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But isn't that what acting is all about.The new movie The Green Knight is getting good reviews from the critics but instead of talking about the story or the quality of the acting the professional media caste seem to only talk about how "stunning and brave" it was to take a white medieval English knight and have an Indian Hindu play the character. What gives?
I was looking forward to seeing a good sword fighting film but now it seems to have gone woke so I hope it goes broke.
Gawain and the Green Knight is not historically accurate??? A work of fantasy is brought to the screen and and it doesn't fit with your ideas about what actual Medieval England was like? Well, fuck it. That means it must be crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I think the OP is right in one respect - a Medieval Knight could not have been Indian.
Because the first known Indians to have set foot in England didn't arrive until the 17th century at the very earliest.
But there definitely Knights of Black or Moorish ethnicity fighting the armies of Europe during the Middle Ages.
THAT is a fact.
So if the filmmaker was gonna choose a dark skinned man, it should've been a Black person nt an East Indian.
In fact, he could have made note or mentioned it in the film that Knights of Black extraction did exist back then.
pretending to be someone you are not?
It's also what fantasy fiction is all about. For fuck's sake, what is Gawain and the Green Knight? Reality based non-fiction?
Here's a clip from Canadian Television which features a painting with a dark-skinned Knight during the Middle Ages r Renaissance. The painting is located in Portugal:
Whether the painting is authentic or not remains to be seen. However if it is, it does indicate that Knights with dark skin color existed at one time in European History:
African Blacks traded with Eurpeans... for Example Olive trees are native to Africa, not the Mediterranean countries. And there was some rotten fish sauce that was traded too. I forget its name.
My understanding is olive trees came from western most Asia. The fish sauce was garam and that wasn't popular until Roman times where as olive trees go back further than the written record.
My source said Africa....and garam sounds about right.... olive trees go back as far as 4,000 years.... they just slice new shoots in rather wide ancient trunks.