The Green Knight: History, Myth, and Modern Shame -- A Historian's View
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Making Morgan Gawaine's Mother
In the movie, making morgan gawaine's mother adds a whole other level of possible meaning and interpret tion to the story. In an interview with vanity fair, the writer and director david lowery actually makes this implication explicit. He says in this interview that he moved the characters around and made morgan lafay gawayne's own mother. And in writing it, he saysq, it became a drama about a mother and a son in a way i hadn't intended.
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