The Green Knight (2021)

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today's Queer as Fiction episode discusses David Lowery's 2021 adaptation of Arthurian legend, The Green Knight. Join us for a romp through allegorical adventures of identity, whale-like giants and dissapointingly unsexy ents. If you'd like to read Jude Doyle's review (that we discuss fairly extensively towards the end of the episode), you can do so here: https://judedoyle.medium.com/the-green-knight-is-the-existential-queer-folk-horror-we-need-843be5fbd1d6 If you never got around to our episode on the original Arthurian legend that this movie is based on, you can check that out here: https://queerasfact.podbean.com/e/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/ Check out our website, where you can find our sources, as well as everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Instagram, Tumblr and Bluesky. [Image: Sir Gawain raises an axe on a hilltop, in front of the film's title which sits on a plain red background.]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queerous Fiction. I'm Jasmine, and the episode you're about to hear was originally recorded and uploaded in 2022 for our Patreon subscribers.
0:08.5	As such, it predates aspects of my transition, such as my use of she-her pronouns and my current name.
0:14.0	So just so you know, we haven't suddenly added a new host, nor have I reverted back to a previous name.
0:18.5	In addition, I would like to add content warnings for swearing and mentions of drinking games
0:22.6	to the warnings that pass me is about to give.
0:25.0	Enjoy the show.
0:26.3	Hello, and welcome to a queerest fiction bonus episode, where we talk about queer historical media.
0:30.9	I'm Jason.
0:31.7	I'm Alice, and I'm Eli.
0:33.6	And today we're talking about the 2021 film adaptation of the 14th century Middle English chivalric romance commonly referred to as Gawain and the Green Knight, written, directed, edited and produced by David Lowry, and starring Dev Patel, The Green Knight.
0:46.2	You done?
1:11.3	Bres Before we get started, I'd like to acknowledge the Wawandari-Woi-Rung people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay respects to their elders past and present. We recognize them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast. We also have some content warnings for this episode,
1:15.9	beheadings, sex, and sex work. If that sounds like something you don't want to listen to,
1:20.3	please feel free to check out one of our other episodes. So this has been a long requested
1:25.0	bonus episode and long promised. Apologies for taking so long to get around to this, but we have finally watched the movie
1:31.4	more than a year after we originally intended to see it in advance of our original episode on the subject.
1:38.1	Do we really make this episode a year ago?
1:39.9	Yeah.
1:40.5	Oh my God.
1:41.0	It feels like two months.
1:42.9	Yeah.
1:43.2	Or at least the original release day for the movie was meant to be in June.
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