>As a cultural event, The Northman proves how historical revisionism evolved from nationalist adolescent fare into the dominant strain of the modern ethos. As a movie, The Northman shows Hollywood’s craven manipulation of its easily susceptible white male audience. The Northman reboots the Europeans’ historical franchise so that it falls back in line with the depraved Leni Riefenstahl propaganda films during the Nazi regime.
>True to The Northman’s corporate genesis, the concept of hero-vs.-villain is gone. Eggers refashions the Neo-Nationalist miasma that adolescents instantly recognize and perhaps prefer. Prince Amleth’s personal conflicts lack the soulfulness that Michael Hirst surprisingly elicited from Travis Fimmel’s Ragnar Lothbrok. Skarsgård, not so enigmatic as Fimmel, is practiced at anomie. He makes white masculinity work as self-loathing. He relates to his peace-wreaking opponents as rivals in a nihilist sweepstakes — a.k.a, the Heath Ledger Joker marathon.
>We’re back to the moral underworlds of The Son of the Sheik, The Birth of a Nation, and The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, back to the beginning of when adolescent consumers were first trained into grateful nationalism with only a soupçon of cynicism. Nationalism was smartness. Now Nationalism is all. The Northman can declare “Whiteness is supreme” and have the full support of Regency Enterprises media behind it. (No coincidence that society’s politically progressive “stakeholders” act as proprietary as corporate stockholders.)
>This is political decadence more than anything else. Coming exactly 24 years after Tony Kaye’s still-disturbing American History X, The Northman doesn’t earn being called artistic decadence. Its depiction of social horror isn’t fully imagined; it never gets to the core of spiritual repulsion that Kaye touched. The mythology of good and evil, so important for Kaye, has no resonance for Eggers. One is merely offended by Kaye's obvious political allegories that are too vague and trite to take seriously. Given the moody photography and action set-pieces staged at Chad Stahelski’s level, The Northman hits no deeper than Dick Tracy and his cartoon foes as conceived by a depressive.
So the gay nigger thinks it's problematic? I'm sold.
James Bell
By Royal Decree the Northman is officially LOCKED.
Michael Hill
didn't read
Jaxon Hall
He’s correct except for the part where he calls anglogermcucks Europeans. They are Asian migrants, never European.
Noah Hill
>his last name is white OOOOOOFFF a lil bit problematic
Hunter Martin
Everything about this flick reeked. Now it's settled, it's gargabe.
Hunter Sanchez
>Armond White >is black Who writes this shit?
Andrew Campbell
shut up europoor your race is shit anyway
Brody Hill
find that review wierd comign from white but i'm drunk and have understood maybe half of it
Tyler Cook
Is this dude really schizo posting because a movie about white people has white people in it? Did he have the same energy for Black Panther?
Thomas Sanchez
holy based as usual, Yea Forums will go from sucking this guy's dick to saying that they never thought he was based to begin with
Jace Stewart
Chill out mutt, he's canadian
Thomas Cox
Seethe more Genghis
Jason Cox
the review is not available on the site armond usually posts on. where is the link for this op?
Jayden Stewart
>The Northman shows Hollywood’s craven manipulation of its easily susceptible white male audience Armond White is the only person who could talk shit about white men and not have this board seethe at him
Joshua Lewis
BASED Armond
Ethan Torres
Yea Forums is going to act offended, even though none of them have actually watched The Northman.
Parker Wood
>its easily susceptible white male audience
Remember that time a thug died of an overdose and niggers were convinced that they should spend the next 8 months burning down their own neighborhoods over it? But yeah, white males being convinced to see a movie that's about white people is probably worse.
Alexander Gonzalez
Not sorry for being white.
Lincoln Jones
he's reviewing the movie from a moral, cultural, and historical perspective (comparing it to other similar films), not whining about 'lol its white' even when i disagree with him he's pretty much right
Nolan Baker
>even though none of them have actually watched The Northman No shit. How the fuck is anyone here meant to have watched a movie that doesn't come out for another 16 days?
Landon Russell
>Did he have the same energy for Black Panther?
>Even elderly academics and young Afro-futurists who prattle about “revolution” have unaccountably joined the circle of Black Panther hype, as if it was somehow a protest. They accord an oddball sanctity to the media practice that persuades the public to cheapen its own best interests. The horror of seeing the makers of Black Panther on the stump, invoking the names of serious historians from Dr. John Henrik Clarke to Ivan van Sertima, twisting their principled, arduous studies into promotional fodder, suggests an intellectual setback. The film’s frivolous sci-fi technology and gladiatorial fisticuffs can only assuage this moral betrayal momentarily — through cheeky ripostes about imperialism. (A Wakanda woman throws an ideological spear: “Don’t scare me like that, colonizer!”) Black Panther turns racial politics into what Malcolm X called “politricks.”
Anthony Powell
This dude has made a career out of projecting his personal politics into the movies he watches and somehow retards are still falling for his contrarian grift. Regardless of the mental gymnastics he pulls out of his ass to make the film “about” something other than what it is, anyone with even a modicum of brain function could see his analyses are no more legitimate than Reddit-tier YouTube essays about the philosophy of Batman movies.
Lincoln Thomas
Fake
Connor Powell
He did. He’s actually pretty critical of blaxploitation and race bait movies
Bentley Fisher
I just don't get it brothers... you told me he was /ourguy/ and based...
>Eggers That's when it should have been clear to you that this movie is going to suck shit.
Carter Hill
You are a chud. Nobody is your guy, faggot.
Colton Reyes
Damn, okay. I actually respect that.
Nicholas Sanchez
>Given the moody photography and action set-pieces staged at Chad Stahelski’s level, The Northman hits no deeper than Dick Tracy and his cartoon foes as conceived by a depressive. Fuck that's good
Because there are nationalists and there are enemies.
Christian White
Entire world>one country
Gavin Martin
What do you mean?
Benjamin Scott
just fuck off with your retarded shitposting crap. if all you can bring is buzzwords and bait posts, politely fuck off.
Jeremiah Wilson
>The Northman reboots the Europeans’ historical franchise so that it falls back in line with the depraved Leni Riefenstahl propaganda films during the Nazi regime. I will now watch your film.
Elijah Hall
You know nothing about black academics if you think they like that kind of YES NIG SLAYYYY entertainment. They're just hateful people, they hate being born black and intelligent in America because it is shit from both sides, they get hated on by blacks and whites for different reasons.
Camden Butler
>it's a white male power fantasy movie!!! Fuck me it's about time we got Black Panther for whites
Isaiah Wright
>he's canadian kek
Go to bed Cletus, back to incest
Landon Butler
cope niggers. he's absolutely right about you "people" and your wh*te insecurities
James Stewart
look, another shitpost using buzzwords and bait. just fuck off retard
Robert Edwards
I'm not an anglogermcuck, sorry genghis
Brayden Baker
L
Brody Bennett
nigger is not a buzzword faggot, it's your name
Gabriel Williams
Wtf bros I thought Armond was based
Brayden Cooper
>Yea Forums literally can't refuse this Feels good when chuds' idols turn against them.
Christopher Bailey
didnt read lol. Anything hollyjew makes is manipulative
Xavier Turner
He's right but this is messy writing. You can tell he has a huge chip on his shoulder and feels he has to use this flowery bullshit language because of it.
Luis Morris
Yeah, I saw him posting his crap on Yea Forums few months ago. He posted from a leaf flag, but is likely of balkan/gypsy descent
Charles Hughes
The movie Is about white people. Why talk about rioting niggers? You discount racists are retarded
Nicholas Perry
>the entire world is only made possible due to one country What did user mean by this
Owen Hughes
because nationalism is...umm....le bad!
Adam Fisher
It's funny that zoomers cannot speak without irony and generic memespeak no matter how hard they try
Xavier Rivera
The King has spoken.
Joseph Diaz
bruh you malding
Kevin Wilson
You don't live in the entire world, you live in one country. If you think the whole world should be one country, you mean say you want a global empire, which every other time an empire has sprung up, it's a small group of people deciding rules and collecting taxes from a bunch of subjugated people who have nothing to do with them
Angel Morgan
Why does he write like such a fart-huffer?
Xavier Long
I do live in the entire world. Learn what a set is in mathematics. Not to mention I have multiple passports. Seethe more hick.
Bentley Gutierrez
Everyone wants to make their country better, only right-wing dipshits feel the need to cloak it in "nationalism" and "patriotism" and "america first" branding. Still don't quite understand how handing out trillions of dollars to billionaires is "putting america first", but okay lol
Daniel Cook
It's fake you gullible fucking retards. Do you worthless morons know how to conduct a simple Google search. I swear, sometimes I feel like the only one who isn't a retarded NPC in this world.
