#THE NORSEMAN

[cinemaquiles]

FALTOU VERBA: O VIKING (THE NORSEMAN, 1978)

[lightningarmour]

Robert Eggers should go back to making less commercial films. Nosferatu was pretty good but it felt the least of any of his films like it has a very strong sense of identity.

I felt similarly about the Norseman too, it was much more of your standard fare film with a bit of that A24 filter over it whereas The VVitch and The Lighthouse were iconic pieces of cinema.

[miekrowave]

i would love to see baldur's gate 3 artwork in like the style of some of the box art for nes games.

i'm thinking like castlevania (unsure about artist) and the artwork it was heavily inspired by (The Norseman, by Frank Frazetta),

swords and serpents (boris vallejo),

gauntlet (idk who made this),

i love this style. yes partly because this style has a lot of half-naked men, but also because i grew up with these games and this is nostalgia. and also, separately, it's just a really nice artwork style for adventure games, i feel

[salem-house-press]

Horvendill and his toe

[randomishnickname]

OP, I feel you're doing The Northman and its beautiful costumes a big disservice with that first picture. The entire production value is extremely high with a lot of effort put into historical accuracy and material culture, and the movie actually keeps the fur'n'leather'n'mud shit to a minimum.

If the colors are muted, it's mostly because the indoor lighting is candles and the outdoor lighting is "holy fuck it's Iceland where's the sun let's desaturate everything".

We have beautiful, vibrantly colored fabrics, lot of beautiful cloth and neat, elegant braids.

Nice details like this brooch and trimmings.

Fur used accurately (=on outdoor cloaks) and leather kept to a minimum.

And whatever the fuck this was.

Alexander Skarsgård even rocks a bowl cut for most of the movie because the director (Robert Eggers) really puts thoughts into his depiction of Norse history and avoided most clichés (except the berserkr, which he really leaned into in the scene from OPs first screenshot).

Very interesting interview with the main costume designer on the research and preparation they did for their designs:

One of the things that's been annoying more and more is modern media depictions of vikings where they basically dress in bland colored furs and leather and they look and act like Klingons.

Wish more movies and TV shows would have the gumption to use accurate costumes.

Also throughout all periods of history people wore colors!!! Even the puritans wore colors and only wore black on Sunday.

[vertigoartgore]

1994's Spectre Vol.3 #22 cover by artist Alex Ross (his tribute to The Norseman 1972 painting by the legendary artist Franz Frazetta).

[theninjanavigator]

[silverbeard1969]

[rejamart]

drew this lineart for stella cinere years ago but they came back and asked me to color it!

[neechees]

I saw someone on tiktok unironically call Vikings "metrosexual" because they... dyed their hair

[usaac-official]

A UC-64 Norseman of the 27th Air Transport Group

[imaginal-ai]

"Norseman"

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

1956 Chrysler Norseman

Back in the mid-’50s, Detroit was all about crazy concept cars. Marketing experts realized that over-the-top concept cars drew attention at car shows and helped them sell regular models better. So The Big Three – GM, Chrysler, and Ford – jumped at the opportunity to create insane cars for the car show circuit. One of those models was the famed Chrysler Norseman. The Norseman was an elegant fastback based on the 1956 Chrysler platform with a 331 V8 Hemi engine. The most notable features were the lack of a B-pillar and a sloping roofline. Chrysler stylists created the car, but Italian styling house, Ghia made the complicated roof construction that required precision work by hand.

After completion of the car, they loaded the Norseman to ships and sailed to America. However, just before the SS Andrea Doria reached New York harbor, it collided with another ship and sunk some 60 miles from the U.S. shore. The Chrysler Norseman was trapped in a container below the deck and sunk with the ship. Although the SS Andrea Doria lies just 50 meters below the ocean surface, nobody has managed to pull the car from the ship’s hull. After more than 60 years, it is possible there isn’t anything to pull to the shore. The saltwater corrosion could have claimed most of the body, so the only thing that may be left could be the engine block.

[unteriors]

Roberts Street, Norseman, Western Australia.

[salem-house-press]

Hralf Kraki, the original Beowulf? Also connected to Hamlet? Amleth the Norseman.

[rayenigma]

Can you believe that I literally couldn't fall asleep one night because I was thinking of drawing my humanization of the SS Andrea Doria with a Chrysler Norseman. Now, I can sleep peacefully. Saying this, I'm never drawing a car again.

I LOVE making art that looks like posters can you tell