It was pretty sick. Super manly and it actually respected a European culture as an actual culture for the first time in forever. You should know its not like 300 or anything like that though. Just a super sincere, fairly well done take on Vikings.
An easy 8.5 or 9/10, but like the person I took with me complained that there was too much dancing and they weren’t really wrong. I unironically enjoyed some of the dancing though.
Ex archaeologist with a speciality in Post Roman up to the Viking Age here.
This movie blew me away. The attention to detail, the focus on slavery, the costumes, warfare, relation to their beliefs. All superb, a 10/10 as far as historical epics go.
Absolutely zero political messaging that I could see. And it didnt shy away from how brutal life could be. Theres also a small moment where some vikings act horrified and terrified of Christian belief "they worship a corpse nailed to a tree!" Which was a breath of fresh air, usually pagans are depicted as having nothing but disdain for christianity which doesnt hold true considering they would all eventually convert.
I would recommend anyone with even a passing interest in the vikings or good story telling.
Theres a lot of references to ritual dances in the Saga's and Christian sources. Old tribal culture was very musical. Harald Hadrada (Hard Ruler) who was the quintessential viking ruler, wrote tons of Poetry and the guy had been a warrior king his whole life and even died on the battlefield. Most northern germanic and Scandinavian sources we have are songs and poems meant to be sung in the mead halls which was the center of their life. So I can fully get behind the dancing in this movie.
Big fan; but the prophesied "maiden queen" seemed out of place. I guess that's just me though?
Loved the movie overall, but yeah that little "oh even though you will have a son and a daughter; the daughter will rule over VIKINGS in 900 AD"; really?
IMO seems we couldn't get it 100% right; someone had to shove a little 0.1% woke pandering in there (literally "yass queen slay" lol).
Cool I’ll check it out. I love Shakespeare, I’ll look into that. I still never read hamlet so I bought it recently. Plus have the complete works. So no excuse.
We read Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and MacBeth. I’m lucky I went to high school when they still read Shakespeare. I’d hate to see what they read now.
Fassbender? Never heard of it. I haven’t seen the Denzel MacBeth. He is one of my favorite actors. I always joke that I’m not interested race swaps but Denzel is the exception lol.
Because of switching high schools and the like, I wound up taking Romeo and Juliet three bloody times. The second time was the most educational, though; the teacher actually knew his subject (a master's degree teacher vs a teaching school teacher.)
Half the teachers with masters degrees have their masters in education, which is a big joke (I have like half the classes needed for one too).
Not saying your teacher wasn't good, and I'm ignorant of what masters he had.
Ok, he did have a master's in English. I assumed it would be understood that the master's degree would be in the relevant fucking subject, rather than someone who was just taught how to teach (ie, your "master of education" critter.)
I was assigned Richard the Third in 9th or 10th and it unironically turned into one of my favorite books I had read. Read it for fun maybe 20 times before I graduated.
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It was pretty sick. Super manly and it actually respected a European culture as an actual culture for the first time in forever. You should know its not like 300 or anything like that though. Just a super sincere, fairly well done take on Vikings.
An easy 8.5 or 9/10, but like the person I took with me complained that there was too much dancing and they weren’t really wrong. I unironically enjoyed some of the dancing though.
Thank you. I’ll check it out for sure
Bollywood??
Ex archaeologist with a speciality in Post Roman up to the Viking Age here. This movie blew me away. The attention to detail, the focus on slavery, the costumes, warfare, relation to their beliefs. All superb, a 10/10 as far as historical epics go. Absolutely zero political messaging that I could see. And it didnt shy away from how brutal life could be. Theres also a small moment where some vikings act horrified and terrified of Christian belief "they worship a corpse nailed to a tree!" Which was a breath of fresh air, usually pagans are depicted as having nothing but disdain for christianity which doesnt hold true considering they would all eventually convert. I would recommend anyone with even a passing interest in the vikings or good story telling.
Thank you! That is a fascinating time of history to learn about.
Theres a lot of references to ritual dances in the Saga's and Christian sources. Old tribal culture was very musical. Harald Hadrada (Hard Ruler) who was the quintessential viking ruler, wrote tons of Poetry and the guy had been a warrior king his whole life and even died on the battlefield. Most northern germanic and Scandinavian sources we have are songs and poems meant to be sung in the mead halls which was the center of their life. So I can fully get behind the dancing in this movie.
It was good. Dark and bleak as hell but good.
Thanks!
It gave me PTSD 10/10 would bark at people again.
Big fan; but the prophesied "maiden queen" seemed out of place. I guess that's just me though?
Loved the movie overall, but yeah that little "oh even though you will have a son and a daughter; the daughter will rule over VIKINGS in 900 AD"; really?
IMO seems we couldn't get it 100% right; someone had to shove a little 0.1% woke pandering in there (literally "yass queen slay" lol).
Honestly that wouldn’t be so bad if we weren’t living in a time with an obsession with girl power or having women in every position of authority
Cool I’ll check it out. I love Shakespeare, I’ll look into that. I still never read hamlet so I bought it recently. Plus have the complete works. So no excuse.
We read Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and MacBeth. I’m lucky I went to high school when they still read Shakespeare. I’d hate to see what they read now.
Ha! MacBeth is my favorite by Shakespeare
Watch Kurosawa's Throne of Blood
Fassbender? Never heard of it. I haven’t seen the Denzel MacBeth. He is one of my favorite actors. I always joke that I’m not interested race swaps but Denzel is the exception lol.
I read some version of the Merchant of Venice in jr. high! I'd imagine very few young people are familiar with Shylock (unfortunately).
Had Romeo and Juliette and Macbeth in high school, same curriculum company I had for jr high.
Because of switching high schools and the like, I wound up taking Romeo and Juliet three bloody times. The second time was the most educational, though; the teacher actually knew his subject (a master's degree teacher vs a teaching school teacher.)
Half the teachers with masters degrees have their masters in education, which is a big joke (I have like half the classes needed for one too). Not saying your teacher wasn't good, and I'm ignorant of what masters he had.
Ok, he did have a master's in English. I assumed it would be understood that the master's degree would be in the relevant fucking subject, rather than someone who was just taught how to teach (ie, your "master of education" critter.)
LOL!!!!!!!!!! Most American kids going through the public school system can barely read.
Ah, the timeless Hispanic classic ;)
Somebody has to to get this made into a movie!
I was assigned Richard the Third in 9th or 10th and it unironically turned into one of my favorite books I had read. Read it for fun maybe 20 times before I graduated.
These days people will be lucky if they get the non woke version of The Lion King instead.
To atone, please repeat "Black Lives Matter!" 100 times and donate money to Israel.
Good news, 23andme has admitted they throw in fake 1% black in the results of white people. You're not black. You can enjoy boring white people shit again.
Good to hear. I’m a fan of them.