YO, the movie we are going to talk about today may be unfamiliar to us, but it is as well-known as the Western version of "Journey to the West", it is "The Green Knight".
At first, I didn't care much when I saw this movie, but after seeing the trailer, I was really attracted by the exquisite light and shadow and mysterious atmosphere in the movie. Wow, there are giants!
After the film was rated, it unexpectedly formed the aesthetic separation of the huge gap between film critics and audiences, which completely aroused my interest.
"The Green Knight" is adapted from the verse narrative poem of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" in the 14th century. It is the most widely circulated and the best and most popular story in the legend of King Arthur. The whole poem is divided into four parts. The story has been passed down from generation to generation because of its long history, so to this day, Sir Gawain's character and his adventures have been changed into many versions, some are romantic, some are exciting and adventurous, some are magical Yes, biased education is thought-provoking and so on.
David Lowe's "The Green Knight" that we are talking about today will certainly not be the first nor the last adaptation. There have been operas, dramas, film and television works before.
And David Lowe's "The Green Knight" is very ambitious in my opinion. After laying the foundation of the original legend, the built image floor has a strong author's expression, and the director wants to face it again. The definition and thinking of "chivalry" for ordinary people, as for how the film is done, in my opinion, the advantages and disadvantages are very obvious. It is no wonder that the audience is so torn after watching the film.
The film is about Christmas Eve, the elderly King Arthur is having a banquet with the Knights of the Round Table, at this time, a tree knight who looks like evolved from "The Lord of the Rings 2", threatened to challenge the knights present, if anyone If you can look at his head, then next year, today, he will be cut back.
At this time, Sir Gawain, the nephew of King Arthur, volunteered to accept the challenge of the unknown knight. In reverse, the green knight knelt down and took the posture of tilting his head to kill. Gawain quickly cut off the green knight's head. Gawain was overjoyed, but the headless green knight picked up his own talking head and told Gawain to remember to go to his Green Church next Christmas to "go to his appointment" and accept the beheading that he imitated Gawain with the same damage value. .
Gawain was dumbfounded, but in order to maintain his dignity and glory, when Christmas of the second year was approaching, Gawain, with the green magic belt woven by his mother and the blessings of everyone, set foot on the way to the Green Church to find the Green Knight. Adventure journey.
If you've seen director David Lowe's previous "Ghostbusters" and "The Old Man and the Gun," and know what style of film A24, a small but mighty independent film studio, does, you can probably guess that "Green" What kind of tone is "The Knight of the Clothes"?
In the eyes of some viewers, the film is full of metaphors and insinuations, with an intriguing and seductive allegory, allowing you to gain a new interpretation of Sir Gawain's chivalrous direction from a few short stories.
Of course, in the eyes of another part of the audience, what I hope to see from the film is that Gawain is driving a plug-in, overcoming obstacles all the way, fighting against giants and various difficulties. Finally, Gawain will come back to fight against the Green Knight for three days and three nights, bringing a suspense to the audience. Magical action thriller.
It is true that the film's medieval oil painting-like beautiful color palette, large-scale special effects, and the atmosphere of an imminent decisive battle are all stuffed into the trailer, making the audience mistakenly think that this is an epic level about Sir Gawain. The hero blockbuster too!
But we don't know that A24 is still the A24 in our impression. It has always won with the depth and texture of the story. People who like it will like it very much. The audience who is guided by the dislocation of the trailer and hugs the blockbuster will of course be disappointed.
In fact, to put it bluntly, the preset viewing angles are different, and the resulting viewing emotions will be greatly reduced.
This reminds me of the recently released "Out of Control Player". After I posted that issue, some big friends also came to leave a message, saying that it was not funny at all, and it was not so joyful. The whole movie was a routine, and I was extremely disappointed , why are you blowing the movie like this.
EMMM... That's right, so I mentioned in that video, if you like the tone of the characters in "Deadpool", if you like fast-paced popular plots that don't require too much brain-burning, and if you like adult humor Jokes and spoofs, then "Out of Control Player" is not to be missed!
So I have always believed that a movie cannot be liked by everyone, and even the viewing experience of the movie sometimes needs to be adjusted as expected, and the preset viewing angle should also be set up, etc., like the "Green Knight" we talked about today, With such a unique tonality, it is even more impossible to make the tastes of all audiences so consistent.
I have to admit first, even though I knew the director and A24 when I was watching "The Green Knight", I still wanted to take the surprise scenes in the trailer into the movie. As a result, the rhythm and dialogue scenes of the film were extremely slow. It's true that I was sleepy when I saw the middle section, and the shocking special effects scenes and pictures that I could probably see, the trailers were all displayed.
But fortunately, after the stories of the films are connected in series, one can slowly taste the process of Gawain's becoming a chivalrous spirit, and then combine the original poems and the stories that have been passed down to experience, and still can feel the director's different tastes for this story.
In the original version of the poems and stories, in fact, Gawain was a relatively positive character, brave and resourceful. When he went to an appointment a year later, the most important encounter was when Gawain met the castle and the owner of the castle. Take the temptation challenge there.
The owner of the castle left Gawain to wait until Christmas to find the Green Knight. He told Gawain that he would go hunting during the day, and that when he came back at night, he needed Gawain to return the things he got in the castle during the day.
Gawain lived in the castle for three days in total. On the first day, the lady came to tempt Gawain and asked Gawain for a kiss. When the castle owner came back in the evening, Gawain kissed the castle owner.
So there is a source for the castle owner kissing Gawain in the film.
On the second day, the lady continued to seduce, and this time she got two kisses. In the evening, Gawain also gave the master two kisses.
But on the third day, Madam wanted to have sex directly, but Gawain refused. Afterwards, Madam mentioned that the green belt on her body could resist external damage. Gawain felt that she was about to challenge the Green Knight's axe contract and decided to accept it. Gift, but also concealed from the castle owner, just kissed the castle owner five times when they parted.
When Gawain accepted the green knight's axe, the green knight slashed three times in total. The first time Gawain was timid, the green knight angrily rebuked Gawain for being timid. The second time the Green Knight missed, you can also understand that it was intentional. The third time the Green Knight chopped off Gawain's scalp and bleed a little.
Later, Gawain learned that the Green Knight was actually transformed by the castle owner using witchcraft, so the green hat really didn’t come from this story???
The first and second time he didn't cut it was because Gawain didn't do anything for the first two nights, and the third time he got a little scalp, because Gawain was afraid of being hacked to death, so he accepted the green belt and deceived the castle owner.
Judging from the film "The Green Knight", the story changes are actually quite big. The character of Gawain in the film is actually a loose and unmotivated young man among the nobles. His mother is the evil witch in Arthur's legend. Morgan Le Fay.
It was because Mother Christmas saw that Gawain continued to have no direction for her future, so she summoned the Green Knight and wanted to provoke her son.
From the Knights of the Round Table, the Merlin Mage also appeared. The green knight has also become a more magical tree man shape, which means that he can survive and regenerate without hurting his head. Green also represents the reincarnation, rebirth and resurrection of nature.
The plot of the entire movie has always been a test of whether Gawain can possess the spirit of chivalry. The five-pointed star worn by King Arthur has five virtues that a knight needs to possess, namely friendship, generosity, chastity, etiquette, and piety. The integration into the film also corresponds to the five plot stories.
In the end, when the Green Knight was about to slash at Gawain, all the tests of chivalry were transformed into the memory of life and the fear of death. The most important and fearless spirit of knights was whether Gawain could bear it. .
These are all explained in the elegant composition and light and shadow. Watching "The Green Knight" is like buying a ticket to a medieval oil painting exhibition. You need to slowly reminisce and study with great interest and discover the hidden hidden inside. details.
So if you have the mentality of going to an amusement park, the movie viewing experience you will naturally get will be very different.
Then this issue of "The Green Knight" will be shared with you here first. If you are interested, please leave a message and share your views with me after watching it.
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