JM_Webb
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Hello everyone, resident Paladin Slut here.
Had the please of watching the Green Knight last night. I thought it was pretty neat, but kinda weird. Figured I'd put some thoughts to paper on it, some more specific that others.
Allegory/moral lessons:
Since it's based off of the poem of the same name (which I have not read), the story is going to play with allegory. I think, the main question of the film surrounds the idea of "what is honor?" And "what is goodness?" Or perhaps, even "what makes a good knight?" Can people who fail to do the right thing still be good? I thought it did an interesting job exploring this, especially in what was the fucking wildest 10 minutes of ending cinema I have ever seen.
Sound design and score:
I'm a trained composer, so about half of my attention when watching films goes here. The sound design and the score were absolutely phenomenal. The film makes excellent use of musical silence that contributes to its bizarre dream-like horror-scape, and the playing with genre of the score is excellent. The composer really crafted a subtle homage and subversion of the sort of music one would expect of the film. There's this constant building of dread, and it just keeps going and going and going and it does wonders. Really have nothing excerpt for praise here.
The Knight-ing stuff:
Honestly there's basically zero fighting, which was a little disappointing (I hadn't read the original poem, and still haven't, so this may be accurate to the source). It's mostly Gawain going on a quest, and having a bad time (TM). Still, not a terrible time.
VFX: there was some...weak animation here. I wish they had stuck with more practical effects. The parts of the film where it's just the costumes and no flashy CGI are definitely the strongest, maybe because they are the most real-seeming.
No whitewashing/Dev Patel: They cast Dev Patel, and I thought they were gonna chicken out and make his mom white. No, they didn't, thank goodness. Patel was excellent, his performance absolutely carried the film. I forgot I was watching an actor.
Overall: decent movie, great sound design, Dev Patel kicks butt. If you liked The Lighthouse, this has similar vibes. I'll probably watch it again with friends.
Anyone else here seen it? Thoughts, if you have?
Had the please of watching the Green Knight last night. I thought it was pretty neat, but kinda weird. Figured I'd put some thoughts to paper on it, some more specific that others.
Allegory/moral lessons:
Since it's based off of the poem of the same name (which I have not read), the story is going to play with allegory. I think, the main question of the film surrounds the idea of "what is honor?" And "what is goodness?" Or perhaps, even "what makes a good knight?" Can people who fail to do the right thing still be good? I thought it did an interesting job exploring this, especially in what was the fucking wildest 10 minutes of ending cinema I have ever seen.
Sound design and score:
I'm a trained composer, so about half of my attention when watching films goes here. The sound design and the score were absolutely phenomenal. The film makes excellent use of musical silence that contributes to its bizarre dream-like horror-scape, and the playing with genre of the score is excellent. The composer really crafted a subtle homage and subversion of the sort of music one would expect of the film. There's this constant building of dread, and it just keeps going and going and going and it does wonders. Really have nothing excerpt for praise here.
The Knight-ing stuff:
Honestly there's basically zero fighting, which was a little disappointing (I hadn't read the original poem, and still haven't, so this may be accurate to the source). It's mostly Gawain going on a quest, and having a bad time (TM). Still, not a terrible time.
VFX: there was some...weak animation here. I wish they had stuck with more practical effects. The parts of the film where it's just the costumes and no flashy CGI are definitely the strongest, maybe because they are the most real-seeming.
No whitewashing/Dev Patel: They cast Dev Patel, and I thought they were gonna chicken out and make his mom white. No, they didn't, thank goodness. Patel was excellent, his performance absolutely carried the film. I forgot I was watching an actor.
Overall: decent movie, great sound design, Dev Patel kicks butt. If you liked The Lighthouse, this has similar vibes. I'll probably watch it again with friends.
Anyone else here seen it? Thoughts, if you have?
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