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lordbelacqua · 2 years

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THE NORTHMAN (2022) dir. Robert Eggers

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dailyflicks · 2 years

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THE NORTHMAN (2022) dir. Robert Eggers

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magnusedom · 2 years

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You must choose between kindness for your kin, and hatred for your enemies.

THE NORTHMAN (2022) dir. Robert Eggers

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luthien-under-bough · 2 years

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just saw The Northman and now two naked men swordfighting on a volcano is my sexuality

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vlij · 2 years

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An interesting detail in The Northman, set in the late 9th century to early 10th century, is the inscription on Amleth’s sword, which says ‘draugr’ (ᛞᚱᛡᚢᚷᛦ) in a mix of Elder and Younger Futhark, and it might have been chosen for the film to further represent how ancient the sword was.

Runes of this style are characteristic of the transitional period that preceded later inscriptions of the Viking age in Younger Futhark, as can be seen on the Eggja runestone, dated to the late 7th century, and like on the sword, the runes *dagaz (ᛞ), *jera (ᛡ) with a vertical line and *gebo (ᚷ), lost in Younger Futhark, are still present (the shape of *jera was adopted to represent <h> in YF, instead of <a>), but uses the innovative upside-down *algiz (ᛦ), or yr, as it was known in Old Norse.

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bluedaddysgirl · 2 years

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The Northman — film review by yours truly

I cannot stress enough how gorgeous and visionary this film is. It is a cinematic experience like few others. It's story telling at its best, even revisiting such a well trodden story.

Amleth = Hamlet = Lion King = Revenge on bad uncle.

We all know how it goes, and yet I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Eggers managed to bring such a vivid world to life that I was lost in the culture and its influence on the characters and left with baited breath waiting for each plot beat to present itself.

Do NOT go watch this movie if you struggle with intense violence and gore. It's seriously R rated. It has cut noses, swords slowly pushed through heads, decapitations, spilling guts, intense beatings, human sacrifices, dead kids... It has too-realistic viking pillages that don't shy away from the horrors that implies, and the most true depiction of the slave system the Norse depended on ever put to film. If you're so-so on gore, as I am, I can guarantee you that it's usually well telegraphed, and you can look away most of the time. The worst is off screen.

Honestly, I recommend it anyway.

One of the most incredible elements, as usual for Eggers, was the blending of reality with myth, visions and beliefs with every day life. He truly managed to make these people feel alien—as they should. They practiced human sacrifices and had berserkers, ffs, they are alien to us now. And Eggers just nails it! You see rituals, visions, and a people doggedly set to fulfill their preset destinies, without ever blinking at the lack of agency or free will it implies.

Everyone seemed to operate by these ancient rules, only half shown and hinted at, reconstructed from what we know and can guess... And it made for a world I could touch and taste and feel lost in. I've not been so engrossed in a movie in a long time.

Eggers managed to make his depiction so unflinching, he somehow shot the most intense revenge porn since killbill, and the best viking movie ever, and still glorified neither violence, nor vengeance... nor vikings.

The story feels surprisingly not all that character driven. The dialogue isn't Shakespearean, but it has a strange, ancient lilt to it, keeping you from connecting with anyone fully. It made me feel like a time traveler. I still felt quite strongly for Olga and Amleth... But there's so much to peal back from the characters, even when they have few lines. There's so much sweet meta...

This film is an oddity. It's so atmospheric, so terrible, so gorgeous... It's too much. Also. OmG. Sweaty Claes Bang tiddies... Too much indeed.

I think it's a masterpiece. My rating still goes The Lighthouse > The Northman > The VVitch, but I'm basically an Eggers fangirl for life at this stage. The man can do no wrong. He said he'll return to indie films after this, but I'm grateful to the studios that decided to trust him with this wild ride anyway. It'll become cult, even if it bombs.

*sigh* just go see it. Go see this strange, odd film that somehow proves cinema isn't dead.

Also it has Willem Dafoe in a loincloth, barking. Like, that and Claes Bang's bare butt, IDK what else to tell you to sell you on this genius film!

Oh wait, yes, ETHAN HAWKE nude and barking on the ground with Dafoe. Like. I'm telling you it's wild and you need it in your life.

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doctorjennifermelfi · 2 years

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men will literally get oiled up and fight to the death at the base of an active volcano instead of going to therapy

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bereft-of-frogs · 2 years

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Did I go to the movies tonight? Yes. Did I see Doctor Strange? No. I saw The Northman again.

Head empty. No thoughts.

Only volcano fight.

#we were supposed to see the Batman but when we got there I was just not feeling it #I wanted to immerse in the Northman vibes again #I’m seeing doctor strange tomorrow with another friend who couldn’t make it today #I don’t think there’s going to be a volcano fight. so that’s already sad #the northman #the northman spoilers #I’m sure doctor strange will be fine but no volcano fight 😔#also I could watch the first Valkyrie scene like 100 more times damn it’s so good

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usernamesuggestionsarefunny · 2 years

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I hate how the mere fact Gunnar dies in "The Northman". He was such a sweet kid, and the way Amleth defended him was so moving, as if he saw himself as a child in him, the child he was before all the trauma.

I was sort of hoping Amleth would steal Gunnar and raise him as his own along with Olga instead (Just like he wanted to do before discovering her mother was straight up evil). If they made Fjölnir and Gudrún believe they had killed him in order to make them suffer, at least for a while before the climax where they both died, even better! lol

Would it be unrealistic for a child not to care about Amleth killing his parents and brother even if explained the reason why? Would it be unrealistic for that child to grow up loving his adopted parents and siblings in a culture as different and as "muh honor" based as that of the vikings? Would it be unrealistic for that child NOT to seek vengeance and thus break the cycle of violence? Would it break the rules of the saga genre, be unrealistic, too corny for the ~cool and shockingly violent~ Viking movie, too modern-values-way-of-seeing-the-world biased or whatever, blah blah, etc, etc? Don't know, don't care, and all those objections can go suck a dick.

I thought Uhtred (From The Last Kingdom) growing up identifying as a pagan Dane with 0 nostalgia for the Christian God and almost none for the Saxons after said Danes traumatized him and killed his father was unrealistic and dumb as fuck, especially considering he was 13, almost a teenager, not a small kid too young to remember his life with the Christians later on, but I didn't complain because ~vikings cool Christians lame or so the media goes~ , it was fiction, and there was a narrative reason to make the character that way. Same thing could have been said about Gunnar surviving his family's murder and being implied not to have grown up to seek revenge in the end. Edit: Especially considering I call bullshit on the idea that a woman as willing to discard her own children as long as she comes out on top wouldn’t display that same level of carelessness and even abuse in her parenting style, as the movie seems to imply. Being treated better by his new family would realistically have had an influence on Gunnar and how much he would have wanted revenge.

Amleth actively making the decision not to kill his half brother would have been far more powerful than him dying fighting the villain naked in a volcano (As cool, or hot * no pun intended * or amazing, or... accurate to the sagas? idk as that scene admittedly was). Why? Because that kid, Gunnar, was Amleth, an innocent child almost murdered for the terrible crimes of his father and the ambition of his uncle. Imagine the narrative acknowledging that, acknowledging it is wrong to kill children for what they MIGHT do in the future or the fucked up "evil runs in families" excuse even the villains in this movie use WITHOUT falling into the old "killing child murderers and slavers and murderers who gouge people's eyes out makes you just as bad as them or some shit" lame trope.

"Too much of a modern message for an ancient saga", you may say, but why should we care? Olga was a new addition, Amleth as a character was already molded to modern sensibilities in order to make him easier to root for:

1 Part of a slave trading culture, a warrior who raids villages for the purpose of slave trade-not actually shown kidnapping people nor selling them into slavery.

2 It is implied many of the women in the village were raped-it is nowhere implied Amleth has ever done this.

3 Nowhere is Amleth shown mistreating or massacring the villagers (He is just a passive bystander, which is easier for modern movie audiences to gloss over).

4 In fact, as the other men kill and mistreat people, Amleth appears to be somewhere between horrified by what he is witnessing everyone else do and numb to it after years of desensitization.

5 He never seems happy to be killing people, not even in battle.

5 Very respectful to women and all. Even his mother he is unwilling to harm.

6 He WAS planning to spare Gunnar before the evil mother reveal happened. He is protective over him as well.

7 The writers made him kill Gunnar in self defence instead of premeditatedly and he is even disturbed about it (Which I appreciate, actually, and I thought it moving and fitting for Gunnar to go down trying to avenge his mother, BUT it was such an OBVIOUS in-your-face COP OUT it is INSANE. It was clearly done that way to a) get rid of a character the writers were no longer using or thought had to die in order to tie up all loose ends of the revenge plot, b) doing so all without making the protagonist an unlikeable child murderering prick, and c) the fact Olga and her babies were living and the mother and uncle were going to be defeated by the main character made the ending far too hopeful in spite of his death, almost happy, too unlike the realistic, brutal story they were telling, so yet another child living was a no-no, they needed an ~obligatory shocking moment~ and since using rape is thankfully no longer as accepted, making the mc kill a child he was shown to have cared for was * it * this time).

8 He has some cool scenes where he frees slaves and saves a girl from being sacrificed, you can't get more "modern values instead of ancient pagan ones" than that.

Like, let's be real, the ninth century was ruthless. I don't doubt people like Amleth existed, people who deep down were compassionate and yet were surrounded by a normalized/ritualized sort of brutality they found hard to stand up against. I don't doubt they existed, but they must have been very, very rare. Even so, they make for the best protagonists in period dramas imo because I don't want to fucking hate the main character. I don't, I want likeable characters, and personally I ALSO prefer hopeful endings and good messages regardless of how "unrealistic" or "not the same tone" or "not fitting the values of that time" or "modern" or whatever they are.

Anyway, I actually loved the movie, like 9 out of 10, I really did. I didn't even mind the protagonist dying, it was for real just that one part, what they did with that child character in particular that I personally found to be wasted potential, deeply unsatisfying, and disappointing. Like, not even an hour after watching the movie as it usually happens when I have issues with certain scenes, but right as it was happening.

For real, I hope I am not crazy and that fanfic writers see the same thing I do lol

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moondarkens · 2 years

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