apparently they made a green knight movie did it accurately capture gawains heroic transformation beyond the understanding of the green knight and the court of arthur alike through his transcendence of moral failure
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the parallel is what is demanded of the protagonists: everything gawain must willingly surrender his life to demonstrate his bravery; lancelot his pride to prove his love incidentally the fact that pride is what is most dear to lancelot demonstrates that he sucks. fuck lancelot
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each faces two tests: lancelot, the cart and the joust; gawain, the knight's challenge on Christmas day, and his inevitable beheading the following year what makes gawain's story /better/ is that he passes his first test and fails his second
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and then, after he fails no one gets it he knows he fucked up. he knows he flinched and fell short of perfect his foe laughs and throws him a party and accounts him brave. arthur's court, all of whom flinched before the green knight's challenge, think hes a gigachad
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they even all adopt the sign of his shame as a symbol of pride to show that they're his buds and they love him. literally embroider it saying "this owns actually fuck the haters" hony soyt qui mal pence
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gawains trancendence comes from being humbled in failure and through this gaining an understanding--in spite of worldly acclaim--of what it would mean to truly Become Good. a vision of the Grail from then on even when in company he walks apart from other men
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TFW Riot Games tries to crib inspiration from the Vulgate Cycle for their latest event and the result is just an undead guy yelling "Isolde!" Incoherently.
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