This article contains The Northman spoilers.
“To be or not to be.” That is a question which never occurs to Alexander Skarsgård’s Amleth in The Northman. He knows exactly what he’ll be next week. It’s the same thing as last week: a bloodthirsty Viking. Nevertheless, the character has much in common with William Shakespeare’s Danish prince, who famously uttered the above quote during a soliloquy in Act Three of Hamlet. And whether viewers are familiar with the Bard’s tragedy or not, that connection to Elsinore pervades throughout this weekend’s bare-chested epic.
“I felt if I’m doing Hamlet or The Lion King, I have a story that the audience knows already,” The Northman director Robert Eggers told Den of Geek Magazine. “So therefore I can really indulge in the world-building without confusing people.”
Indeed, there is something primordial about the storytelling in Eggers’ film.
“To be or not to be.” That is a question which never occurs to Alexander Skarsgård’s Amleth in The Northman. He knows exactly what he’ll be next week. It’s the same thing as last week: a bloodthirsty Viking. Nevertheless, the character has much in common with William Shakespeare’s Danish prince, who famously uttered the above quote during a soliloquy in Act Three of Hamlet. And whether viewers are familiar with the Bard’s tragedy or not, that connection to Elsinore pervades throughout this weekend’s bare-chested epic.
“I felt if I’m doing Hamlet or The Lion King, I have a story that the audience knows already,” The Northman director Robert Eggers told Den of Geek Magazine. “So therefore I can really indulge in the world-building without confusing people.”
Indeed, there is something primordial about the storytelling in Eggers’ film.
- 5/13/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Thrones & Empires
Stars: Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Christian Bale, Brian Cox, Tom Wilkinson, Kate Beckinsale | Written by Gabriel Axel, Erik Kjersgaard | Directed by Gabriel Axel
King Harvendel and his son Sigurd have been murdered by the King’s evil brother Fenge who has taken the crown and Queen Geruth as his wife. But the killing has been witnessed by the other prince, who avoids his own slaughter by feigning madness. Driven by revenge, Amled in turns murders Ribold, Fenge’s closest companion. Threatened by this, Fenge sends Amled to his close friend Aethelwine, Duke of Lindsey in Scotland with a message that the prince is mad and should die. Amled manages to change the text of the message in his favour and is welcomed into the court by the Duke, and quickly falls in love with his daughter, the beautiful Ethel.
While out riding with Ehtel and her brother Aelfred,...
Stars: Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Christian Bale, Brian Cox, Tom Wilkinson, Kate Beckinsale | Written by Gabriel Axel, Erik Kjersgaard | Directed by Gabriel Axel
King Harvendel and his son Sigurd have been murdered by the King’s evil brother Fenge who has taken the crown and Queen Geruth as his wife. But the killing has been witnessed by the other prince, who avoids his own slaughter by feigning madness. Driven by revenge, Amled in turns murders Ribold, Fenge’s closest companion. Threatened by this, Fenge sends Amled to his close friend Aethelwine, Duke of Lindsey in Scotland with a message that the prince is mad and should die. Amled manages to change the text of the message in his favour and is welcomed into the court by the Duke, and quickly falls in love with his daughter, the beautiful Ethel.
While out riding with Ehtel and her brother Aelfred,...
- 10/7/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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