How The Northman Immerses us in History
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
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Robert Eggers is known for his historical films, translating folklore from artefacts to the screen. His films inhabit a world where any belief people had at the time is as true as they believe it to be. As such, his latest film, The Northman, puts such viking values of vengeance, battle and violence at the top of its priorities. In doing so, we are immersed into the viking world, a world where vengeance is above all.
To hear more of my thoughts check out the One to Watch Podcast, where I discuss The Northman and much more, with my friend and host Ben: open.spotify.com/episode/4vw2...
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00:00 - Isolation in Eggers' Films
01:39 - Vengeance Above All
03:17 - Amleth's Terror
04:55 - Morality of Vengeance
06:57 - Vengeance in Doubt
08:51 - Fjolnir's Revenge
10:26 - Summary 
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If your in need for more The Northmen content, and a blast from the past, check out my second ever video - The Follow Up to The Lighthouse. A very fresh faced Archer Green casts his predictions on what this film would be before production even began. In 2020 The Northman as a finished film existed only in the head of Robert Eggers, so I give my predictions, some turned out more accurate than others!
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What I love about Eggers is his dedication to the beliefs of the time. He is a true historian; a person who looks at history through the beliefs of the time, not our current time. Being a follower of my ancestors beliefs myself, I am also very pleased to see how respectfully he treats pagan religion- both in the witch and in the northman. What an outstanding director
Damn you deserve way more subscribers. This is the best analysis of the Northman I’ve seen so far. Thank god I found you on Reddit.
Thank you so much!
What I find so interesting about Eggers as a director is his portrayal of forbidden sexual desire brought on by isolation. In The Witch, it's the brother's desire for his sister. In The Lighthouse it's Winslow's drunken near kiss with the Old lighthouse keeper. In The Northman, it's the mother's desire for her son. Eggers continually warns us of the perils of isolation on the human soul, and how it can manifest in the most taboo of desires even in the most conservative of communities. Loneliness is the true horror of his films.
So based. I've seen other analyses of this movie thinking that it's an indictment of viking culture because Amleth dies in the end, but in the context of the film, it's a happy ending because the morality is immersed in the time period like you said.
Thanks for your input, www.cinemablend.com/interviews/how-the-northmans-director-looked-at-masculinity-and-the-macho-stuff-in-the-viking-revenge-thriller In this interview Eggers discusses whether or not Amleth has a happy ending, and how this is bound in the views of the time.
I honestly think that this is your best video yet. It feels as if I have been waiting for this for over two years, what with one of your first videos being about The Northman. I haven’t seen anyone else point out how Eggers retains a sense of thematic continuity by “shifting his focus from the terrorised to the terrorist”, I think that this is a great point and your video really helps to reconcile a lot of the criticism I have seen about this film. As you know I wasn’t sure about it at first but I have now grown to really appreciate this film. I think it is one that stays with you over time and it was a privilege to be able to watch it for the first time with you. I wish I could say the same about Men.
Oh wow thank you. Yeah I think once you pause and examine what the film is actually doing, the continuity with his previous work becomes clearer
Great video man, super wierd you don't have more views. Keep it up bro !
Great video!
You need more watchers!
I've only seen the Northman and the Witch. Both films focused on the psychology that drove their behavior. Like you said, in the Northman it was tradition and religious zeal that drove his goals.
In the Witch, however, there was certainly a religious motivation and the family was ousted by their community for their beliefs. Left on their own, it became clear the father was inept at farming and hunting in a land that was obviously very fertile.
Their corn had blight which left them starving. But he couldn't even hunt a rabbit to save his life. The only thing he could do was chop wood. So they ate the corn and that is, what I believe, drove them mad. The bad corn gave them hallucinations and ultimately killed the children and then the family.
The goat represented how their psychology was manipulated by their religious beliefs. When the goat attacked the father, it did it in self defense.
There is a scene early in the film while they are in town. There were native Americans walking in the streets. This was a clue. Native American traditions and beliefs were completely different from that family. Had there been witches, devil goats, or giant bonfires with witches floating in the air, they would have known. There was nothing supernatural going on here.
The whole thing happened in their heads and they were victims of bad corn.
Now, I must check out the Lighthouse. Thanks for the video.
@ArcherGreen man plz DONT put SPOILERS for other movies when you analyze specific movie. For example in this video at 00:23 you SPOILED Lighthouse with that imagery. I didn't watch that movie and entered this video only because of Northman.
how disappointing. it seems like for the section around 1:39, you at best paraphrased or at worst plagiarised a review of the film from Indiewire, without disclosing so. to be honest this throws the rest of this channel's content into question, which is a shame since I'd been enjoying it. after the recent plagiarism issues on youtube, it's disheartening to see it pop here too.