Viking Festival Hints How Thor Movie Could Look

Viking Festival Hints How Thor Movie Could Look

You may be asking yourself what a Scandanavian Viking Festival has to do with Thor, read on and hopefully I can clear things up...

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By Hawksblueyes - Feb 02, 2010 05:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Thor
Source: boston.com

How are the people tasked with the Herculian effort of bringing Thor and all his fellow Asgardians to life going to get the characters to look presentable on screen? How can they make the movie appear believable? This question seems to rear its ugly little head whenever somebody mentions any of the news that is good and right about the movie Thor.

I stumbled on this article on boston.com about the Up Helly Aa Festival that is held every year. In my opinion these costumes, outfits, styles of clothing look fantastic. They appear to be authentic, beutiful, intimidating and timeless.

I doubt Thors costume designers are looking at this Festival for inspiration but in my opinion they should.

Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian vikings in the Shetland Islands, marking the end of the yule season, and has employed this theme in the festival since 1870. The event culminates with up to 1,000 'guizers' (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into a Viking longship. The event happens all over Shetland, but it is only the Lerwick galley which is not sent seaward. Everywhere else, the flaming galley is sent into the sea, in an echo of actual Viking sea burials.

Check out these pictures and let me know if they convince any nay sayers that Thor can look fantastic on film. When I first looked at them all I could say was WOW!


In a misty fog, a member of the Viking Jarl Squad prepares for the start of the Up Helly Aa Festival on January 26, 2010. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #




Members of the Viking Jarl Squad are lit by burning torches as they march during the Up Helly Aa Festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, on January 26, 2010. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #



Members of the Viking Jarl Squad surround their leader or "Guizer Jarl" on a Viking galley ship on the Shetland Islands, on January 26, 2010. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #



A member of the Viking Jarl Squad wearing a winged helment is illuminated by burning torches during the Up Helly Aa Festival on January 26, 2010. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #



The "Jarl Squad" all dressed in Viking costume gather around a Viking ship as they take part in the traditional Up Helly Aa festival on Tuesday Jan. 26, 2010. (AP Photo / Danny Lawson, PA) #



Members of the Viking Jarl Squad are illuminated by flares as they light burning torches on January 26, 2010. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #



A helmeted member of the Viking Jarl Squad is silhouetted in front of a burning viking galley ship on January 26, 2010 in Lerwick, Scotland. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #



A member of the Jarl viking squad holds up his axe as he is silhouetted by a burning viking longship during the Up Helly Aa Festival on January 26, 2010. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #



A viking galley ship goes up in flames, surrounded by the Viking Jarl Squad in Lerwick, on Scotland's Shetland Islands, on January 26, 2010. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #



The Guizer Jarl or Chief of the Jarl viking squad stands before the burning viking longship during Up Helly Aa in Lerwick, Scotland on January 26, 2010. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #


I'm sure some of you will read this and wonder what it has to do with CBM's. I think it has everything to do with them. This is how Vikings and Norsemen can and should look.

If Branagh can bring this look to the big screen, I have no doubt in my mind that Thor will be EPIC indeed.

What do you think?
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Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 2/2/2010, 5:39 PM
:)
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 2/2/2010, 5:44 PM
WOAH! Cool pics! What a party!
BrownTornado
BrownTornado - 2/2/2010, 5:54 PM
A little too much peyote? Did you guys see the size of that chicken?
Joker08
Joker08 - 2/2/2010, 5:56 PM
I can see that - but on a more epic scale. And by epic, I mean with special effects by the guys behind Avatar :)
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 2/2/2010, 5:57 PM
LOL @ Multi. Wish I would have been there.

This looks awsome. I only hope that Thor and the rest of Asgard resemble this.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 2/2/2010, 6:01 PM
This looks like PATHFINDER!!!

Luv that movie!
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 2/2/2010, 6:02 PM
Multi: And some mead!! I'll go anywhere with free drinks.:)
Betty
Betty - 2/2/2010, 6:06 PM
I think it looks bad ass!
shiftysharp
shiftysharp - 2/2/2010, 6:13 PM
trust me it looks even better when your there :). it is a bastard to get to but well worth the effort, the amounts of alchohol consumed over a 24 hour period needs to be seen to be believed :):)
Simonsonrules
Simonsonrules - 2/2/2010, 6:23 PM
Very nice and thoughtful post.
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 2/2/2010, 6:23 PM
Multi: I actualy found it last night but I had a buzz on and didn't feel like doing it. When I looked at it again this evening I felt like I had to share it.
I thought the same thing about posting it but the pics are just too cool, I had to put it up.

shifty: You got to attend this event? I envy you. What a blast.
Ugh
Ugh - 2/2/2010, 6:51 PM
Good stuff@hawks. Those winged helmets are how I want to see Thor's.
Wadey09
Wadey09 - 2/2/2010, 7:08 PM
i love the winged helmets!
FREAKIN AWEsome!!!!!
don't forget to check out my Planet Hulk Review!
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 2/2/2010, 7:53 PM
Thanks guys, I thought most users would enjoy this.

Grif: This has nothing at all to do "with" Thor. The pictures of this festival are however, extremely pertinent to the Thor movie.
Every time the subject of the Thor movie comes up there are people saying that Thor, the Vikings and all of Asgard are not going to be able to be made "believable" on screen.
Here is a large group of people who I'm sure, don't have the same budget that the Thor movie does. They have created not only passable costumes, but downright awsome ones.
I believe these pics should help lay aside any fears that Thor, can be at the very least, visually stunning and not doomed to cheesyness.
Ugh
Ugh - 2/2/2010, 8:06 PM
In the last picture, give the dude a hammer and that would make one hell of a movie poster.
DDD
DDD - 2/2/2010, 8:37 PM
Thanx @Hawks! This is badass! My Viking blood doth boil!!!
lol

Love them winged helmets! They got a similar festival here
in the Ballard Section (Scandanavian section) of
Seattle! I used to live there for awhile!

My Norwegian Grandma's last name was Aurn, (meaning-
eagle or Eagle Warrior)!

This movie is gonna be FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!!!
SKOL!!!!! "FOR ASGARD, FOR VICTORY! INDEED!!!
Nightwing09
Nightwing09 - 2/2/2010, 8:37 PM
@Ugh
I agree
crazyish
crazyish - 2/2/2010, 8:41 PM
could use some tweaking but i could see it
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 2/2/2010, 8:42 PM




Gotta luv VIKINGS!! : P
DDD
DDD - 2/2/2010, 8:52 PM
btw, I've nursed a thought for awhile now!

They should have Thor only spout his quotes
in Olde English when he's in the heat of battle!

It would give them more of an impact and then he
wouldn't be spouting OE all the time!
:D
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 2/2/2010, 9:01 PM
Ugh: I agree.

DDD: Glad you like it bud.:)
I want to hear Thor spout out some of his quotes however I can get them. We get pirate festivals here in Florida they are awsome as well.

LEEE: I've been meaning to see Outlander. Is it any good? I know alot of people didn't, but I liked Pathfinder.
DogsOfWar
DogsOfWar - 2/2/2010, 9:23 PM
Very cool Hawks! I could see these images represented in the Thor movie.
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 2/2/2010, 9:26 PM
those look cool

and I too enjoyed path finder, it wasn't amazing but it was interesting.
natasha
natasha - 2/2/2010, 9:36 PM
Pics are Dope!!!
InTylerWeTrust
InTylerWeTrust - 2/2/2010, 9:59 PM
Cool pics man. Cool indeed.

I only watched about 30 minutes of Pathfinder, lost interest after that :(
Kalabog
Kalabog - 2/2/2010, 11:57 PM
I don't know why every time I looked at this pictures
I hear the Village People's song "In the Navy"?

Oh yeah, now I remembered.
When I was a kid there is a skit the Muppet Show
which featured Vikings(muppet pigs) singing that song. X-D
DDD
DDD - 2/3/2010, 12:27 AM
@HAWKS
In my humble opinion OUTLANDER was awesome!
Jim Caviezel was great, the alien tech was
cool and the monster/alien was actually badass!

This movie started out with a bigger budget
then it got tossed around by movie companies
until the Director/producer/writer had to
finish it off himself with his own money!

I think he made a pretty damm good movie with all
that going against it! Caviezel stuck to it
even after the director told him he could back
out if he wanted to, after it all got jumbled
down to a lower budget!

But I personally knew Caviezel when he was
really young and he isn't made that way! Once
he commits to something he sticks with it to the
end!
CyberViking2000
CyberViking2000 - 2/3/2010, 12:30 AM
As long as they remember that Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets.
homer
homer - 2/3/2010, 1:23 AM
you are all nuts! i know where they get those photos! in www.boston.com/bigpicture.
DDD
DDD - 2/3/2010, 1:59 AM
It was just a thought Hawks@!

Thor spouting everything in Olde English all throughout the movie might be a little much!!! lol
Northlander
Northlander - 2/3/2010, 4:31 AM
It is an awesome sight. 1,000 firey torches marching through a blacked-out town to burn a replica Galley ship, led by a large squad of Vikings. Superb: www.uphellyaa.org or www.shetland.org for more information.
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