Posted on 04/22/2022 3:10:36 PM PDT by Morgana
White supremacists have claimed ownership over the new Viking Hollywood blockbuster The Northman, which stars Nicole Kidman and Anya Taylor-Joy.
The epic historical film, which has been released nationwide today, is the latest from Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) and a violent revenge tale taken from Viking legends.
However its 'all-white cast', which features famous faces including Alexander Skarsgård and Ethan Hawke, as well as it's 'pure macho stereotypes' have seen the blockbuster championed by supremacists before it was even released.
Posts on Reddit and 4Chan have been celebrating the film, with one 4Chan user writing: 'Robert Eggers. He is restoring pride in our people with his great films. The Northman is going to be epic… Hail Odin.'
Another person commented: 'Northman is a based [agreeable] movie, all white cast and shows pure raw masculinity.'
The connection between white supremacy and an interest in Viking culture is not new.
A number of alt-right terrorists have referenced the medieval period during their attacks in recent years, including Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, who killed at least 49 people in a Christchurch mosque in 2019 and Jeremy Christian who killed two women in 2017.
MailOnline has contacted Focus Features for comment.
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re-writing history.
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That’s the foundation of Islam.
Rewriting history.
Well there’s not a lot to do in those long Norwegian winters except write weird epic sagas.
Blockbuster ?
At least the movie had Ninjas.
Bet you didn’t even see them though.
Exactly, it's just a movie for God's sake. I guess if it makes snowflakes cry its just might be worth watching.
“Maybe that’s where Shakespeare got the story for Hamlet. I seem to remember it being some sort of Danish legend.”
There’s something rotten in Denmark.....
I never knew that White supremacists had a central organization with an official spokesman.
What this probably amounted to is that some people commented on the historicity of the movie but without whimpering in shame and disgrace.
Wait until they rewrite Scandinavian history and have the Masai settling Norway. There was a time when the idea would have been thought of as satire, but now it could be the subject of a doctoral thesis.
Positive portrayals of heterosexual relationships, sex and white female beauty. Imagine the horror.
Nicole Kidman’s in it? For cripes sake why? Is she part of the horror special effects? Since she had her face redone, she’s horrendous.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Vikings made it as far south as Sicily and some served the Ottoman Empire. They certainly could have interacted with black people.
YES, so that the Hollywierd LGBTQ+ actors can get jobs! History means nothing, jobs are everything!
I love masculinity. I might have to watch.
That’s not a viking. lmao
Had my DNA done a couple of years ago. I was extremely surprised to find that it showed 20% Sweden and Denmark, and 4% Norway. The rest is English and Northeastern Europe, with Scotland and Ireland showing up too. Most of its on my mother's side. She had Dutch on her side as well, but never knew of it. She was born in Canada, and my father was born in Holland. I never knew any of my grandparents. They all died before I was born in 1947.
My sides!
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