The Northman

And the Winner Should Have Been...

We enjoyed talking about a current film so much a couple weeks ago that we did it again. Better movie though, this time around. Once again, if you're going to see this, we do spoil the whole dang thing! But if you've been listening for a while, you expect that. Also like our last episode, we do delay spoiling it in a serious way for a few minutes, so if you want to hear our synopsis and initial thoughts, you can listen and get warned before the spoilers get serious. Enjoy!
Introduction 00:00
Mark's Summer Vacation 00:55
Guest Host? 02:09
Preliminary Spoiler warning 04:00
Synopsis 06:49
Discussion start 08:32
His blunted purpose? 12:11
Sadly, the chainsaw *is* audible :( 13:47
Viking = Pirate 16:00
Seeing the world without the lens of Christian ethics 18:09
Final Spoiler Warning 20:40
Famous actors distracting from the story? 26:16
Laurence Olivier 29:40
Suspension of disbelief 31:42
Comparison to Hamlet 37:40
Mother issues! 41:19
Is the story a fantasy or a grounded reality? 44:52
Myth on film, not a modern story 47:28
Realism vs Factualism 49:39
Truth vs Facts 51:52
Physical realism 53:41
Olga of the Birch Forest 55:16
Anya Taylor-Joy 1:00:18
Cinematography 1:02:03
Ending? 1:06:09
European beer encore discussion 1:07:15
Music:
Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

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Music:
Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode