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Classical Stuff You Should Know

175: Sir Gawain and the Decent Film

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we talk about the differences in theme and construction between the recent (pretty solid) film about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the poem by the same name.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know, a podcast about books and ideas and philosophy and architecture.

0:19.4

I'm not done yet. Hold on. And actually I am done because I can't think of anything else.

0:22.9

Boating. No. Animal husbandry. None of these things are true. Sailing.

0:26.9

Why are boating and sailing both on the list? One has a paddle and one has a sail. You can boat with a paddle.

0:31.4

You can you saddle with a boat. All right. Today we are talking about, stop, nope, stop thinking about it. This is how we get on detours. Okay, my name is Thomas Magby. I am joined as always by Mr. AJ Hanenberg.

0:42.7

You. And Mr. Graham Donaldson. Hello. And today we are going to, so this is a little known fact

0:49.0

that many thousands of years, we only cover old things. We would never consider covering modern books and or other media. So a little known fact is that thousands of years. We only cover old things. We would never consider covering modern books and

0:55.8

or other media. So a little known fact is that thousands of years ago, they had movie theaters,

1:00.7

little known fact. They were able to take the papyrus and just kind of shine a light through it,

1:04.9

and it would put it up on the screen. And so you're talking about one of those old. One of those old

1:09.3

one of those old movies. Yeah, probably 700 years old movie. This is kind of incredible. And

1:15.1

I'm going to let you take it away. Called the Green Night. Oh, wow. No, today we are going to be

1:20.9

talking about something that's actually like new, kind of. We're going to be talking about a movie

1:26.9

that just came out. And I'm going to, we're going to be talking about a movie that just came out, and we're going to be talking

1:29.5

about it's source material.

1:31.0

Okay.

1:31.4

So maybe we should do what other things do, other podcasts do, and say, like, this is your

1:37.5

spoiler warning.

1:38.4

We never do spoiler warnings because most of our stuff's like 800 years old, so it's probably

1:42.9

been spoiled to you.

1:45.1

Should I have done a spoiler alert for my 2,500-year-old history?

1:48.4

For Herodotus?

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