Why did they make Gawain a PoC instead of just making a film about one of the knights of the round table who are canonically Poc?For example, Sir Morien was a moor. I know that some people like to pretend that moors were white, but the text explicitly says that he was black:>He was all black, even as I tell ye: his head, his body, and his hands were all black, saving only his teeth. His shield and his armour were even those of a Moor, and black as a raven…Then there's Sir Palamedes, his brother Sir Safir, and their father King Esclabor, who are Saracens. There's even a knight with Vitiligo, Sir Feirefiz. I find it odd that Hollywood has missed the opportunity to the depict these canonically PoC Arthurian characters.
>WE WUZ KANGZ AND KNIGHTZ N SHIETKill yourself.
>>219752638Refute a single thing I said, incel. I assume you can't, because you have never read any Arthurian myth.
>>219752614Prolly because those guys were boring but the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is unusually delicate and otherwise quite interesting by comparison. And making him brown made him the black sheep in a more visually literal sense, which fit the film's modifications to the original.
Because it's not about literary consistency, it's about breaking the connection between white people and their ancestors and homeland
>>219752614I didn't mind the lead but I did mind the random blackest Africa peasant family they showed in a reaction shot.
>>219752692the burden of proof for your nigger drivel lies with you
>>219752614They weren't trying to do a faithful retelling of the classical story, it's a complete inversion from start to finish
>the movie is about a dumb, spineless coward who fucks up everything >"HE SHOULD'VE BEEN WHITE"As usual, /pol/tards humiliate themselves with zero self-awareness
>>219753148Proof that Sir Morien was black:>He was all black, even as I tell ye: his head, his body, and his hands were all black, saving only his teeth. His shield and his armour were even those of a Moor, and black as a raven… (in the 14th-century Arthurian romance 'Moriaen')https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoriaenSir Palamedes appears in many, many Arthurian tales where he is always described as a Saracen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palamedes_(Arthurian_legend)Proof that Sir Feirefiz (whose mother was African) had Vitiligo:>“He was dappled like a magpie, black and white over his whole body.” in Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach.I also already posted a depiction of Sir Morien from a medieval illuminated manuscript which clearly shows that he was a black african: >>219752692
>>219752710>And making him brown made him the black sheep in a more visually literal sense, which fit the film's modifications to the originalEw what an absurd opinion
>>219753297>illuminatedThat's just an illustration, not illumination. Anyway, europeans, due to the fact that most would never see a Moor in their life, tended to exaggerate the features of moors, even one's who aren't even full Moors but half-white like Morien.Just because a medieval manuscript says that turtles literally had shields on their backs and stomach does not mean that that is how turtles actually looked back then.
>>219753759You’re saying Europeans exaggerated Moors into looking Black because they hadn’t seen them, but exaggeration requires a reference point. If they could depict Black features at all, it’s because they were already familiar with Black Africans. So your argument actually proves the opposite: medieval Europeans had seen Black people, and their depictions reflect that.
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>>219752614No, the moors werw not black, they only said they were black in the european countries that had no contact with them and only in books written centuries later by writers that never saw one, they did this to make the characters more exotic.Shitty casting anyway, this guy looks so out of place, he looks 100% indian like the guy in hereditary.
which arthurian story had the knights with superpowers? like one dude could turn huge and another one had elemental breath attack powers like a gay video game, it ruled. make kino out of that onethe only part i could remember about it was that arthur wasn't the protagonist and there was a scene where it spent half the story listing off everyone's ancestry for some reason
>>219752614>>219752614No, the moors werw not black, they only said they were black in the european countries that had no contact with them and only in books written centuries later by writers that never saw one, they did this to make the characters more exotic.Shitty casting anyway, this guy looks so out of place, he looks 100% indian like the guy in hereditary.
the moorish lands were in north africa, the moors were north african. Like people on the northern coast of the mediterranean, they were swarthy. Not black. Africa isn't just bantuland.
>>219753887>If they could depict Black features at all, it’s because they were already familiar with Black AfricansYou are assuming that the color black and the human figure was not available as a reference point for them. Some medieval Europeans had seen Moors, but they tended to depict them much paler. There is nothing in my statement that proves that most medieval people had seen a Moor, much less "black people."Also, Feirefiz does not have "vitiligo" in the modern medical sense. That's just how von Eschenbach thought race-mixing works, and you'd know this if you have read Parzival
>>219754225something tells me you'll have trouble getting through to him.
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>>219754049>>219754225>umm ackchually back in the day 'black' meant 'swarthy' and 'swarthy' meant 'whitePure cope. He was a black folk.
>>219754320>the l̶e̶f̶t̶ right can't memeevery time
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