History Film / TheGreenKnight

* AdaptedOut: Gawain is traditionally the eldest of King Arthur's four nephews by his sister Morgause (five if you count Mordred). The film condenses Gawain's family situation: he has three sisters, and Morgause is {{Composite|Character}}d with [[spoiler:King Arthur's other, more sorcerous sister Morgan le Fay, who instigates the Green Knight affair]].

* AdaptationalAbomination: The Green Knight of the poem was an AmbiguouslyHuman man colored green, here he's a literal PlantPerson who was either created or summoned with black magic.
* AdaptationalContextChange: In the story the movie is loosely based on, Gawain offers himself to play the Green Knight's game in Arthur's place because he knows he's more expendable than the King. Here Gawain volunteers himself to play out of a misguided desire to prove himself to Arthur and his knights.
* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler: An interesting example, in that there actually is a "gay kiss" in the original poem but it's explicitly just a chivalric game rather than anything romantic. Here, it -- along with his constant, generous gift-giving and attention -- is recontextualized as the Lord having clear romantic feelings for Gawain.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: Gawain in the usual Arthurian telling is treated as one of the best knights in Arthur's court, frequently bordering on superhuman. Gawain here is not even a true knight yet, and is at one point easily beaten and robbed by three bandits. He also [[spoiler:flees the confrontation at the Green Chapel. This part is subverted, however, when it turns out to be a dream, and he removes the girdle, [[AdaptationalBadass something his counterpart in the poem never had the will to do]]]].
** King Arthur is depicted as older and physically weaker than we usually see.

** Part of this deconstruction comes from the fact that Camelot is facing an EndOfAEra, implying that the film set further along in the Arthurian story than other versions. The fact that Arthur dies in the BadFuture supports this.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The movie presents a grim view of [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Arthurian Legends]]. For the sake of honor and chivalry, Gawain is forced onto a suicidal quest that will end his life before he can even become a knight. Many people of Camelot seem to place more value on Gawain's new status as a legend than his actual life. Each obstacle he overcomes is in the pursuit of ''his own death,'' highlighting the absurdity of Gawain's journey for a vague cause he's been forced into and doesn't believe in.

* BadassBaritone: Creator/RalphIneson already has a cavernously deep voice, and in this movie further effects are added on to it so that whenever he speaks he sounds like an old tree coming to life.

* AnAxeToGrind: Just like in the source material, the eponymous Green Knight prefers the axe.

''The Green Knight'' is a 2021 DarkFantasy film written and directed by Creator/DavidLowery and starring Creator/DevPatel, Creator/AliciaVikander, Creator/JoelEdgerton, Creator/SaritaChoudhury, Creator/SeanHarris, Creator/KateDickie, Creator/BarryKeoghan, Creator/ErinKellyman, and Creator/RalphIneson. It is based upon the classic Myth/ArthurianLegend tale ''Literature/SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight''. It was initially set to be released in May 29th, 2020 in the United States by Creator/{{A24}}, but its release date was moved to July 30, 2021 due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.

* TheGoodKing: Despite the deconstructionist bent of the movie, Arthur is portrayed as an unambiguously fair, wise, and noble ruler who commands the respect of every other character. He is, however, old, hoarse-voiced, and rather frail.

* SceneryPorn: If you love bleak Irish moors and ornate castles, this is the film for you.

* ColorMotif: Frequent [[RedGreenContrast contrasts of red and green]], which the Lady actually pontificates upon in a lengthy monologue.

''The Green Knight'' is a 2021 DarkFantasy film written and directed by Creator/DavidLowery and starring Creator/DevPatel, Creator/AliciaVikander, Creator/JoelEdgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Creator/SeanHarris, Creator/KateDickie, Creator/BarryKeoghan, Creator/ErinKellyman, and Creator/RalphIneson. It is based upon the classic Myth/ArthurianLegend tale ''Literature/SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight''. It was initially set to be released in May 29th, 2020 in the United States by Creator/{{A24}}, but its release date was moved to July 30, 2021 due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The original poem has its own grisly elements, this movie ramps them up and [[spoiler: ends before the happy ending.]]

* BolivianArmyEnding: A possible interpretation, if you think [[spoiler: the Green Knight really does behead Gawain anyway.]]

* AbsoluteCleavage: The Lady's dress has a nonexistent neckline. [[spoiler:She's actively trying to seduce Gawain the entire time, which she eventually succeeds at]].

* AdaptedOut: Gawain is traditionally the eldest of King Arthur's four nephews by his sister Morgause (five if you count Mordred). The film condenses Gawain's family situation: he has three sisters and Morgause is {{Composite|Character}}d with [[spoiler:King Arthur's other, more sorcerous sister Morgan le Fay, who instigates the Green Knight affair]].

** [[spoiler:Biggest of all, through DreamingOfThingsToCome, he defies his fate at the Green Knight's hands, fleeing back to Camelot, growing to the King of the Britons forever haunted by his dishonorable actions. And the ending never even makes clear if the Green Knight did, in fact, end up killing him.]]
** In the poem, the fox (nicknamed Reynard by the narration) is hunted by Lord Bertilak on the third day of Gawain's stay at his castle. The lengthy chase sequence acts as a PlotParallel to Lady Bertilak's attempts to seduce Gawain, but while Reynard is captured, killed and skinned, Gawain manages to resist the Lady's affections and demonstrate his chivalry. In the film, Gawain encounters the fox (who like most of the film's characters goes unnamed) much earlier on, and it acts as his BondCreature for about a quarter of the film, but they are eventually separated when Gawain arrives at Castle Bertilak. The fox is instead captured alive on the second day of Lord Bertilak's hunt, and though Bertilak intended to give the him to Gawain as a gift as in the original, he releases the creature instead when his attempts at seducing Gawain are rebuffed. The fox again acts as Gawain's guide for a little while longer, before [[spoiler: he chases it away when it tries to dissuade him from going to the Green Chapel.]]

* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler: An interesting example, in that there actually is a "gay kiss" in the original poem but it's explicitly just a chivalric game rather than anything romantic. Here, it - along with his constant, generous gift-giving and attention - is recontextualized as the Lord having clear romantic feelings for Gawain.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: Gawain in the usual Arthurian myth telling is treated as one of the best knights in Arthur's court, frequently bordering on superhuman. Gawain here is not even a true knight yet, and is at one point easily beaten and robbed by three bandits. He also [[spoiler:flees the confrontation at the Green Chapel. This part is subverted, however, when it turns out to be a dream and he removes the girdle [[AdaptationalBadass something his counterpart in the poem never had the will to do]]]].

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:After Gawain removes the green girdle, the Green Knight congratulates him for his bravery before tracing his finger across Gawain's neck and teasingly saying "Now off with your head". The movie immediately ends after this, leaving it unclear whether the Knight still plans to cut Gawain's head off or was sparing him with a joke.]]

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The Lord questions if meeting the Green Knight is ''truly'' how Gawain gains honor, as if one act is all it takes to become an honorable knight. Gawain's BluntYes exposes just how simple his understanding of honor actually is.

* AuthorAppeal: Creator/DavidLowery has a fondness for lettering, which appears in the form of Gawain's mother writing her note to Arthur and Guinevere during her ritual.

* BadFuture: [[spoiler: Gawain sees a vision of one while he is in the Green Chapel. In it, he lives the rest of his life embittered from having failed to display honor. He ascends to the throne of Camelot but rules unjustly and loses everything to the rebellion before his very eyes.]]

* BlackVikings: Arthur's Camelot is filled with people of African and Asian ancestry, probably to justify the {{Race Lift}}s of Gawain and his mother.

** [[spoiler:Gawain himself seems to have been merged with his younger brother Mordred, as the BadFuture shows him taking over Arthur's throne and ruining Camelot's]].
** [[spoiler:These might not be as strange as they first seem. Morgause and Morgan have been conflated or composited in Arthurian tales before. In some older versions, particularly the 13th century French cycles, Mordred is Morgauze's son, Gawain's half-brother, and Arthur's nephew making the composite character elements potentially more authentic to older versions of Arthurian tales]].

* CostumePorn: All over the place, but special mention goes to the regalia that Arthur and Guinevere wear, with gold crowns that resemble halos. Guinevere's own costume is particularly notable: The pewter pieces she wears correspond to various holy places and churches around England. A common practice of medieval England would be to go on pilgrimages to such places (e.g. the site of Thomas Beckett's murder at Canterbury Cathedral) and collect pewter tokens commemorating the visit. That her chest is hung with them shows that Guinevere is a devoted and pious queen.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: The Queen and the Green Knight himself both point out during the court scene that a cut on the cheek will be enough to indulge the Knight. But Gawain, in his hotheaded need for respect from the Round Table, goes for cutting off the Knight's head, making his quest to the Green Chapel seemingly much more suicidal than if he just took the Knight's suggestion of a harmless option.
* DarkFantasy: In the oldest sense, as in a horror story in a medieval setting. Subjects include dark visions, witchcraft, monstrous giants, and ghosts.

* DeconReconSwitch: [[spoiler:The BadFuture demonstrates ''why'' the code of chivalry exists. Without them, Gawain becomes a cruel, hated ruler and brings Camelot to ruin. Gawain finally choosing to display honor instead of assuming he can ''become'' honorable is what ultimately proves that he is capable of being a good knight.]]

* DemonicPossession: Guinevere reading the Green Knight's challenge is treated as this.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Subverted. [[spoiler:Arthur is implied in the ending to die from natural causes rather than in final battle against Mordred. The subversion comes from this being nothing more than a vision of a BadFuture where Gawain lost himself to dishonor.]]
* DirtyCoward: Gawain's FatalFlaw here. He wants to be a knight worthy of Arthur's approval and crown, but clearly can't endure the hardships and danger that would come with it. [[spoiler:The vision he has in the ending shows him wearing his enchanted girdle throughout his entire return to Camelot, showing that towards the end of his life, he remained a coward that lived in perpetual fear. He is eventually DrivenToSuicide once the weight of his failed rule comes crashing down on him.]]
* DoubleMeaningTitle: "The Green Knight" indeed refers to the mysterious ax-wielding fighter from the myths, here reimagined into a PlantPerson. But it can also refer to the protagonist Gawain: in the poem, Gawain is already an experienced and respected Knight of the Round when he goes off to fight the Green Knight, but here he's a "green" knight-in-training going on a coming-of-age quest and discovering what true honor is.

* EndOfAnEra: By the time the story begins, the prestige of Camelot is waning. King Arthur is no longer a young, powerful king and his knights are wary of fighting new battles. In terms of environment, the outside lands are either littered with bodies from finished battles or in the midst of deforestation. [[spoiler: The ending suggests either that Gawain could either be [[UncertainDoom the last of the Arthurian age]], [[BadFuture the start of a new dishonorable era]], or the start of a new generation to continue Camelot's legacy.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening shot of the film shows a burning house that can be seen from the window of the brothel Gawain is currently in. He doesn't seem to care or even notice it, much less concerned with helping put it out. This establishes him as not being particularly noble at this point despite his desire to be a knight.

* ExcaliburInTheStone: Arthur is mentioned as drawing the Sword from the Stone, but the film leaves it unclear if it's meant to be the same sword he has in the present or even if it's called Excalibur.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The whole of Gawain's arc. His entire quest is to meet with the Green Knight to accept his fate and allow his blow to be returned in kind. [[spoiler:He seemingly fails and returns a haunted and cowardly man that eventually loses or betrays all that he loves and leads Camelot to ruin. But it was AllJustADream and Gawain fully displays courage and honor by taking off the girdle that protects him. His ultimate fate in this movie's version of the story is left ambiguous but he ends his journey fully embracing this trope.]]

** The Green Knight is set up to evoke a fae being. Gawain claims he is "not of this Earth" and his discussions with the Lady frame the Green Knight as some sort of nature spirit.

*** The architectural style of their home looks several centuries ahead of the medieval stone structures we saw at Camelot, and the "portrait" taken of Gawain seems to be a permanent photograph (which didn't get invented until the 19th century), making the pair seem advanced and otherworldly compared to Gawain.
*** The Lady says that she's read, transcribed or written all of the books in her large library. She seems far too young to have accomplished all that.

*** According to most tales: if, after you leave/escape a faery bower, you turn back to look at it, it will have vanished. When the Lord lets Gawain go, he tells him that if Gawain does come back that way the the Lord and his household will be gone.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the opening of the film, Gawain tries to pay Essel to stay with him in the brothel and tosses her coin which lands on the floor. Later, before Gawain embarks on his quest to the Green Chapel, Essel asks if Gawain would marry her when he returns from his journey. He dodges her question by claiming he could offer her more gold than any lady or noblewoman and is entirely silent after Essel professes her desire to spend her life with Gawain. [[spoiler: After Gawain chickens out from completing the Green Knight's challenge and returns to Camelot, Gawain demonstrates how far his weakness of character extends to when he abducts his and Essel's son moments after she gives birth and leaves her with a handful of coins tossed on her mattress. Subverted in that this is revealed to be part of a vision of a BadFuture.]]
* GainaxEnding: The film has [[spoiler: a lengthy sequence of Gawain fleeing the confrontation at the Green Chapel, returning to Camelot, and succeeding his uncle as king. Then at the end of his reign, Camelot under siege by his enemies, Gawain pulls off the girdle and his head falls off. The movie returns back to the Green Chapel where Gawain removes the girdle, the Green Knight congratulates him and prepares to cut off his head. Or perhaps was just teasing Gawain before sparing him]].

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Possibly. Gawain's quest is a long, lonely affair, and by its end he has hallucinated himself as a decayed skeleton, conversed with a ghost and a fox, and encountered a group of naked giants. On the other hand, the movie is rather unambiguously a fantasy, leaving it up in the air how much of the magical events Gawain goes through during this stretch of the movie were real.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Stated by the beginning narration; it may be Gawain's story but it sure as Hell is Arthur's kingdom.

* HonorBeforeReason: Interestingly, the ultimate point of the story. [[spoiler:If Gawain understandably refuses to have his head chopped off, he'll spend the rest of his life ashamed and living in fear of the Green Knight, dooming the realm in the process. Conversely, going to his sure death seems foolhardy, but finally shows him embracing a Knight's honor.]]

* IncestSubtext: A lot of it concerning Morgan le Fay and her relationship with Gawain and the king. She possesses the queen, her brother's wife, through her creation, the Green Knight, who reads Morgana's words with Guinevere's mouth, merging the two women for a moment - seemingly for the heck of it, but also to torment her brother and his family; she is very deeply enmeshed in his life overall, to the point of it being decidedly unhealthy.
* IWantMyMommy: Visually implied when Gawain dreams of his mother comforting him as he sleeps in the Lord's castle, after having suffered through an intense MushroomSamba.
* JustBeforeTheEnd: Subtly implied throughout. It's never directly stated, but nevertheless made clear that Camelot is [[TheDungAges in rough shape]], and most of the places outside Arthur's castle are sinking into various degrees of squalor. Civilization outside Camelot appears practically nonexistent, and Gawain's journey takes him through miles and miles of lonely road without ''ever'' passing another town, village, or city. The only living people he encounters on his quest are a trio of wandering bandits and the AmbiguouslyHuman Lord and Lady Bertilak who live in a gigantic manorhouse apparently ''alone'' but for a silent, blindfolded old woman. [[TheGoodKing Arthur's rule]] seems to be the only thing holding the dying kingdom together, as [[spoiler:once Gawain takes the throne in the BadFuture, the whole kingdom almost instantly descends into warfare and anarchy.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Gawain taking Essel's child away in favor a marrying a different woman of noble status shows just how much of a {{jerkass}} he's become. Luckily it was just a vision of the BadFuture.]]
* LandOfFaerie: Like in most Arthurian tales it's never explicitly stated that this is where Gawain has entered, and it's not precisely clear when he does, but there is a clear distinction between the lands of Camelot (where magic is out of the norm and intrusive) and the wilds Gawain enters some time after meeting the bandits, which are full of spirits and monsters. They also fit some of the other tropes of Fairyland, such as remaining lush and green even as Gawain's journey gets closer and closer to winter.
* LastChanceToQuit: [[spoiler:The fox tells Gawain to turn back and run back home when he reaches the stream that will take him to the Green Chapel. Gawain refuses to let his quest go unfinished, but the fox points out that the reason why he has no reservations is because he thinks his girdle will protect him as promised.]]

** Winifred died when a lord whose advances she rejected decapitated her and threw her head into a nearby spring. Gawain returns her skull to her body and is rewarded by the return of the stolen Green Knight's axe.
** [[spoiler: In the BadFuture, Gawain is DrivenToSuicide after failing as a king and living in shame for fleeing the Chapel. He kills himself by removing the girdle and his head falls off as though it had been cut.]]

** The scavengers who ambush Gawain and steal the Green Knight's axe from him. It's the most unambiguously realistic obstacle Gawain encounters in his journey and yet it's not clear if it's a fantastical challenge that's part of his journey to the Green Chapel or an actual trio of bandits that ran off with the axe before Winifred got it back for Gawain.
** The girdle that protects Gawain from harm. Interestingly, it is never actually shown in effect throughout the movie. Regardless of whether it actually works or not, it ultimately serves as Gawain's SecurityBlanket through the final stretch of the movie so as to symbolize the cowardice that he is meant to overcome with this quest.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Inverted. Arthur, Guinevere, Morgan le Fay, Merlin, Bishop Baldwin, Reynard the Fox and Bertilak de Hautdesert all appear in the film, but none of them are named. Gawain and Essel are the only characters whose names are said in dialogue.

* NeverTrustATrailer: In general the advertising for the film made it look like more of an action-packed fantasy epic than the slow, meditative affair it truly is.
** The second trailer makes it look as if Gawain and the Green Knight actually fight each other in a full fledged duel, whereas in the film itself [[spoiler:the Green Knight simply kneels down and allows Gawain to behead him]].

** The Green Knight himself speaks in Ralph Ineson's natural Yorkshire accent. Aptly, Gawain has to ride North of Camelot to find him in the Green Chapel.

* QuestionableConsent: Another layer of FanDisservice that wasn't present in the original myth. In the movie, Gawain is played as an aimless young man who finally stopped lazing around and is on the first real quest of his life/career. He gets robbed of everything but his clothes and a magical axe, wanders the forest for days, and then gets seduced by the woman who [[SacredHospitality is sheltering and feeding him.]] In addition to his physical weakness, he's clearly desperate to get his mother's enchanted girdle back and [[SignificantDoubleCasting she looks A LOT like his girlfriend back home.]]
* RaceLift: Gawain is played by Creator/DevPatel, an actor of Indian descent. While there are two knights of the Round Table who are not white (Morien the Moor and Palomedes the Saracen), Gawain is not one of them. In fact, he's based on an earlier Welsh character. His mother is another case despite playing the sister of Creator/SeanHarris, although they were half-siblings in the original legends. Saint Winifred is also portrayed by the mixed race Creator/ErinKellyman, though it's unclear whether she's playing a white Briton or not.

* ShoutOut: When King Arthur hands Excalibur to Gawain to smite the Green Knight, it glows a bright green light, reminiscent of Creator/JohnBoorman's ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'', where the sword glows the same tone.
* ShownTheirWork: The character of Winifred isn't in the original poem. However, the poem does reference Gawain traveling past a place called "Holy Hede" which modern scholars generally agree is the Welsh town of Holywell. The town's name comes from a legend about none other than Saint Winifred, which plays out much like it does in this movie, with the exception that [[spoiler:in the original legend Winifred is restored to life by a passing saint, and then goes on to become a saint herself]].
* SilenceIsGolden: There are long stretches with no dialogue. The longest is [[spoiler:Gawain's vision of the future at the end, which goes on for over ten minutes with only music and sound effects]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The scavenger who steals Gawain's horse and axe never appears again after (minus a small glimpse in the BadFuture, which doesn't mean much). The axe finds its way back to Gawain, apparently by Saint Winifred's direction.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: While he was shamed into retrieving it from the spring, Gawain reunites Winifred's skull with her body despite being frightened by her ghost and having no real incentive. This earns him the return of the Green Knight's axe and foreshadows how he ''does'' have it in him to be an honorable knight.

** The Green Knight is set up to evoke a fae being. Even though we the viewers see that he's more along the lines of some sort of magical golem, Gawain is made to think he's a spirit of nature thanks to his green thumb and Lady Bertilak's hypothesis.

* DirtyCoward: Gawain's FatalFlaw here. He wants to be a knight worthy of Arthur's approval and crown, but clearly can't endure the hardships and danger that would come with it. [[spoiler:The vision he has in the ending shows him wearing his enchanted girdle throughout his entire return to Camelot, showing that towards the end of his life, he remained a coward that lived in perpetual fear. He is eventually DrivenToSuicide once the weight of his failed rule comes crashing down on him, thus showing that his cowardice extended even to his death.]]

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Gawain asks Winifred if she's real or a spirit. Since they live in an unambiguous fantasy world, Winifred is understandably annoyed that Gawain would even ask that question and asks if there's supposed to be a difference.

* Foreshadowing: In the opening of the film, Gawain tries to pay Essel to stay with him in the brothel and tosses her coin which lands on the floor. Later, before Gawain embarks on his quest to the Green Chapel, Essel asks if Gawain would marry her when he returns from his journey. He dodges her question by claiming he could offer her more gold than any lady or noblewoman and is entirely silent after Essel professes her desire to spend her life with Gawain. [[spoiler: After Gawain chickens out from completing the Green Knight's challenge and returns to Camelot, Gawain demonstrates how far his weakness of character extends to when he abducts his and Essel's son moments after she gives birth and leaves her with a handful of coins tossed on her mattress. Subverted in that this is revealed to be part of a vision of a BadFuture.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Gawain taking Essel's child away shows just how much of a {{jerkass}} he's become. Luckily it was just a vision of the BadFuture.]]

*** Gawain treks for miles after meeting Winifred but encounters no villagers or townsfolk until he stumbles on Lord Bertilak's castle and beats down the door to get out of the rain. Moreover, he runs through one last stretch of WildWilderness when he leaves for the Green Chapel. Real-life castles need a community for trade and tithing, even if it's just a village or two for necessities.

* CoolCrown: The crowns prominently worn by King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, which give the impression of [[BackgroundHalo an angelic halo behind their heads]]. They resemble real medieval art, which often depicted saints and other holy figures with circular halos.
* CoolHorse: Gawain's steed Gringolet that he loses to the bandits.

* BadFuture: [[spoiler: Gawain sees a vision of one while he is in the Green Chapel. In it, he lives the rest of his life embittered from having failed to gain his honor. He ascends to the throne of Camelot but rules unjustly and loses everything to the rebellion before his very eyes.]]

** [[spoiler:These might not be as strange as they first seem. Morgauze and Morgan have been conflated or composited in Arthurian tales before. In some older versions, particularly the 13th century French cycles, Mordred is Morgauze's son, Gawain's half-brother, and Arthur's nephew making the composite character elements potentially more authentic to older versions of Arthurian tales]].
* CoolCrown: The crowns prominently worn by King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, which give the impression of [[BackgroundHalo an angelic halo behind their heads]].

* BadFuture: [[spoiler: Gawain sees a vision of one while he is in the Green Chapel. In it, he lives the rest of his life embittered from having lost his honor. He ascends to the throne of Camelot but rules unjustly and loses everything to the rebellion before his very eyes.]]

* RaceLift: Gawain is played by Creator/DevPatel, an actor of Indian descent. While there are two knights of the Round Table that are not white (Morien the Moor and Palomedes the Saracen), Gawain is not one of them. In fact, he's based on an earlier Welsh character. His mother is another case despite playing the sister of Creator/SeanHarris, although they were half-siblings in the original legends. Saint Winifred is also portrayed by the mixed race Creator/ErinKellyman, though it's unclear whether she's playing a white Briton or not.

* SexlessMarriage: [[spoiler:In his BadFuture vision, Gawain spurns his beautiful new bride on their wedding night and instead sires a son with Essel. At some point, Gawain apparently does impregnate his wife, however, as she eventually births a daughter]].