As the nephew of old King Arthur (Sean Harris), Gawain is imbued by Patel with an earnest desire to live up to the laurels already bestowed on the Knights of the Round Table, but there’s also something unmistakably desperate and hungry about him when he arrives at his uncle’s court for a feast. After all, it’s Christmas morning when he’s awakened from his stupor in a brothel. When we meet Patel’s Gawain in earnest in the movie, he is clearly not yet a knight or a man of honor. There’s a singular, faintly mad vision at play in Lowery’s The Green Knight, and it’s led to one of the best films ever adapted from Arthurian lore. Tolkien singled out as one of the greatest works of English literature, as well as gracefully deconstruct it. The Green Knight is thus both a student of the past and a well-meaning raider of it this is a film which will honor a story J.R.R. There is a darker force at work here, which can be as unsettling as the image of Gawain’s crowned head inexplicably being lit aflame at the end of this sequence. And yet, by juxtaposing these words next to Dev Patel’s yet-to-be-knighted Gawain sitting on the throne of Camelot, stoic in all his kingly majesty, Lowery and company signal they’re doing more than just repeating an oft-told yarn. It’s there in the first scene when the alliterative prose from the 14th century poem is quoted near verbatim. Well, the team writer-director David Lowery assembled for his and A24’s The Green Knight understand Sir Gawain intimately. Take the poems and tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: As centuries old IP, these stories have been adapted countless times, including recently-and often by filmmakers with no greater concern for their appeal than the public domain title they’ve decided to exploit. First, you must understand what it is you are destroying to make way for something new. There’s truth in this axiom, although at least in the case of Hollywood it’s worth a partial amendment. It’s been observed that to create, you must first destroy.
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