Film and television works based on fantasy epics once swept the world, from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy to "Game of Thrones", but I dare to say that the new film "Green Knight" produced by A24 this year is definitely not made towards this trend. . Although the film is based on a 14th-century English poem, it has incorporated too many modern adaptations and is a far cry from the traditional epic story. Judging from the films produced by A24 in the past, this is obviously another work in which style overshadows the expression of content.
The film tells the story of King Arthur holding a banquet in his court. A knight in green came to challenge the knights of the round table: who would dare to cut off his head on the spot, and let him return an axe a year later. The male protagonist Gawain accepted the challenge and cut off the head of the green knight. The still-living body picked up the head and returned to the green church. A year later, Gao Wen made an appointment to find the green knight.
I believe many people may not have read the original book, but in my opinion this modern adaptation seems to be subverting the traditional chivalry spirit . The male protagonist is far from the traditional knight who abides by the commandments. , he cut off the head of the green knight just to show off to the king, not to mention that on his journey a year later, he failed to give generously to the scavengers, and failed to resist the temptation of the castle mistress.
The director of the film, David Lowe, previously had a "Ghostbusters" , which I liked very much, because his visual presentation of the concept of time fascinated me, so I saw a lot of similar techniques in this film, and I also feel quite excited. One is that after the hero was kidnapped by scavengers and fell to the ground, an ingeniously designed, slowly rotating circular shot showed him turning into a skeleton, but the shot suddenly returned to the present moment. Foreshadowing horror.
The other is the paragraph where after he rejected the green knight's beheading invitation, he fled back to live a stable life in fear. In just 10 minutes of plot, he narrated a story spanning decades. From the birth of a baby with his wife, to abandoning his wife, to becoming a king, and finally being cast aside by thousands of people. In this coherent and flowing picture, the sense of the rapid passage of time is exactly the same as that of "Ghosts and Ghosts". It has to be said that David Lowe's film intuition is quite outstanding, but whether these strong visual images can be thematically or have an emotional connection with the audience is another matter. On the surface, this is a fable that refuses to be stereotyped , but in fact it is ubiquitous with suspenseful and thrilling plots of adventure themes, making the narrative oscillate between classical and modern, and even a thrilling moment of imbalance deviation.
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