The 13th Warrior (1999) | First time watching! | Puss in boats!

[@JanPospisilArt]

They specifically show the lighting conditions and weather changing during the language-learning sequence, so you notice it takes places over many evenings - not one.

[@andreas956]

The man is slow.

[@Shaara1]

He didn't learn the language in one night. Didn't you realise they were travelling for weeks or even months?

[@kingwacky184]

The language scene is not in one evening, it is meant to be over several weeks or months of traveling. In one scene we see it is raining then in another it is not.

[@abeclark524]

He didn't pick up the language in one evening. They had been traveling for several months before they got to the kingdom.

[@abeclark524]

Interesting that this reminds of you Beowulf, because that's what this is. It's a re-telling of Beowulf.

[@listonheinz9103]

They purposely shot the language scene in such a way so it would be obvious that he learned the language over several months. I guess they failed.

[@scorn787]

They worship bears because of the paleolithic bear cult theory that groups people in Europe and Asia worship or held in some sort of spiritual value bears due to the consistant discovery of sorne age bear bones arranged in caves. Possibly this was true or it was just the way old bears tended to die in caves during winter hibernation. The "titty statue" is the Venus of Willendorf, a neolitithic sculpture. Variations of it have been found spanning a great area and spanning a great time. The implication of it is that the Wendol are either an isolated group who stayed in the neolitic and have only now been encountered as the North Men have expanded into their lands or are the possibly last surviving tribe of near-humans like neanderthals. Or they're just ugly and insane due to generations of inbreeding and cannibalism and adopted assumed practices from relics left over from previous inhabitants of the caves they have claimed. The book Eaters of the Dead was based on a mix of the writings of an arab traveler called Ahmad ibn Fadlan's and his observations of the North Men mixed with the story of Beowulf.

[@TelepathicBunnyComics]

Welcome back Thomas! This is one of my favorite all time movies...great to see one of my favorite reactors watching it! Yeah I agree it was shaky in parts and inconsistent but its like Road House you watch it because its on and theres all these moments you enjoy and you ignore the meandering. Its a great watch when its on movie. You can walk away but you enjoy it when you watch. I would watch The Crow if you haven't. It is shot very similarly to this one. Lots of realistic wear and tear and a great career defining role from Brandon Lee too bad he never lived to see the boost.

[@MoviesandCoffee]

Thanks, man, I appreciate it! Love The Crow.

[@TelepathicBunnyComics]

@@MoviesandCoffee Well rats! How about Rapid Fire? It's the movie that got Brandon Lee the Crow gig and has Powers Booth in ir. I need to watch a movie with you one of these days! LOL! Anybody who can appreciate Cool Runnings is a good mon!🇯🇲 Tell Bear I said interrupt your dad more often you'll get him subs!

[@denelbarak6734]

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[@ravenstromdans]

This is one of those movies that I love for it's heart and imagery, but kinda have to turn my brain off because of all the wild historical and logistical inaccuracies therein. But it's worth noting that while the story takes it's inspiration from one of the oldest recorded western mythical stories and a tenuous connection to some Arabic stories about trade with "Northmen" warriors, the reality is that this is a parable or fairy tale of sorts, less meant to be treated with a critical eye. There's some elements that are particularly egregious of course (how does a culture living in caves maintain such a huge cavalry; the ridiculously inaccurate way Eben makes a scimitar out of a Norse broadsword; the horses of the Northmen being basically quarter horses compared to Eben's Arabian, whereas northern horses were more like stocky ponies and Eben on his Arabian would almost certainly have towered over them - although at least that would have made the jumping over a horse *and* their rider more realistic)...but there's so much interesting and endearing elements to the film that makes it memorable. The funereal prayer of the Northmen; the way Buliwyf treats writing almost as magical and keeps insisting on Eben teach him Arabic script; the various cultural curiosities between the Arabic and Northman cultures; Eben and Herger's brotherly friendship; the funny (if inaccurate) "loophole" of drinking mead because it is neither "grape nor wheat". Although intended to be rooted in some manner of reality, this is pretty explicitly a fantasy story and I enjoy the ride every time I encounter it. For all that it's ridiculous in some ways, some of the very last scenes, in particular the communal prayer that even Eben joins in with before the final battle, always get me.

[@Wicked_Genius]

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[@tempsitch5632]

Gross.

[@sickturret3587]

not a fun fact: ibn fadlan thought the rus (rurik dynasty of norseman north of kiev) were just another bunch of turkic people just like oghuz or the tatars. he really wrote that. the level of his ignorance was above 9000. and the person who wrote the script of this movie was confidentof the ignorance of their audience. ibn fadlan found the rus (norse) disgusting and less clean than his home in baghdad. they were sturdy built just like other turks (wtf?) and they believed there were an ancient race of enemies up north. he didn't fought them, didn't see them or nothing. just hollywood bs.

[@somthingbrutal]

you mean this film the one that's based off a history/fantasy book, the book being sparked by reading the words of ibn fadlan. if it was just the events he wrote about it would be a real short movie and a shorter book lol

[@Juwshaha]

Turk are Mongol..do you think Mongol are weak...hahaha.. viking were nothing accurate about being sturdy..

[@darylbert3400]

Stop speaking too mch bro

[@lola8754]

wow calm down it was a good reaction