Vikings : Coming Out Swinging

The television show stands to be viewed as if it was filmed on a handheld camera. The show has the tendency to be extremely awkward and people who do not take the time to watch a full episode will anticipate that the show may be identified as dull and a waste of time. One would feel that the show may be simple with no plot or meaning. However, after watching an entire episode, one will realize that a complex plot is not necessary to enjoy the show because of the awkward and entertaining relationships between the characters. Although, there are several plot twists that may catch the viewer’s

It is easy to just say a few facts but as our audience are high school students we had to gain their attention via aesthetic appeal. When I mean is keep high school students interested in the show and not go on their phones. If we could not connect to them then I would utterly make us useless that is why we use pathos to keep the

In our popular culture people use entertainment as a way to avoid and deal with all the concerns that come with real life. It is shown in the programs that people enjoy to watch to entertain themselves. In order to make the shows and movies more public friendly , creators of entertainment programs and movies have to change them into something with a little more fantasy and sci-fi as said in the article “How the West Was Lost - and Why It Matters”. An explainable reason for this is stated in “Why the West Loves Sci-Fi and Fantasy: A Cultural Explanation” and how the masses tend to view today's world as being boring and uninteresting. So society wants to watch something that is different from the normal everyday things they see. People also

In the best movies and tv shows they have some qualities in common. These qualities engaged us as the audience to watch the whole things instead of sleeping half way through it. These qualities make us feel what the character feel when something bad or good happen to him or her. Make us sad when a innocent character is killed. This lead us to tell all of our friends to watch this certain movie or tv show.

The Vikings have always been a part of history that I have been interested in. Back then, nothing came easily; they had to work for everything they wanted. I like the idea that they had to grow their own food and even make their own clothes and blankets. I also really think that their religion was neat, though complex as it is.

Television entertainment is a form of escapism. "It [entertainment] takes us away from our reality and transports us to another world—not our own” (Ghosain). Shows like Breaking Bad and I Love Lucy execute this so effectively because they create a fictitious context in which surreal actions and consequence can be explored. Fictional narrative allows viewers to explore cultural ideology and concepts radically different from reality.

A study published in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts found that watching famous television dramas can increase your emotional intelligence, and make you more empathetic.

If one is familiar with the “Thrymskvitha”, then they know that Loki, the god of mischief, steals Mjolnir, the hammer which belongs to the god of thunder, Thor, and gives it to Thrym, the Jotunn king. The giant king, in turn, wants Freyja, the goddess of love, to give him her hand in marriage. Freyja refuses to do this, and in a twist of fate for the god of thunder, he is convinced by Heimdall to adorn Freyja’s bridal gown and travel to the hall of the Jotunn king to reclaim his stolen hammer. Once the Jotunn king brings out the hammer to

The Viking ship represented everything about the Vikings’ culture and they revered them with their artisanship, navigational skills, cunning fighting skills, and the ultimate honor of using a ship as a burial vessel for their elite. Vikings believed that when they died in a fight, “a warrior maiden called a Valkyrie escorted him to the Viking heaven” and once the man arrived, a new life began of fighting all-day and feasting all night (Winroth 231). This belief illustrates that the Vikings held fighting and feasting as extremely

They introduce us to a world where we always wanted to be and make a profound impact on the audience.

Mythology and Beowulf has illuminated parts of my life in the form of movies. The Mythology behind these movies who make me who I am is such a significant part of my life. My depression is a part of my life I don’t like to show others, but movies allow me to escape the pain I suffer in my mundane life. I especially love movies with rich mythologies, like Star Wars and Harry Potter. I think stories with a rich mythology allow me to escape even more than your average movie, because the wealth of knowledge needed to fully understand the history of the world you are in. I think the depth involved with these types of stories is what allows me to feel all the weight of the world lifted off my shoulders. For me the direct correlation is that stories involving a mythology illuminate relief and happiness in my life. A recent example is the new film Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them, they took the life of an author of a textbook that Harry Potter was required to read as a first year and they are turning it into a five film franchise. The written and screen mythology of Harry Potter is so in-depth that they took such a minute character and are creating this story around him, and it feels very genuine to the old stories and entirely new at the same time. These instances are when it makes me feel so great

Which is very enjoyable for the audience too see the character (s) they became infatuated with play a new and exciting role. For example, when Evan Peters first started on the show he played a 17-year-old psychiatric patient harboring dark secrets, even though he played the role of a disturbed mentally unstable ghost, he immediately became the heartthrob of the show. As the show continues into different seasons he became less mental persay and more mature and adult like and still captured the hearts of millions.

We all remember our first fantasy experience. Whether you were binge-reading Tolkien nestled in between the bookshelves at your local library or was fascinated with the mythical world of Harry Potter when you first saw Daniel Radcliffe’s glasses clad face on the big screen, fantasy had a way of slipping a little magic and mystique into our lives without us even realizing. As someone who grew up wanting to be an elf-wizard-barbarian hybrid, I know just how much the fantasy genre can impact one’s life. However, what we rarely think about is how our own magic-less society affects fantasy. Yes, humble Nord, you influenced these mythical worlds without even realizing it just as they influenced you.

“For most of the twentieth century, [popular culture] has been denigrated by intellectuals of all ideological stripes as either meaningless escapism or a dangerous narcotic” (Cullen 2). Popular culture is a form of escapism; however, I would argue against those intellectuals calling it meaningless, because, as we have also learned from Cullen, the elites will reject new forms of popular culture. Returning to escapism, an example we have seen is in comic books. Adolescent boys would turn to comics as a source of escapism. For example, lower-class second-generation Jewish immigrants, searching for their place to fit in society, created Superman. Their comics appealed to young boys, in a post-Depression era, with

First of all, to make a great television show, the show needs to have heaps of drama inside it. In the show Degrassi, a show about high school drama, one teen girl was pregnant and believed the father was a guy she randomly hooked up with, but later found out the father was her ex boyfriend, who she was still in love with after on and off break ups. The drama made people interested in the show, because the audience wanted to know what happens to the love triangle. Degrassi episodes are intense with drama, and that makes the show great. In Riverdale, a suspenseful show about the murder of the schools well-liked quarterback, the richest families secrets are unfolded as they solve the murder, to find out the quarterback's father killed him. Throughout the