![]() That boy Loki gets around, having fathered the giant wolf Fenrir with the Jōtunn giantess Angrboða, who was also the mother of the Midgard Serpent and Hel. In The Ritual, this particular giant elk-like Jōtunn is called a child of Loki, though they dare not speak its name. How these creatures are defined has changed quite a bit over the years, sometimes with Odin and other deities being their descendants, and sometimes giving them negative connotations, like that of trolls. And this was one of his original designs based on our conversations that he had passed across and I loved it instantly.ĭuring the movie, in an interaction with the hill people who offer ritual sacrifices to the monster in order to stay alive, we learn that they refer to it as a Jōtunn, a powerful being in Norse mythology. We knew that it was gonna be some sort of animal god, and, but we also talked a lot about it would have a sentience, and how would you give it a human quality? How would you obfuscate the difference between animal and human, and how could an animal form read with a human intelligence?Īnd so, Keith had many variations on those kinds of conversations, and this was one that he would kind of do an initial design on a few different things, and then I would have some notes. Well, we talked a lot about different influences in Norse mythology. You know, that you could sort of build a mystery, just a very simple visual mystery around it. He threw a bunch of images across the desk based on those conversations. One of the things we loved about this was that it, it was a difficult construction to understand at a certain glance. The Ritual brought on Keith Thompson, a concept artist for Guillermo del Toro who has worked on Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Pacific Rim, The Strain, and Crimson Peak. Here's an insightful quote regarding Thompson's design of the creature: Even without the very human story at the center of this movie, it's worth a watch for the monster alone. One of the coolest aspects of The Ritual's monster is its bizarro design and how it was glimpsed piecemeal throughout the telling of the tale-an antler here, a spooky visage there, a pair of human-like hands somehow extending from too big a body-all up until the final act where it's fully revealed in all its horrific glory. So, what you’re seeing is how it desires to be interpreted, and it’s part of the way it intimidates and controls. Because the idea of these kinds of shape-shifting Norse gods is that they can kind of choose how they want to look to you. So, yeah, we had to feature it and that meant that we had to kind of literalize not just how it looks, but how it chooses to present. ![]() ![]() There are many movies that I admire that are withholding until the end, and like I said, we just felt that wasn’t this film. ![]() Whatever that means. So we always knew that we wanted to reveal, in one way or another, what it was. #Watch among the hidden movie movie#That the movie should always go for it, in the end. Sort of this old Norse Viking nightmare that these modern men have wandered into. ![]()
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