

can you talk any quicker, pretty please ??

[@BenFrankarts]

The movie was weird af but enjoyable. I liked the Green Knight. His presence was eerie and noble yet foreboding and almost fatherly. Like I said, weird af.

[@gametapefriendsonline]

@@theod9548 engage warp drive or set playback speed to drunk mode. You got this.

[@patriciahayes7315]

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I have read "Gawain and the Green Knight", so I know the legend.

[@gametapefriendsonline]

We really wanna see Ryan George try and do a pitch meeting for this.

[@sinistertwister686]

"Defeating the Green Knight was no small deed I believe! Was it an epic duel?" "Actually, it was super easy, barely an inconvenience"

[@suebursztynski2530]

Ask him. He is willing to do that on request.

[@AGoodJoe]

Arthur's face was the only one I noticed in the changing face of the Green Knight at the chapel, so I very much look forward to owning a copy for late night, stoned viewing. Brilliant film

[@quanny3324]

Ahh a man of culture I see

[@emillelee5999]

If an A24 movie didn't leave you confused by the ending then it really wasn't an A24 movie

[@Primenumber19]

The movie begins saying this is a story about a king, but not Arthur. Then the green knights note reads they will part in trust and friendship. So no... he didn’t die at the end people. They literally say that at the beginning. To put it simply He would have to leave alive to replace his uncle to become king, and he would have to be alive for their parting to be in trust and friendship. This is not ambiguous, he survives the ending.

[@ltlbuddha]

I don't agree. That could be referencing the king Gawain could be or implying that the king we see is a more real version of Arthur. Trust could refer to the loosing of the belt and friendship referring to the respect that the act confers. Friend is, and especially was in the past, a variable term.

[@Primenumber19]

@@ltlbuddha they literally show the image of the crown being brought down on Gawains head when they say this is a a story about a different king. With his survival guaranteed at the beginning it hinges the drama on how he survives the encounter. Does he do so dishonorably continuing down a path to his ruin? Or has he learned from his travels, allowing him to accept his failings and try to atone by removing the sash...

[@ltlbuddha]

@@Primenumber19 Nothing in that whole film has to be literal.

[@Primenumber19]

@@ltlbuddha I get the film is an acid trip interpretation of ancient fan fic of Arthurian mythology but if nothing matters in the film than the film has no meaning. And frankly the acid trip aspect is the visuals, The film still adheres to linear story telling and classic tropes like it was all just a dream.

[@ltlbuddha]

@@Primenumber19 It is not that nothing matters, but that it is not necessarily straightforwards. That is literally what symbolism is for, to convey non-literal meaning.

[@alexwilkinson4271]

One of the best screenrant videos in years, green Knight/Gwain slash for the win

[@ajt11at]

Loved the film, But I get why a lot of people don't get why it's great.

[@Rosy2468]

I think a large segment of people were just mad bc of the expectation that this was an action movie and not receiving that. For some people coming in with a misconception of what you're going to get means they're in such a bad mood they can't appreciate what they got at all.

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

Definitely not everyone’s cup of tea. But I agree, thoroughly enjoyed it!

[@samblah]

Had a hash brownie, put on a random movie called the green knight...my god. Great time had.

[@toddzillar1]

Did the same with mushrooms, no regrets

[@MattD3413]

His mother showed up in the faces at the end on the green night as well.

[@GaiaPapaya]

Small side note: Sir Gawain's mother is actually Morgause, half sister to Arthur and Morgain Le Fay. In the tale this is based in Morgain however summoned the Green Knight and for this movie they kinds just mushed the two sisters together into one.

[@ltlbuddha]

I think the ambiguous ending the best choice. The director's original ending, and the one from the original tale, are both unsatisfying to me.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

When Gawain took the mushrooms, he saw a silhouette of Essel which transformed into a silhouette of the Green Knight.

[@firstname__lastname]

I feel much better now that I know what I actually watched! Thank you ❤️

[@alexmason8557]

Isn't the fox his witch mother trying to guide him??

[@EarthNeedsHeroes]

That thought never crossed my mind through most of the film, until towards the end when the fox spoke and the voice reminded me of her. Sometime after finishing the movie I realized that the Lord and Lady never acknowledged the old blind woman who was with them, but she was always "watching" Gawain, that's when I started putting things together (the similar blindfold and the fox). Looking forward to watching it again to see what else I didn't catch the first time through.

[@bambinocinefilo9702]

I think I missed the movie, jejeje. Now I’m very interested in this film!

[@dixonsider873]

The narrator in this was so funny

[@mt8956]

I went in knowing nothing about the movie and only watched the first few seconds of the trailer. I honestly thought i was going to see lots of fighting and war and how some guy became a King. Idk if I fell asleep but the 2 hours passed by fast, weird movie but interesting.

[@trvst5938]

It’s surrealist. Very specific abstractions of concepts you maybe already know, they’re just being expressed differently. It’s a way of saying, “I am different and this is how.” This movie definitely makes the world feel very real. The cinematographer for the movie has gotten awards. You should watch “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” A surrealist movie written by a French director who’s made some interesting movies.

[@peanutwars]

@@trvst5938 ok now that movie is actually good and the story moves along and is like maybe even explained better idk lol

[@MrShaunhunter]

Loved this lovie

[@markbeck8384]

I think this movie, and Barry Lyndon, will stick with me for the rest of my Life.

[@cetoloco]

I loved watching this!

[@unninarayanan6970]

Literally one of best movie of the year🥰💙

[@aja5033]

It’s mysticism (miss teh siz em) not my stick ism 😂 other than that cool video 👍🏽

[@WelchC8289]

Is this the Burger King mascot origin story

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

Yes, moldy burgers and spoiled fries

[@Anjel1e]

I missed the mid credit scene?!? 😭

[@annamelissa607]

i love willow!

[@jstratton1981]

Dude I still have most of the figures and even the siskbert!

[@robertzenniful]

I love the Fox

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

This has to be a horror movie because of that cackle. My Father's evil cackle....

[@vrixphillips]

right? I too want a bajillion more. A new Tristan and Iseult would be great.

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

David Lowery: how do I know you, how did you know about my Father, and why were you staring me down? Are you him? You're both named David......

[@tomtimelord7876]

One of the things I missed was the entire plot, apparently.

[@boros8850]

I'm not first! *cries*

[@jameswilson3370]

The is for bringing up the stag in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

[@jalves6494]

The main thing I really don’t understand in this movie is why the guy kissed him before he goes to the green chapel, can someone please explain that

[@DarthFett66]

The Lord told Gawain that whatever you receive from the house you will give to me. Gawain received a little more than a kiss and I think that the lord assumed that so he took initiative and kissed Gawain. Now, if I am not mistaken in the original story the Lady kissed Gawain and since Gawain was a man of honor he kissed The Lord back.

[@jalves6494]

@@DarthFett66 ahhhhh I see

[@BenFrankarts]

@@DarthFett66 the lady ended up giving Gawain something else that came in “handy” but let’s not get into that 😂

[@crieverytim]

cuz he shmexy duh

[@FatKidWaGun]

They showed the Robber/Guede walking in mud watching dave patel ride off from the castle

[@xtinaisninja]

Don't know if it was mentioned, but I suppose the opened round table resembles St. Peter's Square. That landmark is said to represent a welcoming embrace.

[@ohboi1655]

Why does he look like the burger King mascot

[@mikeuffman4941]

Brah, you watched it 3 times?

[@timothyhowe1384]

The fox is sus. U don't have to explain I will. Well yes the fox is known to be wise and noble, but also well known as a trickster in many cultures.

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

Ah, foxy

[@alfonzie11]

spoiler............................................................................ .......................................................... . ....................I think that was guawines mother. I think she was behind it all. to make guawine an honorable man .

[@patriciahayes7315]

Like the coyote is a trickster in Native American lore. :)

[@peanutwars]

Lol they literally cut the table so the dude could ride through on a horse not lore reasons I swear also just sounds like Gawain is a really bad and selfish dude why would he not just nick the green knight ? So maybe he should have his head cut off lol

[@Llegando_Tarde]

Is the bear only seen when he enters the mansion, or is it seen elsewhere in the film?

[@renanrenan2642]

everyone seems to be missing the fact that the movie is clearly based on the major arcana tarot sequence

[@myriamydri5148]

Please, can you elaborate ?

[@FatKidWaGun]

I thought the corpse in the woods was a previouse robbery victim by the 3

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

I’m sure it’s him. What this movie does a couple of times is runs with one timeline, then rewinds back and goes with a different timeline.

[@tomhaw77]

Where is the bear in green knight?

[@ltlbuddha]

mistəˌsizəm I know, I know, but that bothered me more than the 101 pronunciations of Gawain

[@peanutwars]

“GUH-WAIN” please god

[@patriciahayes7315]

I pronounce it "Gah-wain".

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

Gar-win or a variation of that sort is most common here in British

[@dylanisbad]

i like raw fish

[@wisdom0588]

When does the bear first show up?

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

I will tell you what Holly is. Hollywood. I would know since it's reference was because of me

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

All of this because the father couldn't tell a daughter who she was because he thinks it's hilarious

[@NaTaS00000]

I miss more than 25 things bcz i still didn't see it. 🤷

[@alanburns632]

Pagan? They're literally celebrating Christmas.

[@luckybag6814]

That’s the level of “intellect” we’re up against these days.

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

Yes and the witch is using Pagan magic to summon a figure possibly based off pagan British folklore (I.e. the green man). It’s a dichotomy between the two

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

That's another question if my dad was Catholic why was he giving my mom birth control every morning? Next question: why did an Angel name me?

[@devpatel8212]

If I ever get famous in the industry, call me Dev D Patel cus

[@calebcapson811]

Honestly better than the movie. The ending was quite satisfying but the the journey was tropey, overdone, and boring. Having more parallels between the green knight and the lord would have been better, and having less of the lady, and the color exposition.

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

It’s a 700 year old rape (in the form we have it today anyway) It’s gonna be trophy cause this is where the tropes come from 😂

[@Mike_L.]

6:21 mistiKism?

[@jlupus8804]

I didn’t like the MC, but it’s still a good film.

[@pedrosantos6183]

It was a good movie, but it could be great

[@pablolee2252]

Think I missed the whole thing

[@kevinlakeman5043]

Wth, you show clip after clip, but you don't show the clip of the knight's face changing? What's with that?

[@odora_allan]

What is this Am lost Not marvel or dc? Or completely has nothing to do with heroes and villans

[@At0micbac0n]

I do not like to, It insists upon itself

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

There’s no difference between the name Gah-win and Gar-win. It’s the same name, just different accents/dialects

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

I already lived this tale. I clearly remember the Axe man who controls the forest but looks like a dragon made out of wood. My question is as follows: What happened to the Green Knight and I in the cave? I didn't die or anything so how did that story end up this story in the present day? It wasn't finished from King Arthur? It picked back up here? Well where was i in between? It must be he has me under some spell dreaming or in a coma.

[@uriahl2331]

Hour and a half of walking; the remaining half hour is a butchered version of the original story. Good visuals though.

[@paulmcclainiii788]

No offense to the cast but this movie was awful, painful to watch after the first 20 minutes and I seriously wanted my money back.

[@jaquaviontavis6026]

First

[@dylanisbad]

who tf cares

[@jaquaviontavis6026]

@@dylanisbad sorry I offended you by commenting

[@edwardlecore141]

So in short, this is a pretentious mess that has nothing to do with the source material. Oh entertainment industry, don't ever change.

[@cptsuperstraight6924]

Every retelling of the Arthur story gets worse as they move further away from the original. I guess scriptwriters can't compete with a 13th century author who used a quill.

[@BenFrankarts]

@@cptsuperstraight6924 it all has to pas through a series of filters including the required artsy noir and the woke filter with a splash of dope ass cgi.

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

Your view. I thought it was great.

[@ChoCoMoCo69]

I was amazed that An Indian playd a British character after whole history behind that. 🤣

[@whitedragoness23]

He played it well, you do notice it at first but his acting makes it flow so effortlessly that he seems to fit the role ideally

[@ChoCoMoCo69]

@@whitedragoness23 M not talking in that sense m talking about the history between Britain and India.

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

@@ChoCoMoCo69 well it’s set in a fantasy world so his race isn’t important

[@jonathanparkes8977]

So it's ok for a Welsh hero to be played by an Asian Londoner? When Joseph Fiennes was going to play Michael Jackson the noise on the internet was huge. This and Anne Boleyn being played by Jodie Turner-Smith are seriously insane and peculiar castings. This really isn't ok.

[@hardy16able]

I'm not an expert on english folklore, since I'm from Germany, but many of the arthurian stories were being retold in german folklore as well, for example Parzival. The eponymous hero has a half brother called Feirefiz, whose skin is spotted like a magpie due to his mother being a black queen. He goes on become an arthurian hero too. There are other examples of people of colour being present at Arthurs court. So at least in the folklore poc did exist and were heros as well. Also, a lot of the knights of the round table, respectively their fathers have a habit of traveling around and making children with exotic queens and dames, so technically there would be a lot of diversity among the knights. Gawain may not be a poc in the original poem, but my question to you is: does it matter? Is his skin colour part of the story? Does it drive the plot or shape his character in any way? If not, why can't he be a poc, as he very well could have been? Dev Patel is a handsome, talented, british actor (he was born in London, making him as english as you can be). Chosing him over a white guy serves two purposes I think. First: minorities are more broadly represented, meaning poc are finally able to pursue their acting career, just like white people have for over a hundred years in the filming industry. Second: Casting minority actors helps establish acceptance for them, reducing prejudices etc., whereas casting a white person accomplishes nothing, if he is not a better actor and more suited for the role. So why not cast a poc who plays the character perfectly and also make some minor political statement as well? I'm actually sincerely interested in an answer, so please, explain it to me.

[@jonathanparkes8977]

@@hardy16able well it's not English folklore it's Welsh? Casting an English actor wouldn't be right. Casting an Asian English actor is even odder. England and Wales are different. England is the land of the Angles. Germanic people who came from Holland and other countries at the end of the Roman occupation. That is why English is very similar to Dutch. Gwalchmei, the original Welsh introduction, was a much more heroic character and he was debased though time and made evil or less heroic in later more Germanic tales. Why does it matter? Well it establishes precedence. You establish a character as something. If it become precedence establishing that Gawain was not a Briton (not the same as Britain but modern day Welshman) but an Asian from London it makes a nonsense of it all. In a world were there is not a shortage of roles for actors of Asian heritage, Dev Patel is not short of work or a struggling unknown, having him play a character who would have been living in a time of existential threat when the English were slowly pushing the Britons to the peripheries of these islands is not helping someone receive notice he needed. After all this is a low budget Indie film. I don't expect the American who made the film, who couldn't even be bothered to research how to pronounce words properly really cared. But then the Americans can't even spell correctly. I am very aware that Americans like playing fast and loose with history and mythology but like the films were they won the war without the British Empire or Russia, in American film making truth receives the first bullet.

[@hardy16able]

​@@jonathanparkes8977 None of the other actors are welsh either. Yet you only talk about the "asian" as if that means he comes from a different culture than the other english actors when in fact the only difference to Ralph Ineson or Sean Harris is the colour of his skin. This is a fantasy world, therefore Patel is in fact not established as a Londoner, but as a part of this fictional diegesis. And in this diegesis, as I have said, people of colour are in fact mentioned all the time. And how exactly does it "make nonsense of it all"? I just don't understand this argument. no sense in regards to what? Also we seem to have a very different view on representation of minorities. Sure, it's become better in the last couple of years, but does that mean we should stop casting them now? Anyway, I'm quite certain we will not be able to agree on this specific point. Lastly I just want to say that mythology and heroic tales were always changing due to them being told and retold verbally for centuries. There is not that one original story, there are only variations. Therefore, changing this story in order to deliver a personal message as a director fits perfectly in the tradition of retelling folklore. Of course I understand the disappointment of people who wanted to see a one to one-to-one adaption of the poem, but that is just not how movies are made.

[@cptsuperstraight6924]

@@hardy16able The Welsh tales of Arthur aren't just verbal. The Cyrmi had a written language before the saxon invasion. Also, I love how you tell an indigenous person he has no business how his ancestral stories are told.

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

No it is not okay! If a white dude cant do the voice of an black or asian animated character a non white cant portrai a white person. You reap what you sow, culture marxists! *AND HEIMDAL IS STILL A WHITE NORSE GOD! STOP MESSING WITH MY RELIGION!*

[@neonelephant4638]

this movie was trash

[@crieverytim]

you should be a movie critic

[@leikeylosh]

One of the most pretentious boring garbage movies I've ever watched in my life. If only the director followed the story of the original poem but he butchered that as well.

[@luckybag6814]

It’s hard to believe he read the poem. Maybe just a brief synopsis or bad re-telling. A decrepit King Arthur? In a poem where youth, virility and freshness are essential symbolism? The film was only about the director, not about the story.

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

I loved it and would argue the point of this wasn’t to retell the poem, but to complement it. But fair enough. Not everyone’s cup of tea 😂

[@ingramjd]

pagan? go read something, ok?

[@philipwebb960]

Indian Knights of the Round Table? Too much disbelief to suspend. Perhaps King Arthur is Chinese?

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

King Arthur is sub saharian

[@gametapefriendsonline]

What next?! A talking CGI fox?!

[@crieverytim]

real man but Indian = that's crazy!! boo!!! giants and talking animals = no problem!!! just make sure they are huwhyte please

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

Rather him than some yank. At least Devs British 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@tminus543]

The only thing I miss is my money that I wasted to see this crap!

[@crieverytim]

thank you for supporting the arts! I hope you enjoy fast and furious 17!

[@luckybag6814]

This film destroys any art to be found in the poem, and puts none in its place. Support the arts by demanding better than this.

[@flatphrat134]

this movie was lame

[@crieverytim]

what a brilliant take. quite thought provoking and compelling

[@flatphrat134]

@@crieverytim Thank you 🤫

[@crieverytim]

@@flatphrat134 wow, you dont get films OR yt comments 🤷‍♂️🤣😬 ;)

[@flatphrat134]

@@crieverytim Get, you bit. I won. 🧐 GG

[@Stinkydurian77]

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