IN ‘THE GREEN KNIGHT,’ AN ENCHANTING ARTHURIAN DREAM
Aug 13, 2021
3 minutes
Why, for starters, is the Green Knight green?
It’s a question that’s long vexed scholars of the 14th century chivalric romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”The movie, like the epic poem, is full of mysteries, most of them unspoken. But the knight’s unlikely color — Why isn’t he a more typical knightly blue? — is a question voiced by the characters of David Lowery’s adaptation, “The Green Knight.” He’s green, answers Dev Patel’s Sir Gawain, because it’s the shade of rot.
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