Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. MONDELLO: Eggers makes "The Northman" as crafty as an art film, as brutal as a slasher flick - two-plus hours of arthouse savagery. SKARSGARD: (As Amleth) I cannot escape my fate. And that makes all of this play more authentically than you might expect and more fantastically, too, in ways that have everything to do with big-screen showmanship. MONDELLO: Eggers has researched 10th-century Nordic life as few filmmakers before him, the way spirits and drug-fueled visions were accepted as part of the real world, the trance-like fury of berserker warriors. "The Northman" has hundreds of marauding warriors, Nicole Kidman as a supremely devious queen and Bjork haunting the rugged slopes of Iceland as a blind seeress.īJORK: (As Seeress) Even though your brother stole my eyes, I see you. MONDELLO: The director's visuals are also designed to haunt, including a fight to the death atop an erupting volcano, all in the service of a story far grander than his last film, the intimate black and white "The Lighthouse," which had just two men in a cramped interior. SKARSGARD: (As Amleth) For now I will haunt this farm like a hungry corpse returned from the grave. Director Robert Eggers makes "The Northman" a waking cinematic nightmare - mayhem filmed in breathtaking continuous shots, emotions pitched on the far side of sanity, supernatural elements as real to the characters as breathing. To sleep, perchance to dream might well be worse. TAYLOR-JOY: (As Olga of the Birch Forest) Then you must wake up. As echoes of Shakespeare pile up and Willem Dafoe's unlucky jester even gets a Yorick's skull moment, Olga centers Amleth, keeps him focused.
MONDELLO: If this be madness, yet there is method in't.
He wears the head of a wolf and is animalistic, whether knocking heads together or hooking up with Olga, the film's witchy but practical Ophelia figure.ĪNYA TAYLOR-JOY: (As Olga of the Birch Forest) Your strength breaks men's bones. Played by Alexander Skarsgard, Amleth is a bull of a man, neck bulging as he catches a spear in midair that's just missed his head and hurls it back at defenders of a town he's about to sack. MONDELLO: Because what's a guy to do when there's something rotten in the pre-state of Denmark. He grows up a man of action, of serious muscles and of few, if oft repeated, words.ĪLEXANDER SKARSGARD: (As Amleth) I will avenge you, Father. The movie's prince, by contrast, isn't much worried about being or not being. He also gave the Prince Hamlet existential doubts and soliloquies about shuffling off this mortal coil. MONDELLO: When Shakespeare adapted this same legend about a Scandinavian prince whose uncle kills his father and marries his mother, he took the H at the end of Amleth and put it at the front. OSCAR: (As Young Amleth) I will avenge you, Father. MONDELLO: As Amleth runs away, he makes a vow. HAWKE: (As King Aurvandil War-Raven) Strike, brother, strike but know that bearing a stolen ring makes no half-breed a king. As little Amleth catches snowflakes on his tongue, an arrow whizzes by, lodging itself in the king's chest and an unroyal uncle approaches, sword drawn. Uncle Fjolnir has designs on the throne and on the queen. MONDELLO: The king is just as pleased, eager to take his young prince through a drug-fuelled rite of passage, preparing his ascent to the throne.ĮTHAN HAWKE: (As King Aurvandil War-Raven) How I've missed you, my son. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) The king, milady, the king. OSCAR: (As Young Amleth) Mother, father is here. OSCAR NOVAK: (As Young Amleth) He's here. It stars a bulked-up Alexander Skarsgard, and critic Bob Mondello says with a $90 million budget, it marks a startling change of pace for its arthouse director.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: As the 10th-century Viking ship pulls into the muddy, desolate shore, young Amleth. We have a list of frequently asked questions on our wiki page here.The film "The Northman" is a tale of Vikings and carnage. If you have NSFW content to post, then the Nuclear Throne Rule 34 subreddit will most likely accept it. We do NOT allow NSFW content on this subreddit. Hate-speech and other forms of overt assholery will be not be tolerated. Our LP policy can be read in greater detail here. Self-promoted "Let's Play" content will be removed with few exceptions. When it comes to advertising anything on the subreddit, message the moderators first. Please make use of the English language when posting on this subreddit.
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