She's certainly very smart in how she's managing her career. She continues to push the boundaries of the roles with which she portrays.

Her witchcraft you mean? 😁

Good to see white western women succeeding and finally have a historical movie with no br*wn "people"

Is this a joke or did I find a Nazi in the first comment?

@@crono3339 nah, you found a Nazi

Basically already a viking? How so?

Hes from Sweeden and that whole area was Norse...he has also said in interviews he wanted to write or do a Viking movie. Plus hes the image we associate with Vikings and on a funnier side note.. He did get famous playing Eric the Viking in True Blood... 😁 I think hes perfect for this role. His brother played viking in Vikings too. Would have been super great if ALL the Skarsgards were in this.

@@m.m14433 did you read his last name?

@@m.m14433 Well his father Stellen was in the 'Thor' movies (albeit those are MCU movies rather than Norse movies or Viking movies) and one of his brothers Gustav was in all 6 seasons of 'Vikings'.

@@bstech7888 Maybe in 'Vikings: Valhalla' gets renewed for a few seasons after season 1 they'll cast Bill as someone. Or maybe once either Netflix or DisneyPlus make a tv or movie series out of the 'Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard' book series (they're doing Percy Jackson and Kane Chronicles, we'll have to wait till both of those and the Heroes of Olympus series are done but they're as good as in the bag), he'll get cast (I just got an image of him playing Loki). Of course we don't know as what kind of a role might be available for him in 'Vikings Valhalla', right now I"m too busy worrying that they'll mention Olaf the Stout (he's confirmed to be portrayed in the show) but that they won't mention Tore Hund (which is ridiculous since he's the one who's supposed to have killed him).

Yes, totally agree. Green screen even for scenes outside is fine but not constantly.

you can't really say any of those things for certain based on a trailer - if you think you can you have a very shallow understanding of what acting and cinematography are

@@helvete_ingres4717 I think she meant the genre and she projected the scenes and setting of the film. For example it's not going to show the characters suddenly sail to another part of the world and have a totally different storyline, rather the story will be based on the particular region in this case Scandinavia, and have some interesting plotline.

Watch "the king" on Netflix

I agree!!! They don’t make movies like Gladiator anymore it was so refreshing to see Dune this year!

I hope they will not hang her again.

Just hope her part isn't too small we waited long enough

I'd guess it's because of Eggers... great directors inspire people

I'm so there... Especially, after the Matrix Bullshit of a movie - I need a good fix after that horrific garbage of existence they called a film ;-)

She was.so amazing and it was emotionally taxing? Lol. C'mon

You serious?

@@mr.no-one7678 Yes. Dude is the closest thing to Kubrick working today.

@@christophercolasurdo919 Your comment made me laugh sorry

@@mr.no-one7678 ? Obviously? It's not that much of a hot take dude.

@@mr.no-one7678 Lemme guess....instead you think its probably a toss up between Jordan Peele or Troy Duffy.

Nope, still full of Americans and Brits

none of them is Scandinavian though?

@@a.chmiel7333 Alexander is swedish aka VERY scandinavian

@@rudy1999 Alexandar Skarsgard is damn well a Swedish guy. I don't know where he grew up. But he totally resembles a typical Scandinavian.

@@MerkurioBua Stockholm i think

Yes. Vikings preffered to walk around in tight pants and shirtless. Because its just so damn hot here in Scandinavia.

Oh yeah catching spears midair.. so accurate

@@Lasse-zj6ps They were all 6 feet + as well.

@@Lasse-zj6ps There's a difference between the costuming and the action. Literacy's one hell of thing, isn't it?

@@Lasse-zj6ps I said it was good not perfect. In fact, that's why I so surprised by the generally decent costuming, since all the stuff I'd seen before was just dirt-smeared, shirtless men with tight leather pants.

😇😇

*EUROPE IS WHITE*

@@B7R8 EUROPE IS EUROPEAN

@@HAYAOLEONE *You mean the kids of KALERGI...?*

I thought it was IT

You would think that would be an easy choice to make, nonetheless it is refreshing to see period pieces that accurately represent the time period in which they reside.

My wife who is Scandinavian who is tall pale blonde with blue eyes appreciates this. Now she's all excited they made a movie about her people haha.

@@SK-ut6tw Its hollywood fiction bro, calm yourself

@@kickpublishing I will not. I'm excited.

Except Ayna Taylor Joy looks very very Italian, the fake blonde hair looks fake.

I was thinking the same thing.

@OGWillikerz Maybe they´ll put Russell Edgington in the movie 😀

exactly!

Seriously from “Northman” to the Vikings😭it has to be🤣

Yes 😅 I think so? 😆

you mean they arent all sub-saharan africans?

Apart from the spotless clothes, beautiful actors and Hollywood makeup

don’t know about norse movies but norman osborn shows up wth happened ?

So true! 😏

you mean father and son? his brother is a game dev AFAIK

@@GwaiZai Theres 5 skarsgard brothers and 1 sister… 4/5 of them are actors, Alex, Bill, Gustaf, and Valter act. Stellan is their dad.

very true. very very true.

Yes I noticed that too, reminded me of the panel straight away! I recently drew the same figures mixed with some mammen style Art.

Yes and at 2:09 when that women screams with a mouthful of braces, that is a great example of era accurate dentistry. I kid but it really did rip away my "Suspension of disbelief".

@@jodyhalyk I checked it, they're not braces, it's markings on her teeth.

This does not look accurate, there are no people of color in this film. Black and brown folk have always been in the history of Europe but just excluded from the literature. This film is just more racist whitewashing.

@@NotQuiteFirst They may have existed in Europe, but it would have been exceedingly rare.

Had no idea it was Eggers who did The Witch...Thanks for pointing that out...I freakin loved that movie. So there's actually some hope for this one....

@Exploring Beyond it's a slow burn kind of phycological horror that is all about atmosphere. If slow burn isn't your thing then it won't be your type of movie. It's an amazing movie for someone who loves slow burn horror though. Other slow burn horrors are The Blackcoats Daughter and Saint Maud. Both also amazing. If you don't like those them slow burn definitely isn't for you.

@Exploring Beyond i watched it 5-6 times, it is in colonial english, and by the way "nothing happens", i watched the whole new star wars, loads of things happened, but i coulndt care about anyone in the movie, not even BB8, cos loads HAPPENED, and they didnt matter, the script was TERRIBLE, the acting worse, nobody had charisma

@Exploring Beyond It's actually a great movie. You just lack an attention span, which is a problem that seems to be getting worse as time goes on.

@Exploring Beyond well you don't really have anything to say about it if you didn't bother to finish it because something most definitely happens. It's a pretty good movie. Hereditary on the other hand is a boring movie where nothing really happens but that has nothing to do with this.

Eric Northman in tru blood before he became full fledge vampire

That's what I was thinking... Is this prequel?

I mean, I want season 2 of VS first, but I'll take this to tide me over

Hope so

thinking the same thing.

Lol i have exact same vibes from beginning )))

you read my mind!

hmm ? 2:04

Where is the mail armor though?

Hahahahaha....

It's a Robert eggers movie, he's really into authenticity and historical accuracy. Which is why I wonder how this was filmed in northern Ireland when it takes place in iceland. All these action scenes are also uncharacteristically. But his other 2 movies are absolute masterpieces, this just can't be bad.

@@BlaBla-su2yh yea well they also shot movies in new zealand and not narnia or the actual shire.......

This look like the Nothlanders grafic novel or comic the story of Sven it’s from 2013

This is a very generic plot in a lot of Skandinavian sagas about vikings

I wish the trailer was more abstract. It's fine that the plot is generic but I can't stand when trailers just layout what the 1st 2 acts of the movie are gonna be

Yeah, I find it quite amusing when people accuse it of being cliché when the story being told is literally the origin of the cliché. It's like the opposite of the 'sins of the father' concept.

looking really forward to Anya Taylor-joy's performance in this! She was awesome in the VVitch

@Lee Murphy what happened to Vikings? Haven't watched since early season 5 iirc

No, seems it's going north!

@@KeithofSpades I won't lie, you got me there.

Robert Eggers is truly a brilliant filmmaker. His films are genuinely scary, like the witch and the lighthouse, hopefully this is even better.

@Lee Murphy lol why ? Like vikings is letarly 1 of the best shows out there when it comes down about the viking history sure not all of it was real allot were miths too but still they did a great job too highlight the beginning of the viking age and the end of it

His brother even played Floki character in Viking.

@@yumnambishojit7313 Floki not Loki

@@user-dq6se6er8j Ahh yes Floki 👍

I did actually have to rewind 10 seconds to enjoy the badassery a second time.

Interestingly, this is 100% accurate and based on the sagas. Vikings did that thing so often that their enemies developed javelins that fall apart when caught, to prevent that.

@@goingdurden967 cool story bro

@@goingdurden967 even before that. The Romans developed the pilum which would come apart on impact but could stick in shields to make them unwieldy.

@@yurig014 ew take your racist conspiracy theory somewhere else

@@PajamaFeet have you slept under a rock or missed the hollywood too white backlash some years ago?

hah, yeah right.. there's nothing authentic

@@henkgerritsen1444 have you slept under a rock or missed that hollywood IS too white and male?

I was surprised by the most authentic looking Viking costumes I've ever seen in a big budget movie!

Everybody do not need to see this dull and dark theme ass movie, has same fate as last duel!

@@Playmaker19 Who hurt you? And to me this tickles my fancy already long as I remember my big love for anything viking related in moderation over the years of my life how the 3 norns spun my life fate from the their home of one the roots of Yggdrasil

there nothing original about this movie, this storyline have been done and redone before

@@blacktheism7014 To be fair, there hasn't been any storyline new under the sun for many more years than we've been alive. It's when you take a new/modern medium and better/more appropriate actors and tell the story better than it ever has been told that makes it worth watching.

This isn’t very original? Looks like another Viking mash up we’ve seen hundreds of times

And there's another vampire in the cast too. Claes Bang played Dracula.

Methinks that casting directors are highly suggestible creatures.

He was already good in the film The Square

I'm so there... Especially, after the Matrix Bullshit of a movie - I need a good fix after that horrific garbage of existence they called a film ;-)

@@tcb1012 I just watched it, it made me very angry that I did!

Nothing new under the sun.

And Lion King is Shakespeare’s Hamlet

This myth is what Shakespeare based his Hamlet on. So its sort of an original story

What story infinity war copy

It's nice to see some originality again. Robert had historians on set with him to give it an authentic feel unlike so much of Hollywood today, it's nice to see a northern European story without modern politics injected within the movie.

She’s not beautiful

need more black people in it LOL

@@ajaxslamgoody9736 Dude stop trolling lmao

Robert* 😬

He is my favorite!!!

The Witch is so underrated.

Damn good director but a very meh writer due to his failure to land endings.

@@magisterofsteam7880 How else could The Witch or The Lighthouse end, though? The endings directly reflect the rest of the stories the films told.

Yeppppp

"Dost thou wish to live deliciously?"

A bit more action than I expected after the witch and the lighthouse, I wonder if the studio just wanted as much of it as possible in the trailer or if it's the actual ratio

What the hell kind of jump was that at 1:39 ? I found it distracting.

@@BlaBla-su2yh True but it is a Viking revenge movie so I expected a fair bit of action.

When one avenges an illegitimate ruler, isn’t he/she carrying out an illegitimate act? Why is mainstream corporate cinema is full of movies about vengeance?

@@nadm.191 Because it sells tickets....

@Brian That’s only one reason. There is an ideological purpose as well. Look at Tarantino’s movies, for example.

@@nadm.191 History is written by the winner. So the act would be totally legit, according to history.

@Mozilla Where did I ever mention history? Yes, history is written by the winner and it is not taught at school. Only a tiny minority who specialise in some specific subjects at university get an overview, and that’s why most Westerners, especially Americans, British, French and Belgians, for example, are ignorant of their history and believe in their moral superiority. The issue though is what side are you on?

Correct ✔

For real, though. If you can make The Lighthouse, you can make anything.

I read this just after I put this on my watch list.

Rizgarskurdish ... Rizgarskurdish

*EUROPE IS WHITE*

She's the classic, Anglo-Saxon actress for all things. English/Irish/Scottish/Nordic..etc.

I get you but that's what the job of acting is.

Well...

But she plays his mother as a young boy, right? At least that's what the trailer shows, so it still works

@@mayabolanos8894 Yup it looks like she doesn't play his mother when he's a grown man

Well said. They did not wear horned helmets to battle, but 19th century theatre (thank you Wagner) got the idea because horned helmets had been discovered. Today's thinking suggests that horned helmets would have been used for religious ceremonies.

She is super selective and that’s a good thing. She can easily phone it in, do dumb romcoms and earn a lot more money but it would be a waste of her talents.

You observation is obtuse . Everyone knows this. Stop being trite. Merry Christmas.

@@Mayor_Of_Eureka17 did you get a thesaurus for Christmas? Let people be happy. Anya Taylor-Joy and Robert Eggers are gems of this generation.

I see everything she is in.

I'm a simple man: if Anya Taylor-Joy is in a movie, I go watch it. Full stop.

🤔

I laughed 3 times through the whole thing and it's 2021 KZfaq videos have good visuals like this

I think of is character from True Blood, Eric Northman.

The Skarsgards really have a lot of Viking energy, to be honest, especially the dad, Stellan.

@@hellomate639 so true, and Gustav was phenomenal as Floki on the Vikings TV show.

Naaaaahh..... Bjork for sure

She gives you chills? She gives me.............Okay, I'll stop there. She is an incredible actor in everything I have seen here in.

Gross man.

@@Qrtuop Wow! That's pretty sensitive. Sorry to mention perfectly normal human reactions that God gave us, being created in his image.

With a lot of plot holes tho

Doesn't have to be..cus this looks extremely generic

The Lighthouse was one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen, not in a complementary way...and I really like weird movies..

I had no idea it was being made until the rrailer popped up on youtube!

Let’s pray it’s nothing like 300. Most ridiculous movie I’ve ever seen

Not every detail needs to be historically accurate in movies but that one does away with just about any semblance of historical truth

You mention historical action movies and then mention three movies of which two are based on myths and one is loosely based on the diary of a singular individual containing fantastical elements. All are great movies in their own right but just because a movie has a historical setting it does not mean it is a historical movie. If that was the case every fiction that exists in our supposed reality, present or past, would be a historical movie because it has a setting that exists in our history. That being said this does look really good but until we know if it's just a fiction or based on historical events I wouldn't call it a historical movie. Just like Vikings isn't a historical series. If you want to watch a really good historical series that is well documented and which involves vikings then I can warmly recommend The Last Kingdom.

13th Warrior, yes!

And not a “shield maiden” in sight to save the day.

Not the best work. Good, but not the best.

@@RusUndead i accept good as excellent in these days

IIRC Eggers wrote this with help for an expert on viking era stuff. Of course he took liberties, but it's cool that he wanted to make certain aspects historically accurate

I was thinking the same thing. "The Northman... uh... Eric?"

same!!!!! the northman who played a vampire northman is now playing a northman in the movie the northman.......... only one direction this movie can go.... and it isnt south... or west... or east....... NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to scroll too far to find this comment. It’s Eric the Vampire origin story 😂

I got that too!

Where is the mail armor though?

@@DrinkWater713 Why would our mail need armor? The postal workers might need some once in awhile though.

@@hotcrazycatladyme168 lol. Those dogs can get out of control sometimes

@samantha ssmith Very true, and if you remember the Zulus had blonde, blue eyed men in it and and the Aussie aboriginal people use to include ginger pale men

You love historical movies especially factual non fiction, but in the same sentence you said there was fantasy mixed in... 😄😄

it's not netflix -- ONE Media

@@mrvincentmarcellus Vikings aren’t Anglos. They might have killed and made babies with them but the are not Anglos.

Stop saying "african-americans." It's dumb. They're black.

First three seasons are really good, the fourth one went downhill a little in my opinion. Maybe fifth can make it great again.

Other than Succession, The Last Kingdom is my favorite show. ♥️♥️♥️

such a good show

The books are even better. I hear they are in talks of making a movie of his other trilogy about King Arthur (highly recommend - the books are simply amazing).

Read the books, they are much much better. I read them before watching the TV series and was so disappointed. Also check out Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian trilogy - The Warlord Chronicles. Absolutely outstanding.

It's a prequel to True Blood, The Eric Northman story, lol 😆

@@staceymacey1978 Origin story

We got his origin, werewolves killed his family.... But yeah I did crack the fuck up over the title 🤣

A bit

@@skankhunt-wy9wy i thought for a second when his family is all together in the trailer and you hear dogs barking i was like ohh shit :P

That's a name I haven't heard in a very long time.

Dancer in the Dark is so damn good. Bjork is very talented at acting, very excited this see The Northman

She’s fairy good 🧚‍♀️

I've been waiting 21 years to see her act again. FINALLY.

She was also the main actress in Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) (also made it's soundtrack like she did for Dancer...)

say wallah?

Somewhere someone is complaining about a lack of representation in the movie, not even the new series of Vikings was saved, hopefully this movie does not fall into those games.....

Those swords look terribly inaccurate though. Looks like they have a singe edge.

Imagine if Wiliam the foe played in this!

I hear ya, it's about frigging time, and if they don't have a thousand inexplicably clean burning torches going 24 hrs a day, it'll be even better.

I thought he was trying to merge his company with the Roy families? How does he have time for both? Not to mention they are centuries apart.

It was amazing :)