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[triplestation]

King Arthur's nephew goes to fight a monster knight and shit gets fucked up

shadowy monsters during the dark ages

dark ages were some shit, no cellphones, someone told you about a monster in them there woods you believed it

i hope this is like the witcher but more tightly knit

also i don't believe foxes make howling sounds like a wolf, fox sounds are painful to listen to

For those not familiar with the Arthurian myth, the premise is that The Green Knight shows up at King Arthur’s court and offers anyone the opportunity to get a free hit on him with an axe on the condition that a year and a day from now The Green Knight gets one on them in return. Gwain steps up and beheads The Green Knight who then stands back up, picks up his head and tells Gwain to come find him a year and a day from now.

 

[PacificNW]

Huh. Looks interesting.

 

[DKehoe]

Looks fantastic. A24 has been doing great stuff recently.

For those not familiar with the Arthurian myth, the premise is that The Green Knight shows up at King Arthur’s court and offers anyone the opportunity to get a free hit on him with an axe on the condition that a year and a day from now The Green Knight gets one on them in return. Gwain steps up and beheads The Green Knight who then stands back up, picks up his head and tells Gwain to come find him a year and a day from now.

 

[plushyp]

Nice to see a trailer that doesn't reveal half the film and makes the viewer intrigued.

 

[triplestation]

For those not familiar with the Arthurian myth, the premise is that The Green Knight shows up at King Arthur’s court and offers anyone the opportunity to get a free hit on him with an axe on the condition that a year and a day from now The Green Knight gets one on them in return. Gwain steps up and beheads The Green Knight who then stands back up, picks up his head and tells Gwain to come find him a year and a day from now.

Added to op

 

[DKehoe]

Added to op

I dunno how closely this will follow that, maybe it will do its own thing. Like plushyp said the trailer doesn’t give much away, which is a nice change.

 

[LordPezix]

Right up my ally. Thank you for the heads up.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

i was actually in the middle of reading the medieval legend when they announced this. so cool! im glad they are continuing to do these cool classic fantasy stories.

the green knight himself looks a bit generic cgi monster IMO. too True Detective. i always pictured him kind of spectral, with everything a radiant green, almost glowing. they are going for a more realistic GOT look for this, i suppose. eh, could be cool.

 

[DKehoe]

They just released a new trailer for this. Looks great.

 

[IDKFA]

Looks okay.

As this is Welsh mythology, I would have preferred it to be in Welsh language, complete with unknown Welsh actors and a more realistic dark age setting, but that's just personal preference. I'll still check it out.

 

[AJUMP23]

I think I like the look f it. So I will check it out.

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

Is that an indian actor playing a medieval british knight?

 

[Master Of Illusion]

I fucks with this a little too hard.

 

[SidViscous]

Is that an indian actor playing a medieval british knight?

I thought it was David Copperfield?

 

[Lunarorbit]

Is that an indian actor playing a medieval british knight?

Yeah. He was one of the main characters in hereditary. Dev Patel.

He's awesome

 

[Master Of Illusion]

Yeah. He was one of the main characters in hereditary. Dev Patel.

He's awesome

He wasn't in Hereditary (that was Alex Wolff) but whatever

 

[kittoo]

Is that an indian actor playing a medieval british knight?

Even as an Indian, and I like Dev Patel too, that was kind of jarring.
If I ridicule other media for inserting brown/black actors in medieval Europe, I must ridicule this too.
Otherwise this looks like a banger though.

 

[TheAdlerian]

Is that an indian actor playing a medieval british knight?

When I first saw clips I thought he looked "forced" out of place, but he looks better in the recent trailer.

Indian people are basically caucasian but he does not look English, at all, and is out of place.

I hate tokenism, where they stick a minority in a part just to brag about it, as that is racist. But, he almost fits in, so it's not terrible.

Still the film looks well made.

 

[mortal]

Is that an indian actor playing a medieval british knight?

Man you've got to stop looking for woke shit in every single thing.
Not every film is meant to be a historical documentary

Also Dave Patel (the actor) is literally British.

 

[TheAdlerian]

Man you've got to stop looking for woke shit in every single thing.
Not every film is meant to be a historical documentary

Also Dave Patel (the actor) is literally British.

He's not ancient British genetically.

Britain is a bunch of countries but it's also a group of very ancient tribes of people and it's not great to pretend they aren't what they were.

 

[mortal]

He's not ancient British genetically.

Britain is a bunch of countries but it's also a group of very ancient tribes of people and it's not great to pretend they aren't what they were.

Ancient British? Clearly fucking not because he's of Indian decent, but that doesn't make him not British.

Last time I checked, British is a nationality, not a race. No one's pretending here, I'm certainly not, so no need to project.

All of which is besides the point, so to reiterate again, not every film is meant to be a historical documentary,

 

[Shai-Tan]

He's not ancient British genetically.

Britain is a bunch of countries but it's also a group of very ancient tribes of people and it's not great to pretend they aren't what they were.

(a) who cares; he doesn't look particularly indian
(b) depends on what you mean by "ancient" https://unherd.com/2021/03/how-the-irish-became-white/

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

Man you've got to stop looking for woke shit in every single thing.
Not every film is meant to be a historical documentary

Also Dave Patel (the actor) is literally British.

What is there to look for? It’s staring us right in the face - an Indo-Bristish (better?) Arthurian knight.

 

[SpiceRacz]

He's not ancient British genetically.

Britain is a bunch of countries but it's also a group of very ancient tribes of people and it's not great to pretend they aren't what they were.

Who gives a fuck? The movie looks brilliant and he's a superb actor.

 

[TheAdlerian]

Who gives a fuck? The movie looks brilliant and he's a superb actor.

I give a "fuck" as do others as an actor is "miscast" if his appearance doesn't fit the part.

Casting is a big part of making a movie work.

 

[SpiceRacz]

I give a "fuck" as do others as an actor is "miscast" if his appearance doesn't fit the part.

Casting is a big part of making a movie work.

You must be a hoot at parties.

 

[Soodanim]

Nice to see a trailer that doesn't reveal half the film and makes the viewer intrigued.

A trailer that leaves me wanting to see more is something I haven’t seen in a while.

Indian people are basically caucasian

You are the first and only person on this planet to say that

 

[SJRB]

Why the FUCK is there a discussion about the skintone and race of the main character instead of the absolutely insane visuals in that new trailer?

My god.

 

[trikster40]

Wow, awesome trailer. Loved Patel in The Newsroom, woefully underrated show. Insane visuals and style in the trailer. Can’t get enough Arthurian lore!

 

[mortal]

What is there to look for? It’s staring us right in the face - an Indo-Bristish (better?) Arthurian knight.

How is he Indo-British when he was born and raised in the UK? He wasn't born in India and emigrated to there, so why the hyphen?

 

[Dr.D00p]

How is he Indo-British when he was born and raised in the UK? He wasn't born in India and emigrated to there, so why the hyphen?

The scourge of poisonous American race & identity politics, that's why...Everyone, everything has to have a pointless identifying tag.

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

How is he Indo-British when he was born and raised in the UK? He wasn't born in India and emigrated to there, so why the hyphen?

The correct terminology is British Indian. Even if he was born in the UK.

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

The scourge of poisonous American race & identity politics, that's why...Everyone, everything has to have a pointless identifying tag.

Well, everyone has an origin and race so what do you expect?

 

[mortal]

The correct terminology is British Indian. Even if he was born in the UK.

According to whom? Pretty sure he's technically just English, if there's any correct terminology that applies here.
Which to reiterate once again, is bedsides the point; because the actual English actor not having genetic roots in medieval Britain is irrelevant because this is not a history documentary.

 

[SirTerry-T]

There was a decent TV version made during the 90's.
The 1973 film with Murray Head as Gawain was pretty decent.

Sword Of The Valiant with Sean Connery as The Green Knight is a steaming sack of shite though.

 

[kittoo]

A trailer that leaves me wanting to see more is something I haven’t seen in a while.

You are the first and only person on this planet to say that

Indians are indeed classified as Caucasians. Caucasian race - Wikipedia

The color confuses people I suppose. Otherwise in facial structures etc Indians are Caucasians only. In fact, if you ever visit India, especially the north, you would be very confused as a lot of people would also be very white in color, so if they were put in US/Europe they would not seem out of place. Even the older US supreme court cases acknowledged that scientifically Indians were Caucasians but they went more by color at that time and hence denied citizenship to Indians.
So, apart from color (and India is a very diverse country in that sense also), Indians are same.

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

According to whom? Pretty sure he's technically just English, if there's any correct terminology that applies here.
Which to reiterate once again, is bedsides the point; because the actual English actor not having genetic roots in medieval Britain is irrelevant because this is not a history documentary.

So, you’re saying that, similarly, the term African American doesn’t exist?
It’s not historical but it’s still based on a historic setting. It’s like casting an Indian person as Uhtred in the Last Kingdom - he’s not a real character but it would not make sense.

 

[dorkimoe]

I have hated 99% of these A24 shitfests, hopefully this one is good.

 

[BigBooper]

Looks like it could be cool. I hate that extreme closeup fisheye modern style though. Too much "art."

 

[AJUMP23]

I prefer blue knights.

 

[Soodanim]

Indians are indeed classified as Caucasians. Caucasian race - Wikipedia

The color confuses people I suppose. Otherwise in facial structures etc Indians are Caucasians only. In fact, if you ever visit India, especially the north, you would be very confused as a lot of people would also be very white in color, so if they were put in US/Europe they would not seem out of place. Even the older US supreme court cases acknowledged that scientifically Indians were Caucasians but they went more by color at that time and hence denied citizenship to Indians.
So, apart from color (and India is a very diverse country in that sense also), Indians are same.

Sure, but you also have to use Mongoloid and Negroid alongside it to complete the set. Good luck with that in modern society.

Caucasian in modern use has devolved into a near synonym for white, and that’s what people understand it as. Technically being correct in 1785 before it was outdated by more accurate classification isn’t the most solid foundation on which to base a word’s usage.

 

[DKehoe]

A24 commissioned a The Green Knight tabletop RPG to promote the film

You can read an interview about it here

 

[Kraz]

Arthurian stories were developed from various influences according to their time. Casting in modern film could be taken as continuing that syncretic tradition in myth, if necessary.

Good trailer. The vagueness to the challenge was a nice touch. The confusion generated in those unfamiliar with the story forced many to look deeper into it.

 

[triplestation]

yo the aesthetics of this movie

*chef kiss*

 

[mortal]

So, you’re saying that, similarly, the term African American doesn’t exist?

That wasn't my argument though.
People who were born in Africa that emigrated to the USA do, in fact, exist. I believe they're refered to as African-American, no?
lt also doesn't make much sense to then conflate actual African-Americans with black Americans, born & raised in the USA, who have never set foot on the continent of Africa nor have their family for several centuries.

It’s not historical but it’s still based on a historic setting. It’s like casting an Indian person as Uhtred in the Last Kingdom - he’s not a real character but it would not make sense.

I believe the keywords here are "based on."
Would've figured the sentient anthropromorphic tree would be an indicator that you're meant to suspend your disbelief to some degree.

This is also based around the Athurian legend, much of which is arguably fiction. Fiction and legend that have been creatively interpreted in every which way for centuries, all the way up to our current times.

As much as I'm enjoying this argument, you can have the last word as I don't want to derail the thread with our discussion any further

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

That wasn't my argument though.
People who were born in Africa that emigrated to the USA do, in fact, exist. I believe they're refered to as African-American, no?

No. They are born in the US. Similar to British Indians who are born in the UK.

 

[Tschumi]

Spoiler: he's Gilles le Breton

 

[funkygunther]

Is that an indian actor playing a medieval british knight?

This film has an Australian playing a medieval British lord. Are you equally upset about that?

 

[clarky]

This film has an Australian playing a medieval British lord. Are you equally upset about that?

Dunno but I'm still upset that Kevin Costner played Robin Hood.