Mel Gibson!! Vikings!!

[ogenoct]

http://chud.com/articles/articles/22...RSE/Page1.html

MOVE OVER THOR, MEL GIBSON IS GOING OLD NORSE

By Devin Faraci

Published 01/17/2010

At today's press conference for his new film Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson let slip some info that isn't that much of a surprise but interesting nonetheless:

The Leonardo DiCaprio Viking movie he's directing will be in Old Norse. Yup, Mel hasn't met a dead language he hasn't tried to get on film.

It's important to Mel that the film be legit. 'I want a Viking to scare you,' he said gleefully. 'I don’t want a Viking to say, [Tony Curtis style] “I’m going to die with a sword in my hand.” I don’t want to hear that. It pulls the rug out from under you. I want to see somebody who I have never seen before speaking low guttural German who scares the living shit out of me coming up to my house. What is that like? What would that have been like?'

Of course the movie won't be just in Old Norse. Said Mel: I think it’s going to be English - the English that would have been spoken back then - and Old Norse. Whatever the 9th century had to offer. I’m going to give you real.'

It's important to note that what the 9th century had to offer was Old English, ie the language in which Beofwulf was written, so expect subtitles for even that segment of the movie.

What's interesting is that Leonardo DiCaprio is cast in this film. Will Leo be willing to learn Old English or Old Norse in order to make the movie? You have to assume that this conversation has already happened, and that he's prepared for it... right?

[Ambassador Chapuys]

Almost sounds like Mel is in need to switch now to an european theme to enhance christianism. I expect the Vikings to be shown like the Mayans in the last flick. No one will acuse him of racism now.

[DonaldT]

Originally Posted by ogenoct

http://chud.com/articles/articles/22...RSE/Page1.html

The reason I like Mel Gibson is that he genuinely seems to want to portray history accurately (Of course some would argue that he gives it a Christian slant. However, I'm not convinced he 'knowingly' does this).

Unlike most Hollywood directors who sabotage historical events for political purposes or profit.

I guess he was really annoyed with himself after the inaccuracy of Braveheart.

[RuneX2]

The hoi oligoi will never forgive Gibson for the Passion.

[Dan Dare]

Very unlikely that Gibson's effort will be a patch on the original which boasted Hollywood A-listers Issur Danielovitch and Bernard Schwartz in the leading roles and was helmed by the ever-reliable Richard Goldstein-Fleischer.

[elbwgreez]

Originally Posted by Dan Dare

Very unlikely that Gibson's effort will be a patch on the original which boasted Hollywood A-listers Issur Danielovitch and Bernard Schwartz in the leading roles and was helmed by the ever-reliable Richard Goldstein-Fleischer.

That was a good movie.

I'm excited to see Gibson's film. Unfortunately, it sounds like it will be from an English point of view (vikings=scary), like 90% of viking movies. It'd be cool to see a movie told entirely from the vikings' point of view and with their moral/spiritual beliefs. Now that would scare the crap out of people.

Also, I believe no one has yet put a blood eagle on screen yet. Make it happen, Mel!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_eagle

[Jake Featherston]

Originally Posted by elbwgreez

Also, I believe no one has yet put a blood eagle on screen yet. Make it happen, Mel!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_eagle

My wife likes to watch the TV show "Bones," which I sometimes watch with her, and one fairly recent episode featured a realistic depiction of a corpse than had been subjected to the blood eagle.

[elbwgreez]

Originally Posted by Jake Featherston

My wife likes to watch the TV show "Bones," which I sometimes watch with her, and one fairly recent episode featured a realistic depiction of a corpse than had been subjected to the blood eagle.

So the killer was a viking enthusiast?

This all reminds me - Marvel is coming out with a Thor movie next year (I think) based on the comic book, which is loosely based on the Norse mythology. They cast some token black as a god, but otherwise I guess it sounds OK. I don't know much about the comic book.

[RuneX2]

Originally Posted by elbwgreez

It'd be cool to see a movie told entirely from the vikings' point of view and with their moral/spiritual beliefs.

It's been many years since I saw it but When the Raven Flies might be such a movie.

[Stoic_Cynic]

Originally Posted by Dan Dare

...which boasted Hollywood A-listers Issur Danielovitch and Bernard Schwartz in the leading roles and was helmed by the ever-reliable Richard Goldstein-Fleischer.