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Why all the genital tweaks in The Northman? ‘You can’t have penises on airplanes’
Fans of Robert Eggers’ films — The Witch, The Lighthouse, and now The Northman — know he goes to extremes to make his visuals as real and lived-in as possible, using extensive research, natural light, practical effects, and authentic period costuming and set-building processes. All of this makes The Northman’s climactic battle — a sword fight between two naked men at the base of an erupting volcano — all the more astonishing. The rise of digital special effects has taught us to expect that anything surprising we see onscreen was probably composed inside a computer, but that didn’t seem likely for a Robert Eggers movie.