2009-01-12

I'm invisible!

"Erik The Viking" (1989) is a classic Terry Jones film, featuring most of the Monty Python crew. It's all about Erik getting tired of the usual Viking lifestyle of rape and pillage, and setting off to find the Horn Resounding, to blow the horn and wake the gods in Valhalla, so that they can bring an end to the Age of Ragnarok (endless clouds, freezing cold, and warfare) and usher in a new golden age of humanity.

In this clip, Erik (Tim Robbins) hides from King Arnulf (Terry Jones) by hiding under Princess Aud's (Imogen Stubbs) "Cloak Invisible," a rag which the King believes makes people invisible. When the King is unable to find Erik, Erik believes in the cloak's "magic," and borrows the cloak to help his ship's crew fight off Halfdan The Black (John Cleese) and his band of marauders.

No one except Erik, King Arnulf, and Harald The Missionary (Freddie Jones) believes that the rag can make people invisible. Therefore everyone is quite bewildered by Erik's insane behavior while he thinks they can't see him.

Look for the Japanese slavemaster's tirade aboard Halfdan's ship at about 5:13. It's an amusing commentary on Japanese culture.

There's also a running discussion on what fear feels like, and of course how a proper Berzerker stores up his rage for release in battle.

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