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So I'm practicing drawing again. Last time I drew something it was summer, now it's almost spring. Well... small victories are better than nothing (or smth like that). This time I got inspired by Edvin Endre, gorgeously androgynous (and amazingly talented!) Swedish actor, after seeing him play legendary 13th century Latvian king Namejs in The Pagan King. Those facial features were irresistible not to draw ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Finally saw Nameja gredzens (Namej’s Ring) aka The Pagan King (thou more accurate would've been the originally planned title: The King's Ring).

I, for one, liked it. It was a good movie. ;)

If at the beginning when it was announced I was tad unhappy that they're gonna use foreign actors for the movie's main roles, specifically Namejs himself, which is 100% Latvian - our history & legend - I soon got over it because what matters most is that the writing/directing and actors do a good job. Doesn't matter where they're from so long as the movie turns out good. And the actors did ok.

Then there are those who complain about the historical accuracy & such. ...really? It's a movie, not biography. And just like majority of movie's based on some fact/legend, most of the plot is made up for the screen. Along with costumes & language. Same thing here. Not even gonna say more.

Lastly, there is/was talk about the fact that since it's Latvia's 100th year the movie should've been properly made in Latvian instead of English. Well, for international use, I say - let there be English, the more people see it the better. But they really could've dubbed the Latvian version way better since the movie is 'bout our legend and all. Don't know what went wrong there, but other than that - I'm all for an English version - saw it, liked it.

Only real downside to the movie was the big fight scene on the beach. They really couldn't get more extras? Like, the fighting itself was well done, it's just that there were so few actors. If cgi is too expensive, they really should've gotten simply more people so that it wouldn't look so scarce :D

Nameja gredzens/The Pagan King was no masterpiece, but neither was it bad. The middle ground of good/ok. I'd give it a 7,5 out of 10 :)

They need to make more movies like this one about our legends :D

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