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Bonfireside Chat: A Dark Souls and Elden Ring Podcast

[PREVIEW] Bonfireside Chat 195: The Green Knight

Bonfireside Chat: A Dark Souls and Elden Ring Podcast

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Leisure, Video Games

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Remember, it's only a game. More accurately, it's a movie about a game gone very wrong. This week we talk about the Green Knight, a 2021 adaptation of the classic Arthurian legend directed by David Lowery. Specifically, we look at the movie through the lens of the themes and motifs of the Souls series, looking at the importance of our changing relationships to Arthurian myths as the basis of modern fantasy.

EDIT: Little note from Gary on the ending: I just found out in the original ending, they depict the beheading, but the director decided to leave it ambiguous so Kole and I could argue about it (that's me being cheeky; he decided it was better if it was left ambiguous). But I am relieved to see that at some point, he was going that way, just so I don't feel like the only person in the world who likes the story better with Gawain biting it at the end.

EDIT 2: A little note from Kole, who is just now seeing Gary's little note a few months later. Not cool, bro, sneaking around like this. Though there was an original intent, deciding to leave it ambiguous was also a conscious decision, and ultimately the final one. Gary is alone in the world as the only one who takes his read on the ending and I WILL NOT HEAR OTHERWISE.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Some of our landings were desperate adventures. We are now prepared to meet the inevitable counter-attacks with power and with confidence. I'm My name is Gary Butterfield.

0:37.9

My name is Cole Ross.

0:39.5

You're listening to Bonfire Side Chat, a bicarious favorite.

0:42.5

Yeah.

0:42.8

And this week we are talking about a film.

0:46.2

We're talking about the Green Knight, which is a 2021 film directed by David Lowry.

0:51.1

And so this is an adaptation of sorts of the Arthurian legend that rolls in some extra

0:56.9

legends.

0:58.0

Yeah.

0:58.2

That legend being Gwain and the Green Knight.

1:00.7

Yeah.

1:02.6

Well renowned as one of the more inscrutable Arthurian legends.

1:08.4

Even your J.R. Tolkien was like, I don't know. We're going to need to do a little bit of extra work on this one to make it, to make it, to make it for, for audiences, um, uh, any audiences. Uh, I, I love that this was found on a, uh, like a manuscript along with something called cleanliness. Man,

1:27.9

literature used to serve a lot of weird purposes back in the day.

1:31.9

It's gotten better, too.

1:34.4

Literature?

1:35.3

Yeah?

1:36.0

Big strides.

1:37.1

Yeah.

1:38.2

Yeah.

1:38.9

I like this adaptation of this way more than I like any R-Thorian legend I've actually

1:43.5

tried to read.

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