10 Movies That Had The Balls To Do It Better (AND WANTED YOU TO KNOW)

10. The Green Knight

David Lowery's mesmerising Arthurian fantasy epic The Green Knight is a bold, spirited adaptation of the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Though Lowery's film is certainly faithful to the spirit and the soul of the source text, it also diverges in some notable ways.

Beyond being decidedly more explicit and Mature than the poem, it changes the Green Knight (Ralph Ineson) into a more feral character, Sir Gawain (Dev Patel) is aged-up, new characters such as The Scavenger (Barry Keoghan) are introduced, and the ending is somewhat different.

It's a superb film any way you slice it, but Lowery concealed a slightly cheeky nod to the changes he made to the story within the dialogue of the movie itself.

At the end of the second act when Gawain meets the Lady (Alicia Vikander), she tells him that her library of books are comprised of stories she has herself written down after being told them by others.

She then tells Gawain, "Don't tell anyone this. Sometimes when I see room for improvements… I make them."

This is basically Lowery winking at the audience and slyly confirming that he tried to improve the original story - and arguably, he absolutely succeeded.