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May 3, 2022 · In the last three decades, there has been a growing consensus on the importance of women (Morgana, Lady Bertilak, the Virgin Mary, and Guinevere) to the poem, and Lowery’s The Green Knight ...
Aug 3, 2021 · Lowery’s underlying subject is martial valor, the test of violence that stands as a misguided model of manhood and which corrupts and ravages current-day society at its very core. Gawain, a...
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- Making New Frenemies
- Bye, Bye to The Wild – and Potentially Slow – Hunt
- …And What Lowery Smartly Chose Not to Change
In Lowery’s vision of Arthurian legend, the Green Knight is a primal supernatural entity, one whose ties to the natural world are right in his design. He is the Green Man of ancient myth come to life with his bark face accented by a beard made of curling twigs. Neither fully man nor tree, he harkens back to an older, pagan time when the lines betwe...
When the original poem was written, it was during a time in the Middle Ages in which Morgan le Fay’s role in Arthurian legend was transitioning from benevolent protector to villain. As patriarchal Christian morality took root and began heavily influencing writing of the era, Morgan (Arthur’s half-sibling), previously an amalgam of earlier revered, ...
As with so many things in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” what makes perfect sense in a medieval poem doesn’t translate so well to the big screen in 2021. This is arguably never truer than with Gawain himself. Dev Patel’s portrayal of Gawain is vastly different than the Gawain of the poem; while he’s less likable, he’s also more relatable. Poem ...
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is a true hero’s journey, an epic quest of man vs. nature, but moreover, of man vs. himself. There are only a handful of characters in the original poem and Gawain spends large chunks of the story by himself. For the purposes of depicting the Christ-like trials of a noble knight in a chivalric romance, it works; fo...
Adapting an older story requires an insightful balance of knowing what to keep and what to cut: Too slavishly devote yourself to the original source and you risk dragging the story down with unnecessary scenes; deviate too far and you risk undermining the very aspects that made the original story so beloved in the first place. While Lowery certainl...
Though Lowery took plenty of liberties with the original poem, The Green Knightremains true to the spirit of its source. So many layers are packed into “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” but what truly holds it up are two tentpole themes that remain searingly relevant: the duality of the pagan natural world vs. ordered Christianity, and the core st...
Aug 2, 2021 · In The Green Knight, Gawain must face the Green Knight again to complete their pact and retain honor. Director David Lowery tells us about the ending.
Aug 6, 2021 · Have you ever noticed there’s no telling when David Lowery’s movies take place? Sure, there’s the occasional hint: a sleek Texas cityscape, a date on a newspaper. But they’re very rarely front and center.
Jul 28, 2021 · During the wide-ranging interview, Lowery talked about his desire to not make a traditional adventure movie, how he was inspired to work on the script after finding his Willow action figures, how...
Jul 7, 2017 · How A Ghost Story Almost Defeated Director David Lowery. By Kyle Buchanan. Casey Affleck (yes, really) in A Ghost Story . Photo: A24. There’s a cinematic theory known as the Kuleshov effect...
