{"id":16169,"date":"2021-12-20T18:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16169"},"modified":"2021-12-20T18:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:35:18","slug":"trailer-for-the-northman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16169","title":{"rendered":"Trailer for &#8216;The Northman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE NORTHMAN - Official Trailer - Only In Theaters April 22\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oMSdFM12hOw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I am doing my best<\/strong> to keep my Christmas spirit up. Watched a couple of Christmas videos yesterday, including <em>A Christmas Carol <\/em>(Alistair Sim) because I needed it. This big translating project I\u2019m doing (for which I thank God, by the way) is, shall we say, about the farthest thing from Christmasy you can imagine. And I\u2019ll say no more about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Above is something<\/strong> that feels like a Christmas gift to me. A trailer for an upcoming film called \u201cThe Northman\u201d that looks like it might possibly not stink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It looks like they made some effort to be authentic with costumes and props (there\u2019s a horned helmet there, but it looks ceremonial, which is correct). It\u2019s supposed to be a story about a prince named Amleth, who wants revenge for his father\u2019s death. That suggests inspiration from Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet (see my novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blood-Judgement-Lars-Walker\/dp\/B002C1W30U\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=CBGT8O3O6YVT&amp;keywords=blood+and+judgment+walker&amp;qid=1640043171&amp;sprefix=blood+and+judgment+walker%2Caps%2C209&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">Blood and Judgment<\/a><\/em>. I wonder if I can sue them for plagiarism. Probably not).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m confused about setting. News reports talk about Iceland, but there are no forests in Iceland, and it&#8217;s never had a king. But I expect the story moves around some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looks like an R rating, and <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/the-northman-robert-eggers-interview-authentic-battles-anya-taylor-joy\/\">this article<\/a> suggests elements of witchcraft, so be warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I expect I\u2019ll go to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am doing my best to keep my Christmas spirit up. Watched a couple of Christmas videos yesterday, including A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim) because I needed it. This big translating project I\u2019m doing (for which I thank God, by the way) is, shall we say, about the farthest thing from Christmasy you can imagine. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trailer for &#8216;The Northman&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[348,3985,3186,3272],"class_list":["post-16169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blood-and-judgment","tag-the-northman","tag-translating","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16171,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions\/16171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}