The Green Knight (2021)

Dev Patel: Gawain

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• Essel : Are you really going to go?

  Gawain : Should I?

  Essel : I like your head better where it is.

  Gawain : I gave my word. I made a covenant.

  Essel : This is how silly men perish.

  Gawain : Or how brave men become great.

  Essel : Why greatness? Why is goodness not enough?

• Gawain : I fear I am not meant for greatness.

• Gawain : My lady, are you real or are you a spirit?

  Winifred : What is the difference? I just need my head.

  Gawain : As will I before the year is up.

• Gawain : If I go in there and I find it, what would you offer me in exchange?

  Winifred : Why would you ask me that? Why would you ever ask me that?

• Gawain : Honor. That is why a knight does what he does.

• A woman in the brothel : You a knight yet?

  Gawain : What?

  A woman in the brothel : You a knight yet ?

  Gawain : Not yet.

  A woman in the brothel : Better hurry up !

  Gawain : I've got time, I've got lots of time.

• Gawain : Why do you stop me?

  Fox : Your doom is at hand!

• The Lady : Why is he Green, do you think?

  Gawain : The Knight?

  The Lady : Yes. Was he born that way?

  The Lord : Maybe it is the color of his blood when he blushes.

  The Lady : But why green? Why not blue? Or red?

  Gawain : Because he is not of this earth.

  The Lady : But green is the color of the earth. Of living things. Of life.

  Gawain : And of rot.

  The Lady : Yes. We deck our halls with it, dye our linens, but should it come creeping up the cobbles, we scrub it out, fast as we can. When it blooms beneath our skin, we bleed it out. And when we, together all, find that our reach has exceeded our grasp, we cut it down, we stamp it out, we spread ourselves atop it and smother it beneath our bellies. But it comes back. It does not dally; nor does it wait to plot or conspire. Pull it out by its roots one day, and the next there it is, creeping in around the edges. Whilst we're off looking for red, in comes green. Red is the color of lust, but green is what lust leaves behind--in heart, in womb. Green is what is left when ardor fades, when passion dies, when we die, too. When you go your footprints will fill with grass; moss will cover over your tombstone. And as the sun rises, green shall spread over all, in all its shades and hues. The verdigris will overtake your swords and your coins and your battlements, and, try as you might, all you hold dear will succumb to it. Your skin, your bones. Your virtue.

• Gawain : Wait! Is that it? Is that really all there is?

  Green Knight : What else would there be?