I can picture it now. The producers, the director and all, looking at Skarsgard, and saying: ''We're doing a film based on an old Viking legend. What's your name, sir?'' ''Alexander Skarsgard. Born in Sweden, of Viking ancestry. And I will be in this movie.'' ''You're hired, sir.''
I. Fucking. Love. This. Movie. I watched it in a near empty theater high off my ass and i just got to enjoy the stellar cinematography. Every single shot of every single scene is like a painting. Magnificent acting. With Vikings ending this is exactly what i needed.
This movie had better get at least 10 nominations at the Oscars, including Best Picture. I really appreciate that you guys waited to watch this movie for us to watch but I wish you had seen it on the big screen. This is honestly one of the most visceral yet beautiful movies I’ve ever seen.
@Aka Anyone who says this movie's story is generic...they know NOTHING about Viking culture or their mythology. This movie helped cleanse the mockery that was MCU's Thor out of my mouth
@@sadlobster1 thank you. I am also tired telling people who have been brainwashed by dumb movies in the past and this film did the Viking mythology some amazing justice.
@@Aragonsdick5170 Tell me about it, my father lives under the belief that that movie The Vikings from the 50's is an accurate depiction of their culture
Mushrooms - they put mushrooms in the drink during the dog ritual, possibly some small amount before the beserker raid on the village, again (called out in the show) at the night when all the viking guards got sick. Vikings were known to use mushrooms as many cultures have used them and other substances as part of rituals, that's why everything was so trippy.
Amazing movie! I love how Amleth believes he's won in the end, have to remember, He's a Berserker - a literal Viking warrior and they live in an era of superstition and gods and monsters. For a warrior, making it to Valhalla is the ultimate reward for those living as fiercely as they can as warriors. There's more realism in the Berserker lore (drug use, being weak after battle but unstoppable in battle, no armor, shamanistic rituals and werewolf supernatural elements, etc). Amleth also has themes that inspired Hamlet (the theme of the son killing the uncle and saving his mother). Fantastically fierce movie!
Dude!! Perfect timing. My cousins and watched it this weekend. It was an amazing experience. It was weird in in some parts but it was a good movie overall.
To enhance these kinds of movies it would help to research north mythology, like Odin raven’s and the Valkyrie and so on. There is so much more to north culture that would bring so much understanding and enjoyment.
@@Bubba_1776 I think the movie was well done. However, by the end of it I wanted the Northman to die more than any other character. That's not how a story should work.
@@nimz8521 There's no requirement for a main character to be likable in order for a story to be good. That's a super basic mindset, and not what art is about.
Great reaction, glad you enjoyed the film. The story is based on origin of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The supernatural elements is based on certain Viking traditions that are not commonly known. Glad you guys watched it, and looking forward to more reactions.
I really don't want to be that pedantic "um, actually" guy, but it's not actually based on Hamlet. It's based on the legend of Amleth which was an old Scandinavian legend finally put to paper by the historian Saxo Grammaticus. Amleth, in turn, was the direct inspiration for Shakespeare's character Prince Hamlet a few centuries later.
@@TheNeonParadoxi was going to comment the same thing until i realized he’s actually right lol. he didn’t say amleth specifically but if you reread, he did say this was based on hamlet’s origin story.
"Took the dog thing a little too seriously there." That's the thing about berserkers, they let their wild sides LITERALLY go wild on the battlefield; causing them to behave more like beasts than men
I’m never NOT gonna find it funny that Alexander Skarsgård for a while played a Viking vampire named Eric Northman then played another Viking in a movie called the Northman. This was not coincidence I tell u.
And the uncle played Dracula one of the most recent adaptations, so one could imagine that final duel as between two vampire-vikings, which I think is awesome.
Same Director as The Lighthouse and The VVITCH. Robert Eggers is a genius. I also love how they went back to Saxo Grammaticus to tell the original Hamlet.
Speaking of Oners, have you ever seen _Henry V,_ starring (and directed by) Kenneth Branagh, with its epic Oner across the field of the post Battle of Agincourt? He did another impressive Oner in his _Much Ado About Nothing,_ with the celebratory dance at the end (that one is so well done, one almost doesn't realize it's a Oner).
I watched this movie six times, I only stopped because they removed it from theatres. Everytime was better than the one before. I hope it gets a few oscars and at list a nomination for Alex.
YES IT IS BRUTAL BECAUSE ACCORDING TO HISTORIAN THIS IS THE MOST CLOSES DEPICTION OF VIKING'S LIFE IN ANY MOVIE EVER. FORGET THE VIKING SERIES OR ANY HOLLYWOOD MOVIES BEFORE. THAT WAS JUST A WHITEWASH VERSION OF VIKINGS, THIS IS THE REAL DEAL. XD
If Thor had this director it would have either been great or terrible honestly depends on if eggers actually cares about adapting the comics properly or not
Fascinating movie. I usually don't like surreal elements too much, but The Northman did a great job with it, while keeping it real enough to be enjoyable. The visuals! A good companion movie to The Green Knight, I think.
If one were to accurately describe this film it would be as a melding of Wm. Shakespeare and Robert E. Howard. the scene wherein ''Amleth'' acquires the sword is taken directly from one of Howard's ''Conan'' stories. The story which inspired this movie was the inspiration for Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. I had the privilege of seeing this movie in the theater, it really benefits from the big screen.
Visually gorgeous, heavily researched, and that "soup" had psychedelic mushrooms in it to induce hallucinations and drive their men madder than a hatter. Just all around awesome
Uh, how did this come to pass? Is one of you on a world tour? Looks like you're in the same space. This is the story upon which William Shakespeare based the classic revenge play Hamlet. Eggers is a directorial force and this third outing finds him working again with Anya Taylor Joy, Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie (all from his first feature, The Witch). This film didn't get enough attention so I'm glad to see you digging into this.
I saw this in theater and honestly had a magical experience. I had given up on having a good cinema experience and this movie proved me wrong. 10/10 for me.
I love his movies! Pity you didn't first see it in the cinema as I did... (I knew Alexander Skarsgard from his role in the _True Blood_ HBO series.) You're surprised with Anya Taylor-Joy being it in? Robert Eggers directed her in her break-out role in _The Witch_ (you've seen _that,_ right?)... [I suspect you didn't spot (all) the _Hamlet_ storyline parallels...?]
this is the original story of Hamlet...and Lion King. Both Shakespeare and Disney stole it and made their own version. Thats why Eggers wrote it with an Icelandic Saga historian. This is probably the most authentic Viking movie ever made. The Mythology is more or less spotless.
@They’re too comfortable” “maybe she’s trying to survive”. Oh the plot twist when skarsgaard faced kidman. “You’ll be my king” god damn that was uncomfortable
This is the Norse-Viking-Icelandic telling of the Hamlet story! Amleth is Hamlet! 🙄😉 This movie is Awesome and one of the better ones of 2022! Plus such a shame and crime that it didn’t get and Oscar award nods! 🤨
When I saw this in theaters I fully expected it to be a spartacus type of story where he gained followers to help him take back his kingdom, not a solo revenge movie so was pretty surprised. I new that it was loosely based on mcbeth with the uncle marrying the mother like lion king. Really cool movie though
The viking barbarians were invading village of eastern Slavs. Women talking there with amleth was Slavic witch or something and that idol or postument behind here was Slavic god called Svetovid/Svantevit. For example western slavs were raiding scandinavia
"I will not rest until my blade strikes the blood from his open neck!" - Young Amleth He literally did not rest until he sliced off his head fulfilling the promise made as a child. I don't know if this was on accidental detail or not, but it is still cool.
As a Norwegian descendent that raid scene hit different like a fucked up ancestral flashback my ancestors really did that shit too 😭 I was high af watching it too idk hit different lol crazy sence
The scene with the killing of the women and horse, royalty often was burried with their belongings, including slaves and animals. Its a common practice throughout history.
