Z kamerą wśród Wikingów

[yuganda]

Guys, guys, I just saw something awesome! Yes, again. I tend to do that a lot. This doesn't make it any less awesome.

I’ve heard about this indie Viking movie Severed Ways from Twitch and finally managed to obtain a German dub version. I was planning to wait for the original DVD (old Norse + English subtitles *_*), but the whole True Blood and

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[jigokunotobira]

Ok, so: Vikings are what Vegs' like, as you already know;P. But I'm not sure if I want to watch this "Severed Ways". Generally I'm very careful when it comes to movies about vikings. I'm not a historical accuracy fanatic (If I was, I would have kept mocking at BBC RH and claiming that "Robin of Sherwood" is "the only one and true Robin Hood"), but there are some limits of the historical absurdity to me. Of course everything depends on a movie and on a person. For example, BBC RH's historical absurdity is funny to me and I enjoy it, but to some other people it's really irritating. In the case of vikings, these limits are for example well-known horns of vikings' helmets (it just looks stupid. And vikings wasn't using such helmets during a fight, because it could even hurt its owner. There has been found only ONE helmet with horns and, what's more, it was the CEREMONIAL one). What makes me worried about this "Severed Ways" is: Along their journey they encounter some monks, get stalked by natives, cut down some trees, burn some churches. Churches??? In America??? In XI century??? Before discovering this continent by Columbus??? And monks??? American Indians didn't even know what the Christianity is then!!! HALLO, COME ON:P!!! The idea about two warriors left behind on an unknown land and trying to adapt to a completely different reality is really interesting. But it should be used and developed wisely in a script. I just don't like blind following such stereotypes as "vikings wearing horned helmets and burning churches". It also becomes kinda boring -_-.

[jigokunotobira]

The site has died once again, but this time I had copied the whole comment;P.

[yuganda]

Let me clear up the thing about the monks. This wasn't some large Christianization mission. There were only two monks there and they were castaways much like the two Vikings. They escaped slavery on some other ship (I didn't understand that bit) and by chance happened to be in the same area as the Vikings. They didn't try to convert any Indians - they just prayed they didn't meet any. And the 'church' was more like a cottage only with a large cross. Sorry for using plural incorrectly ;)
And the burning was sort of a nostalgic element: here they are, lost in a new world, when they see their good old beating-bags, the Christians. They just had to burn the church for tradition's sake.

I'm not saying the entire film was historically accurate, since I'm not the expert (and I suspect the headbanging part was the directors artistic license ;)), but it looked like it was made by real Viking fanboys who really care for the subject and not for the money. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were active in some brotherhood.

And there were no horns ;) Which I can't say about the mentioned Pathfinder - now that was crap >.>

[yuganda]

A Pathfinder Viking especially for you >:)


Whatever you do, stay away from that movie - you wouldn't survive the suckage x_X

[jigokunotobira]

Still, a cottage with a big cross in America in these times is completely unrealistic;). Before Columbus and conquistadors simply there was no way that such a thing would appear. It's as disturbing as black people in RH BBC and "The Last Legion". Don't get me wrong, I'm not a racist, but this is one of these historical inaccuracies, which just annoys me (the same thing was with Tom Cruise, the white man, pretending to be a samurai and japanese). But tell me: was this cottage and this cross built by these two monks?

I meant vikings' horns in general;).

I have only seen "The Pathfinder"'s trailer and I've already decided a long time ago that I'm definitely NOT going to watch this:P. These vikings look like chamois' from mountains;P.

[yuganda]

The infamous church:


If Vikings in America are possible, then monks are too - accidents on sea happen, and if it's not a planed mission, they could have washed up on the western shore and build a cottage. With a cross. Because they were pious like that.
The natives probably never knew of their existence.

Yeah, Tuck in RH bothered me too. I'm not that picky about facts and events getting mixed up (if it has a purpose), but I really hate it when modern values are transported to historical settings -_-

[jigokunotobira]

Ok, at first I just thought it was natives' cottage and cross, not monks. Yeah, you're right, monks' story can be quite possible.