It’s pretty clearly now go off with your head imo. People point to the director saying they filled a scene of the beheading but the director even said in that he doesn’t die.
Dev Patel is an absolutely incredible actor. Just wanted to say it. And also to whoever came to this video, the introduction is an interview with Joseph Campbell, who is an incredible figure to read about. He studied human mythology on a huge scale, and wrote about the commonalities of the stories we tell across cultures.
This knight was Gwaine. Arthur's nephew. He was not an Indian. They have their own tales. FFS. I find it funny that whites are criticized for voicing a cartoon character of another culture. But, when we call out the blatant replacement in our tales, it's racist. It's not. It's cultural subversion!
Funny, I just commented on this and my comment was erased almost immediately. Heaven forbid you discuss cultural subversion of our tales. Everyone can have their culture and criticism.
If he studied mythology, he should have the respect to not subvert other cultures. The Arthurian tales are Celtic in origin. Indians aren't involved in any way. Would Europeans receive the same praise by appropriating an Indian legend and whitewashing the main character?
@@Balandrushaven't they done that? Europeans or Hollywood have been taking tails and legends of other cultures and whitewashing them for a long time. By the way you do know that not all of the Knights of the round in the Arthurian legends were Europeans right? There was King Esclabor and his 3 sons. He was a Saracen Lord from the Middle East... Babylonia (Iraq) he wasn't a Christian (most probably a Muhammadan old fashioned term) or of one of the ancient pagan faiths. He pretended to be Christian while in Britain but became known as a 'valiant pagan Knight'. As mentioned he had 3 sons, also Knights of the round table'. Their names were of Palamedes, Safir, and Segwarides. Esclabor later converts to Christianity in order to be admitted as a Knight of the round table.
He didnt die at the end. The Green Knight scratched G's neck with his finger, as the trade, since G passed the test by taking off the [cheat] shash (belt). That was the last of 5 tests. (5 represents the 5 knight star/virtues. he failed all except the last test.)
@@hashvendetta7226 He asked “If I do this, what will you give me in exchange?” And it seemed to me heavily implying that he meant “will you lay with me if I do this?”
This was an extremely helpful explanation. I watched a (seemingly) similar video before this that just went over the movie beat by beat but did not break it down like you did.
Thank you for this deeply thoughtful video essay. You helped articulate some of the complex feelings I felt after watching "The Green Knight." I find myself again in a stage of life where the path isn't terribly clear, and a lot feels unresolved right now. As I imagine it does for others, too, and certainly the world at large. But your poetic insights into this strange, heart-provoking film adaptation of a medieval poem have helped refocus me a little more on this journey of life. "The only thing we can control is the posture of our hearts as we kneel before the (final) axe/acts." I like that. Life can't be all that great without goodness.
I ...struggle. Surely the life you live before the axe/acts is the important bit? And, as we all fall short sooner or later of certain expectations (our own standards; our earlier expectations; the expectations of others)... how is this the most important thing in the face of death? The "kneeling" before? Nurse someone through their last months/weeks/days and see what "the posture of their hearts" is. Last "minute" changes of heart, of relationships, of attitude - I won't diminish those. But how you face death as a qualifier of the strength, goodness or honour of self? That's exactly the outdated idealism of a chivalric era. Value life. As it stands. Don't assess it as its final approach. That is rarely a pleasant, let alone noble one. All most can hope for is care at the end - FROM OTHERS. THAT'S the kind of place the real value of your life begins and ends.
Without watching this essay, I related my own coming of age myself as Gawain. His coming of age compressed into a 2-hour adventure. Whereas myself I’m still learning the basics 30 years on. The futility of lust and instant gratification were key themes here that took me through the whole film. The opening of this movie completely made this movie and the denouement coupled with a fantastical adventure made this film so special. There are few movies that leave me with so many painful questions and contorted conclusions. The beheading of the knight to instantly become a legend is paralleled by the constant imagery of nature being bent and twisted by men and conversely absorbing and decaying dead legends and myths that carry Gawain through his own path to find the reckoning he wants naught but needs so. The way I relate most sincerely with this film is by placing my own experiences with futility and my brushes with fate in and around the experiences of Gawain. His childlike fearfulness and unreadiness inevitably gave way to his resolve and embrace for what his own life could be at its worst and his thoughtless embrace of the life he could live without the pretense of vainglory. Very thoughtful analysis and the opening of this video essay was very well done. Joseph Campbell and his grand mythology interpretation is a great way to embrace this film.
No like they said, it's a game, his head is symbolically chopped of by the finger and the sentence in return of the not so symbolic chopping of the knight's head
Thanks for the explanation. I had to watch this movie three times and watch your review to make sure I completely understood what I was seeing. Very helpful
This poem was likely written by a north Staffordshire poet for the entertainment and edification of the family of Sir James Audley in memory of Sir James’ best friend and fellow Knight of the Garter, Sir John Chandos (who died a hero leading his men on a bridge in France). The Audleys owned hunting lands in the around Swythamley in far north Staffordshire.
I disagree. In accepting death, in facing it and realizing that no matter what path he takes that is where his life will end anyways.... Well, you can interpret he'll go on to be an anxious, depressive wreck. But I think the movie shows he may have learned to choose to live honourably, by his word, even if every day it's difficult to take that step. More importantly, I think what Gawain spends the rest of his life doing is not the point. After watching this movie, after ruminating on death, do you choose to be depressive, anxious, and riddled with FOMO? Or do you take charge in your life, and try to be a better person?
I passed 6 kidney stones in about 4 months. Small ones. I passed 1 years later that hurt worse than the others combined. Take care, I needed a procedure to remove scar tissue from a really 'sensitive' area after passing so many.
I had run out of necessary medication shortly before watching this film but hadn't felt the effects yet. About 16 hours after watching this I nearly fainted from terror and ended up in the hospital close to having a psychotic break. I recovered, but lots of wild stuff happened in the ensuing weeks. A major shift in my rather chaotic spiritual journey of the last 15 years, marked by a struggle with drug addiction, has unfolded in the past month since the incident. The timing of watching this movie seemed strange but meaningful - I hope. "Now I'm ready. I'm ready now."
Good luck. Sobriety is a process, so work on your process and let the outcomes happen as a result. Also, what helped me is focusing on adding more things to my life, not focusing only on what needed to be gone from it. I hope you are well.
@@zombi3907 Thanks. It's been a gruelling process filled with many setbacks, as benzodiazepines are nasty af. My former doctor - long gone and disciplined for his reckless overprescription. Now - I'm lower on meds that I've been in three years, but it ain't easy as my brain struggles to adjust.
The journey of a life of honor or being “that best” version of yourself is a lifetime of small and large choices which at points seem insignificant or meaningless. We make choices that at times we know is either the safe choice or the easier one or the road less traveled. Being satisfied with what is or what will be of your life is often dependent on the choice you know is right for you and how hard you strived for that pursuit or idea you had. Even if you failed at times to be that best version of yourself you don’t have to abandon your dream just because maybe you failed a hundred or a thousand times before this next moment. Don’t give up on yourself, accept who you are, and take one step closer to your dream. That’s what I took away from this movie. Great analysis by the way 😊 you helped me think through it
I read the book in school and plan to reread it, and so I watched the movie yesterday. I didn't like how the appearance of the Green Knight wasn't a surprise to the viewer, nor how it didn't interupt a particularly festive mood.
Congratulations on your essay of the movie. I actually am a Knight But that is besides the point. (your opening comment )One day as you clearly point out in your essay, we all are going to die. It’s what we do with the days in between that give glory to God and everybody we meet. keep up your great work and thank you.
Finally made it around to seeing this movie. Glad so many found it to be a meaningful masterpiece. For me, this was 2 hours I can't get back. I came here hoping for an explanation that would make this better for me. But this movie cannot be redeemed for me. Sorry.
Not sure what movies I was watching but I did not extract all of this out of the movie 😂 All I could see was the Slum-dog Millionaire. Need to watch it again. Lastly, I needed the narrator to just clear his throat one….😂
I don't know what to believe. You can't keep coming back as your same self. Sometimes with parents, sometimes without. Genetics, hereditary factors, DNA, these play a major part and in order to keep being born yourself you have to have to exclude these factors
Now i know why i couldn't get into it, but i had to figure out why so many people liked it. Also why is it always classified as sci-fi? thanks for saving me 2 hours.
Movie Felt like I took the Brown Acid. Guess you need a doctorate in Arthurian legends to understand the Visual story that has next to no dialog to explain it
Apparently the director of this movie was so enamored with Dev Patel that he drew him on a horseback and then proceeded to make every character of this movie gently caress his face, which is Unfathomably based and valid
ok, so maybe im just SLOW and smooth brained. the GN says, basically, "what is given will be returned rather small or large". so, why not just give him a clap on the back or a teeny tiny scratch. WHY the need to take his head?? also, the King tells him before anything is even started, "remember its only a game". wtf is THAT suppose to mean? is that suppose to mean dont take it seriously, its JUST a game?
I saw this movie with 5 different people. It beguiled me that none of them saw it in a way that wasn't "marvel movie". I really appreciate how you nailed the themes and tones.
My list of what is WRONG with this film would be longer than the original novel. If you are going to remake one of the greatest novels in English history, you should, at least, read the bloody story. Gawain was a knight but was 'chosen' because he was the most holy and pure of the knights. The film opens with Gawain in a whorehouse??? Instead of being a holy and pure man who falls from grace, Gawain is a whoremonger, a drunk, a liar and a coward.
I think the remark about this film being a commentary on Christianity is quite a reach, but otherwise I enjoyed your analysis, even if I disagree with some of your conclusions.
Just a "normal" selfish man, a sinner, a coward, until finally gifted a chance to see how cowardness and lack of integrity leads to a life of pain. Perhaps only living through Christ are we truly gifted the same way. We find out...only too late. This can be an introspective, life-changing movie for our youth if they gave it a chance.
Why it's not: It is a conscious and purposeful inversion of the original tale, not only in terms of typical artistic liberties taken for the sake of adaptation, but in its themes and ultimately its twisted morality.
If you are "great"- meaning powerful - and do not have goodness - meaning humility and grace - then your power will only lead to oppression because it is rooted in your own self-interest. Hope that makes more sense
I didn't like how they wronged Christianity in this movie.Christianity is about breaking the circle.Snaping Oroboros in half.Jesus broke the circle of life on earth and gave man true freedom.
Unlike the film, the poem is full of Christianity. The final message, the temptation, everything is dripping in Christ's message. The film, however, rips the Christian message out of it. It would have been so much better with that message retained. Gawain in the poem does not seek power but to live a life worthy of Christ and the chivalric ideals. He FAILS like in the film, but he confesses in the end. The message is that all men come up short, and they must die to every single thing that keeps them from the perfection required of Heaven.
Hence, it does not surprise me that Hollywood ripped Christianity out of film and threw it aside. They are people so full of themselves its a wonder their heads don't pop off from the pressure. While I enjoyed the film, I intend on checking out the original story or poem as soon as possible.
The sad thing is I enjoyed this movie more than most since AI's influence. Why make a movie that's exactly the opposite of a great book in relation to it's title character and lead? Especially a story so important to a shared people's cultural history. It is cruel to require so much in antithesis to the book when it's implied the audience should expect a somewhat similar ending with respect to the character we're going into the story being asked to vest our interest in. I understand the larger point about failing tests of chivalry, but again that makes this a different story that should have had a different name. Except for the film-makers desire for the use of the title villain there is literally no reason why this should be called Gawain and the Green Knight. Why am I being asked to anticipate failures of the lead in exactly where the book is requiring me to aspire to something better? And in a way the movie is tempting me not to notice, that's a violation of honest discourse and not profound but cruel. I think cultural appropriation can often be good, but this is a version how can be wrong and requiring the ignoble from the audience. That again is somewhat cruel, especially to people who love the book. BTW, Dev Patel as Gawain or if as a King Arthur would have deserved better. He did a spectacular job and I do not doubt that in a different movie the righteous sincerely of his performance would have shined through in a strength not in a movie that had not used the whole plot and entire movie to be used to apologize for. He and Connery are the best in these sorts of roles I've seen in my lifetime. But there is an impulse to think efforts toward sacrilege so necessarily deep that is really just lazy iconoclasm people have fallen for, and for that I mourn. Our generation is wasting it's superior story making abilities and resources thinking good and righteous stories are not worth telling unless completely self-obsessed, when the stories about the things bigger/greater but good are still all the best stories. How we define what is good is important especially with the influence of things such as AI, but making the negating antithesis ultimate to story and expecting how we define what's good relative what must be shown through story is also not the answer. The book has a whimsical more culturally faithful tone that this movie, however visually stunning in parts did completely miss. Sad because the book is just so much fun. And also I think such intentional omission says something profound. About why we feel the ignoring of how tests of chivalry having required tests of chastity (as so many of the knight stories do) so dispensable. The book is saying something modern masculinity and critics of masculinity could obviously be learning that our generation has put endlessly at odds because of obsession with sex. As much as I enjoyed the visuals of the wilderness landscapes of the movie and movies setting (outside of Camelot), it is saying something also about how our use of stories in our generation are both increasingly and decisively anti-historical and using our own history as an excuse being anti-historical by way of those stories. That we're using movies to employ a secularism stopping it's ears to any advice from the past, any advice except from the now and using stories as how and sex as it's ultimate excuse. Shameful and sad.
@@honorsilverthorne7227 the biblical form of Christianity is the original. Catholicism isn’t even Christianity if you read the Bible. Most corrupt anti biblical church in our modern history.
Furthermore if Jesus was the Messiah then Israel would learn war no more that's what Isaiah says and you're basing a lot of your Messiah theories and premonitions on the book of Isaiah
Some may find this movie extremely boring because of its glacial pacing, but me? Yep, me too. Beautiful and well made, but boring. John Boorman's 1981 "Excalibur" still has not been topped when it comes to King Arthur legend adaptations, in my opinion.
It's a shitty obtuse movie. If you wave to explain the movie in another video, the artists has failed. We could have made it more clear what he meant, and not lead people on so many stray paths. The director doesn't tell us what happened, to Gawain because "life has no simple answers"? Confusion is your message? Then why try to tell a story at all? Why not have them all tap dance at the end, after all, LIFE HAS NO SIMPLE ANSWERS.
I kind of like how the final line "Now off with your head" could be literal, or like "now go off with your head(intact)"
Oh wow… ❤❤❤
I think it's both because the Green Knight is life and death, Gawain will die regardless of his choice since the Green Knight/death is inevitable
It’s pretty clearly now go off with your head imo. People point to the director saying they filled a scene of the beheading but the director even said in that he doesn’t die.
Finally got around to seeing this movie...
You have no idea how badly this video was needed, thank you
Dev Patel is an absolutely incredible actor. Just wanted to say it. And also to whoever came to this video, the introduction is an interview with Joseph Campbell, who is an incredible figure to read about. He studied human mythology on a huge scale, and wrote about the commonalities of the stories we tell across cultures.
This knight was Gwaine. Arthur's nephew. He was not an Indian. They have their own tales. FFS.
I find it funny that whites are criticized for voicing a cartoon character of another culture. But, when we call out the blatant replacement in our tales, it's racist.
It's not. It's cultural subversion!
Funny, I just commented on this and my comment was erased almost immediately.
Heaven forbid you discuss cultural subversion of our tales. Everyone can have their culture and criticism.
If he studied mythology, he should have the respect to not subvert other cultures. The Arthurian tales are Celtic in origin. Indians aren't involved in any way. Would Europeans receive the same praise by appropriating an Indian legend and whitewashing the main character?
@@Balandrushaven't they done that? Europeans or Hollywood have been taking tails and legends of other cultures and whitewashing them for a long time. By the way you do know that not all of the Knights of the round in the Arthurian legends were Europeans right?
There was King Esclabor and his 3 sons. He was a Saracen Lord from the Middle East... Babylonia (Iraq) he wasn't a Christian (most probably a Muhammadan old fashioned term) or of one of the ancient pagan faiths. He pretended to be Christian while in Britain but became known as a 'valiant pagan Knight'. As mentioned he had 3 sons, also Knights of the round table'. Their names were of Palamedes, Safir, and Segwarides. Esclabor later converts to Christianity in order to be admitted as a Knight of the round table.
He didnt die at the end. The Green Knight scratched G's neck with his finger, as the trade, since G passed the test by taking off the [cheat] shash (belt). That was the last of 5 tests. (5 represents the 5 knight star/virtues. he failed all except the last test.)
@@ernestor5440LOL
How did he fail retrieving the woman's head from the bog?
@@hashvendetta7226 He asked “If I do this, what will you give me in exchange?” And it seemed to me heavily implying that he meant “will you lay with me if I do this?”
@@arekschneyer3802 oh. Like he didn't do it out of virtue, he was looking for a payout of sorts?
I can get behind that.
And the axe was returned to him afterwards. @@hashvendetta7226
This was an extremely helpful explanation. I watched a (seemingly) similar video before this that just went over the movie beat by beat but did not break it down like you did.
Thank you for this deeply thoughtful video essay. You helped articulate some of the complex feelings I felt after watching "The Green Knight." I find myself again in a stage of life where the path isn't terribly clear, and a lot feels unresolved right now. As I imagine it does for others, too, and certainly the world at large. But your poetic insights into this strange, heart-provoking film adaptation of a medieval poem have helped refocus me a little more on this journey of life.
"The only thing we can control is the posture of our hearts as we kneel before the (final) axe/acts." I like that. Life can't be all that great without goodness.
Thanks!
I ...struggle. Surely the life you live before the axe/acts is the important bit? And, as we all fall short sooner or later of certain expectations (our own standards; our earlier expectations; the expectations of others)... how is this the most important thing in the face of death? The "kneeling" before?
Nurse someone through their last months/weeks/days and see what "the posture of their hearts" is.
Last "minute" changes of heart, of relationships, of attitude - I won't diminish those. But how you face death as a qualifier of the strength, goodness or honour of self? That's exactly the outdated idealism of a chivalric era.
Value life. As it stands. Don't assess it as its final approach. That is rarely a pleasant, let alone noble one. All most can hope for is care at the end - FROM OTHERS. THAT'S the kind of place the real value of your life begins and ends.
Without watching this essay, I related my own coming of age myself as Gawain. His coming of age compressed into a 2-hour adventure. Whereas myself I’m still learning the basics 30 years on. The futility of lust and instant gratification were key themes here that took me through the whole film. The opening of this movie completely made this movie and the denouement coupled with a fantastical adventure made this film so special. There are few movies that leave me with so many painful questions and contorted conclusions. The beheading of the knight to instantly become a legend is paralleled by the constant imagery of nature being bent and twisted by men and conversely absorbing and decaying dead legends and myths that carry Gawain through his own path to find the reckoning he wants naught but needs so.
The way I relate most sincerely with this film is by placing my own experiences with futility and my brushes with fate in and around the experiences of Gawain. His childlike fearfulness and unreadiness inevitably gave way to his resolve and embrace for what his own life could be at its worst and his thoughtless embrace of the life he could live without the pretense of vainglory.
Very thoughtful analysis and the opening of this video essay was very well done. Joseph Campbell and his grand mythology interpretation is a great way to embrace this film.
Well congrats. This is now my favorite video essay on the platform, and I've been around a long time. You have a gift and fine mind, young man.
Now I need to rewatch after this I was so confused at first but the meaning is deep now
My brother, you took this video into a whole other realm, please continue to do Gods work through these videos, this was absolutely astonishing.
What an essay. Hats off to you! You thoughtfully synthesized every piece of the story I was wrestling with. Thank you!
could "off with your head" mean "now go and live with all the stuff going inside your head as a punishment for life (or because that's how life is)?
No like they said, it's a game, his head is symbolically chopped of by the finger and the sentence in return of the not so symbolic chopping of the knight's head
Thanks for the explanation. I had to watch this movie three times and watch your review to make sure I completely understood what I was seeing. Very helpful
This poem was likely written by a north Staffordshire poet for the entertainment and edification of the family of Sir James Audley in memory of Sir James’ best friend and fellow Knight of the Garter, Sir John Chandos (who died a hero leading his men on a bridge in France). The Audleys owned hunting lands in the around Swythamley in far north Staffordshire.
This video is so sick!!! thank you so much for this, its beautiful
This was phenomenal thank you!
A perfect analysis of a masterpiece. Well done.
this might be one of the best videos i have ever watched. thank you for making this
Got depression, anxiety, and FOMO vibes from this film. I feel like they depicted gawain as a man with no honor who accepted his fate at the end
yes and that he will NEVER be a happy person.
I disagree. In accepting death, in facing it and realizing that no matter what path he takes that is where his life will end anyways....
Well, you can interpret he'll go on to be an anxious, depressive wreck. But I think the movie shows he may have learned to choose to live honourably, by his word, even if every day it's difficult to take that step.
More importantly, I think what Gawain spends the rest of his life doing is not the point. After watching this movie, after ruminating on death, do you choose to be depressive, anxious, and riddled with FOMO? Or do you take charge in your life, and try to be a better person?
Just watched this. I appreciate your synopsis of the movie. Well said. Thank you.
Much respect from your Latino Brethren out here in AriZona. You did a damn fine job breaking down this movie.
I think the ending is open. "Off with your head" is both a death sentence and a free pass. Lesson learned. Get out of here with your head.
Clever. 😊
Great video! I saw this movie last knight and wasn’t able to pick up on the message too well. This was much appreciated
I passed 6 kidney stones in about 4 months. Small ones. I passed 1 years later that hurt worse than the others combined. Take care, I needed a procedure to remove scar tissue from a really 'sensitive' area after passing so many.
This is why youtube was invented.
This was such a good video. I am working on a paper that analyzes the poem and the film and this was really helpful. Thank you!
I had run out of necessary medication shortly before watching this film but hadn't felt the effects yet. About 16 hours after watching this I nearly fainted from terror and ended up in the hospital close to having a psychotic break. I recovered, but lots of wild stuff happened in the ensuing weeks.
A major shift in my rather chaotic spiritual journey of the last 15 years, marked by a struggle with drug addiction, has unfolded in the past month since the incident. The timing of watching this movie seemed strange but meaningful - I hope. "Now I'm ready. I'm ready now."
How are you now?
I feel that too. Something about this movie really speaks to those of us who struggle
Good luck. Sobriety is a process, so work on your process and let the outcomes happen as a result. Also, what helped me is focusing on adding more things to my life, not focusing only on what needed to be gone from it. I hope you are well.
@@zombi3907 Thanks. It's been a gruelling process filled with many setbacks, as benzodiazepines are nasty af. My former doctor - long gone and disciplined for his reckless overprescription. Now - I'm lower on meds that I've been in three years, but it ain't easy as my brain struggles to adjust.
ahh that was really clear thank you!
The journey of a life of honor or being “that best” version of yourself is a lifetime of small and large choices which at points seem insignificant or meaningless. We make choices that at times we know is either the safe choice or the easier one or the road less traveled. Being satisfied with what is or what will be of your life is often dependent on the choice you know is right for you and how hard you strived for that pursuit or idea you had. Even if you failed at times to be that best version of yourself you don’t have to abandon your dream just because maybe you failed a hundred or a thousand times before this next moment. Don’t give up on yourself, accept who you are, and take one step closer to your dream. That’s what I took away from this movie. Great analysis by the way 😊 you helped me think through it
Great video man!
"What else ought there be?"
This video is amazing, thank you for the full insightful breakdown of this movie
Really good video essay on one of my favorite films
I read the book in school and plan to reread it, and so I watched the movie yesterday.
I didn't like how the appearance of the Green Knight wasn't a surprise to the viewer, nor how it didn't interupt a particularly festive mood.
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Just finished the movie and came here directly. Also, a few years ago I had some kidney stones - holy smokes that was some spicy pain!
Excellent review. Loved this movie.
Congratulations on your essay of the movie. I actually am a Knight But that is besides the point. (your opening comment )One day as you clearly point out in your essay, we all are going to die. It’s what we do with the days in between that give glory to God and everybody we meet. keep up your great work and thank you.
this video is very underrated.
Wow... that was potent. Absolutely sublime.
wow! what an amazing analysis!
Finally made it around to seeing this movie. Glad so many found it to be a meaningful masterpiece. For me, this was 2 hours I can't get back. I came here hoping for an explanation that would make this better for me. But this movie cannot be redeemed for me. Sorry.
🙂 EXCELLENT ANALYSIS !!!
And this was a Very good movie....
There’s a post credit scene as well.
Nice one!
What music was used in this video? It’s great!
Love this!!!
Not sure what movies I was watching but I did not extract all of this out of the movie 😂
All I could see was the Slum-dog Millionaire.
Need to watch it again.
Lastly, I needed the narrator to just clear his throat one….😂
“Off…with your head”. He lives.
That was well said about when you're facing Ultimate Death
So in other words........live well and die better!👍😉
Excellent video! What is that interview clip from at the beginning?
An interview documentary with Joseph Cambpell by Bill Moyers called The Power of Myth
This my favorite movie from last year
A movie that challenges your interpretation
Très bon 🤌❤
Great video. But what about the fox!
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself becoming the villain
One of my favorite films of the last decade. Brilliant in every aspect. Count all the obvious and hidden triangles in this film…fun!
The poem, yes, the movie, no
I don't know what to believe. You can't keep coming back as your same self. Sometimes with parents, sometimes without.
Genetics, hereditary factors, DNA, these play a major part and in order to keep being born yourself you have to have to exclude these factors
Now i know why i couldn't get into it, but i had to figure out why so many people liked it. Also why is it always classified as sci-fi? thanks for saving me 2 hours.
Movie Felt like I took the Brown Acid. Guess you need a doctorate in Arthurian legends to understand the Visual story that has next to no dialog to explain it
Bravo.
Great explanation. Have a different respect for the movie now.
Apparently the director of this movie was so enamored with Dev Patel that he drew him on a horseback and then proceeded to make every character of this movie gently caress his face, which is Unfathomably based and valid
ok, so maybe im just SLOW and smooth brained. the GN says, basically, "what is given will be returned rather small or large". so, why not just give him a clap on the back or a teeny tiny scratch. WHY the need to take his head?? also, the King tells him before anything is even started, "remember its only a game". wtf is THAT suppose to mean? is that suppose to mean dont take it seriously, its JUST a game?
It may all be tricks of Pan.
I saw this movie with 5 different people. It beguiled me that none of them saw it in a way that wasn't "marvel movie". I really appreciate how you nailed the themes and tones.
My list of what is WRONG with this film would be longer than the original novel.
If you are going to remake one of the greatest novels in English history, you should, at least, read the bloody story.
Gawain was a knight but was 'chosen' because he was the most holy and pure of the knights. The film opens with Gawain in a whorehouse??? Instead of being a holy and pure man who falls from grace, Gawain is a whoremonger, a drunk, a liar and a coward.
Honestly if i didn't knew this...i woukd have not liked the movie...thank you no w i can enjoy it to its full
Thank you for your smart video... most other videos on this film are silly ... they talk like a comedic auctioneer
Wow. This movie is a classic. And it was badly misunderstood.
Faith is a very powerful force
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I think the remark about this film being a commentary on Christianity is quite a reach, but otherwise I enjoyed your analysis, even if I disagree with some of your conclusions.
What happens to sheep? Slaughter. What happens to goats? Slaughter.
What happens to lions?.....
Just a "normal" selfish man, a sinner, a coward, until finally gifted a chance to see how cowardness and lack of integrity leads to a life of pain. Perhaps only living through Christ are we truly gifted the same way. We find out...only too late. This can be an introspective, life-changing movie for our youth if they gave it a chance.
I didn't think it was so great in fact I thought it was kind of lame compared to the original story
My point: Why strive to create, build, or achieve when in the end you only have death
Nihilism is what you’re describing.
And what is the obsession with the number 3
It's based upon the Holy Trinity.
It doesn't add up
HE DOES NOT YET UNDERSTAND LIFE , BECAUSE HE HAS NO UNDERSTANDING OF DEATH .
Now you know why some say, no one actually died on cross thay day, and still was glorified for being a martyr. Thats how stories are made.
Why it's not: It is a conscious and purposeful inversion of the original tale, not only in terms of typical artistic liberties taken for the sake of adaptation, but in its themes and ultimately its twisted morality.
twisted morality? I don't understand what you mean by this.
@@zombi3907 look up the word morality and go from there.
@@LinkinParked that was super helpful, thanks.
4:55 greatness is oppression without goodness... huh?
If you are "great"- meaning powerful - and do not have goodness - meaning humility and grace - then your power will only lead to oppression because it is rooted in your own self-interest.
Hope that makes more sense
I didn't like how they wronged Christianity in this movie.Christianity is about breaking the circle.Snaping Oroboros in half.Jesus broke the circle of life on earth and gave man true freedom.
Wait until you see his return this time.......
Unlike the film, the poem is full of Christianity. The final message, the temptation, everything is dripping in Christ's message. The film, however, rips the Christian message out of it. It would have been so much better with that message retained. Gawain in the poem does not seek power but to live a life worthy of Christ and the chivalric ideals. He FAILS like in the film, but he confesses in the end. The message is that all men come up short, and they must die to every single thing that keeps them from the perfection required of Heaven.
Hence, it does not surprise me that Hollywood ripped Christianity out of film and threw it aside. They are people so full of themselves its a wonder their heads don't pop off from the pressure. While I enjoyed the film, I intend on checking out the original story or poem as soon as possible.
Fucking incredible video!
Thank you!
The sad thing is I enjoyed this movie more than most since AI's influence. Why make a movie that's exactly the opposite of a great book in relation to it's title character and lead? Especially a story so important to a shared people's cultural history. It is cruel to require so much in antithesis to the book when it's implied the audience should expect a somewhat similar ending with respect to the character we're going into the story being asked to vest our interest in. I understand the larger point about failing tests of chivalry, but again that makes this a different story that should have had a different name. Except for the film-makers desire for the use of the title villain there is literally no reason why this should be called Gawain and the Green Knight. Why am I being asked to anticipate failures of the lead in exactly where the book is requiring me to aspire to something better? And in a way the movie is tempting me not to notice, that's a violation of honest discourse and not profound but cruel. I think cultural appropriation can often be good, but this is a version how can be wrong and requiring the ignoble from the audience. That again is somewhat cruel, especially to people who love the book. BTW, Dev Patel as Gawain or if as a King Arthur would have deserved better. He did a spectacular job and I do not doubt that in a different movie the righteous sincerely of his performance would have shined through in a strength not in a movie that had not used the whole plot and entire movie to be used to apologize for. He and Connery are the best in these sorts of roles I've seen in my lifetime. But there is an impulse to think efforts toward sacrilege so necessarily deep that is really just lazy iconoclasm people have fallen for, and for that I mourn. Our generation is wasting it's superior story making abilities and resources thinking good and righteous stories are not worth telling unless completely self-obsessed, when the stories about the things bigger/greater but good are still all the best stories. How we define what is good is important especially with the influence of things such as AI, but making the negating antithesis ultimate to story and expecting how we define what's good relative what must be shown through story is also not the answer. The book has a whimsical more culturally faithful tone that this movie, however visually stunning in parts did completely miss. Sad because the book is just so much fun. And also I think such intentional omission says something profound. About why we feel the ignoring of how tests of chivalry having required tests of chastity (as so many of the knight stories do) so dispensable. The book is saying something modern masculinity and critics of masculinity could obviously be learning that our generation has put endlessly at odds because of obsession with sex. As much as I enjoyed the visuals of the wilderness landscapes of the movie and movies setting (outside of Camelot), it is saying something also about how our use of stories in our generation are both increasingly and decisively anti-historical and using our own history as an excuse being anti-historical by way of those stories. That we're using movies to employ a secularism stopping it's ears to any advice from the past, any advice except from the now and using stories as how and sex as it's ultimate excuse. Shameful and sad.
I am in a movie. I am pretty sure. Or a coma
There is a critique of Catholicism in this film, not Christianity. The two are very different for the exact reason the film brings them up
Catholicism is an older form of Christianity than Protestantism; it's more original
@@honorsilverthorne7227 the biblical form of Christianity is the original. Catholicism isn’t even Christianity if you read the Bible. Most corrupt anti biblical church in our modern history.
Catholicism is OG Christianity. Cope.
Furthermore if Jesus was the Messiah then Israel would learn war no more that's what Isaiah says and you're basing a lot of your Messiah theories and premonitions on the book of Isaiah
I think it’s about a world without mercy.
Willem Dafoe played Jesus???
It's true lol
Some may find this movie extremely boring because of its glacial pacing, but me? Yep, me too. Beautiful and well made, but boring. John Boorman's 1981 "Excalibur" still has not been topped when it comes to King Arthur legend adaptations, in my opinion.
It's a shitty obtuse movie. If you wave to explain the movie in another video, the artists has failed. We could have made it more clear what he meant, and not lead people on so many stray paths. The director doesn't tell us what happened, to Gawain because "life has no simple answers"? Confusion is your message? Then why try to tell a story at all? Why not have them all tap dance at the end, after all, LIFE HAS NO SIMPLE ANSWERS.