Gawain Patel
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight could be a fantastic movie, set in Britain's mythic past and telling an adventure of one of King Arthur's most famous knights, Sir Gawain. Yet from the casting of this movie you can tell this will be another worthless wokefest and waste of money.
Dev Patel, decent enough actor that he is, is of Indian descent, Sir Gawain, is not and never has been written of Indian descent, but coming from the Orkney Islands (An archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland).
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has been portrayed few times on the big screen and never has there been anything that’s come close to a decent telling of the tale, this won’t either with its profound virtue signalling.
In regard to passing this off as it’s just a fantasy story, and that anything goes, the fantasy realm of Camelot is set in medieval Britain, with the same place names and peoples of medieval Britain but also fantastic creatures and magic. For example Arthur defeats Rome, as well as the Danes, Norway and the Gauls in many sources.
Even in a fantasy world with wizards and dragons, humans are still be prejudiced about each other.
Moving away from a fantasy version of medieval Europe, ethnicity is more apparent in the fantasy genre, JRR Tolkien’s ethnic human’s differ greatly of one another, such as Easterlings and the Rohirrim for example, the same is with George R. R. Martin’s with The Dothraki and Wildlings for example.
Great authors do this to keep a level of realism, even in worlds of fantasy where dragons fly and unicorns roam.