Village Raid Scene - The Northman (2022)

What is better than a viking raid scene! The Northman was like fresh water to our battle-thirsty eyes. It has many raid scenes and

FROM IMDB PAGE
From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.

The Viking Age. With a mind aflame with hate and revenge, Prince Amleth, the wronged son of King Aurvandill War-Raven, heads to cold, windswept Iceland to retrieve what was stolen from him: a father, a mother, and a kingdom. And like a war dog picking up the enemy's scent, brutal Amleth embarks on a murderous quest to find the hateful adversary, whose life is forever woven together with his by the threads of fate. Now, in the name of Valhalla, no one can stop the Northman, not even God.

[MrJustonemorevoice]

I do love how the Berserkers are just absolutely *spent* after the battle.
Keeled over, panting, bleeding, dry heaving. Their exertions catching up with them. It shows being a berserker carried a cost.

[romilrh]

Showing that kid get separated from his family and having the camera suddenly pan to an uncomfortably close frame of Amleth watching it all was brilliant. It communicated so much

[somanytakennames]

Anytime I thought of seeing Amleth as a heroic figure, I think back to this sequence.

[rayanissaad]

What I love about this movie is that it doesn't romanticize viking life, it shows its sheer brutal reality.

[Ghost-chmd]

I love Amleth's thousand mile stare it shows how desensitized he was to all death and violence he wasn't even fazed hearing the kids screaming while they burned alive in the house

[postpwnmalone]

I love how they realistically portrayed a sentry spotting something. That mf just started yelling top of the lungs

[justinjones]

Imagine waking up and being like, oh great, another dreary grey sky in my tiny village where everything is mud and then this happens. Can't catch a break, I swear

[khfreak]

I love the irony of someone calling people savages as he walks by the camera covered in blood wearing nothing but a soggy pair of tidy whities and an animal pelt draped over his shoulder.

[Wanderer]

Every time you watch film/tv series (Vikings/TheLastKingdom) or play a game (AC Valhalla) that portrays the Vikings like hipsters who are good at fighting who are actually innocent whilst the ones they are invading are the villains, think of this. Modern societies romanticism of the Vikings is absurd.

[lev]

1:56 Olga throwing the bucket of water at the berserker is an awesome hidden detail for the eagle eyed watcher

[kingkongchief]

I love how this Viking movie doesn’t do good vs evil. It shows how Vikings truly behaved. People that enslave, pillage and rape people all over Europe and go back to their homes. Amleth is neither a hero or villain. Just a man who wants revenge.

[Hibernicus]

Robert Eggers certainly didn't sugarcoat how brutal Viking raids were. Note: at 3:45, the little boy screaming "Mama!" The kid is watching helplessly as his mother is about to be dragged away and gang raped, before they carry her off to spend the rest of her life as a slave. Then the kid is snatched up by another Viking raider and thrown into a building, which they then set afire. The kid, and all the other people inside you hear screaming are the ones the raiders didn't consider valuable enough to keep alive as slaves.

This is the scene that really drives home to you that the people of a thousand years ago had a _very_ different system of beliefs and values. In his review for the NY Times, Ross Douthat summed it up perfectly:

"In a familiar sort of historical epic, this massacre of innocents would be a moment of moral test or transformation for our hero. Maybe he would halt the massacre outright, thus establishing himself as a worthy surrogate for a modern audience’s sympathy. Maybe he would unsuccessfully object but be sufficiently disgusted to turn aside from the berserker’s path and back toward the restitution of wrongs awaiting him at his uncle’s court. Or maybe he would save a few of the innocents — a love interest, a plucky child — whose influence would slowly change his stony heart.

In The Northman nothing like this happens... the mass murder itself makes barely a ripple in the plot. It has no significance for any character arc, inspires no revulsion or regret, and even Taylor-Joy’s character, who lost kith and kin in the blaze, carries no special animus against Amleth for his role in the destruction."

This is a movie that makes _no_ concessions to the morals, beliefs or sensibilities of modern audiences. You're meant to see the world the Vikings themselves lived in, and believed in.

[davetrohl]

I’m no expert on Viking age material culture but I really appreciated how the filmmakers made an attempt to accurately portray the clothing and hairstyles that the actors wore. To often in shows like Vikings and the last kingdom the characters look more like hipsters then Vikings

[thedev.student]

This was a great scene in cinema and it was realistic; but holy lord was it brutal, barbaric, and gut wrenching to watch the aftermath of the raid.

[narum.]

I just love the way this scene is shot. No unnecessary cuts just to change the perspective, no sugarcoating, the acting in the backgound and the way it shows how the adrenaline of Amleth is delining.

[antoniomiguel]

Did he just catch a spear mid air and fucking throw it back?!

[-Vitalis-]

I loved when they said "TO VALHALL!" before entering the village.
Nothing is more terrifying than a bunch of warriors engaging in combat in the hopes of dying with honor.

[gerryfegan]

Does anyone else absolutely love how Amleth catches that spear out of the fucking air, spins and hurls it back like a lightning bolt?

[elliecakes]

Wow. Thanks for posting the whole scene with the kid in it as well. It’s my son Tom. 😂 from the bit where the old lady walked in front of the vikings to the end bit was all one shot and it took 2 days to film it…over and over again. There are so many little bits that had to flow. We were all knee deep in real mud and Anya kept losing her shoes so just took them off in the end. Tom must have run across screaming at least 25 times.

[danielworthington]

The fact that all those dudes could not spear people climbing up there walls is hilarious