The Vikings originated from Scandinavia and gradually developed from a traditional fishing and hunting nation to one of the most famous expanders comparable to the Mongols in history. The latter is more famous only because they established a dynasty that is short-lived but sufficient to influence the Eurasian pattern for hundreds of years. The former gradually merged into the British Isles and the reckless people of northern France after opening up the territory. Like the Xiongnu and Rouran, they eventually disappeared among the more dominant nations, gradually retreating from history. Even so, their great record on the sea is by no means inferior to the Mongolian cavalry more than a thousand years later than them, as recorded by the first batch of monks in the northernmost monastery in England who saw them: "The judgment of the end has come. They are the demons sent by God to wash the world.” This is also the first European record of Vikings (the film retains the original appearance of this part of history on the basis of free play). They rowed their unique Viking longboat, swept across the British Isles in just three hundred years, extended their "iron hoof" to the French hinterland, which was separated and unable to protect themselves at the time, conquered cities, killed people and set fires. Pirate history expert Konstam commented on why they gradually stopped robbery after the 12th century. It was very interesting, he said: "Because they have robbed everything within their reach."
This is the Viking; this is the true pirate legend in history!
Although the story of the Vikings is so magnificent, it also makes it much more difficult to show this history again. But just as Mr. Tolkien’s great Lord of the Rings was able to win the audience’s approval and put it on the screen fifty years after it came out, no matter how difficult things are, there will eventually be brave men to try. This is the case. It allows us to see the great forerunner of a great era-Ross Block, as well as his sturdy and brave but outstanding Viking partners, it takes us into a Viking who has long gone in the wheel of history world.
The Vikings living in the spire house are a nation characterized by "bloodthirsty" but they also live like normal people. These two seemingly contradictory points can be fully applied to the Rosebrook family in the first episode. figure it out. Like any other ethnic group, they have a free and harmonious family life, but they have a male master who takes looting every winter and summer as a profession, and a "shield girl" wife who can easily kill several people. This is a microcosm, the simplest portrayal of thousands of small families of Vikings. It's just that the director created a protagonist who dared to eat crabs for the family, and a Rose Bullock who dared to break the stereotypes and bad habits to find a new world in the West. In fact, Rosebrook is like King Arthur or Gilgamesh (the greatest king in the legend of the Mesopotamia), but a microcosm of many great monarchs in a symbolic era. He carried the people of their time. The biggest dream in my heart. If King Arthur carried the unity and prosperity of the British Isles, and Gilgamesh carried people’s search for immortality, then Ross Block carried the turbulent two hundred years of Viking heroes’ views on the unknown world and The greed and desire for endless wealth (in fact, the same is true for the explorers of the great nautical era several centuries later, they fought for the waves, not for the justice of the world, but for the treasures of the legendary distance).
They wore weird hair styles, smeared red plaster on their faces, and danced huge swords to fight the battlefield. Although one by one fell in a pool of blood, the rest still pounced on like a beast, without fear (this is very similar to a little Japan). Even the women who should have been hiding in the boudoir are as brave as a lioness, and are invincible. We must know that in the Caribbean Sea about a thousand years ago, the world was shocked by the capture of the female pirate Anne Pawnee. So what should the British feel when they saw these ferocious wolf women more than a thousand years ago? ?). Like locusts, they swept through the towns they passed through; like bloodthirsty jackals, they slaughtered all the creatures they had walked on. They were silent before the battle, singing in front of the tired trophies and the corpses of their comrades, and celebrating the "gift" of the gods together. With this situation, how can we not let the British who have witnessed such a scene for the first time be frightened? How can we not let us viewers admire it?
Because they have their culture, they have their great souls. This is the most difficult to show, but the director did it well. The seemingly cruel sacrificial ceremony on the mountain that maintains the inheritance of faith, the eyeless witch doctor who has no eyes but can win the trust of everyone, at the age of thirteen can get the armband that represents adulthood and honor ("I face "My armband swears" this sentence should be heard often) and the unshakable simple and sincere belief in the Valhalla temples (remember the sorrow of the old warrior, longevity is in his eyes The gods referee his sins, the punishment for not letting him go away gloriously on the battlefield, and then look at the smile on his mouth when he finally got his wish when he died in battle, and the soldiers headed by Ross Block next to him watched. I was completely shocked by his expression at the time of his death. They looked at something so "cruel" in our eyes but regarded it as the god's forgiveness for the veteran soldier. It was so normal, with a trace of relief. It was like a little Japan. Like the tradition of cutting the belly, the samurai who had the abdomen was regarded as a kind of honor. This worship of death may be the source of the strong fighting power of these two nations.
This is just a simple story of exploring the West, but the strong cultural atmosphere it diffuses makes this story difficult. We watched this film not just how a brave and bloodthirsty nation slaughtered the lambs of the New World, we watched a great will to explore the West, watched the infinite expectation of the unknown, watched people tearing up. After disguising hypocritically, how to realize the magnificent dreams of oneself and the whole nation under the simplest drive of human desire to obtain wealth (in fact, this is also the case in the great nautical era. We are obsessed with their romantic adventures and hope for the historical school The freedom and debauchery of people like Luo, in fact, the other way around, what they brought to the world was the slave trade that lasted for centuries, the disappearance of civilizations in South America, the massacre and crime of 300 years, but we still like them. Even want to go back to the past and become one of them, the appeal of the dream is here). As the leader of a clan, where should Rose Bullock and her "shield girl", who are noble women but gradually falling out of favor, go? How did the great Viking fire burn all over the British Isles and northern borders of France, I hope that this film can become a "legend" like "Stargate", telling the legend of Rosebrook (it is said that in Nordic language, the famous French name "Normandy" can be interpreted as "Nordic People’s land" shows how powerful the Nordic people were in those days).
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