[ SECRET POST #2798 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2798 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 071 secrets from Secret Submission Post #400.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and I don't see the problem. Of course everyone knows dragons don't exist. You're supposed to know that part is fantasy. Perpetuation of a myth that most people believe is true is much more off-putting than one that everyone knows is a myth.

Re: Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

But who gives a shit about whether Vikings had horns or not? Unless you're a historian or an archeologist or an anthropologist writing professionally, it really doesn't matter. At all.

Re: Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

da

I do? Heaven forbid I'm interested in what real, historical people - especially awesome badass warriors - looked like and only be a humble layman. Why the heck does anything matter, with that attitude? Why not make a movie about the French revolution and have all actors speak Korean, because who cares, it's history?

Re: Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, why would it matter IN A KID'S FANTASY MOVIE.

Everyone thinks Vikings had horns on their helmets. Helmets with horns on them look cool and distinctive. There is nothing wildly culturally nonsensical about having horns on their helmets. Vikings no longer exist, so no real Vikings will be harmed by the erroneous portrayal of their helmets in the making of this movie. How on earth is there anything wrong with portraying Vikings as having cool distinctive horns on their helmets in a kid's fantasy movie?

In a serious historical adult movie about, say, the early Viking voyages to eastern Canada, yeah, having horns on their helmets would be a irritating. But here? Pfft.

(And by the way, why not have French revolution people speak Korean if the movie is made in Korea for Korean audiences?)

Re: Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

This a bit. I'm Norwegian and when I see adult films that are supposed to be (at least relatively, there is always magic and shizzle) historically accurate and they have horns on the helmets, dumb barbarian brutes who can't write, and skinny beautiful tall women I get aggravated. Why? Well it sure is more entertaining to think of the vikings like that, but it is my heritage and history and there isn't much else to be proud of as a norwegian, so it is important to us that they get it (mostly) right.

I still loved HtTaD, and didn't even consider the horns on the helmet. Because it is a kids movie. Besides, in this context it makes sense. They've slaughtered and killed dragons for a long time; horns would be more of a trophy than anything else. They weren't going into battle with the helmets (they aren't invading vikings), so they're purely cermonial. There. Now secretmaker can go watch the movie because it became plausible :P

Re: Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

DA - The fact most of the horns look like dragon horns made me figure that the reason these vikings wear horns is because of the dragons. The same way most of their ship emblems are dragons.

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100308052554/howtotrainyourdragon/images/7/7e/Monstrous-nightmare-01.png and http://scifichicks.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/220-dagur.jpg

and http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nUAWYr-1jP4/UGVQy7hBB1I/AAAAAAAAB9o/8YolgRhvE1A/s1600/sailing.jpg