I am mad about "The Green Knight."

[DoNotReadTheFinePrint]

Dev Patal has been chosen as an approved person of color to represent some modern look of Britain. So they now casting him in multiple roles where he's the wrong race.

By frequently casting him as white characters, doesn't this undermine his ability to actually represent people of Indian ancestry?

By trying to establish him firmly as historically British, as English through this stunt casting. It completely undermines the racial representation in his past roles and his ability to authentically represent his racial background going forward. It's unliking him from his race to audiences.

There's nuisance here, because not every role he plays needs to or should be about race or representation. Yet when he is cast as the wrong race, that makes it directly about it. Hence the issue in how he can ever authentically represent his actual race going forward.

Plays white characters, also an adopted Indian guy raised by white parents in Australia who goes grapples with racial identity, his lost culture and going in search of it.

You can't have it both ways. It's actually denigrating to South Asian representation in cinema.

Imagine the outrage if a canonical non-white character were to be played by a white actor.
Also, aren’t they "enforcing" colonialism by marketing the guy as British when he's clearly of Indian decent? Again, wokesters play themselves in the most roundabout way as possible.

 

[Screamer]

Imagine the outrage if a canonical non-white character were to be played by a white actor.
Also, aren’t they "enforcing" colonialism by marketing the guy as British when he's clearly of Indian decent? Again, wokesters play themselves in the most roundabout way as possible.

I suspect it falls into the category of "over correcting." They would just go, "but John Wayne played Genghis Khan." As if that somehow justifies defying the apparent change in standards and what is acceptable.

 

[Still Anonymous For This]

My take isn't that there's insomuch an issue with playing an ethnic minority as the hero, but that Hollywood knows nobody actually gives a shit about actual ethnic minority heroes, including the ethnic minorities themselves, so they won't greenlight those sorts of movies.

Sort of like the recent Achilles series where they cast a black guy as Achilles. Just fucking man a King Memnon series instead. He was cooler anyway.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

My take isn't that there's insomuch an issue with playing an ethnic minority as the hero, but that Hollywood knows nobody actually gives a shit about actual ethnic minority heroes, including the ethnic minorities themselves, so they won't greenlight those sorts of movies.

Sort of like the recent Achilles series where they cast a black guy as Achilles. Just fucking man a King Memnon series instead. He was cooler anyway.

It also doesn't help that when they DO use an ethnic heroine like Mulan or 47 Ronin starring Keanu Reeves, they fuck it up so badly natives immediately go WTF?

 

[JohnDoe]

The Green Knight has a three act structure but I would argue the climax occurs in the first, when the Green Knight confronts Arthur. Everything else kind of putters around at a slow pace until the final scene.

The original tale is mostly in three acts, and the initial meeting is the 'inciting incident' part of the familiar structure.

Now I can't judge it as an adaptation as I've never read the original poem its based on, but judging it as a movie, its a disappointment because I wanted a break from the Western Blockbuster / Capeshit type of movie, and this was a perfect opportunity to do that, but it didn't quite give me what I was looking for.

You should read the original, it's beautiful and timeless. A tale of a man that seeks to define himself by honor and bravery, and learns lessons of humility and weakness. It has a genuine arc for Gawain where he discards his overly idealized and romantic notions for a more humble and grounded view that perfectly squares with the Christian ideals that frame society.

This movie fucking sucked by the way, and fuck these Marxists. They should all be executed for marring such a wonderful work.

 

[DerKryptid]

I'm not

Fuck the matter of britain

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

So I've finally seen this film and all that I can say is....

Every aspect of it is terrible, from the cinematography, to the lighting (why is everything so needlessly dark where you can't see shit for half of this film?) to the casting (dumb miscegenation propaganda), to the writing (Even I could make a better film of The Green knight in my sleep). This movie completely fails at the Green World storytelling aspect of the original story. This film was made for those stupid award shows in mind. Man, was that was among of the worst films that I've ever seen. I hated everything I just saw.

 

[D_Tractor]

India and the Middle East have some pretty ebbin epic mythology. Why don't they use those sources instead of just brownwashing Northern European mythology? (I don't mean Aladdin you Disneyfag he was actually Chinese)

 

[Los Pollos Hermanos]

(I don't mean Aladdin you Disneyfag he was actually Chinese)

The TV version of Aladdin from 1990 (2 years before Disney’s animated version) starting Barry Bostwick as the Genie of the Lamp takes place in China, and hilariously features an all white cast playing roles such as Mei-Ling.

The whole movie is on YouTube because who gives even the slightest shit about this stupid thing.

 

[Lodoss Warrior]

Casting was dumb for woke brownie points, but the film succeeds remarkably in adapting the ’otherness’, grit, and reflection of the original epic.

Visually, I‘m impressed. Like the poem, the little nuances and deliberate repetitions of cuts and transitions sell the distorted but cyclical perceptions of time, and how vast and alive the world is outside of little Gawain.

Narratively, it’s fine enough. Plodding arcs can go on for too long, but since this is a film about an odyssey, not every storyline must connect hard and efficiently to the goal of meeting the Green Knight. Indeed, only focusing on what’s directly relevant to that destination would hurt the film, as it‘d make it seem a lot smaller than the epic.

For adaptations of epics, you could do far, far worse. Looking at you, Troy.

For award-bait films, it’s not nearly as stagnant and pretentious as, say, 2001.

 

[White Devil]

India and the Middle East have some pretty ebbin epic mythology. Why don't they use those sources instead of just brownwashing Northern European mythology?

Because the whole point is to destroy Northern European culture.