Film directed by Robert Tigers, released by Folks Features in the United States and by Universal in the rest of the world. One of the features I was most looking forward to in the year two thousand and twenty-two because I consider an extremely talented director. And ambitious too.
Since the pre-production period of The Norkma he has been talking about this idea of a great Viking movie. And more recently he's gone on to talk about visioning a definitive Vikings movie. Which is quite a challenge. You compare with the wide range of options between films and series of similar themes.
And it is clear that the director was dealing with a novelty in his career when approaching mythology and Scandinavian history and gains an extra degree of difficulty in promoting ruptures that he seeks for new considerations when the tradition, heroism, relationships and even in the idea of sport.
How sport was practiced, for example, in the ninth century. In this idea of consolidating the epic, historical, he relied on several academics led by Professor New Price. I consider the greatest contemporary authority on the subject. Robert Tegers is a very creative director who in a way this time was dealing with a certain degree of limitation.
Because there is the whole mythological basis of the legend of Hemlet. And would later inspire Shakespeare in Hamlet. And I say limitation because when compared to the two previous films by the director of Witch and Lighthouse, a much more direct progression, especially in terms of objectives and final direction.
Why? Because there is this historical basis of the legend of Hamlet. Maybe that's why one thing that caused me some strangeness at first, but what I understand was the way Folks Features is selling this movie in the United States as an action epic and just reducing the experience of The Northma to the action passes. a wrong idea of the film because then you disregard the symbology, you disregard the tradition or you put all this as a secondary element that I'm sure is not the director's idea. It's just that, right guys?
The risk ratio for a film of this type is enormous and the last impression was not good of a historical film of a last duel last year that had a very box office result. but very bad. I'm already rooting for this film to have good results so that studios return to investing in historical films.
I miss this. In short, I found in The Northman not only a traditional revenge saga, an action epic, but much more than that, a film that has to talk about questions about culture, about the Viking tradition. And a film that encourages you to do further research. As I said, for example, sport between the ninth century and the tenth century issues that you can even consider but that the film deepens and offers you the chance to do some extra research.
This is a positive differentiator. In eight hundred and ninety-five sold him played by Hitan Hawk comes back from the war and returns to his family. The acute queen played by Nicole Kidman and the prince Prince Amlet played by Oscar Novack and Alexander Scarsgard.
When the king's brother played by Cless Bang pays a visit, Hamlet witnesses a betrayal and vows to avenge his family. Yes, we have an extremely violent brutal film with tense action scenes and also a disturbing film in the best sense of the word applied to the director's tomography who, for example, invests a lot in important dialogues involving witches, witches, seers and sorceresses.
And from revenge we have the development of a direct plot regarding motivations and planning. But as the enviable historical basis especially in the research and detail relationship. There is one thing, however, that bothered me a lot about The Northman and that I believe hinders the pace of the film, which is the division by chapters, especially in the abrupt interruptions.
I believe this was the element used by the production to deliver the feature in two and fifteen hours. leaves that impression that you would have much more content in the story than and that content was left out and that some action scenes were also well cut.
Another thing that I need to mention that caused me a certain distraction was the exaggeration of accents in this idea of using the English language to emulate another language. So Old English alone wouldn't be justifiable for a movie like The Northman, it wouldn't make much sense.
So the text is much more direct, it involves director catchphrases, thus giving up dialects that were also important for his two previous films. This simplification did not please me so much when the film itself seeks to reference the Old Norse language. he seeks to bring this question precisely in some important scenes.
It ends up clashing because in drama, for example, the abuse of the accent to make the scene stronger sounds very exaggerated. About the cast, it is impressive the names that the director put together for this epic among new
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