Thread by @NobodyLikedThat, My head is full of thesis but those new #TheGreenKnight posters did [...]

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My head is full of thesis but those new #TheGreenKnight posters did drop so...
SGGK-as-horror-poster-analysis-thread?
SGGK-as-horror-poster-analysis-thread.

First up, the fox. Obviously in the poem he& #39;s the last of Bertilak& #39;s quarry and represents the stage of the & #39;exchange game& #39; where Gawain reneges on his promise. Foxes also carry significance re: treachery and worthlessness in the bestiaries and contemporary hunting manuals

The film seems to envisage the fox as some sort of guide for Gawain, which is v cute, but also endows the natural world with a sense of knowledge and agency beyond/superior to the human, which is pretty in vogue for horror right now AND sensitive to postanthropocene sensibilties

Lowrey might be borrowing from the Reynard the Fox/beast fable tradition here a little, also. In any case, I& #39;m all here for the Adventures of Sir Gawain and His Most Noble Fox Squire

Okay next: Who dis? Hast thou not eyes to see? My money is this cunning woman is meant to be Morgan le Fey? Maybe not. In the trailer she seemed to be mucking about with Gawain and some form of Tarot. That stylised robe/wimple is pretty evocative of Marian iconography though, eh?

I mean, if it *is* Morgan, its a deviation from the poem, as she& #39;s disguised as a crone at Hautdesert. Since an unintended consequence of her trick in the poem is Gawain realising his fallibility and need for Grace, Morgan can be read as a sort of inadvertent Mary. Who knows fam.

Okay, so sticking with laydeez, this is Lady Bertilak *I think* since she doesn& #39;t look like the Guinevere we see in the trailer. What are we to make of those earrings? They look like daggers! Her green girdle is nowhere to be seen, though that would make this poster a lil& #39; saucy

Props to the costume dept honouring Lady B& #39;s BIG ASS hair though. Shame they didn& #39;t stick with her Wonderbread nightie.

Second part of this thread coming soon, I& #39;ve got to be off the computer for a bit, sorryyyyy

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