Everything everywhere all at once surpassed return of the king for most awarded film, but honestly. Honestly lotr fans shouldn't be mad.
It took this long and it was a story both strange and beautiful and risky.
It was a valiant and noble loss.
I honestly can't even compare them, they're just epic in their own ways.
I just saw some jackass on Twitter insisting that the Northman deserved every Oscar nomination over Everything Everywhere All At Once. When asked to explain, he refused to elaborate, just insisted that The Northman was true cinema.
Now let me just say this.
The Northman rubs me the wrong fucking way. For several reasons. It's simply not my genre is the biggest one, as I only like historical fiction that's post industrial revolution.
Or at the very least, character focused. Medieval ish stuff with swords is just so bleh to me.
Another one is that I can't stand revenge movies, if they're not like, John Wick levels of ridiculous. Revenge when it's grimdark and edgy and realistic is so fucking tiring.
But let me talk about the big reason this tweet pissed me off.
The Northman stans who are perpetually online tend to be fucking neo Nazis.
We all know how much Nazis love Viking culture and this fictionalized idea of vikings as rapists and plunderers of villages who did nothing but sharpen axes and cut off heads.
The northman is about a straight cis white guy on a grand quest to get revenge, fuck hot white women, murder a ton of people, and then die gloriously at the end.
That's literally the white supremacist's perfect fantasy. It relies entirely on this sensational and totally bogus concept of masculinity in the Olden Days, when men could kill indiscriminately and women were sex pets and it sure was fun.
An ahistorical viewpoint that celebrates and glorifies violence rather than actual history or culture.
It literally perfectly embodies neo Nazis' fantasy history too, this wonderful White group that once dominated the whole planet and did grand things and asserted their dominance through massacres and black people don't exist and white men only fucked white women and made perfect warrior white male babies.
You get the idea.
It's also literally certified by the fucking daily stormer, for fucks sake, that neo Nazi site run by that psychopath.
So. People who slobber over it ARE fucking suspect, especially if they're online all the fucking time.
So when I saw that tweet, I thought this guy...
Is insisting that the northman...is better than EEAAO...hm.
Perpetually online? Check.
Loves the northman and thinks it's the best thing ever? Check.
Is super fucking edgy? Check.
Thinks EEAAO isn't cinema??? Hm. Check.
This guy's definitely a fucking Nazi.
Like look at it objectively and tell me...
A male dominated story about an angry white man that tears out hearts and murders people and then dies gloriously at the end
Vs.
An older female led story about a family of Asian immigrants that emphasizes compassion over brute force and creating meaning in an inherently meaningless universe, with LGBT characters and male characters who choose kindness and family and community rather than violence or cruelty.
And you can't tell me why you'd just "connect" with the northman more than EEAAO? Right.
I know why you'd fucking connect with one over the other, you piece of shit.
God. I fucking hate Twitter.
EEAAO deserves to win every Oscar.
And I don't know any fucking person who's seen the northman or gives a fuck about it. I literally forgot it even came out this year. The only people I see still talking about are the perpetually online Nazis that wanna circlejerk over how edgelord stories about mass murdering protagonists are "peak" fiction.
Yeah, right.
Glad the fucking academy chose right, for once.