![]() While the Lord is out hunting, his wife, the lady of the manor, attempts to seduce Gawain, but it only ever leads to a kiss and nothing more. He and the Lord had agreed that while he stayed there, each day the Lord would give him whatever he gets while on the hunt, and Gawain would give him whatever he gets in the manor. ![]() A year later, when he is ready to face his end of the game, he maintains his honor throughout, except on one occasion: he breaks his word in an agreement made with the lord of a manor he comes across just prior to reaching the chapel where he is to meet the Green Knight. Gawain courageously takes Arthur's place in confronting the Green Knight in order to assume the consequence of decapitating the Green Knight a year later for himself: meeting him at the Green Chapel and suffering a similar mortal wound. When the Green Knight, summoned by Morgan, appears in court on Christmas day and issues his challenge, it is King Arthur who is the target. ![]() In the original tale, Sir Gawain is an honorable knight who unknowingly gets in the way of a witchcraft ploy by Morgan Le Fey (not his mother!) to gain power over the Arthurian throne within a year's time. It will be found that the movie inverts the original tale in a highly innovative manner. I will first summarize the main events as told in the original tale, and then compare them as told in the movie. This is not as much a review of the movie but an attempt to clarify it, as its story seems to have been widely misunderstood.
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