In the script when Christian enters the chicken coop after mating with Maja, he finds Josh secured to a wall, still alive and moaning in agony, his upper abdomen cut open and fully exposed and bird feed pressed into the open wound so the chickens can feed off his liver and intestines.
Edit: See expert from script in third post.
No, don’t think so
Nice try troll
^This guy
Copied from the script, pg. 111
INT. CHICKEN COOP - CONTINUOUS 112 Christian enters. He shuts the door behind him. Chickens flap
stupidly about.
Christian tries to regain his composure. As he tries to sober himself up, a barely audible MOANING is heard. He looks up, startled, to SEE...
Across the room, JOSH has been chained to a fence. He is shirtless, his eyes are half-open, and the SKIN of Josh’s upper abdomen has been stretched OPEN to expose his LIVER and the corners of his ribs. If it weren’t for his faint moans, it would be difficult to discern whether he was alive.
The gnarled edges of Josh’s wound have been covered in bird feed. It’s clear that the birds have been at it. In fact, one chicken is currently (and feebly) trying to flap its way up to Josh’s open wound, and one CROW is perched to Josh’s side.
Frozen in horror, Christian stares unblinkingly.
Josh?
CHRISTIAN
Christian’s eyes fill intensely with TEARS. He starts toward Josh. As he arrives near him, he begins to repeat:
Jo--
CHRISTIAN (CONT’D)
Josh’s eyes BURST open and he GASPS wretchedly for air. He is thrown into violent, gurgling convulsions.
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shareDamn, the blood eagle was really pretty, but this scene would've been cool to watch, too. And with the next part where Josh's body was hanging upside-down-- just reading that part made me wince, but watching it would've been intense!!
As someone who knows nothing about screenplays/scripts, why do they have random words in all caps like that? It makes it incredibly awkward/difficult to read...
Ari Aster is a writer/director, like Tarantino and PT Anderson, and I am assuming that he all caps certain words within his script, which are not random mind you, to emphasize his vision as it relates to how he wants said scene to be acted or shot. It’s the equivalent of making post-it note reminders within his script without scribbling his specific meaning on the page.
shareI'm glad they chose the Blood Eagle for the finished film, as apparently there are historical records of the Vikings realky doing that, as a thankfully rare form of human sacrifice. But the birds eating a living man's liver is a reference to an ancient Greek myth, and doesn't belong in a Swedish pagan ceremony.
My Viking ancestors were seriously horrible. Beware of people who think they were way cool.
Have you seen the Director’s cut? There is a scene that more than alludes to Christian having his legs sawed off before being fitted into the bear suit.
It’s only a second or two but it shows the elder lifting Christian’s frock from his ankles to his knees and then reaching for and then manipulating a bone cutting/sawing contraption.
I love that Ari doesn't show but instead implies, so much worse in my opinion.
And yea, I’m glad he cut the liver scene out, as disturbing as it may be, the Prometheus bit wouldn’t have meshed well with the Swedish folklore.
No, I haven't seen the director's cut, I only rewatch movies if they're fun! But yeah, the direction was top notch, finally a horror director who understands the value of subtlety! Because when we finally see some gore, it's far more shocking than a steady parade of grue and gore.
And yeah, I'm glad they dropped the Prometheus liver thing. Can you imagine what that old SOB Odin would do to someone who offered him a sacrifice from the wrong mythos?
On second thought, I don't want to know. Or even speculate.
It was neat to see the lungs actually still working outside of the body.
They show it better here than they did on the TV VIKING show - altho that was pretty brutal. They showed it actually being done.