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- 0:10After a very nice-looking sleep. I love how the green.
- 0:13I open his eyes a little bit and he's like it's not Christmas
- 0:16yet. Yeah.
- 0:17I need a, he hit snooze Green Knight.
- 0:22Totally hit snooze on that like you're early.
- 0:27Oh, chop your head off in the morning.
- 0:29Come on. Nobody likes an early party
- 0:31guest. Yeah.
- 0:43Hello and welcome to the art of costume.
- 0:45Blogcast, I'm Elizabeth Joy glass and I'm Spencer Williams.
- 0:51Yeah. Did you forget that sounds like
- 0:55a long pause for all of the Quarry is going to your head.
- 0:59You need a real water. It is real water.
- 1:02The cray is real water, it's not the same.
- 1:06Hey Lizabeth. Hi Spencer.
- 1:09How are you? I'm fine.
- 1:13This is so awkward. Sorry, I really started this
- 1:17argument before we started the podcast, it just hasn't ended.
- 1:22Let's leave our argument behind and maybe let's talk about some
- 1:28costumes. Okay, talk about some costumes
- 1:31talk about trippy movie, guys. This week, we watch the Green
- 1:36Knight. Whoa, that was like just
- 1:39something else. Yeah, that was one of the
- 1:42weirder things of all the movies I've seen in my life that was
- 1:46certainly one of them. Yeah, it's a gorgeous film.
- 1:51Like, if you're able to go to the theater and see, it's
- 1:55definitely something that should be seen in the theaters, but for
- 1:59a author, Ian Legend movie, that's not what I was expecting.
- 2:04I had to take the weekend to process it.
- 2:07I watched a couple days ago and it was keeping me up.
- 2:10Up. And I was just like, what did I
- 2:12miss? What am I not getting?
- 2:14I know it was beautiful. Like, it was stunning.
- 2:17The costumes will get into but we're absolutely stunning and
- 2:21like the cinematography the acting was brilliant and the
- 2:25dialogue was good, I just was so lost in a story but like after
- 2:29I've had a couple days to process it.
- 2:32I think I really liked it. It just needs some time to sink
- 2:35in a little bit. Same, I'm like, you need to
- 2:38watch the movie. Give it a couple of days.
- 2:41Do some research, it's understand the movie and then
- 2:45you like it and then we're sorry.
- 2:49It's like a whole assignment and itself.
- 2:51Yeah, we have. We been trying to prepare
- 2:53research for this but we just had a lot of thoughts and
- 2:56feelings even before the podcast.
- 2:58Yeah, I was just like, okay, well let's get into it.
- 3:04Then this is break this down together with everyone.
- 3:07Let's get into it. Spencer.
- 3:09Do you want to read office? Summary I do and I'm very
- 3:12excited because this week Elizabeth wrote the summary and
- 3:17I did. Absolutely nothing.
- 3:19You're welcome. I did ask you to you did that I
- 3:25know we sound like a married. Couple in this episode.
- 3:28We do we live together for like a year.
- 3:30So I think that was the even when we live together.
- 3:34Don't feel like we argued. That's true.
- 3:36Maybe it's just because we've known each other for so long.
- 3:39The podcast is Tearing us apart. You're my podcast husband.
- 3:47Okay. The Green Knight and the dark
- 3:51ages of Britain. Young going the nephew of the
- 3:55legendary King Arthur and heir to his throne while content with
- 3:58his life. But lacking ambition, he
- 4:01struggles to find a place in his uncle's Court.
- 4:03His fortunes change on Christmas Day when Nick mysterious Green
- 4:07Knight challenges. The Knights of King Arthur's
- 4:09Court to land a blow on him, then see it returned by him.
- 4:12Next Christmas. Going steps forward.
- 4:15Accepting a challenge and decay. Patates the Green Knight Rises
- 4:19and rides Off With His Head, prompted by his uncle.
- 4:22The following Christmas going sets off on his legendary
- 4:25journey to meet the night for his return blow.
- 4:28I mean, that basically sums up about everything.
- 4:31I understood of this wonderful Christmas movie.
- 4:33I mean, I was feeling the Christmas spirit.
- 4:36Yeah, that that's like a very basic summary.
- 4:40So, if you have not seen the Green Knight yet, this is your
- 4:45spoiler warning. Get yourself to a theater.
- 4:47Order and watch it if you care, don't blame us for spoilers to
- 4:52be fair. I'm not sure how much I could
- 4:54spoil because I'm still trying to figure it out for myself.
- 4:56That's what? Yeah, go see it.
- 4:58Take the time to watch it. Yeah, it's this Legend is
- 5:01hundreds of years old as well. So if we're spoiling anything
- 5:04for you, I don't know what to tell you, literally, you've had
- 5:07time, you've had multiple centuries, Elizabeth, bring us
- 5:13behind a wardrobe. I will bring you behind the
- 5:15Wardrobe. So, the Night was directed by
- 5:19David Lowery and costume. Design was by malgosia to
- 5:25rozanski if that is not how you pronounce your name, I'm very
- 5:28sorry. We've done our best but her
- 5:32notable work you'll know her from hell or high water.
- 5:35You were never really here. The Jinx, the life, and deaths
- 5:38of David ders, Robert Durst, oops, Maggie's plan, and most
- 5:44prominently stranger things. So, you know, her from
- 5:49something. I feel like everyone will know
- 5:51her from something, but she did a really good job on this really
- 5:57capturing 14th century. I think they were saying in 14th
- 6:01century England, she hasn't really done any interviews about
- 6:04the costumes. There's not really.
- 6:06A lot of information about this film out there at all.
- 6:10I found like a Vanity Fair article that had a couple of
- 6:14quotes from David Lowery, all in all.
- 6:17Not a ton of information out there about it, but one thing
- 6:21that is very clear is the whole costumes of the film, very, very
- 6:26influenced by Eastern. Orthodoxy are, especially from
- 6:30the Byzantine Empire. That's a really awesome catch.
- 6:33By the way, you really see it in King Arthur and Guinevere, but
- 6:38then it's just kind of like spattered throughout the film.
- 6:41Now that you said that about the Byzantine art like that's all I
- 6:45can see. Now that's such a good.
- 6:47Good reference. Yeah, the costumes for this.
- 6:51We're just absolutely stunning. I think it's cuz like the quote
- 6:54unquote history of King Arthur Falls between like the fall of
- 7:01the Roman Empire, the like Anglo-Saxon Invasion and it's
- 7:07like a time in like British history that nobody really knows
- 7:11a ton about like nobody was really keeping records of it,
- 7:16but they And Christian even after Rome pulled out of
- 7:20Britain. And the only the Christian
- 7:23church are Catholic Church, that survived kind of after the fall
- 7:27of the Roman Empire was Ethan, Orthodox Church.
- 7:31That was the only one that was like, still consistently like
- 7:34strong because the Eastern Empire stayed intact for so much
- 7:39longer. So I feel like that's why they
- 7:41kind of pulled that over but not sure.
- 7:44Wait, I'm confused. Now as King.
- 7:46Arthur real. A person I know.
- 7:51So. So I really like King.
- 7:53Arthur the King Arthur Legends. It's thought that perhaps King
- 7:57Arthur was like a war chief in England during this kind of
- 8:03in-between time in England where nobody really knows what was
- 8:06going on because the name Arthur, like, creeps up, very
- 8:10just like, out of the blue after this time, period and more like
- 8:14noble lines. So it's like very Us as to
- 8:18whether or not King Arthur was real because through through
- 8:22French Romanticism, English retellings of it, it's really
- 8:26just it's been muddied like nobody knows anymore but it does
- 8:30fall with the Legends fall within like a certain period of
- 8:34time, kind of, most people put it like more into the Middle
- 8:38Ages than like right after the fall of Rome.
- 8:41But okay. Well, Elizabeth is really taking
- 8:44us to school today. I really like, I have A whole
- 8:47audiobook. The teacher really jumped out of
- 8:50you today. I just totally went on a rant,
- 8:56sorry about that. But yeah, that it kind of Falls
- 8:59in that period and like Rose fell and like the church didn't
- 9:03in Europe and Italy didn't really fall with it.
- 9:06It just kind of had to like rebuild itself along with the
- 9:10rest of Europe. So like the Eastern Empire,
- 9:13which did not fall at the same time, Our art and stuff is much
- 9:19more prevalent for that, like post-roman the Byzantine period
- 9:25where they're putting this into, I feel like not all my facts are
- 9:29100%. Correct.
- 9:32So, don't quote me because they made a very kind of like
- 9:37ambiguous where exactly this was falling, but that's what I got
- 9:43with that being said, let's take a Break and when we come back,
- 9:48we're going to talk about the Green Knight and all the
- 9:51costumes and we're going to break down this plot as best as
- 9:54we can. Yeah.
- 9:56And I'm excited to talk about this with you and save some more
- 10:00of this King, Arthur facts, that you seem to have.
- 10:02Because I want to hear more, it's all deep in there that so
- 10:06they're just going to pop up. Okay, see you after the break.
- 10:33All right, so hear back from break as we were in break
- 10:38Elizabeth and I were still trying to go through our King
- 10:41Arthur facts. So, we're, we have a lot of
- 10:43history going on behind the scenes right now.
- 10:47I'm obsessed. Are you ready to do this?
- 10:52Yeah, put your text we go, it's time to get started with the
- 10:58vodka. I don't want me to pull out my
- 11:00King. Arthur research book.
- 11:02No I do actually I do it. You keep it close.
- 11:05All right. So the movie starts of going he
- 11:08wakes up in a I will say brothel where his lover esle is dressing
- 11:14for church and playfully rejecting his Is he had some
- 11:19pretty hungover hella hungover half-dressed, he's missing his
- 11:23boots and his mother is not very pleased but they have to get
- 11:28ready for Christmas dinner because it's Christmas time in
- 11:30Camelot, our new favorite Christmas movie, he's game ready
- 11:37for dinner at King Arthur's Court.
- 11:40But his mother decides to stay home because she says, she's not
- 11:43feeling well which was not believable, none of us believe.
- 11:47Is that she looked perfectly fine at the core festivities, a
- 11:52Wayne is called by King. Arthur to come and sit at his
- 11:55side is revealed that goings mother is a sister of King
- 11:58Arthur. And going basically says his
- 12:02mother is not feeling so good and she will not be joining
- 12:05while this is going on Going's. Mother is conducting a ritual
- 12:10that summons degree night entering.
- 12:13She's a witch. Uh, Means mother's, summons
- 12:18degree night, and he appears at King Arthur's, Court and
- 12:23challenges. The Knights of the Round Table
- 12:25to a game. The Green Knight basically says
- 12:29any night that lays a blow on him must then be reciprocated.
- 12:35Same exact way a year from now next Christmas at the green
- 12:39Chapel all the nights basically shut up because no one wants to
- 12:42actually play this game but gwaine wanting to prove himself
- 12:46stands up. Up and decides to take on the
- 12:48challenge and King Arthur gives going the Excalibur and decides
- 12:55to behead, the Green Knight at the gate.
- 12:58The going night, we might leave the Green Knight.
- 13:13Then stands up, picks up his head and rides off into the
- 13:16distance. Laughing his ass off.
- 13:19So that is the summary of the first couple scenes here and
- 13:24Elizabeth. We have a lot to break down
- 13:26here, I know. So first there is like that
- 13:31opening scene where a crown descends on the Queen's head and
- 13:35he catches on fire which was amazing and he just has this
- 13:38gigantic gold cloak over himself.
- 13:43That's such a beautiful image. I love that golden robe.
- 13:47Ugh. And I am 100% obsessed of the
- 13:51crowns in this movie. That is one of the best parts of
- 13:55this film. Yes, it is.
- 13:57One of the best parts of this film and that's one of those
- 14:00bits taken from religious iconography of the time to have
- 14:06like a Halo behind your head. Like that indicates that you're
- 14:09like some sort of saying or an angel.
- 14:12So it's really a way to make Arthur and Guinevere.
- 14:17You're up here as like, saintly, good Fair rulers.
- 14:23Yeah, they just look so good on them.
- 14:27It's such a great. It's such a great crown.
- 14:30I'm just obsessed of it. I love the Halo shape.
- 14:33I love the little almost, like beams of light.
- 14:35That looks like, it's just coming from the crown and so
- 14:38beautiful. And then Guinevere, I love the
- 14:41drape. That's also coming from the
- 14:42crown as well. Yeah, the veil.
- 14:45Yeah, the costumes and this These opening scenes are just so
- 14:49great. Yeah.
- 14:50And it's really Guinevere and Arthur they just call them the
- 14:54queen and the king. And this no clue why.
- 15:00But they're his cloak and her gown, you can see like, it
- 15:05really does look like Mosaic like mosaics from the Byzantine
- 15:09era. And it's just it's beautiful
- 15:11because it makes them stand out from everybody else.
- 15:14I love the cloak that King Arthur's where I love like you
- 15:19said, like almost a mosaics on the cape.
- 15:21I also love the use of the five-pointed star so much King
- 15:26Arthur has the necklace underneath his cape.
- 15:29It's really cool. It did a little bit of research
- 15:32into to five point star to figure out what it means and the
- 15:36values of King Arthur's cart Court.
- 15:39My goodness with the pronunciation of my words today.
- 15:42King Arthur's Court. It's because I've been watching
- 15:45mayor of this town. A lot lately.
- 15:50You kind of make fun of how I talk, that's not what I said.
- 15:57I'm from that same exact area, Spencer.
- 16:02Okay. Keep going.
- 16:03Tell us these values and generosity courtesy.
- 16:13Curtis Chasity courtesy Chasity. Chivalry and piety hiding piety
- 16:33piety. There you go.
- 16:34Those are the five values of the five-pointed star.
- 16:36Wow. That took a long time to get
- 16:38through. Anyways, I like the necklace.
- 16:41I think it's really cool. I'm glad you brought that up
- 16:45because I completely forgot about that.
- 16:48So I was like, kind of confused when I saw it and I was like,
- 16:52okay. So his sister's a which is
- 16:53Arthur like a witch but like Arthur's magic?
- 16:58Always surrounds him, but he doesn't really participate in
- 17:00Magic himself. So, I was a little confused, but
- 17:03no, well also, I love how they have Merlin at this table but
- 17:08they don't really go as far as like, really addressing that
- 17:11Summerlin. But yeah, I like this like bet
- 17:15badass representation of him though.
- 17:18Yeah, it is cool. I they definitely go for a more
- 17:21like Druid E look to him because Merlin's often do.
- 17:26Associated as he, like, coming from like a druid background,
- 17:32but I also liked seeing like all the Knights of the Round Table,
- 17:35but it's like, wow. They're all old and they all
- 17:39look exactly the same. Yeah.
- 17:42Yeah. They're all wearing like the
- 17:43exact same outfits. Looks like they're all wearing
- 17:46the necklace. That King Arthur's wearing I
- 17:49will say like, Arthur Guinevere and gwaine are like, really, the
- 17:54only ones that stand out. He's looking good in his His
- 17:57tunic here who I love that tunic.
- 18:00It is like a really cool kind of like paneled tunic and a
- 18:04lightish blue color and he looks awesome.
- 18:09Yeah. It's kind of like it's like a
- 18:11light blue. It they were careful about using
- 18:16the color green and the movie because they were like we don't
- 18:19want to be on the knows about this.
- 18:21Yeah. So they didn't they kind of try
- 18:24to stay away from it but like when he's Next to the Green
- 18:28Knight who also like doesn't really have a lot of green but
- 18:32it's kind of its kind of like an undertone for that character.
- 18:35I felt like it kind of pulled out some green tones in gwaine
- 18:39as well from that tunic because it's like he is like green in
- 18:44terms of like he hasn't really done much with his life like
- 18:47they all say like oh you're a young man.
- 18:49You're a young man like he hasn't really had a life outside
- 18:53of Camelot. Yeah, King.
- 18:55Arthur Lee asked him to tell? Well, tell him like a tail or
- 18:58whatever and yeah, Duane's, like, I don't have any of done,
- 19:01literally nothing with my life. Yeah.
- 19:05That that was so sad. When he's like, comes over and
- 19:08Arthur's, like you're right nephew and like, I don't know
- 19:12anything about you. Yeah, but before I move on dev
- 19:19Patel place going really, really well, he does for the lack of
- 19:26dialogue. In this film, they really use
- 19:29what dialogue they have to really like, push the
- 19:32performance. So like a really awesome level.
- 19:35Yeah, without saying anything, he acts as a soft.
- 19:39So yeah. So we have to talk about the
- 19:43Green Knight because this is one of two times that we see him in
- 19:47this film, the best armor I've seen.
- 19:49Since Game of Thrones, y'all hear that the best armor since
- 19:54she's seen since Game of Thrones actually.
- 19:56Does have a Game of Thrones E-Type field.
- 19:58Did remind me of the night King when I saw him the first time.
- 20:03Yeah, I love his armor. It's very kind of Sleepy Hollow
- 20:08and a way, that's what it kind of reminded me.
- 20:10Yeah, especially with that like that Woody aspect to him.
- 20:15Like I really wasn't expecting that for him to look like a
- 20:17tree. That was cool.
- 20:20So it felt like he was more growing out of his suit, then
- 20:24like he was wearing a suit. Like he's been wearing it for a
- 20:28very, very long time. The Green Knight is supposed to
- 20:31represent in part amongst other things as nature so that makes
- 20:36complete sense of him like kind of growing into his suit.
- 20:39I thought looked really awesome. Before I move on, why did Gawain
- 20:45he could have, he could have cut this man, down anywhere.
- 20:49Why did he pick the head? I don't know Gawain.
- 20:54I wouldn't have did a hand or something.
- 20:56NG yeah cuz he's like you can and he like literally kneels
- 21:00down in front of him and he's like you can blow me anyway.
- 21:02You like like looks like he's like you just like give me a
- 21:04little cut and that'll be all he just chops.
- 21:07His freaking head off. I'm like I'm like that's why
- 21:09your uncle asked you. If you understood the challenge,
- 21:13did you understand the assignment?
- 21:14I think not. Because now you're gonna get
- 21:16your head chopped off. Like what if he just cut his
- 21:18hair a little bit? You know, gave him like a little
- 21:20haircut with the Excalibur. Just chopped off one of his
- 21:23branches. Yeah, well if its branches I
- 21:27mean, that's a good idea because Gwen Gawain doesn't have any
- 21:30branches. Anyway, it's no, no, we don't
- 21:33know. Probably what it's been like,
- 21:35cut. Let's give you take some your
- 21:37hair off. Okay, you're good to go.
- 21:41Overall, the opening scenes to this movie are very beautiful.
- 21:45Soul is with you want to talk about the rest of these opening
- 21:48scenes. Yeah.
- 21:49So in the subsequent year, gwaine tries to put the
- 21:53challenge behind him, forget about it.
- 21:56He When you suspend his nice drinking and with esle, as the
- 22:01challenge date arrives, Arthur decides to visit Queen and tell
- 22:06him like, yo, you got to complete this Challenge and
- 22:09goings. Like, but do I have to and he's
- 22:10like, yeah, you have to so they prepare him for his trip.
- 22:18But right before he sets off, his mother gives him this like
- 22:22little handmade belt and she says, if you wear this the
- 22:26entire Entire time and come back with it on, you will remain
- 22:30unharmed. That's a good way to put it.
- 22:33Some of my absolute favorite costumes of this section and
- 22:37really in the entire film are the costumes made for goings
- 22:42mother played by a actress. I absolutely love.
- 22:46So, Rita choudry. She is so stunning.
- 22:49I just love her. She's so beautiful.
- 22:51And, like fun to look at and her costumes, just are made for her.
- 22:56So, Cree and as well as going sisters to, I love how they put
- 23:02their hair up and the different shapes.
- 23:04And I love the fabrics and textiles you use to build all of
- 23:08their costumes and they're beautiful.
- 23:11Here's where you can see. So, I, I looked updates.
- 23:15Um, so the Roman Empire withdrew from Britain and 383 and then
- 23:23it's not the Norman Conquest. It's the Anglo-Saxon West in
- 23:27601. That's kind of the time period
- 23:30that Arthur Falls in and his mother and sisters have much
- 23:35more of a Roman influence to their costume as opposed to a
- 23:41Eastern Orthodox. Christian Catholic like the king
- 23:45and queen because clearly there are still practicing magic
- 23:48probably holding to some of the older religions and so you see
- 23:52the like the draping and like instead of The tight, you know,
- 23:58covered up mosaic you see the more free drapery of like the
- 24:03old Roman Empire. That's a really good point.
- 24:06There is a lot of draping in their costumes in particular
- 24:09while you're like such an expert on this stuff.
- 24:11Elizabeth, you should start a podcast.
- 24:14Now, I don't know that much there, so there's so much, it's
- 24:20ridiculous. Spencer, there is so much out
- 24:23there about King, Arthur there's like it since Insane.
- 24:27So many people have tried to figure this out.
- 24:29It's nuts. There's even grave sites for him
- 24:32and Guinevere in France. Yeah, it's weird.
- 24:36I should read a book some time off.
- 24:38I'll send you this audiobook. Another great part I liked from
- 24:45the section, was the part where all the kids are watching the
- 24:49little play that's happening. Kind of showing the puppet show.
- 24:53Yeah, the puppet show. I like this part, specifically,
- 24:56Because it shows a lot of. Also the costuming a costume
- 25:00designers are not just responsible for the main
- 25:02character and King Arthur, like they have to dress everyone.
- 25:05And when you're looking at like these images of all the kids
- 25:09watching the puppet show, they each have like individual
- 25:12costumes that work well together, the color scheme works
- 25:16perfectly lots of Blues, lots of whites and tans, lots of
- 25:22scarves. It's definitely feeling like a
- 25:24cold environment. Well, it's Christmas time.
- 25:26It's The summer of England. So yeah, it's cold.
- 25:30But yeah, I love I love those little scenes because it was
- 25:34just really nice to look at and it's like it made you feel cold
- 25:37because clearly they're not going for the more Fantastical
- 25:40elements of King Arthur. They're very much more grounding
- 25:44it in reality which you can tell in these parts with the village
- 25:47children. I also love when they're
- 25:51preparing him to go and it's like a whole ceremony or he gets
- 25:56like Shield and it's like, uh, that's so like, medieval old
- 26:01world like blessing him before his journey.
- 26:04Oh, yeah. When they lowered the chain mail
- 26:06on to him, I would love to. I need to make myself a
- 26:10chainmail suit somehow. How can I do this?
- 26:13Kind of try to do some chain mail once and I gave up with in
- 26:17like half an hour, I think but also that was on.
- 26:22I was in high school though. So maybe I could try again.
- 26:26Yes. So didn't bring up a good point,
- 26:27though, which I didn't really realize until now reasons why?
- 26:31Earlier when I was kind of confused, I was like wait is
- 26:33King Arthur real? Is he not real?
- 26:34I thought it was a legend, but when you just mention that like
- 26:38they built Camelot to like, look like it's grounded in reality
- 26:42that kind of stuff a light bulb because I've always imagined
- 26:44kamla, as this like big Magical Kingdom, kind of like Wizard of
- 26:49Oz like Emerald City type of thing.
- 26:51Yeah, but when you ground it in reality like this, like that's
- 26:55when it makes it feel real, like this is If existed, this is what
- 26:58actually would. Yeah.
- 26:59I mean this is even probably a little bit more advanced but I
- 27:03agreed like I think very magical when I think of King Arthur
- 27:06because the first like piece of media, I really consumed with
- 27:10King Arthur in. It was the BBC show Merlin and
- 27:14that is a very like high fantasy.
- 27:17There's a lot of comedy in it version of the King, Arthur
- 27:21story, from Merlin's perspective, not King Arthur's.
- 27:24So like same, I always Have more of a like Fantasy legend, like,
- 27:30thought of Camelot and King Arthur in my head, this just
- 27:33gets rid of all of that especially with King Arthur
- 27:36being so old and sickly most Legends.
- 27:39Like he doesn't like make it past being like a young man.
- 27:44So it was really interesting to see more like a middle-aged man.
- 27:48He doesn't really get to die of like natural causes Chris.
- 27:51Well, yeah, I love all the I liked when he was visiting his
- 27:55like his orange cloak. He's just like little, he looked
- 27:58like he was ready for bed and it's like, dude, you're
- 28:00visiting. Did you not put more clothes on?
- 28:03Yeah. Hey, no.
- 28:05I love how people are just walking around like they're
- 28:07essentially nightgowns of hell. I love that.
- 28:10I was like, this is a very free Court.
- 28:13Well as with her about to go on quite the journey, we're going
- 28:17on an adventure after a martini. Elizabeth, are you ready to go
- 28:44on an adventure? Going on an adventure?
- 28:47Did you remember your change male?
- 28:49I did and your, your magic belt? I did.
- 28:52I did, I remembered everything? All right, so going is now on
- 28:59his Adventure. He's very reluctant, he was not
- 29:02planning on meeting the Green Knight.
- 29:03But King Arthur's, like, you gotta keep your word your a
- 29:06night. Hmm, he's not a night yet,
- 29:08right? He's not a night.
- 29:09He's like a knight in training. Yes, second night trainee.
- 29:15So he's on his way to the green Chapel.
- 29:18He's goes through this little scene where he's just walking on
- 29:21a big long road on a horse. He wanders onto recently
- 29:25deserted Battlefield. And encounters a eccentric
- 29:28scavenger who gives going directions to the green chapel
- 29:31after. He's given directions, Gwen goes
- 29:34into a Woods clearing and finds. He's been set up by the
- 29:37scavenger and his friends and his mugged and left for dead.
- 29:41He's tied up and just thrown onto the ground.
- 29:44After a very kind of creepy, trip out where he sees himself
- 29:48dead in the woods going snaps to, and he's able to get himself
- 29:52free and continues on foot without any of his cool are Are
- 29:56closed until he finds an abandoned home where he's able
- 30:00to finally get some sleep. Yeah, that's not really kinda.
- 30:04But yeah, he says off looking very Dapper in his, his chain
- 30:08melt, he's got his belt from his mom which he wove and put like a
- 30:13little piece of wooden and I did just realize that it's like a
- 30:17very, very deep like muddy gray, green, the bell.
- 30:22I just actually realized that to as you're talking about that one
- 30:25for this kind of a greenish color.
- 30:26And that's a good point, but it kind of just Blends in with his
- 30:29chain mail though, but then, he's got that great like, almost
- 30:34like a burnt, yellow goldish cape cloak, and like that thing.
- 30:41Wonderful, it's beautiful. That's, that's definitely one of
- 30:44my favorite costumes of the entire film.
- 30:47I love that cloak so much. It looks like for a velvety
- 30:51fabric. Almost.
- 30:52Yeah, it just looks so comfy and warm, and Trouble.
- 30:57I love it so much. I love love love and yellow
- 31:00looks so good on dev Patel also. It's just does all these colors
- 31:05against a backdrop of the very gloomy Camelot in the
- 31:08background, it just works for like a very beautiful painting.
- 31:12It does. That was one thing I liked about
- 31:14watching this. I felt like you could take out,
- 31:17like, all the dialogue and just have someone recite the actuals
- 31:22like Wayne and the Green Knight story over it.
- 31:26It and it would have made sense. Yeah, it's amazing how much you
- 31:30can get away with without dialogue and on this film's kind
- 31:33of a testament to that. You didn't need a lot of
- 31:35dialogue to. I don't want to say, understand
- 31:38what's going on because I will admit Ali was pretty lost
- 31:41through my most of it. I will say, when I first saw it,
- 31:44I was like, this needs more dial.
- 31:48You have to let it sink in. You have to, like, take in the
- 31:51story and understand the values that the movie was trying to
- 31:54represent. Then it makes sense.
- 31:57After two days, I'm finally able to say understand what the
- 32:00hell's going on. Speaking of not knowing what the
- 32:03hell's going on. Going to meet that scavenger in
- 32:06a woods and to me he immediately looked like a criminal.
- 32:09Yeah. Well he meets him on a
- 32:11battlefield full of dead body. That's a red flag, ladies and
- 32:16gentlemen and he's like I think my brothers are here, I don't
- 32:21know. Yeah, I love that.
- 32:23He has like a very tattered kind of Allah.
- 32:26A green outfit but everything bottom looks very bandage e.
- 32:29Very Gauzy. It's just kind of like tattered.
- 32:32Even his chain mail. Looks like a little ripped up.
- 32:35Yeah, it's clearly piece together and then I love his,
- 32:40like, his necklace of like Rings, he's stolen off.
- 32:44Body is apparently going doesn't know how to read a room.
- 32:47He doesn't just say. Yeah, where's directions to the
- 32:51place? I need to go.
- 32:51Also, I'm looking for the Green Knight and a green Chapel like
- 32:55too much information going. Yeah, and the guys like, oh
- 32:58yeah, I know where that is. And he's like, okay, cool.
- 32:59Thanks. And he's like yeah I Gotta Give
- 33:01me anything for that. I look real scary.
- 33:03You're not going to give me anything.
- 33:05He doesn't like two pieces of like money and I'm like, I'm
- 33:08that's clearly not enough. It gives them to shekels because
- 33:1212 shackles and then he is subsequently just like ambushed
- 33:16in the Woods by his scavenger team of Misfits.
- 33:21Which that girl though when I first saw her hurt like the way
- 33:25her house I was, I was like, she has cat ears.
- 33:30I was like, does she like cosplay?
- 33:32Like I would have been surprised in this movie honestly.
- 33:37But yeah, no, I love the way the costume designer put together to
- 33:40look Sunday, scavengers. Because it did feel very
- 33:43different from what we've seen in Camelot area.
- 33:45Like, it felt like these people were very of the elements.
- 33:49And I were piecing together their costumes from probably
- 33:52people. They've killed or people that
- 33:53were already dead. Yeah.
- 33:56I Disco's you get this kind of see more of his costume as well
- 34:01because they've taken his cloak. But he, I believe he does get
- 34:04that back. They've taken his cloak, his
- 34:07chain mail, his belt, which is mom told him not to take off,
- 34:11but whatever. He's kind of his mom prayed
- 34:15don't think he's gonna get mugged. 15 minutes into his
- 34:18journey. That's true.
- 34:19But when he's laying on the ground, you get to see these
- 34:22amazing. I believe leather like riding
- 34:25pants. He has on On like are laced all
- 34:28the way up his legs and like, go over his shoes.
- 34:32It's so cool. Yeah, those are dope.
- 34:35I love this. I wonder if how comfortable they
- 34:37are, but it makes sense because he's supposed to be riding a
- 34:40horse for a week or so. Yeah, six days six days.
- 34:45That's a lot of horse riding. Yeah.
- 34:47But he escapes, he gets at least his sword in his cloak back
- 34:52which I'm like, okay. Cool least you didn't lose that,
- 34:55that great clothes. I was upset like you better not
- 34:58lose the cloak that fast into this journey.
- 35:01No, but he gets what he can back and he's laying in the bed, just
- 35:08trying to get some sleep because he's like, cool.
- 35:10Nobody's here great. But he's awakened by a woman
- 35:14whose name we find. Is when a friend and she's like,
- 35:17I need your help and he's very confused by her request because
- 35:21she's like, I need you to go out to the pond in front of my house
- 35:25and And retrieve my head, I was assaulted by a traveler much,
- 35:31like yourself. So he cut off my head and threw
- 35:35it in the pond while I was sleeping and goings kind of
- 35:38like, okay, are you going to give me something in return?
- 35:41And she's like, what no, I need my head back please.
- 35:44And he's like, well, I'm about to get my head chopped off so
- 35:48I'll go get it for you. So he jumps into the pond has
- 35:52some like trippy little like Vision thing about the Green
- 35:55Knight. But Retrieves, her skull walks
- 35:58back up to the bedroom, where her headless skeleton.
- 36:03Is peacefully, sleeping in the bed, and he just puts it right
- 36:08back where it belongs. On the pillow, I love the scene.
- 36:12I thought it was so cool. This, I would love to just like,
- 36:15read a story behind the scene, but it's just very interesting.
- 36:18I thought it was really cool that they put this in the film.
- 36:21Yeah, this was my favorite scene Winifred played by Erin Kelly,
- 36:28man. She was wonderful.
- 36:30She was like the only funny person in this movie.
- 36:34Like this was like the comic relief scene and it was like,
- 36:38not super funny. Totally, It's funny because I
- 36:41never really see her as like a comedic actress to because we
- 36:44know her now from Falcon and Winter Soldier, and the Han Solo
- 36:49film and she's a younger actress.
- 36:51I believe. She's only 22.
- 36:52She's stunning. Yeah, I love the costume.
- 36:55She was wearing. It was like a white kind of
- 36:58ghostly down, which is what told me that it was a ghost, or a
- 37:02vision of some sort. Yeah.
- 37:05The fact that she didn't like notice you when you first walked
- 37:08in like she's a ghost but it's like, it's beautiful.
- 37:12It's like, super like gathered. I don't think it's pleated.
- 37:16I guess think it's gathered and just like drapes around here and
- 37:20it's just like filling. It was gorgeous.
- 37:23Oh yeah, that's beautiful. It's such a like cool modern
- 37:27take on the ghost to which I thought was really awesome and I
- 37:31also love cuz he's like, wait, you have a head and she's like,
- 37:35you just see it there it's not. I don't actually have my head
- 37:38and he's like, we are you a spirit?
- 37:40Like is that? Is that why?
- 37:42And she's like, what does it matter?
- 37:43I need my head back. The world's fastest ghost she's
- 37:47like cut the shit man. Just go get my head.
- 37:50Just got The Conjuring. Yeah she's like get it.
- 37:54Put it back. Don't want to be a while your
- 37:56horror movies. Just go grab my head so I could
- 37:58go back to sleep. Yeah, you could go sleep
- 38:01somewhere else for all like yeah, and I'm like, oh he was
- 38:04like sleeping on top of her skeleton.
- 38:05I think like earlier. I mean that, that look nice when
- 38:09he got there, though. Yeah, that bad.
- 38:11Like though, I was in a dark theater, watching us like, ooh.
- 38:15Look at that bed. Good beds in this movie.
- 38:18Yeah, they got so comfy beds and Kamala.
- 38:21And this region of England, who every bad thing.
- 38:25Like, jump on. I mean there's another bed
- 38:27coming up in a few scenes that was like, damn, that's a good
- 38:30bid. I could live in that bad but
- 38:32like I've got lots of inspiration for like a new bed,
- 38:37but anyway, it's do. I go to bed?
- 38:40I'm tired. I'm kidding.
- 38:43Wow, I know we're vampires but we can't be vampires all the
- 38:46time. So that was a great scene after
- 38:52I'm hoping go and get some sleep, but he jumped To a pond
- 38:56and had to get a dead girl's head.
- 38:57So I'm gonna guess not too much going continues on his journey
- 39:02and he comes across a very nosy. Fox who seems to really have
- 39:07something to say but doesn't say it, he's just following him.
- 39:12The fox is just falling. The fox is so cute, though.
- 39:15I'm like I want a pet fox now. So cute.
- 39:20Going goes about his journey comes across some rough terrain
- 39:23and finds a a colony of naked Giants marching through the
- 39:30Wilderness. I will admit Elizabeth I have no
- 39:34clue what the fuck is happening in the sea but are like, I think
- 39:40Irish Legends of Giants and like, Northern England and
- 39:45Ireland, maybe Scotland. So I think that's where that's
- 39:49coming from. I kind of figured like, I know
- 39:51that there's like historical Legends references, Route.
- 39:55I guess I just haven't heard that one but I mean it was
- 39:58beautiful. I thought it was interesting for
- 40:01sure and Visually stunning. So after going tries to talk
- 40:08with the Giants and doesn't work out yeah he he's like can I can
- 40:13I get a ride on your shoulder? And I think the giant did try to
- 40:16pick them up but I was like that the giant, they really have a
- 40:19lot to say it just basically was like I think the giant was just
- 40:24as Used anyways. Go in keeps going, finds himself
- 40:31in a bad storm. So he heads off to this very
- 40:35conveniently found castle in the middle of nowhere.
- 40:38Ox adore, and he found a place to stay for today night, right?
- 40:43Yeah, I found a place to stay for the night and he's like
- 40:45looking across at this point. His clothes are a mess.
- 40:49He's like been tripping on mushrooms.
- 40:51It's just like a whole, he's a whole mess.
- 40:55This little vacation trip. This live laugh.
- 40:58Love Tory's planning going on. Has been nothing of the sort.
- 41:02It's been a mess than tire but getting to start from being
- 41:06mugged all because he couldn't spare more coin for that
- 41:10scavenger that's the only reason oh my gosh.
- 41:15I know. Yeah.
- 41:16And the he just needs to give off like some stronger energy.
- 41:20But anyways, let's take a break. And when we come back we're
- 41:23going to finish out the rest of this.
- 41:25Very beautiful film? Yes.
- 41:49All right. Are you ready for then?
- 41:50Spencer, I think so, you better be Finn is wild.
- 41:57So he gets to this Castle immediately passes out.
- 42:01And he wakes up to this Lord, he does not know, but the Lord
- 42:06knows him and he's like, what's going on?
- 42:09I was, he's like you're fine, don't worry about it.
- 42:13The green Chapel is like right over there.
- 42:16You got three days to complete your quest.
- 42:19Pretty much. So don't worry about it.
- 42:21Hang out. Here I go hunting all day so you
- 42:24can hang out here. Get your strength back, you
- 42:26know, and then go face the Green Knight and he's like okay I
- 42:32guess so he's at home. All day with the hot young lady
- 42:38of the house who looks strangely like his lover back in Camelot a
- 42:45soul and she basically sends all day trying to seduce Gawain and
- 42:52he basically is like a Can't do this and ends up fleeing the
- 42:59house to escape her and ends up early to the green Chapel.
- 43:04He shows up early. It's like, oh okay.
- 43:08Yeah, he really shows up early and he's just waiting there.
- 43:13I love these Castle scenes because some of the most
- 43:17beautiful costumes are in these couple scenes.
- 43:20Good pacifically on the lady. Yeah, I mean, That like blue
- 43:26velvet gown that she wears for with the plunging neckline.
- 43:31Come on, man. I mean this gown is just oh it's
- 43:35like it's like ruched really beautifully and then she has
- 43:38this like sheer like cake sleet, like not really squeeze like a
- 43:44sheer Cape around her and apparently she's into
- 43:48photography, which I was like, this is an interesting take.
- 43:51Okay, but she looks great. She Is that like that white
- 43:57outfit was like the very like it's lacing but it's very young
- 44:03simple. It looks, it looks 3D printed
- 44:06parts of it. Yeah.
- 44:10Did I just hear a cat? My cat needs to be well, now,
- 44:13hold on. I'm watching.
- 44:18Elizabeth, take a cab out. She I like put a chair next to
- 44:23me. So she could like sit Sit here
- 44:25and be petted by me. And I was like, I hope you just
- 44:28sleep here the whole time. And then like, as we started I
- 44:31see her. Get up and start pacing in front
- 44:33of the door, and I was like, no, no, no, don't do it, don't do
- 44:35it. Anyways, we're talking about the
- 44:39ladies white outfit too. I do like, it almost looks like
- 44:433D printed, like, webbing on her, but it's like a really
- 44:47beautiful lace. Yeah, the jewelry.
- 44:49She wears the hairstyles are. Just, they're out of this world,
- 44:54so I didn't. Is that the ladies also played
- 44:57by Alicia vikander. We also play.
- 45:00Yeah, that's all. I mean, I did not realize that
- 45:02till I was doing my research today.
- 45:04Yeah. They really transformed her for
- 45:06both roles. They do.
- 45:09And it took me cuz like, when soon as he sees her, he's
- 45:12clearly like free freaked out in a way.
- 45:14Like, I know you, but I don't know you.
- 45:17And then when I got home, I was like, hold on a second.
- 45:22It never slapped me when I was at the Cedars.
- 45:25I is just like, who is this lady?
- 45:26She's so beautiful. Yeah, I'm just thinking like,
- 45:29wow, like the actresses in this movie are just so stunning,
- 45:32little Dino. It's just the same actress.
- 45:35Yeah, she's stunning her husband's kind of an oaf?
- 45:40Yeah. He's kind of a dork.
- 45:42I do like his costume though because he's a hunter and he has
- 45:45like a lots of fur into his outfits which I think is really
- 45:49cool. His like sleeping jacket.
- 45:53I feel like it's like again. Like really beautiful like burnt
- 45:57orange color with like the huge fur.
- 46:00Like cuffs and like the fur lining.
- 46:02I was like ooh, that's good. Sometimes I wish I lived in a
- 46:07colder climate where I can wear stuff like this, but instead I'm
- 46:10just in the pits of Los Angeles where it's just always 150
- 46:14degrees outside all the time. Spencer, you could come here,
- 46:19you could come live here. We could get an apartment I mean
- 46:22I'm thinking about it. Like I said I was watching mayor
- 46:26of East Town and I'm like, these are my people we could we could
- 46:29rent a house and devote an entire room to podcast and okay,
- 46:35that's a cool idea. Actually another costume that I
- 46:40was obsessed with was go in the black coat sweater that he's
- 46:46wearing the textile on. It is just so beautiful.
- 46:51I want to touch it. So, Yeah, I really the textiles
- 46:56and the, in this section where he's at the castle are out of
- 46:59this world like you want to like feel all of them.
- 47:03Yeah. Where did they get all these?
- 47:05I'm just obsessed of every fabric.
- 47:07I see, I know and I love when she's like really trying to
- 47:13seduce him and he just notices the Bell Isabel around her waist
- 47:18and he's like, I just please give me the Bell.
- 47:24Yeah, lots of weird hocus-pocus is going on around here.
- 47:27I cannot figure out what her motives were I was like is she
- 47:30trying to seduce him because that she wants something?
- 47:34I don't know what's going on. It's Dave patella walks into
- 47:37your home looking like that. Come on.
- 47:43I don't know. I just my mind wasn't there.
- 47:46I was just like, every single person in this film, you know,
- 47:49this is such a like trippy movie.
- 47:51So, every time Something happened.
- 47:53I said, oh God. Now what's going to happen?
- 47:56Like what mushroom, you know, induced being, you know, vision
- 48:00is going to start happening. So I just, I knew it was like
- 48:03this Castle scene was so like, you know, nothing really too
- 48:07crazy happened, but the whole time I was on stage, like the
- 48:10entire time. I don't, when she was taking his
- 48:14picture, I was on edge. I was like, what is happening?
- 48:17Well, so is this the Portrait of Dorian Gray?
- 48:19A like, is he going to see his dead?
- 48:22Itself. I don't know.
- 48:23I don't know. Because I was so confused.
- 48:25And then I see her like, move the thing.
- 48:27I was like, oh, it's like a pinhole camera deal.
- 48:31I was like, where did you get the chemicals for the also.
- 48:34Another thing that made everything.
- 48:36Feel a little bit more. Odd was the older woman with the
- 48:40blindfold. Yeah, I think so that's supposed
- 48:46to be King Arthur's. Sister Morgana Morgan.
- 48:52Le Whatever you want to call her.
- 48:54Because she's the one who kind of, like, set all this up.
- 48:57That's supposed to be her. Yeah, that's what I felt
- 48:59because, that's what we gain of the film you saw her when she
- 49:02was doing original spell, she like blindfolded herself.
- 49:05So, and I didn't really put this together when I was watching it,
- 49:08but after a couple days I'm like, oh maybe this is her way
- 49:12of watching her son the entire time, like with the blindfold
- 49:16because the fox doesn't walking around inside the Mansion.
- 49:19So she's like using this This woman, maybe they're all also,
- 49:25which has to, because the younger woman had the belt to.
- 49:29I don't know. I have some questions, but I
- 49:34think that's what was happening. I think you need a forward.
- 49:37Me, those those videos you were watching because I am, like, as
- 49:41much as I know, I'm still very confused.
- 49:44Yeah, I was watching YouTube videos before this trying to be
- 49:46like it's going on. I love it.
- 49:49I mean, it's such a great movie. Yeah.
- 49:54Okay. Well so after that crazy moment
- 49:57going left the mansion and now it's time to really get down to
- 50:02the plot of the story. We are at the green chapel after
- 50:06a very nice-looking sleep. I love how the Green Knight
- 50:09open. His eyes a little bit and he's
- 50:11like it's not Christmas yet. Yeah I need a he hit snooze.
- 50:18The Green Knight, totally hit some news on that.
- 50:22Like you're early. Oh chop your head off in the
- 50:25morning. Come on.
- 50:26He likes an early party guests. Yeah totally.
- 50:32So when the green light finally awakens?
- 50:35The Green Knights, basically like I ready to do this thing
- 50:38and goings like yeah sure let's do it.
- 50:40And then he gets down on his knees and he's like oh like is
- 50:43this actually it and a green egg Sac?
- 50:45Yeah, I'm going to chop your head off.
- 50:47Like, I don't know what part was unclear to you.
- 50:50When I said I'm going to do exactly He did to me.
- 50:53So going starts to panic because I think he thought like some
- 50:56sort of like party was going to start happening or surprise
- 50:59party. We're all of his friends to jump
- 51:01out of the bushes and say surprise.
- 51:03But no yeah because the Green Knight called it a game.
- 51:07You generally don't die at the end of the game.
- 51:10Yeah that's fair and going panics and runs away says I
- 51:14can't do this. He gets back to Camelot and this
- 51:17begins a montage and throughout this Montage.
- 51:21A lot of different things happens.
- 51:23A lot of different costumes appear which will try to break
- 51:26down a second but King Arthur's on his deathbed.
- 51:31And in his deathbed he nights going and he's then given the
- 51:35crown after his passing. So that beautiful Halo Crown is
- 51:39given to going. Then we witnessed the birth of
- 51:41Arthur's. Son of gwaine, son.
- 51:44I don't know what the hell's going on.
- 51:45You said Arthur suck the birth of going, son happens with esle
- 51:50who unfortunately is. Having a very tough time.
- 51:54What makes it even more tough is after she finally gives birth
- 51:58Wayne's, like, okay. Well, we're done here.
- 52:01And she's basically, just just just thrown out into the
- 52:05streets, which is very, very chivalrous of a sir going just
- 52:10abandoned and he demands to marry a noblewoman.
- 52:14So, during his Reign going, enters a war, he takes on a very
- 52:20beautiful wife during this War Goin son is killed which is very
- 52:25unfortunate. Things are not going great for
- 52:27going. I mean it's something a really
- 52:29crappy you life. Yeah.
- 52:32Being King was not always cracked up to be, you know, his
- 52:36he had to leave his girlfriend. His sons dead.
- 52:39Looks like the Worlds at War camelot's, been breached, his
- 52:43enemies are at the doors of the throne room.
- 52:46Yeah, his mother does not look very happy about this, you know,
- 52:51things are quickly. On your part as the place is
- 52:54breached going, then takes off his bail and just basically
- 52:58accepts that this is the end and suddenly to all of our surprise
- 53:03going wakes up and he's back with the Green Knight at the
- 53:06green Chapel. So we realize that it's almost
- 53:08like his entire life just flashed before his eyes and
- 53:11honestly, he had a pretty shitty life going forward.
- 53:15Yeah. And very impressive to me going
- 53:19basically takes off his belt and says Actually let's just play
- 53:24the game right now, you could chop my head off and I love that
- 53:28the three nights like okay? Finally like that's all I've
- 53:31been trying to say. Hey he's almost like I am proud
- 53:34of you. Now, let me chop your head off.
- 53:37I'm proud of you and he says off of your head and that's it and
- 53:40he strikes a blow, you don't see it happen and we'll talk about
- 53:44that a little bit because I have some different theories also.
- 53:47So let's talk about all the costumes.
- 53:51We saw from this montage. Before we talk about our final
- 53:53thoughts. So my favorite costume of this
- 53:56montage is like, I'm going to guess it's like a foreign
- 53:59princess that he marries, because they're like, the way
- 54:04they dress is so different from everyone in Camelot, it's all
- 54:08this like pleading and layers. And I was just like, oh, girl,
- 54:14your people have a good style, I love that.
- 54:16It was giving me very like Queen.
- 54:20I think it's Elizabeth. Yeah, Queen Elizabeth
- 54:22Elizabethan. Yeah, it's gonna be like, very
- 54:25Queen, Elizabeth fives. I love that one film, which its
- 54:29Escape? I think it's just called
- 54:30Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett. I have never seen those.
- 54:35That's very good. But it's give me those knives
- 54:37but also like Mary Queen of Scots.
- 54:39So it's also like she's definitely from like a outside
- 54:42land coming in. Yeah.
- 54:45Well with the blue paint she might be Irish or Scottish.
- 54:51That's what I Thinking but that white outfit is just so
- 54:55beautiful. I know she looks like an angel
- 54:58walking into the round table. Yeah, my also love gawain's find
- 55:05outfits to when he looks good as a king.
- 55:08Not gonna lie, especially when he gets a little bit older to he
- 55:11has like the grain is hair but the crown looks good on him.
- 55:15The textiles again like the textiles that go into like his
- 55:19his top and like the Sir, it's like this gray kind of really
- 55:24nice textured fabric. I'm just obsessed with it.
- 55:28Yeah, look. So his coronation his
- 55:30coronation, like, get up. That's kind of what he's wearing
- 55:35throughout the rest of it but it just kind of like changes color.
- 55:38Yeah, I think as the ages they just almost it almost looks like
- 55:41the garments kind of age along with him, which is pretty cool.
- 55:44Actually, but still the entire time, he's wearing that Green
- 55:48Belt, he's wearing that Green Belt.
- 55:49He won't let anybody take it off, which I'm like, that's all
- 55:52Okay, and then what he's abandoned in the in his throne
- 56:00room and he starts to take it off, I'm just like, what's
- 56:03happening? And then his head comes off.
- 56:06Oh yeah, that was pretty scary. I was like, okay, my thing is
- 56:12why now why are you taking off the belt the first time you
- 56:16actually need it? Well, no, I think casinos.
- 56:20He knows he's and like, they're either going to horribly murder
- 56:26him or like parade him around and then horribly murder him.
- 56:33I thought like no harm could come to him though.
- 56:36Well if he keeps the belt on but I'm sure they're going to rip
- 56:39that Bell off him. So either way his head would
- 56:41have fallen off. Oh yeah it is a fabric belt.
- 56:43I just realized it wasn't like surgically in his body.
- 56:48No but yeah I love all these things.
- 56:51I Like all the armor and the war scenes, that's all very
- 56:55beautiful. I thought the costume designer
- 56:57might go. Xia did really awesome if all
- 56:59the armor, even just slick, like looking at the pictures of the
- 57:02coronation of all the men and like the very classic medieval
- 57:06armor silhouette. So white, very beautiful.
- 57:09It was it was just, it was beautiful from start to finish.
- 57:13I would not be surprised Elizabeth if this movie was
- 57:16nominated for an Oscar for costume design, I think that
- 57:19it's that worthy. It's a very Very awesome.
- 57:23Oh yeah, costume design, set design, cinematography and Deva
- 57:28towel all deserve. Let's go nominations.
- 57:31Yeah, but you heard it here first.
- 57:33We are predicting that this is me Oscar nomination for
- 57:36costumes, like next year mmm-hmm.
- 57:39So let's kind of talk about the ending.
- 57:41Here are your final thoughts? You have a little quote here
- 57:44that I think you should read. Oh yeah.
- 57:46So the original ending of the Green Knight basically going and
- 57:51keeps his bail. On and only receives a small cut
- 57:55from the Green Knight. He kind of goes back to Camelot
- 57:58and shame, but like they forgive him like he's learned his
- 58:03lesson, whatever. Whatever.
- 58:06And David Lowery is quoted in a Vanity Fair article.
- 58:11I wanted to write an ending where his head gets chopped off
- 58:13and that's a positive thing. That's a happy ending.
- 58:17He faces his fate bravely, and there was honor and integrity in
- 58:21that. So I guess he gets his head
- 58:24chopped off at the end even if even though they don't show it.
- 58:26Yeah, I mean likely I feel like his head was chopped off.
- 58:30That's a good point but then also at the same time, the Green
- 58:35Knight almost said it in a way where he said, like now off of
- 58:38your head and like, almost to me, almost felt like a joking
- 58:42matter. Yeah.
- 58:43So is it very likely that he actually chopped his head off
- 58:46and I was in a movie? Yes I think that's a very like
- 58:49that's definitely could have happened.
- 58:52Also, this is the first time we're going actually did
- 58:55something that was honorable and full of Integrity throughout
- 58:58this entire film. He fell prey to seduction.
- 59:02He wasn't courteous, he was always demanding things of
- 59:04people even when a ghost lady asked for his head and he was
- 59:07asking the ghost lady like what he could get out of the deal
- 59:11like going was not like an honorable night and training.
- 59:14So this is the first time he actually did something right?
- 59:17I feel like yeah. So I feel like almost this could
- 59:21have been His mother's way of kind of making him grow as a
- 59:25character. So maybe maybe his head wasn't
- 59:28chopped off and the accident. Go all the way through and he
- 59:32learned his lesson. Maybe the accident, go all the
- 59:35way down either way. I feel like the point was that
- 59:38he learned all the moral things were talking about earlier,
- 59:41generosity courtesy, Chasity chivalry a TI-84 piety, So, I
- 59:51think that was the point of the ending.
- 59:53I think that, I think many people will conceive it in
- 59:56different ways. But at the end, I think that was
- 59:59a soul of what happened here. Yeah, I agree.
- 1:00:04So that's the Green Knight guys. Oh my gosh, that was a crazy but
- 1:00:11it was fun and I actually love the a lot.
- 1:00:14I kind of want to go back and re-watch it.
- 1:00:16Now that we've talked about it, I think I'll re-watch it when
- 1:00:18it's on when it's owl on like streaming.
- 1:00:21Yeah, I don't want anyone to be confused.
- 1:00:25We love this film. I definitely remember recommend.
- 1:00:28You see it? Yeah, we were looking for used
- 1:00:30at times but you have to let it sink in and just take in the
- 1:00:33visuals. And these going to be one day
- 1:00:36oscar-nominated costumes. This really take it all in
- 1:00:40because it's really worth it. It is well Elizabeth what is our
- 1:00:45next adventure going to be? So we're bringing it all the way
- 1:00:49back to the Modern Age. And sir we are watching Space
- 1:00:54Jam. A new Legacy.
- 1:00:57Hell yeah. I am so excited.
- 1:01:01I am a huge Space Jam nerd. So I am so excited to see the
- 1:01:04new film like can't wait. Oh my gosh, I'm going to annoy
- 1:01:09you. Will follow my Space Jam.
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