It’s tempting to think of the first “Star Wars” movie as ground zero for the new era of popular culture. (You might say that the 21st century began, in spirit, the day “Star Wars&…
It’s tempting to think of the first “Star Wars” movie as ground zero for the new era of popular culture. But part of the primal power of George Lucas’s sci-fi landmark is that it represented a kind of dawn-of-the-digital-age, joystick-happy recycling of many, many things from the past. It drew on the ramshackle movie serials of the ’40s and ’50s. It drew on classic films as serious as John Ford’s “The Searchers” and Akira Kurosawa’s “The Hidden Fortress.
In a stone-walled mountainside kingdom presided over by the King and Queen — in the poem it’s King Arthur, in the movie his name is never mentioned — Gawain, a dissolute chap who basically likes to frolic with his lady love, is called before the royal court. It’s no fluke; Gawain’s mother is the King’s sister. The King wants great things from him, and Gawain, in his way, seeks to comply.
Gawain volunteers, only to see the Green Knight put down his ax and bow his gnarled, bearded tree head. He is offering Gawain the chance to decapitate him. And that’s just what Gawain does. He has won this duel. But he now has a year to prepare for a journey in which he’ll ride off to meet the Green Knight, and will face decapitation himself. “One year…We’re thinking: pretty badass for a poem written several hundred years before Shakespeare .
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