#the northman 2022

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studies from the northman (2022) dir. robert eggers

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Alexander Skarsgård - The Northman (2022), The Faces Of Vikings, Amleth - [Exclusive BTS Clip] Screen Rant Plus - YouTube NAKhCaaLWmo dd 6 June ’22.

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[madeleineengland]

THE NORTHMAN ~ the tree of kings (2022)

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[therealcalicali]

"I will avenge you, Father! I will save you, Mother! I will kill you, Fjölnir!" Amleth - The Northman

[zoezaw]

Baby bear Amleth was so hurt, aww.

Tbh I love the chemistry between Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgard. I love their performance as a couple in Big little lies, but the Northman turned out to be great as well as Mother and Son lol.

I tried to write a movie analysis, but it turned out I failed to write one but produced a fanfic between Almeth and Queen Gudrún incest relationship smut...

Well, read at your own risk. It's explicit mature content

I will revenge you father, I will save you, mother, I will kill you Fjölnir .

That was his destiny, that was his only religion.

“You were forced upon your mother”

“I never mourned your father”

Those queen’s poisonous words are like a sharp blade plunged toward Amleth’s deep heart.

Amleth’s lips trembled, his eyes filled with tears, shattered like broken glass, tears rolling down his face, he stared at his vicious mother in utter disbelief. The tears running down his cheeks burned like scorching fire, it hurts so badly. 

The way she expressed her pleasure about her new family, her new husband, and her newborn son with his stepfather traumatized him, it disrupted his innocent thoughts of his beautiful kind mother depicted in his mind.

He was just merely a creation by a rapist, forced into her mother's womb, a child spurned by his mother, and a child who was born in this world without his mother's blessing. 

He dreamed about her on endless nights, he missed her. Finally, he showed up in her footsteps. 

All he wanted to do was save her. Free her from hell. 

He was longing for his mother’s warm embrace, he did not expect his mother would repel him and push him away in such a cruel bloody way. He was completely broken down. 

He is abandoned by the world. Even now, his mother abandoned him. 

"Fjölnir ordered your death, with your own mother's blessing. ”

Those words are too poisonous, too toxic. 

He denied, he denied, and denied!

He disbelieved his mother’s words, his mother’s happiness. He told the queen, he was the one who watched his mother being abducted by Fjölnir, and saw his mother struggle and scream.

The queen said she was laughing.

Maybe the mother’s love for her dead husband was not sincere, but to Fjölnir, was even more so. The queen’s deceit is more of a self-deception. Maybe she just wanted to preserve her dignity, she did not want her dignity corrupted by her son as her husbands did to her, seeing her as a weak woman waiting to be rescued.

Or maybe the queen just wants to revenge? She wanted to inflict her anger on her unblessed child created from rape. She wanted to see her rage consume her demonic creation and kill him with her own hands.

She asked him, what he wanted to do here now.

Amleth said, “I shall kill you.”

The queen replied, “You love me, a son loves his mother, and her mother loves her son”

Her words were so vicious but so sweet, she stared closely at his eyes, she could see the anger ravaged across the blue shades of his eyes like a tsunami. With her magical soft hands, she stroked his head, his soft golden hair, his face, like a soothing crying baby with lullabies, in the most beautiful tones, and singing the most venomous songs, to hypnotize her son.

Amleth was in a trance at the moment, he thought he finally received his mother’s love. Little did he know, she was just to befuddle his son’s pure attachment to his mother; she was actually planning to annihilate his mother’s image. 

“If you are so hot for revenge, if you kill Fjölnir , if you kill Thórir, and if you are so untamed to kill my Gunnar, You will be my new kingdom, together we will rule…..” while she spoke softly, her beautiful finger tips are like on a harp, plucking his neck like that, teasing beyond his limit.

She strangled his neck, at this very moment Amleth looked like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. His mother is a butcher now, who controlled upon his faith. His mother destroyed the image of his mother depicted in his mind, crushed his belief as a savior to rescue her mother and as well as a revenger. 

She brought his faith to death, instead, she opened up a door for a path never imagined before.

She looks like a poisonous snake, she wrapped around his neck, her face was close enough to his, her nose tip rubbed on his, he lowered his gaze, and was reluctant to stare into hers, his eyes are closed, his brows are furrowed, his thoughts are in chaos, his heart is struggling with sudden unprepared feelings. She sealed the whispers on his lips, her soft lips enclosed his lips, and she gently pressed his lips, preventing him from retreating, slowly approaching, finally blocking him, guiding him to entangle her lips and teeth. She encouraged Amleth to get rid of his masculine rational thoughts and sink himself in her bewitching sensibility.

His raw nature brought out his reciprocal response to answer his mother’s kiss, he sucked his mother’s lips like a newborn, lips brushing it back and forth paranoidly and passionately. 

He kissed back the evil queen, the mad woman

He envied her love for her new son,

He wants to take this love back

This love is his, is his.

It should have been his.

He surrendered to her. He escaped from the struggles, he craved her madness, and he was willing to fall for her. But at the same moment, he selfishly thought that she can only belong to him. Maybe that incestuous nature has been suppressed for too long, maybe they should be like this, sharing the same bond.

He will save her, himself will be her heaven.

He is her creation, he is a part of her, he is her dead husband's son, and he is more qualified to own ever than his stepfather. 

He thought of this evil woman whom he was madly obsessed with, who hurt him with cold-blooded words, constantly wobbled between love and hate on him.

This vicious woman should be killed, but he is obsessed with her viciousness, he is obsessed with her disgusting nature, he is obsessed with her crazy temperament. He naively thought that just by killing her beloved, he can have her completely, this woman's love.

Amleth opened his eyes, he felt the woman clinging to his pants, dawdling, teasing him with her charming eyes, she was unbuttoning his belt with one hand, panting in his ear.

“My prince, my king, be honest to yourself….”

His sword fell, and without hesitation, he grabbed her neck with great strength, he groaned “say again..”

“Let me bear your child, my king”  she gasped.

She is degrading and vile. 

He flipped her to the ground, pinned her in a missionary position, he droved his desire under her gown harshly, he was wildly yearning for her poisonous curse on him while his desire buried deep inside her womb, he wished to see the rage on her face so eagerly, just like how she snapped at him earlier, like a toxic Egyptian Cobra.

He was born to be punished by her.

 He was disappointed not to have his mother rage and curse, and just to have her mother’s pathetic obscene cries answered his fucking. 

He was completely lost like a child, but furious at the same time. Is this what this woman wanted? To ruin and obliterate her trueborn disgusted first son by her own hands, make a new husband out of his son?

Lust defeated him, lust dazed him.

 His true incest instinct persuaded him to own his queen, his queen is all he longed for. No matter what the cost it is to kill everyone by her side, even her dearest son. He wanted to own her, they can build a kingdom together, they could produce tons of beautiful blonde children,  and continue their incestuous bloodline. They are not destined to love each other but destined to be alike. He is just a part of her, an incomplete part of her. And he is going to complete that part of her. 

If this is what she wanted, then let it be. He is going to put a son in her, just like his father. 

She laughed like a mad witch, while he collapsed on her breast after pumping his last load of seeds into her womb. She finally lured her incestuous creature into a trap, she grabbed a dagger so hatefully, prepared to pierce it through his son’s bare chest. Amleth was shocked and dogged by her attack, unintentionally pointed the dagger toward her, and drove the dagger into her heart. 

He grabbed her in his arms, staring in disbelief at the queen’s pale face with blank, hollow and soulless eyes, questioning her in a monotonous unusual calm tone “why would you do that, why…..”

She gritted her teeth in blood, and hatefully responded  “I am your death”

He did not cry, but tears just uncontrollably slid down his cheek. 

“Yet, I have overcome the death.” He spoke that at the queen’s last breath, eyes filled with pain.

His mother murdered his past. His mother made a man out of him but murdered that little innocent boy in him. 

He never understands his mother’s betrayal, just like his mother doesn’t believe in his naivety.

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[vvalliu]

The Northman - 2022

[elastijubilee]

My Personal Ranking of Robert Eggers Feature Films (so far):

The Witch

The Northman

The Lighthouse

So, I'm really excited to see where Nosferatu falls. Also, who else is surprised that he isn't calling it THE Nosferatu?

To be clear I don't think any of his movies have been bad!

[philia95]

Just finished watching The Northman (2022). I'm obsessed lol ⚔️

I went into it blind without knowing anything about it and was pleasantly surprised to find it was similar to the beginning of Vinland Saga (an amazing anime that everyone should watch). Both are based on Norse mythology (Vinland Saga on the story of Thorfinn Karlsefin and The Northman on the story of Amleth). They share similar themes of revenge and guilt however I'd argue Vinland Saga is a lot more complex, exploring themes of growing up, adulthood, forgiveness, faith and more, all while weaving real life historical events into it's fictional story. That being said, it's not fair to compare a 2hr movie to an ongoing series of a completely different story so I won't. I just wanted an excuse to talk about Vinland Saga lol.

Back to the movie. Everything about it's presentation was amazing from the striking imagery to the breathtaking scenery. Some of the outfits were also a treat to look at e.g the blind witch. The acting was good and I loved the hyper-theatrical dialogue. Basically this movie just goes to show how interesting films can be when they aren't afraid to be over the top and creative. For example one of my favourite aspects of the movie was the strong fantasy elements depicting Norse Gods and spirits etc. I like that they leaned into it and show-cased them through strange and beautiful visions. Again the imagery was just so good. One example would be when the Goddess Valkyrie carries Amleth to Valhalla. My jaw dropped.

I can't think of any negatives other than the story is one we are already familiar with so you know how it will play out (it is literally based on a tale so iconic it inspired Hamlet). This goes for the characters too. But this isn't really a negative. If anything, they did a good job of retelling a well known story without making it boring. They kept it interesting enough that the 2hr runtime just flew by. I found it way better than The Green Knight that's for sure. It's a simple yet solid plot that contains a valuable lesson as old as time.

I also don't know how accurate of an adaptation it is to the original source material but I also don't care. The story is so old, it's probably been retold countless times in countless ways. This is just another way.

Overall, it's a great movie. If you like Vikings, Norse mythology or high fantasy I would highly recommend this movie. It can be pretty gory and violent but it's about Vikings so... what do you expect?? I'm just happy I can add it to my small list of historical fantasy media I like, alongside Golden Kamuy and Vinland Saga. 8/10

[arielwalters]

So, here's my rant on the northman...

Has anyone thought for a second like me that amleth's daughter grows up to be just like gudrun, his mother? I've seen people compare gudrun and Olga and speculate Olga to become like gudrun which is interesting. But has anybody wondered if not Olga but her daughter turns out to be like gudrun (amleth's mother) in the future or is it just me? The daughter is highly interpreted to be st Olga of Kiev and if you wiki her you'll know that she was involved in a lot of violence and bloodshed and was a widow herself. The daughter is prophesized to be a queen but how is that possible when another king is occupying the throne. Yes amleth killed off fjolnir and his bloodline but there's another king occupying his throne. My theory is that maybe that king marries amleth's daughter in the future or forcefully brings her as a slave and later on marries her just like what aurvandill did to gudrun. The daughter then might be plotting revenge against him and seize the throne for her. She might kill her husband and take the throne for herself thus becoming the maiden king. There are similarities already between gudrun and the unborn daughter's storylines. Though it wasn't mentioned but I bet gudrun's family was killed by aurvandill's army and she was taken as a slave. She lost everything because of that man and later on got abused by him and forced to bear his son. This made her hate her son. We know amleth is dead that means the daughter and the son has already lost their father in war and what remains is their mother, what if she also gets killed and the twins get separated from eachother. This will make the daughter (maiden king) more vengeful and might also turn her into gudrun. Plus she is gudrun's biological granddaughter, it would make more sense and it would be cooler if she ends up being exactly like her coz you know blood is thicker than water

[whippedcloudsofcream]

Olga really fucked and fell in love with the dude who helped burn her family alive.

[the-merry-otter]

Just watched The Northman and hmm… didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would

[gwydionmisha]

The Northman Honest Review

My only quibble: He doesn’t seem to get that the male nudity balances the female nudity.  

This is otherwise soooo good.

[shyarowana]

The most relatable character in The Northman is the sword that snoozes all day and is ready to binge eat all night.