Why Robert Eggers didn't want to make a viking movie | THE NORTHMAN - Q&A | Film Independent

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
  • Filmmaker Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) discusses the making of his latest feature, the Focus Features viking epic THE NORTHMAN with Rotten Tomatoes Awards Editor Jacqueline Coley.
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ความคิดเห็น • 17

  • @davidbjacobs3598
    @davidbjacobs3598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I would love to see a Robert Eggers scifi movie! Although I suppose in a way, The Lighthouse already is.

    • @tonywords6713
      @tonywords6713 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fantasy basically is sci-fi as far as I'm concerned

  • @TendaiPottinger
    @TendaiPottinger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I almost don't want to listen to this, so I can go see the movie first and experience everything for the first time.

  • @shadowseer07
    @shadowseer07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I honestly feel like he’d make excellent sci-fi!

  • @acadia5898
    @acadia5898 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    when he said that Nicole Kidman mentioned that the "script had teeth", what do they mean by that?

  • @pedronobre8755
    @pedronobre8755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I am fed up with directors prefacing interviews with pissing on their audiences. Eggers might be a genius, but his film's financial success depends on the recognition built by shows which might seem "macho". It also depends on the money brought in by audiences who are fond of Vikings and are not "Nazis" because of it.
    Like JJ Abrams profiting from the SciFi genre while calling the audiences "too white", such comments are just silly. If want to avoid Vikings because they were "appropriated" by "Nazis" (the audiences you'll soon invite to the theaters), why won't you shoot the next epic about native armies in the Amazon or the Gobi Desert?

    • @simonriley4131
      @simonriley4131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      He hit a bit too close to home for you huh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pathetic

    • @pedronobre8755
      @pedronobre8755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@simonriley4131 Not at all. I'm actually not into Vikings. But the issue's the same with many films these days.

    • @realtalk6195
      @realtalk6195 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@simonriley4131 Robert Egger's comment wasn't even accurate and is a huge stretch. The original Nazis were German (along with allies across Europe), and the Vikings were mostly Germanic. There's no misappropriation there. Neo-Nazis appropriating skinhead culture (created by British Jamaicans) and punk music (created by anti-racists) is actual misappropriation. German Nazis also used Teutonic Knight and other imagery from the Northern Crusades, and those were also German and Germanic peoples who waged war against Poland and the Baltics.
      The value systems of all 3 groups were different, but fundamentally they were all German and Germanic. You cannot strip a people from their own ancestors and kin, just because the present iteration has a different value system. Christians of the Roman Empire had different beliefs compared to their pagan ancestors, but both are still Roman citizens.

    • @snocoldman
      @snocoldman ปีที่แล้ว +16

      What? He’s saying he personally doesn’t enjoy macho movies. He never makes a judgement call on the audience for liking them.
      Also he is uncomfortable by the association between vikings and neo-nazis seen nowadays.
      These are really normal statements. I think you are reading too hard into this.

  • @felipemonteiro4646
    @felipemonteiro4646 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 17:00 what's the name of the saga he mentions? With ghost seals, etc

    • @DualWieldFTW
      @DualWieldFTW 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He mentions it as Eyrbyggja saga, yeah it's hard to figure out phonetically.

  • @ML-yw4hv
    @ML-yw4hv 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    :')

  • @squidwardtennisballs3390
    @squidwardtennisballs3390 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm so sick of directors feeling like it's necessary that they push there political gripes at people who are sick of all of it. I'm a Eggers fan but please stfu about politics dude.