Village Raid Scene - The Northman (2022) 

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What I love about this movie is that it doesn't romanticize viking life, it shows its sheer brutal reality.

Anytime I thought of seeing Amleth as a heroic figure, I think back to this sequence.

I do love how the Berserkers are just absolutely *spent* after the battle. Keeled over, panting, bleeding, dry heaving. Their exertions catching up with them. It shows being a berserker carried a cost.

Showing that kid get separated from his family and having the camera suddenly pan to an uncomfortably close frame of Amleth watching it all was brilliant. It communicated so much

I love the irony of someone calling people savages as he walks by the camera covered in blood wearing nothing but a soggy pair of tidy whities and an animal pelt draped over his shoulder.

I love Amleth's thousand mile stare it shows how desensitized he was to all death and violence he wasn't even fazed hearing the kids screaming while they burned alive in the house

Every time you watch film/tv series (Vikings/TheLastKingdom) or play a game (AC Valhalla) that portrays the Vikings like hipsters who are good at fighting who are actually innocent whilst the ones they are invading are the villains, think of this. Modern societies romanticism of the Vikings is absurd.

I love how they realistically portrayed a sentry spotting something. That mf just started yelling top of the lungs

I love how this Viking movie doesn’t do good vs evil. It shows how Vikings truly behaved. People that enslave, pillage and rape people all over Europe and go back to their homes. Amleth is neither a hero or villain. Just a man who wants revenge.

This was a great scene in cinema and it was realistic; but holy lord was it brutal, barbaric, and gut wrenching to watch the aftermath of the raid.

The fact that all those dudes could not spear people climbing up there walls is hilarious

I’m no expert on Viking age material culture but I really appreciated how the filmmakers made an attempt to accurately portray the clothing and hairstyles that the actors wore. To often in shows like Vikings and the last kingdom the characters look more like hipsters then Vikings

Does anyone else absolutely love how Amleth catches that spear out of the fucking air, spins and hurls it back like a lightning bolt?

1:56 Olga throwing the bucket of water at the berserker is an awesome hidden detail for the eagle eyed watcher

I just love the way this scene is shot. No unnecessary cuts just to change the perspective, no sugarcoating, the acting in the backgound and the way it shows how the adrenaline of Amleth is delining.

Did he just catch a spear mid air and fucking throw it back?!

I loved when they said "TO VALHALL!" before entering the village. Nothing is more terrifying than a bunch of warriors engaging in combat in the hopes of dying with honor.

Imagine waking up and being like, oh great, another dreary grey sky in my tiny village where everything is mud and then this happens. Can't catch a break, I swear

This was perhaps the most brutal scene I've seen in cinema, truly horrific but at the same time brilliant filmmaking

With the way the battle commenced and how the Berserkers climbed the walls with their bare hands and axes, the way the whole sequence was brutal and unapologetic, this could have been the Battle of Venarium in Robert E. Howard's Hyborian lore. Which right there makes this a better Conan the Barbarian movie than any of the actual Konahn movies we've had so far.

So crazy how people can watch this and be like "aw yeah thats me I wanna do that"

I was watching this in cinema and it was amazing! Probably one of the best movies of the year.

This movie was underrated af. The reason why it gets forgotten quick is how they show the real deal unlike any other Viking movie etc. This movie looks totally real, i love how they make the action scenes, camera angles, no bullshit musics, adaptation of the Scandinavian myths, people etc.

Wow. Thanks for posting the whole scene with the kid in it as well. It’s my son Tom. 😂 from the bit where the old lady walked in front of the vikings to the end bit was all one shot and it took 2 days to film it…over and over again. There are so many little bits that had to flow. We were all knee deep in real mud and Anya kept losing her shoes so just took them off in the end. Tom must have run across screaming at least 25 times.

One of the best Viking scenes in Hollywood of all time if not the best

I've watched the movie three times and just now I was so hooked on this scene that I started crying. Absolute cruelty and callousness. Sometimes it is useful to watch such films to contemplate the dark side of historical times.

I think it’s interesting how the guy at 3:06 refers to the villagers as “savages”, despite them being a (comparatively) more technologically advanced society. Really goes to show how every culture has at some point considered themselves to be the peak of civilization and then used that idea as an excuse to terrorize and enslave anyone deemed “primitive” or “inferior”.

That spear grab and reversal is just awesome. They were all super pumped up and in berserker mode! Can't imagine going up against this group. No fear at all.

The scene where all the children where killed was the saddest i've ever scene

This movie is an underrated gem. My favorite movie of 2022 it had a feel like old mythology epic movies had where the scenes were mesmerizing, acting was unbelievable and what we saw on screen felt so true and genuine. Was a great experience. I watch this movie every 2 months and love it every time. Shame how these gems movies won't get recognition for how good it is

this is what i imagine happens everytime i raid a village in bannerlord

Just love that spear throw at the start

What taking raids in Assassins Creed Valhalla should’ve been like!

The one frame of the berserker ritual at the beginning caught me off guard, ngl

The come and see reference at the end is epic

2:57 The guy in the background has to be mean to them but he gently pushes the little girl into the house lol

imagine seeing a bunch of half naked dudes (some with armor) climb your towns walls with axes and then brutally murder most of the town and even see some guy on mushrooms biting into one guys neck and then howl like a wolf. Viking berserkers and Ulfhednar were scary

This movie as does all eggars films have the most memorable and addicting scenes. He's calm steady with the camera work while chaos is happening. Especially for his first go at action scenes im impressed with his vision.

00:30 far left and 01:42 center background…. The way that guy runs with his arms out brought brief moments of laughter to me during all this violence.

2:40 super realistic to show them takin a break. like god damn i know they were just specimens of endurance and power, but theyre still human. they pushed themselves to the brink of madness and exhaustion. if these dudes were tired ANYONE would be keeled over.

He seems like a calm and reasonable person

One of the best and most realistic Viking raid scenes I have ever seen!

Gyms were mad popular back in Viking times.

Robert Eggers will go down in filmmaking history, mentioned among behemoths like Scorsese, Tarantino, and Coppola. Only 3 movies directed so far, but each has been spectacular. Can't wait to see more from him.

After the fighting sequence, the organization and the burning of that hall immediatelly brought my mind back to Come and See and Schindler's List. War never changes

When you watch this over and over you really see how savage this was..... the people in back....killin... people chained....the look of straight despair.

God I would love a Predator movie where one of em goes against a band of Vikings like these boys. That would be the best movie ever made if done right.

The worst part is when it changes from 4:31 (terrified people, but who don't yet know they're about to all die horribly) to 4:40 (when the screaming really picks up as the flames become visible on the inside). I imagine similar scenes happened in Nazi gas chambers.

This scene would be better if the defending warriors did not look like they were standing around waiting to get hit.

I love how he spins throwing that spear to build up momentum

I love Vikings but this scene hurts me because I also love slavic people.🐺🖤

That spear catch and return says it all. When these guys are pumped up and ready to go, you best just run away.

In reality, these guys were just pirates who often got it handed to them when the actual soldiers showed up.

Finally a film that isn't afraid to show how the vikings were Barbarians who Rped and pilliaged. Sick of people idolising them. They were monsters and rpests

Robert Eggers should direct a Children Of Hurin movie,would love to see how he'd do Hurin's last stand.

It's not perfectly historically accurate, but it's very hard to know what is given the little written sources we have on this military unit. It's the single best portrayal of "Beserkers" I have ever seen. From the scant pieces of evidence given, it's clear that this is how this unit of troop was deployed. Sent in as the initial wave of shock troops to make a speer head for the rest of the raiders and warriors to enter the settlement. I also enjoy the scene of a group of Viking Beserker warriors sitting around following the battle. Some shivering others staring into nothingness. Shows the sort of mental state they would have worked themselves into in the hours leading to battle. It must have been incredibly hard for these men to exist in normal Viking society. PTSD is simply a modern term for an illness that I feel would have run rampent through men such as Beserkers. It was likely an incrdidbly tough life with a very brutal end. Saying that being a Shamanic cult of warriors, having the ability to die gloriously in battle would have appealed to them as it would have in their eyes at least gained them entry into Odins great feasting halls. The only thing I dislike is all of these men are 6ft plus and ripped. Having a group of such large men would have been incredibly rare in that period of history. The average hieght for a man in Viking age Scandinavia was 5ft 7inces. Obvcourse as in todays society there would be exceptions. But I dont think they should have all been ripped and huge.

Imagine having Skarsgaard and the boys as neighbors; you’d be getting raided each time you went grocery shopping.

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We just gonna ignore how the dude caught a spear mid air like it was a pen a classmate throws you.

The Northmen terrorised an indigenous village in the Rus, killing so indiscriminately that you'd think it unforgivable. Olga probably never forgave Amleth and his Vikings for this, but somehow, she eventually loved him anyway, and vice versa. That I think was the most peculiar plot in the film, illustrating how assimilation still happened in the end despite the violent circumstances between the Vikings and the foreigners they provoked. Moreover, watching the film, I found it fascinating that despite having been enslaved by the Vikings, Olga stayed true to her beliefs and customs, while simultaneously courting Amleth as his confidante; implying that it was Amleth who was being assimilated into the Rus without realising it.

Pure rage. I could only imagine the reality of the situation

4:13-Me in the midst of a chaotic day at work.

2:25 damn, it's no joke. even my cat got scared to death to this! There, I said it before in another clip, and I'll say it again.

Idk what it is but it brings a joyous tear to my eye when he howls like that, gets me Everytime

Viking-porn shows always portray the defenders as completely inept, just letting stuff happen and vaguely running at the attackers

There is tons of amazing historical accuracy in this scene, from wooden palisades to the Scrimisax Amleth uses in his left hand, to the apparent Viking Queen leading them in 3:30 wearing a closed Spangenhelm, splint mail as armor, and deep red and blue garments. It's literally a 2 to 4 second appearance of a slavetrader queen, and yet there is amazing attention to detail, especially later in the scene discussing where the slaves should be sent, Constantinople, Kiev and Uppsala all being well known slave markets for pagan slaves at the time.

Glorious and divine. Thank you. I remembered ❤ Many 144’s and this is just total movie and ancestral MAGIC 💥👁️🙏🏾

I like that one nanosecond of Alexander Skarsgård shouting in absolute madness

Swedes were not kind back in the day 🤣

Imagine having a fort maned with archers and spearmen and u still lose to a handful of Vikings 😂

I had a teacher who told our class that people being psychopaths was the normal through most of history up until recently. I think that probably wasn't inaccurate.

The fight scenes are very comedic. Slow movements and obvious points of contact from the enemy.

0:00 *when I sit down to take a shit and realise there’s no toilet paper*

So in the video by the costume designers they explained something very sweet about Slavic embroidery. So the women of each family did the embroidery for their own clothes for their family members. And the motifs would represent their hopes for their family, for themselves, and include wards against evil or pleas to the gods. It just hits all that harder when you know that fact. Everybody in this village was someone's family member, someone who loved and was loved. Obviously there was no such thing as an "all-good, all loving" civilization back in those days of war and strife and slavery, but there was never a shortage of innocents to be found at the end of a sword. I dunno I just find this scene so heartbreaking. The movie is fiction but this sort of pillage and massacre happened in reality hundreds, thousands of times. And their graves are everywhere across Europe and Asia, their stories and their tragedy buried and forgotten forever.

2:24 when you are at the top with shots and alcohol in a party 2:35 when is tomorrow in the morning

I watch this atleast 3 times a day

00:00 for AH

0:21 so fcking cool and badass.

Amazing! 1500yr later, we're still doing it. Amazing how we've progressed?

When he catches the spear and throws it back. Boss as hell

Yep, Simba was not chilling and dancing in the forest during his exile. He was raiding and pillaging with Timon and Pumba. Hehe

0:10 when i first watched that part, i always imagined how terrifying it would have been to see that. Not the fighting or the raiding part mind you, those are always gonna be scary, but the part where you see weird figures in the bushes that look like weird ass wolves but are actually guys dressed as wolves, the same guys who were laughing and screaming last night in a drunken rage.

what I love about this movie is the Fake climbing of a wooden wall with just a hand axe and it takes 30 sec

All the people that dislike this scene are the ones who view Vikings through Rose tinted glasses. Stick to playing Assassins Creed Valhalla and watching the series.

Does anyone notice how tactically incometent these vikings are? Gotta love plot armor. Just for a start, reference the dull-but-spiky wall that they manage to climb with ease while the defenders wave their spears harmlessly in the air (literally perpendicular to the vikings). So stupid.

Thanks for uploading the full scene, you are doing Odins work here

the first second scared the shit out of me XD

The catch and throw of the spear was badass

And that kids, is how you take control of Medieval Europe

Fantastic but why were those Slavic soldiers such complete terrified wimps that gave up so easily? I can't imagine they would be so easy to defeat.

The split second scream at the beginning had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.

That catch was insane

I truly loved this movie for what it is. Its a Norse Saga adaption, oc its not 100% accurate, but it has just about everything someone interested in viking mythology would love.

Is there anything in ancient norse, or pre-Chrstian euorpean folklore that supports the idea that the conquerors would have burnt children alive?

4:38 This reminds me of The Patriot where the redcoats burned the church with everyone inside

Everything seemed to be so much more flammable back then.

The first time I watched this movie I was tripping so hard. I will absolutely never forget this film.

Props to the Rus horse archer taking out a berserker before getting gnawed on by the main 😂

Actually, history findings have found that Vikings were pretty small, most of them averaged about 5’2”-5’4”. Humans were generally smaller back then.