10 Memes About The Controversial Viking Movie 'The Northman'
The Northman is a new movie that's trending due to a reason the directors likely didn't intend: many people believe it was meant for exclusively white audiences. The controversy surrounding The Northman is that it contains an entirely white cast. It also is a Viking movie and aims for "historical accuracy," and with what we know about the Vikings, they were indeed pretty white, which is getting lots of people debating this aspect of the film, since yes, this is kind of what history looked like.
But either way, it's being satirically (and sometimes seriously) compared in memes to an insecure 4chan user's wildest fantasy, since it's violent, very masculine, and yes, very white. In the modern era, watching a bunch of sweaty and brutal white men fight it out for two hours on screen can be exhausting; however, not everyone's reception of the movie is negative, with many critics saying it's simply a take on a historic culture and era. But whatever side you take here, you'll definitely agree that these memes are pretty great.
Northman Sweep
This meme is based of another recent one called Morbius sweep, in which the notoriously mediocre film Morbius sweeps the box office.
Two Wolves
Inside you there are two wolves is a common meme trope to show how overdramatic some men can be in representing their masculinity.
Good Question
This photo become a popular meme format when referencing purchasing tickets for The Northman, though it's been around for much longer than this.
The White Supremacists Missed That Part
Here's a theory on the movie, stating that it was never meant to be about white supremacy in any positive way whatsoever, but instead was a observant take on its pitfalls. But yes, white supremacists are not smart at all, so it's not surprise they seem to be taking to The Northman because they believe it represents something completely different.
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First movie to ever make a Nordillion dollars in the box office, leaving Morbius in the dust.
Proper Initiation
Back in high school one of the books I was forced to read was Things Fall Apart. It wasn't an entirely black cast, but it was almost entirely so, and the only white characters were implicitly or explicitly antagonists.
Despite that, I, a white male teenager, had no trouble sympathizing with the plight of (black) men defending their homeland against foreign invaders masking themselves as a positive influence while being a destructive influence on the native society. The message of the book, the ideas of the characters, were important to me.
I remember it fondly.