Still a pretty prestigious position in the Viking world, considering he came from literally nothing, having run off in a random direcatio on a boat as a kid
I'm just completely floored by this cinematography. The fact that the camera rolls forward, is seamlessly transferred to the boat, remains stable, AND THEN CAN ROTATE, SHOWING THERE IS NO TRACK ON THE BOAT, is just FUCKING INCREDIBLE.
you mean like the part where they cut the fathers tongue and eyes out then hang him up and make him listen to them spend the day torturing his family? that part was very warm and fuzzy
Such a masterpiece of a film. I saw it in theaters though and the people next to me fell asleep. Sad times when people can't muster the attention span to enjoy a work of art like this
Very small but impactful scene of the vikings killing those two fishermen for sport and lightly chuckling afterwards. We didn't see a massacre, a raid, or torture here, just a single man reducing the death of two innocents to some mundane pleasure. What a truly immersive way to show how merciless and unforgiving this world was.
I also love how they have slots for the shields next to eat rowers seat. They have at least some cover against fire from shore, and then when they land they can just grab the shield and go.
That terribly unrealistic and downright funny battle scene where you can clearly see in the bg that the berserkers are simply smashing their axes on the ground rather than on the enemy.
That pissed off looking dude in the cape next to Amleth also looks like he on his own personal decade long journey of revenge. I want to know his story.
This movie was a masterpiece. The acting, the scenery, the clothing, the realism, the scores. The best movie of 2022. The best mythological movie in some time. Underrated gem.
agreed, I thought it was funny after the girl came back for him he was sooo set on starting a new life with her and moving past revenge. But as soon as he found out that bitch was having twins he was like awe nah I'm out. LMAOOO@@Drazog
@@Drazog Agree completely. VERY VERY overrated. The people who call this a masterpiece dont actually what a masterpiece is, or are just lying to themselves.
One of my favorite movies in all of my decades on this earth. Amazing cinematography, Shakespearean dynamic wrapped in a SOLID Norse style saga story, all the while replete with DEEP symbolism that you have to watch 3 or 4 times through to catch. Makes much more sense if you have at least a vague understanding of Viking culture. Just an absolutely, highly underrated masterpiece. I fucking LOVED this movie.
Love how the scene depicts aa if the guy in the back is Hamleth with his bright blond hair and status of a warrior. But then we get surprised by it just being one of the vikings on the side. It's kind of a hint that nobody knows who hamleth has become
Yeah this scene and the first intro with the ravens and longships arriving and Aurvandil riding into Hrafnsey along with the music is just amazing cinematography.
I love how this movie didn’t romanticize who the Vikings where,they where hard men living in rough times. The killed , pillaged, and did what the wanted/needed!
@@ville9738 Viking is an occupation no different than pirates, in fact Viking is simply the name of Norwegian pirates. They definitely did do trade and worked as mercenaries for needy lords, but looting, pillaging, and raping was absolutely a norm. Violence and treachery were key themes of their religion, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that Vikings were a hardy and dangerous people.
Most norwenians in those times were farmers, merchants, etc. Only a limited number of them were actually vikings as are depicted in Hollywood. Even the later armies of "vikings" that took part in the conquest of what is today England, Wales and IReland were more like any medieval army, most of them were farmers that eventually became soldiers and after the battles went back to their farm.
This whole scene is shot in one take like many others, but this one starts so freaking good , camera is on the ground then it moves straight and lands on the boat
I think this was the scene where I realized that this movie was not going to sugar coat the Viking culture. These dudes were hardened killers, the scourge of Northern Europe.
i love those longships. There is a viking ship museum here in Denmark, with the remains of real ships. They build replicas too, using hand tools and traditional techniques. So i get to see longships out in the fjord every summer, they are pretty damn cool.
Imagine all of the Byzantine peoples and Arabs reactions one thousand years ago when they saw these Pale Guys with Sky blue eyes and Sun blonde hair stepping out and hulking over all of them with greater height, size, and strength for both genetic and environmental reasons. Then seeing them fighting harder than they've ever seen anyone else fight before.
"We rode the rivers of the Eastern trail, deep in the land of the Rus. Following the wind in our sails, and the rhythm of the oars. No shelter in this hostile land, constantly on guard. Ready to fight and defend our ship 'til the bitter end."
I will say one thing. Eggers really knows how to make a memorable scene. I still need to see this and have only seen a few scenes, but each one really stands out.
I still sup for the music of this masterpiece especially in this scene. It´s haunting, it´s bringing the nordic atmosphere and of course it reminds me of the changing room smell from back in school.
Its a small detail, but i love how the Woman from Birka - who is in charge of the Raid, stands in the prow on the first ship with her Hirdsmen and Standard
Yeah, it's especially interesting considering how little from this period is know about the Rus (assuming this is a little before 900AD). There aren't Latin sources which know what's going on in this region, and the Byzantine sources are largely in the dark as well (until later in the century). Anything before Igor of Kiev is largely mysterious.
then when you get out there, and you're swatting mosquitoes and getting all scratched up, and you find it hard to hunt with your crappy outdoorsman skills so you have to make do with sour acorns and questionable berries that leave you hungry all night, while you slurp liquid from hastily arranged water catchers made from garbage that you hope is clean enough to drink and contains no parasites. Then as you freeze during the winter nights, and constantly fight to stay alive day by day, you wish you were back home :P.
Even if the movie got a bit boring and slow-paced later on, the first scenes of this movie is some of the best cinematography I've ever seen. The music, the camera work, it's really immersive and gives you goose bumps.
Kinda? But he’s not really victorious in the end- he can’t save his mother, he kills his brother and uncle, and he never sees his child. The movie is a tragedy, and really fantastic
The great part of this scene, for me, is that the Vikings are shown rowing, pretty intensly, on a river in Russia, and that is exactly the ethimology of the name Rus, it comes from Roslagen (an area of Sweden) and the name Rus and Routsi (in Finnish) comes from Roslagen while Roslagen essentialy means "Teams of rowers" who rowed for the King of Sweden. Not sure if the scene was intentional in that sense or not but I like to think it is.
@@1HUSEINKAPETAN1 Sorry for the passive-aggressiveness. I doubled checked and you are correct. It is indeed the most common theory for the etymology of Rus.
I always find the part where they kill the father and son, who I assume are fishermen, really disturbing. Shows how callous and bloodthirsty these northmen were.
The movie is fantastic. I think it's a combination of bad marketing (made it seem like it was gonna be a brutal action flick that happened to be set during the viking era) and the fact that some people just aren't willing to indulge in such work of art. They either don't have the attention span or just don't get it. Pretty sad. At last you enjoyed it!
@@JohnDoe-bh2lp Rus was probably a particular group of Scandinavians. These raiders could be pirates from another scandinavian group. Perhaps the fishermen did not run away, because they thought the Vikings in the scene friendly Rus - and then they turned out to be Sweas with hostile intent.
Every viking back then was no good to anyone but their own......I have little interest in that society and am glad they no longer exist in that manner of life.
What's interesting about this movie is that it highlights how different human morals and values can get. This does not really get highlighted much in shows like Vikings or the Last Kingdom. The two people he killed were just pretty much considered not human and sport for the guy, seeing as he laughed after killing them. Same with thralls, they had 0 value as humans to vikings.
What's the difference between them and Christians killing pagans en masse for not converting? Nothing. Those were just the times back then and boy was it a shitty time to be alive.
I know it’s shitty for the Vikings to kill those villagers, but it makes sense from a tactical perspective. They wanted to surprise the village. If they didn’t kill those villagers, they would either have to quick march there against time(those two villagers would be lighter and know the terrain better) and fight tired from rowing and racing the two people and lose more men then necessary or attack when we’ll rested but expected and lose more men than necessary.
They only killed the very old and the very young ..the rest were taken as slaves. Sum wer kept around to do work: play the flute serve the wine, get raped Etc
@@Cortesevasive No, as I said it was pretty shitty to kill those villagers. The fact that they destroy an entire village is not lost on me. However, looking at it through a strategic perspective and not emotionally, it was the sound thing to do.
@@Cortesevasive Exactly. All I am saying is that I’m NOT looking at it through an emotional lens, I’m looking at it from a strategic one. From a modern perspective it’s horrible, but times were different then (not that much from a moral standpoint, Vikings were not very well liked!). An interesting observation by modern historians is that near old Roman roads, they’ve found evidence of animals being tortured along routes of march for the Legions. Legionaries most likely tortured small animals as a way to desensitize themselves for the upcoming butchery of battle. Was it nice? No.
I have Ukrainian heritage and know about some of the traditional clothing from that region. When I watched the raid on the Slavic village I couldn't help but pay attention to the clothing of the villagers and the similarities to what I've seen Ukrainian Americans wear with it comes to traditional outfits it was a nice detail in a movie full of many nice details. I also like when he's talking to the spirit woman after the raid at night and she has the wreath on her made out of wheat. I've seen in person and photos of Ukrainian women wearing wreaths that look like that and if you go online you can find ones made out of wheat. I know stores where to get some in Chicago's in Ukrainian Village that sell some of the traditional clothing as well. I know this stuff is not exclusive to Ukraine and I'm not 100% an expert on it I believe some would know a lot more than me. I'm just talking of my experiences from going to festivals, museums, and looking up stuff online. If you're a history buff I think what you'll appreciate this movie is the level of detail and immersion of it. As for historically accuracy I don't know how historically accurate the events are, after all it's being on a fictional norse story that also influenced Hamlet, but again the level of detail is awesome. Like there's a part where he fights a creature from the Norse mythology. I thought it was odd at first how he defeated him and made me chuckle. I later found that's actually how you're suppose to defeat that creature in the mythology according to a video I watched on TH-cam discussing the details in the movie. Also read an article about how Olga is speaking a proto Slavic language and how they asked Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians if they could understand some of it and some said they were able to understand some of what she was saying. Also by the end I read somewhere that our protagonist is speaking the same proto Slavic language while beating his sword against his shield. I should really start citing these sources so I could go back to them later on. Lol But great movie for those reasons. I hope a movie like this just gets people curious and gets to start researching the topics and subjects shown. Whether that's through documentaries, reading, audio pieces, visiting a museum, and more.
Sorry but it's not historical at all. The stuff that you're talking about is 19th century national romanticism that is about as real as vikings in horned helmets. Nobody actually wore that type of clothes back in the day.
@@mithrandirthegrey7644 could you elaborate, there was immense research put into the accuracy of the clothing, including using the correct period materials and such, how is it inaccurate?
@@mithrandirthegrey7644 Are you saying that the Vyshyvanka (Ukrainian embroidery) is not historical? You can easily read the Wikipedia on the history of Ukrainian embroidery going back thousands of years.
Not many people know but the word « RUS » (where the name Russia originates) literally means that « ROWERS », old Norse «Rodsmenn» heard as « Rus » by a Finno-Ugric tribesmen and passed on to Slavs.
Jesus. Was that first shot really all just one shot? Almost seems like it was a drone but I'm not sure it would be possible given how close it gets to people and also it would be loud af. If they added audio to the scene in post rhey did a damn good job because it really seems like that's the true audio
They got a lot of things right, but Vikings were not ripped like that. They would have been pretty average looking. I do like how this movie didn't portray vikings as chizzle jawed hipsters who were always the good guys though, because they were far from that
@-_redacted_ You don't have a diet from the early middle ages in Scandinavia. I bet you are also taller than 5 ft 7 but the average Anglo and Scandinavian was 5 ft 7 in those times. You probably don't have all of the horrible injuries they sustained from a physical lifestyle despite being a labourer
That's also why I like it. This movie depicts the vikings as THEY would have seen themselves. I love '300' for the exact same reason. I don't care if it's historically inaccurate - it shows us Spartans as the Spartans would have viewed themselves.
Pure aryan spirit. Forced out of homelands by Turkic peoples. Enslaved by arabs. Lived in caves hiding from Roman legions and couldn't read or write for thousands of years. Laughable @floron7777
The skipper on the leading warship is the Woman warrior from Birka, and then there is the transgender sorccerer who sends Amled to retrieve the sword from the mound later on
@@elliot04877 Vikings literally amused themselves by throwing babies in the air to impale them with their spears. They had to christianize in order to get some morals lol, other than that their morals were entirely dependent on what social standing you had.
This is a great example of "NPC dies from arrow to mid section", which is the laziest possible way of portraying it. Neither of them would fall over from being shot with an arrow. The kid wouldn't just drop - he'd flail, panic -maybe-, but likely just jump overboard and hide.
@@desperateswabianhousewife8317 I'm from Europe. Seing a bunch of murdering rapists arrive by boat is rather usual these days. Still, they typically don't row themselves ...
@@alessioazizi8761 you're right, fighting shirtless isn't "cowardly", that is not the right word, . . . . . STUPID, fighting half-naked against someone with a sword is stupid. It helps when the "soldiers" you're "fighting" barely know how to hold a sword and are absolutely shitting themselves with fear though. you would have to be an idiot to try and rape a pillage a town filled with a strong military force, you go after the weak and vulnerable towns and villages, the point is to plunder resources AND get away.
*No, and just no. In no way did the Vikings just murder children like that, because it was NO HONOR. No way. That was the later Mongol practice when they invaded Russia*
@@lexbotkin3100 *You mean the same sources written by CHRISTIAN MONKS that even claimed Viking raiders were hardcore rapists. The propaganda was immense. It's like asking modern Russians what they think of Zelensky and his Azov battalion*
@@Hordalendingwell it were the vikings attacking Christian monasteries. Also Russia invaded ukraine, not the way around. Same as the vikings raided Christians, not the way around
@@JohnDoe-bh2lpVikings. The Vikings who sailed Northeast were called Varangians because the Viking raids in what is now Russia were supplemented by raiders and sell-swords from the Baltics and Finland. The Rus people are also called "Varangians." Rurik was the Varangian Chieftain that began offering protection to Slavic villages from other Vikings. Thus, Russia was born.
@@odoaceroftheneoromanempire7178 Without the Germanic vikings, the slavs never would've united under the Rus and would remain a separated, primitive tribal people.
Gardariki, the term used for the lands of the Rus is loosely translated as the land of fortifications/towns. If the Norse called those lands that, then they would consider those lands more settled, fortified then theirs. Lookup migration patterns of people into Europe, the Norseman who later became known as Vikings came from todays Russia not the other way around ;)
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I like this scene because it makes you think "oh the kid grew up to be a commander" then it zooms in on one if the berserkers.
😂
Still a pretty prestigious position in the Viking world, considering he came from literally nothing, having run off in a random direcatio on a boat as a kid
I didn't think that at all tbh. I was thinking "now where is Alexander skarsgard" 😂
@@marcusaurelius4941 Berserker's are almost always portrayed with a heavily negative connotation in the sagas.
@@calmexit6483 we can all guess why that was the case hahaha
Love how they established early on, in the beginning of the film as well, that raiders aren't good people.
Unlike a certain history channel show where little girls can somehow go toe to toe with grown men.
They were good people, to their volk. Only a fool thinks they can be better than that.
@@gnomeimporta6912 do not turn away from jesus
@@gnomeimporta6912 I bet you wouldnt say the same about Russians lol
@@gnomeimporta6912 , that's nonsense. If they had a family, sure or at best a clan/tribe. Otherwise, they were even raiding each other.
I'm just completely floored by this cinematography. The fact that the camera rolls forward, is seamlessly transferred to the boat, remains stable, AND THEN CAN ROTATE, SHOWING THERE IS NO TRACK ON THE BOAT, is just FUCKING INCREDIBLE.
i also am wondering how they did that. Was pretty clear to me until it turned around to the back of the boat
I’m almost certain that at 0:44 there’s a hidden cut, much like all the hidden cuts in 1917.
“Seamlessly” 😂
Oh you should watch The Revenant or 1917
No drone, no hidden cuts, you can find the breakdown of this scene on TH-cam. Camera man was on a crane
Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment
Stolen comment
So original. 🤡
Dying from their minor lacerations
You understand this is filmed? Using cameras?
just a bored man killing people
This film shows Northmen raiders as they were. No bullshit like "Vikings" TV show.
i know, my friends are always telling me to watch it bc they know i like war and history but i keep telling them its not accurate at all
@@firegirl560 It's entertaining though so I get it.
I think for the most part everyone sees that show as a Viking "Fantasy" celebration, it's like a whole ass subculture
you mean like the part where they cut the fathers tongue and eyes out then hang him up and make him listen to them spend the day torturing his family? that part was very warm and fuzzy
They were also asshole slavers, such was the times
Now we know why they were all so ripped. All that cardio
Also fighting pretty much every single day of their lives
Don't forget their meat diet too
@@makarovmatsumo3125 all paleo my dude
@@BR-re7oz they had bread tho my brother in Christ
@@BR-re7oz vikings weren't cavemen, they used grains
Such a masterpiece of a film.
I saw it in theaters though and the people next to me fell asleep. Sad times when people can't muster the attention span to enjoy a work of art like this
Seeing anything negative about this film from other people has me in shambles. It's quite literally movie of the decade for me.
They were probably mentally handicapped.
@@str8manballtouch949 they seemed like it, or maybe insanely baked off some edibles
@@kevinle5460I watched it in cinemas stoned and I loved it
nothing good about this movie, another unrealistic historically inaccurate garbage
One of the best depiction’s of Viking lore and mythology brought to life on the silver screen 🌊
Very small but impactful scene of the vikings killing those two fishermen for sport and lightly chuckling afterwards. We didn't see a massacre, a raid, or torture here, just a single man reducing the death of two innocents to some mundane pleasure. What a truly immersive way to show how merciless and unforgiving this world was.
There was a practicality to it too. You don’t want your enemy telling his friends about your arrival.
Was? Still , only if you live in another meta universe, or you are in a protected utopia?
During wartime death of innocents is mundane. Also, this world is and will forever be merciless and unforgiving.
Surely those fishermen would have hidden ?
@MikaelArkangil do not inflict on me what you have done, I forbid you.
After crossing seas and rowing through ocean storms I couldn’t imagine fearing anything on land
Maybe getting a blood Eagle?
@@ericcook7622 amon amarth sung a song on blood eagle
@@mrnohax5436what?
@@ericcook7622they were the ones dealing blood eagles out not receiving
@@Bigbob508 right, because Vikings never came into conflict with other Vikings.
Those long beautiful ominous ships, the music, the rowing in unison. Such an incredible work of art this film is.
I also love how they have slots for the shields next to eat rowers seat. They have at least some cover against fire from shore, and then when they land they can just grab the shield and go.
What the ship name?
@@Gekkkoa senjekka by the looks of it, maybe a drakkar, but it seems too small
That terribly unrealistic and downright funny battle scene where you can clearly see in the bg that the berserkers are simply smashing their axes on the ground rather than on the enemy.
That pissed off looking dude in the cape next to Amleth also looks like he on his own personal decade long journey of revenge. I want to know his story.
Yeah, I thought that would be the protagonist. He had a slightly better haircut
I thought that was gonna be amleth when I first watched it
@@joesheridan9451same, I was wondering why the camera was panning to a random guy 😹
This movie was a masterpiece. The acting, the scenery, the clothing, the realism, the scores. The best movie of 2022. The best mythological movie in some time. Underrated gem.
it's not mythological
@@BeautyAnimalWorld786Say that again and we shall summon a Dragon onto you!
Wasn't very good.
agreed, I thought it was funny after the girl came back for him he was sooo set on starting a new life with her and moving past revenge. But as soon as he found out that bitch was having twins he was like awe nah I'm out. LMAOOO@@Drazog
@@Drazog Agree completely. VERY VERY overrated. The people who call this a masterpiece dont actually what a masterpiece is, or are just lying to themselves.
One of my favorite movies in all of my decades on this earth. Amazing cinematography, Shakespearean dynamic wrapped in a SOLID Norse style saga story, all the while replete with DEEP symbolism that you have to watch 3 or 4 times through to catch. Makes much more sense if you have at least a vague understanding of Viking culture. Just an absolutely, highly underrated masterpiece. I fucking LOVED this movie.
Love how the scene depicts aa if the guy in the back is Hamleth with his bright blond hair and status of a warrior. But then we get surprised by it just being one of the vikings on the side. It's kind of a hint that nobody knows who hamleth has become
It's underrated in terms of how much of a badass intro this is
Yeah this scene and the first intro with the ravens and longships arriving and Aurvandil riding into Hrafnsey along with the music is just amazing cinematography.
I love how this movie didn’t romanticize who the Vikings where,they where hard men living in rough times. The killed , pillaged, and did what the wanted/needed!
barbari!
they were mostly merchants. what you see in your tv shows is just "hollywood"
@@ville9738 Viking is an occupation no different than pirates, in fact Viking is simply the name of Norwegian pirates. They definitely did do trade and worked as mercenaries for needy lords, but looting, pillaging, and raping was absolutely a norm. Violence and treachery were key themes of their religion, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that Vikings were a hardy and dangerous people.
Most norwenians in those times were farmers, merchants, etc. Only a limited number of them were actually vikings as are depicted in Hollywood. Even the later armies of "vikings" that took part in the conquest of what is today England, Wales and IReland were more like any medieval army, most of them were farmers that eventually became soldiers and after the battles went back to their farm.
They were both merchants and violent raiders. Not separate categories.
This whole scene is shot in one take like many others, but this one starts so freaking good , camera is on the ground then it moves straight and lands on the boat
It's shot in 2 takes. There is a transition there if you're looking for it.
@@blender7 Eggers said himself that they achieved this in one take, usually he says when shots are sticked together
I think this was the scene where I realized that this movie was not going to sugar coat the Viking culture. These dudes were hardened killers, the scourge of Northern Europe.
i love those longships. There is a viking ship museum here in Denmark, with the remains of real ships. They build replicas too, using hand tools and traditional techniques. So i get to see longships out in the fjord every summer, they are pretty damn cool.
That sounds pretty neat
taler du om vikingeskibsmuseet
@@olafviklund3149 ja det i Roskilde. Bor selv i området.
@@thegreatdane3627 Du har %100 ret. Det er en af de bedste i hele skandinavien, efter min mening.
Finns det fjordar i Danmark?
This needs more likes/views/comments, this scene was so fucking good. What a film
Imagine all of the Byzantine peoples and Arabs reactions one thousand years ago when they saw these Pale Guys with Sky blue eyes and Sun blonde hair stepping out and hulking over all of them with greater height, size, and strength for both genetic and environmental reasons. Then seeing them fighting harder than they've ever seen anyone else fight before.
It's amazing. The rowing the boat is probably the most boring part of the job, yet this makes it look epic!
"We rode the rivers of the Eastern trail, deep in the land of the Rus.
Following the wind in our sails, and the rhythm of the oars.
No shelter in this hostile land, constantly on guard.
Ready to fight and defend our ship 'til the bitter end."
What is that quote from?
@@barreloffun10 The Amon Amarth song "Runes to my Memory". I was hoping that some people would recognize it.
My favorite song from them
@@mikemilligan8461 That's a bold statement! They have so many great ones, it's really hard for me to say which is my fave.
AMAN AMARTH!!!!
I will say one thing. Eggers really knows how to make a memorable scene. I still need to see this and have only seen a few scenes, but each one really stands out.
Nothing says “here comes some bad guys” like killing some guys on a passing boat and then laughing about it.
I still sup for the music of this masterpiece especially in this scene. It´s haunting, it´s bringing the nordic atmosphere and of course it reminds me of the changing room smell from back in school.
I turn this on repeat when I’m doing the row machine
Its a small detail, but i love how the Woman from Birka - who is in charge of the Raid, stands in the prow on the first ship with her Hirdsmen and Standard
"FISHERMEN YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN FOR DEATH"
Everyone in the comments suddenly becomes a historian...
Yeah, it's especially interesting considering how little from this period is know about the Rus (assuming this is a little before 900AD). There aren't Latin sources which know what's going on in this region, and the Byzantine sources are largely in the dark as well (until later in the century).
Anything before Igor of Kiev is largely mysterious.
Well people are entitled (and ought to) to discuss and debate history
@@Anglisc1682 Yeah, but what is there to debate if there aren't any sources?
@@Sphere723 Still interesting and fun
and gay
As my eye slowly crossed over the crew. I thought. Any one of those men could be the hero! So many stories. So little time.
This scene invokes something in me. I feel some sort of primal call to explore new lands
then when you get out there, and you're swatting mosquitoes and getting all scratched up, and you find it hard to hunt with your crappy outdoorsman skills so you have to make do with sour acorns and questionable berries that leave you hungry all night, while you slurp liquid from hastily arranged water catchers made from garbage that you hope is clean enough to drink and contains no parasites. Then as you freeze during the winter nights, and constantly fight to stay alive day by day, you wish you were back home :P.
This is such a gay comment
@@JohnBrownsBody Kinda
@@radscorpion8 defeatist bitch
@@radscorpion8 soyboy you don’t have any survival skills lmao
those swedish vikings created a kingdom, that is now called russia
Finally a Viking that actually has a full germanic skull in a movie
Even if the movie got a bit boring and slow-paced later on, the first scenes of this movie is some of the best cinematography I've ever seen. The music, the camera work, it's really immersive and gives you goose bumps.
That soundtrack though
That dead stare…pure terror
This is what happens when your blue haired 1st grade teacher forgets to teach you about toxic masculinity
Quote that “Toxic Masculinity”
Kinda? But he’s not really victorious in the end- he can’t save his mother, he kills his brother and uncle, and he never sees his child. The movie is a tragedy, and really fantastic
What happens, vikings suddenly appear on a river near you?
You grow up into a normal man?
And when you blue hair teacher does, you end up cutting your genitals off and hating how you were naturally born
The great part of this scene, for me, is that the Vikings are shown rowing, pretty intensly, on a river in Russia, and that is exactly the ethimology of the name Rus, it comes from Roslagen (an area of Sweden) and the name Rus and Routsi (in Finnish) comes from Roslagen while Roslagen essentialy means "Teams of rowers" who rowed for the King of Sweden. Not sure if the scene was intentional in that sense or not but I like to think it is.
Are you sure about that?
@@bitTorrenter Well its a theory that is very much accepted
@@1HUSEINKAPETAN1 By Swedes I guess.
@@pepepetanque2 Not really sure what you mesn by thst, but okay
@@1HUSEINKAPETAN1 Sorry for the passive-aggressiveness. I doubled checked and you are correct. It is indeed the most common theory for the etymology of Rus.
Her: He's probably out cheating.
Me and the boys:
I always find the part where they kill the father and son, who I assume are fishermen, really disturbing. Shows how callous and bloodthirsty these northmen were.
Amon Amarth - runes to my memory bruv
Sometimes I think it's just Amleth, me and a viking crew against the entire world
That moment when he finally speaks with his mother again was such a kick in the dick.
Damn. Must of been packing those 1 shot 1 kill Call of Duty arrows. I don't even know why we use guns today.
This was what the whole movie needed to be about. I came prepared for more of an artsy movie but my friends did not and they all hated it.
The movie is fantastic. I think it's a combination of bad marketing (made it seem like it was gonna be a brutal action flick that happened to be set during the viking era) and the fact that some people just aren't willing to indulge in such work of art. They either don't have the attention span or just don't get it. Pretty sad. At last you enjoyed it!
Masterpiece. And I am very glad they showed, too, what Vikings did to underage children (and old people), whom they could not sell or use as slaves.
I like how they call it "the land of the Rus" when actually "they" are the Rus.
на лодке они убили рюрика и его сына игоря
Rus was what slavs called the Nordic Germanic people of Scandinavia, slavs were their slaves and servants
@@JohnDoe-bh2lp Rus was probably a particular group of Scandinavians. These raiders could be pirates from another scandinavian group. Perhaps the fishermen did not run away, because they thought the Vikings in the scene friendly Rus - and then they turned out to be Sweas with hostile intent.
All that rowing must have given the Vikings massive backs and strong triceps.
Every viking back then was no good to anyone but their own......I have little interest in that society and am glad they no longer exist in that manner of life.
Agree. It keeps getting romanticized. I'd like to see big Hollywood productions about other cultures.
The contrast between being a human and having primitive instincts in war is amazing.
Not a cell phone in sight, just people dying in the moment
I feel really bad because when I originally saw this movie I was super sick, so I didn't really get to appreciate it.
This scene has raided the right to go so hard fr...
Best scene!
Фильм великолепный. Рекомендую к просмотру. Красивый и с глубоким смыслом.
это Шекспир, Гамлет
@@кетцалькоаткль Насколько я знаю, все наоборот. Шекспир взял за основу скандинавскую сагу: о чем и повествует данный фильм.
I love...absolutely love music in this scene, especially from @0:44
My Mother Told Me
@@peterpan41 is it actually My Mother Told Me? I hadn’t clocked that.
@@darko-man8549 listen to them both, shit just sing rhe melody. Its identical
This is so wholesome.
Lmao you didn’t have to kill those guys in the small boat … but ya did 😂
Probably to stop anybody raising the alarm.
What's interesting about this movie is that it highlights how different human morals and values can get. This does not really get highlighted much in shows like Vikings or the Last Kingdom. The two people he killed were just pretty much considered not human and sport for the guy, seeing as he laughed after killing them. Same with thralls, they had 0 value as humans to vikings.
Psycho's .. The villagers needed a couple of PBR's with the twin .50's in the front....
What's the difference between them and Christians killing pagans en masse for not converting? Nothing. Those were just the times back then and boy was it a shitty time to be alive.
Yeah bro if only the people you like who lived 1000 years ago had gunz lololz
I know it’s shitty for the Vikings to kill those villagers, but it makes sense from a tactical perspective. They wanted to surprise the village. If they didn’t kill those villagers, they would either have to quick march there against time(those two villagers would be lighter and know the terrain better) and fight tired from rowing and racing the two people and lose more men then necessary or attack when we’ll rested but expected and lose more men than necessary.
They only killed the very old and the very young ..the rest were taken as slaves.
Sum wer kept around to do work: play the flute serve the wine, get raped Etc
Dude are u gonna ignore the fact that they sail to murder rape and enslave whole fkin village 😂
@@Cortesevasive No, as I said it was pretty shitty to kill those villagers. The fact that they destroy an entire village is not lost on me. However, looking at it through a strategic perspective and not emotionally, it was the sound thing to do.
@@Matt_J98 😂 Dude they were laughing while killing them, what emotions u talkin about mate...
@@Cortesevasive Exactly. All I am saying is that I’m NOT looking at it through an emotional lens, I’m looking at it from a strategic one. From a modern perspective it’s horrible, but times were different then (not that much from a moral standpoint, Vikings were not very well liked!). An interesting observation by modern historians is that near old Roman roads, they’ve found evidence of animals being tortured along routes of march for the Legions. Legionaries most likely tortured small animals as a way to desensitize themselves for the upcoming butchery of battle. Was it nice? No.
I have Ukrainian heritage and know about some of the traditional clothing from that region. When I watched the raid on the Slavic village I couldn't help but pay attention to the clothing of the villagers and the similarities to what I've seen Ukrainian Americans wear with it comes to traditional outfits it was a nice detail in a movie full of many nice details. I also like when he's talking to the spirit woman after the raid at night and she has the wreath on her made out of wheat. I've seen in person and photos of Ukrainian women wearing wreaths that look like that and if you go online you can find ones made out of wheat. I know stores where to get some in Chicago's in Ukrainian Village that sell some of the traditional clothing as well. I know this stuff is not exclusive to Ukraine and I'm not 100% an expert on it I believe some would know a lot more than me. I'm just talking of my experiences from going to festivals, museums, and looking up stuff online.
If you're a history buff I think what you'll appreciate this movie is the level of detail and immersion of it. As for historically accuracy I don't know how historically accurate the events are, after all it's being on a fictional norse story that also influenced Hamlet, but again the level of detail is awesome. Like there's a part where he fights a creature from the Norse mythology. I thought it was odd at first how he defeated him and made me chuckle. I later found that's actually how you're suppose to defeat that creature in the mythology according to a video I watched on TH-cam discussing the details in the movie.
Also read an article about how Olga is speaking a proto Slavic language and how they asked Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians if they could understand some of it and some said they were able to understand some of what she was saying. Also by the end I read somewhere that our protagonist is speaking the same proto Slavic language while beating his sword against his shield. I should really start citing these sources so I could go back to them later on. Lol
But great movie for those reasons.
I hope a movie like this just gets people curious and gets to start researching the topics and subjects shown. Whether that's through documentaries, reading, audio pieces, visiting a museum, and more.
agreed its nice to see those historical details in movies, I hope to see more historically accurate movies or shows around
The totem behind the witch is the Zbruch Idol that was found in Western Ukraine.
Sorry but it's not historical at all. The stuff that you're talking about is 19th century national romanticism that is about as real as vikings in horned helmets. Nobody actually wore that type of clothes back in the day.
@@mithrandirthegrey7644 could you elaborate, there was immense research put into the accuracy of the clothing, including using the correct period materials and such, how is it inaccurate?
@@mithrandirthegrey7644 Are you saying that the Vyshyvanka (Ukrainian embroidery) is not historical? You can easily read the Wikipedia on the history of Ukrainian embroidery going back thousands of years.
Not many people know but the word « RUS » (where the name Russia originates) literally means that « ROWERS », old Norse «Rodsmenn» heard as « Rus » by a Finno-Ugric tribesmen and passed on to Slavs.
00:47 Wow look the large leg of Amleth and look the other vikings, he's very tall😂
Every man’s dream job
What brutal workout regime if i ever saw one
The fisherpeople were an obvious threat...
rus is viking ,not slav
I need to do more rowing.
Jesus. Was that first shot really all just one shot? Almost seems like it was a drone but I'm not sure it would be possible given how close it gets to people and also it would be loud af. If they added audio to the scene in post rhey did a damn good job because it really seems like that's the true audio
How funny! Look how quickly they go against the river course! 😀
They got a lot of things right, but Vikings were not ripped like that. They would have been pretty average looking. I do like how this movie didn't portray vikings as chizzle jawed hipsters who were always the good guys though, because they were far from that
They would have been lean and strong but not ripped imo, I think you're right
I mostly do manual labour and am ripped, maybe your genes are bad?
@blind nigga samurai Difference between being ripped and roids bud. You can be in great shape, but to get properly jacked you need roids.
@-_redacted_ You don't have a diet from the early middle ages in Scandinavia. I bet you are also taller than 5 ft 7 but the average Anglo and Scandinavian was 5 ft 7 in those times. You probably don't have all of the horrible injuries they sustained from a physical lifestyle despite being a labourer
That's also why I like it. This movie depicts the vikings as THEY would have seen themselves. I love '300' for the exact same reason. I don't care if it's historically inaccurate - it shows us Spartans as the Spartans would have viewed themselves.
These boats are far too large. In reality, they had to be so light as to be pulled over land between rivers.
The lack of POC Vikings and BDSM visibility is seriously disgusting.
Pure aryan spirit.
Forced out of homelands by Turkic peoples.
Enslaved by arabs.
Lived in caves hiding from Roman legions and couldn't read or write for thousands of years.
Laughable
@floron7777
The skipper on the leading warship is the Woman warrior from Birka, and then there is the transgender sorccerer who sends Amled to retrieve the sword from the mound later on
Hail All father
In this scene I wonder if he experiences anger for the unjust arrow murders of the fisherman; or were they enemy scouts?
I doubt he gave a fuck. In reality I DARE say he'd be desensetised, seen it all before
He's a Norse pagan, by their moral standards shooting those two fishermen was entirely justified and not something immoral.
Scary society@@elliot04877
@@elliot04877 Vikings literally amused themselves by throwing babies in the air to impale them with their spears. They had to christianize in order to get some morals lol, other than that their morals were entirely dependent on what social standing you had.
I recreated this scene in assassin's creed Valhalla lmao😂
this movie so good hnnnnnnnnnnng hits the spot fr.
Awesome movie
This is a great example of "NPC dies from arrow to mid section", which is the laziest possible way of portraying it. Neither of them would fall over from being shot with an arrow. The kid wouldn't just drop - he'd flail, panic -maybe-, but likely just jump overboard and hide.
If you’re the fisherman, you don’t see the Vikings rowing up there? You don’t immediately head to land?
Now where is Leman of the Rus?
This scene and song is ticking motivating
Greatest damn movie of all time.
insta death arrows, a viking favourite
and like machine gun
I can’t understand how Vikings not destroy themselves before becoming someone else problem.
Canadian born of half Slovak descent:
Nice Slavic Witcher 3 sounding music going on.
It's the nordic folk genre that's exploding. Look up Wardruna, Danheim, Gealdýr, and Heilung to start with.
Slovaks aren't nordic or vikings
Gardariki = Land of the Rus
Imagine you are walking by the river with your family and than this dudes show up, rowing up the stream. Would be a shocker in any day and age.
You mean seeing bunch of murderign rapists is scary? Wow, what profound insight.
@@desperateswabianhousewife8317 I'm from Europe. Seing a bunch of murdering rapists arrive by boat is rather usual these days. Still, they typically don't row themselves ...
@@franknstein546Fact
To valhall.
I love how cocky that guy is after he arrows the two innocents. 😂
Fun facts: 1.they sucked deeply at the land of rus...many times.
2.after Chingis appeared they stop swimming for decades.
the viking age had been over for a century when Djenghis Khan was born
Really all this movie did was solidify my hatred of Vikings as nothing but glorified, cowardly pirates and beasts.
yeah movie is super fascinating but people fail to remember vikings were equivalent to modern day criminals who pray on the innocent.
Bro is calling some warrors who fought shirtless against multiple soldiers "cowards"
Often against people who couldn't fight back.
That is essentially what they were, Viking wasn't a race of a people it was an occupation.
@@alessioazizi8761 you're right, fighting shirtless isn't "cowardly", that is not the right word, . . . . . STUPID, fighting half-naked against someone with a sword is stupid. It helps when the "soldiers" you're "fighting" barely know how to hold a sword and are absolutely shitting themselves with fear though.
you would have to be an idiot to try and rape a pillage a town filled with a strong military force, you go after the weak and vulnerable towns and villages, the point is to plunder resources AND get away.
*No, and just no. In no way did the Vikings just murder children like that, because it was NO HONOR. No way. That was the later Mongol practice when they invaded Russia*
I mean, they did. There's a lot of evidence that they did.
@@lexbotkin3100 *You mean the same sources written by CHRISTIAN MONKS that even claimed Viking raiders were hardcore rapists. The propaganda was immense. It's like asking modern Russians what they think of Zelensky and his Azov battalion*
@@lexbotkin3100 they were rading for loot, it was bettee to not destroy the village sow they could come back later.
Vikings were known rapists and slavers. Im sure they killed plenty of children too
@@Hordalendingwell it were the vikings attacking Christian monasteries.
Also Russia invaded ukraine, not the way around.
Same as the vikings raided Christians, not the way around
literally me
Thè Greek road to Constantinople
the lack of diverity in this movie made me sick we all know vikangs were actually black
*black muslim women who where openly gay and trans
@@mr.reddwhite884 this is fact
Norse - Rus heritage from the north……🎉🎉
No. Rus was a small group of elites who decided to conquer and settle in Russia. They weren't slavs, but Swedish vikings who ruled over slavs.
@@JohnDoe-bh2lpVikings. The Vikings who sailed Northeast were called Varangians because the Viking raids in what is now Russia were supplemented by raiders and sell-swords from the Baltics and Finland. The Rus people are also called "Varangians." Rurik was the Varangian Chieftain that began offering protection to Slavic villages from other Vikings. Thus, Russia was born.
@@odoaceroftheneoromanempire7178 Without the Germanic vikings, the slavs never would've united under the Rus and would remain a separated, primitive tribal people.
Gardariki, the term used for the lands of the Rus is loosely translated as the land of fortifications/towns. If the Norse called those lands that, then they would consider those lands more settled, fortified then theirs. Lookup migration patterns of people into Europe, the Norseman who later became known as Vikings came from todays Russia not the other way around ;)