Killing Gävle
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- In the small city of Gävle in northern Sweden, there is an annual fight between local custodians and mischievous pagans for the spirit of Christmas.
Each year since 1966, local business owners have paid for a 40ft (13 metre) effigy of a goat to be made of straw and displayed in the city's central square from the first day of Advent. In 37 of those years, the goat has been burned down or damaged by shadowy outsiders, sometimes within a few hours of going up. In this film, residents from both sides of the goat conflict explain their hopes and motivations as Advent ticks down to Christmas
Key credits
Director and producer: Joe Fletcher
Director of photography and editor: Bernat Mestres
Soundtrack by GOAT - / goatsweden
Executive producers for the Guardian: Charlie Phillips and Lindsay Poulton
Commissioned by the Guardian and Docsville
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Which actor did you hire to play the "bad guy"? Literally no one thinks about the goat the way he does. They burn it down because it is a funny and challenging tradition, not because of Viking gods or crap like that.
And they pronounced it ”Gavle”?!
The swenglish is strong with this one.
wtf did you expect?! Record yourself talking Another language that your not familiar about you will problably sound the same.
+GABBE
Did he say it was a bad thing?
Personally, I find it charming!
GABBE we're collectively amongst the best English speakers in the world here in Sweden.
While living in Sweden, I actually preferred the 'Swenglish' over the overly polished British, American or almost Mid-Atlantic accents of some of the Swedish students. English is now the lingua franca, but everyone who speaks it brings his or her own background into it. That is not only the case for former British colonies like Jamaica and South Africa, but also for L2 speakers (second language speakers) from other countries. English is not just American or British (or Irish, or Canadian, or Australian, or...), but can be spoken in many ways. This pluriformity is exactly the beauty of a lingua franca.
So Thomas, there is nothing to be ashamed of. Actually, I could understand Swenglish speakers way better than Englishmen from, for instance, New Castle. Pronounce the g with pride and let me giggle just a little when a Swede tells me that he 'will check that'.
Agreed
To me, as a Swedish person, this documentary is hilarious!
That pagan guy is either having a right laugh or he's a demented Neo-Pagan. The way he tries to be as dramatic as possible, tying it in to some perceived version of the old Norse mythology (please remember that we have absolutely NO idea what the old Norse religion was like. People tend to think we know what it was like, but as with most such things it was made up in the 19th century, pieced together by the remnants of the Sagas) is either something said to take the mickey outta a British film crew or he's insane. Still, a very enjoyable documentary! I had a good laugh! =D
One things for sure, it doesn't sound like he knows much about the old Gods but that doesn't change the fact that Asatru is on the rise all over Scandinavia and Iceland!
Sadly, some of the interrest has been from white supremacist, who is for some reason attracted to it!
Guess they've been watching too much HBO and think the Norse("Vikings"), was about "race purity"!
(Which has absolutely NO merit in the things we DO know about our Scandinavian ancestors)
I almost suspect it's an actor!
Oh he's almost certainly having a laugh.
@GorillaGuerilla
I would say that the main proponents, at least in my experience, of worshipping the old gods are in some way or another connected to the far right. Which is really sad, as you say. But that's what you get when you start to worship a religion cobbled together in the 19th century by people in the midst of nationalistic (and racist) thought.The fact remains; We don't know much about religion in early medieval Scandinavia since there are no surviving sources.
The Sagas give us tiny hints about what that religion may have looked like, but it's really nothing to go on. We might as well try to cobble together a religion from tiny slivers of the Marvel or DC universe and claim that that was what people believed in in the 21st century.
Asatru, as you call it, is a relatively modern construct and has most probably very little to do with the beliefs of early medieval Scandinavians.
There is a Guy on youtube called The Golden One who may be playing a part in spreading Norse mythology to the alt right.
Pretty nice to set fire to a goat and get accepted into Yale.
5:03 this speech is the most metal thing I’ve ever heard
"Got to Yale" Hahaha.
Full scholarship ;)
That one guy who was super dramatic was to serious about this. It sounds like a prank rather than an act of anarchy
it is
God, the arsonist is pure cringe.
The arsonist is like an anime villain, I'm creased ahahah
Why not make burning the goat part of the celebration? Keep it up till Christmas Eve and then burn it to the ground safely, that way people can enjoy what it represents in different ways.
I really love this depiction of the event! The builders caring about the materials. The bad guys scheming to burn it down because of the system. Teachers teaching the children right and wrong. The man in the tower playing the christmas carol in minor after it burned. Brilliant!!
What the actual flaming fudge nuts? Come on Sweden!
I really hope that this documentary was a joke.... // from a swede
Surely the best solution is to keep the goat burners away from the goat until Xmas. Then sometime between the big C and New Year, say the 29th or 30th, when everyone's sick of it most probably anyway, let the goatburners do their thing, that way everyone's happy! :)
Why didnt he go to Harvard?
I live in gävle :)
Gather your lighters brothers the time has come once more
WE SET SAIL FOR SWEDEN
First wrold problems the documentary
First world problems with an awesome song by Goat, the documentary. :v
If some secret society wants to burn a goat for their traditions, they should build one of their own. Let the children be happy for christmas.
What do you mean? gävla in the nothern part of sweden? the middle milstone of all the country are located like 30 miles ich north (swedish miles).
There is no thing as a "Swedish miles". Gävle count as being the northern part of Sweden.
do you know what "Flataklocken" is? its the geographical mid point of Sweden and you know where it is? north of Gävle. now i know Gävle/Gästrikland belong to "Norrland" but Norrland takes up half of Sweden so even if the name har norr in it doesnt mean thats its the north.
Luggg3n If you translate Norrland to English you will get Northern Sweden. You don't say northern land because that can be everything north. Like Norway, Finland, Russia. That is why you say it is northern Sweden. Basically everything above Stockholm is Norrland.
You are wrong again... Dalarna are north of Stockholm but its still not in Norrland. Uppsala north of Stockholm still not in norrland. get your facts straight
Luggg3n But the thing is a big part of Dalarnan isn't above Stockholm so I never said that it was in Norrland. Dalarnan belongs to Svealand which is central Sweden
In 2017, no attempts to burn the goat down were made, and it survived.
This is so dramatic. Even the title "Killing Gävle" like it's a straw goat how important can it be?
The goat is supposed to be burnt
this years one jsut burnt down like 6 hours ago
Beautifully filmed.
deep and dark just my cup of tea
One of the nicest cities I have ever visited. Part of my heart will always be in Gävle.
Tack, jag från galva IL
@@cringechannel1071 Ok,jag bur i Kanada nu.
Äldre svenskar som pratar engelska säger t i slutet av ord på ett konstigt sätt som inte går att beskriva i text.
For the sake of tradition it must be burned
"Goat Phoenix"
Awesome movie
I agree with the below comment - that this is a hilarious documentary (it would be anyway if I wasn't partly paying for the joke).
Security ffs ,this is stupid ,or lock the man in the tower in with a phone and a gun.
This is not the USA - in the Nordic Countries, we don't shoot people for burning down Christmas decorations!
what a yoke
Soon Christmas will be forbidden in Gävle.
Yale was like: Bruh u want a scholarship bruv
Where can we get the music by Goat? It's not up on the Spotify page or listed on their FB page!
We will find out...
Shazam,lll be using it on my next surf vid.Thanks for putting me onto it Guardian dudes...
The Guardian is it possible to post publicly where to find goat’s music?
goat.bandcamp.com/
The goat music? The music played by the tower man?
open.spotify.com/track/4Pb8SYBMW1mP6nE2TfQYSV - Nu Tändas Tusen Juleljus
open.spotify.com/track/3FAO4AyAGNI7QSSnyZD256 - White Christmas
open.spotify.com/track/3fjSXfZQVn6AoNeHLJq2f1 - Stilla Natt, Heliga Natt
cinematographers shouldn't edit
Well,this bock is now world famous,so its working..
Love the color grading, good job
Yeah I agree, best documentary I've ever laid my eyes on. 10 burned bocks out of 10
Burn it down!
The desendence of vikings burn smth.😮
This is pretty stupid.
ha, ha, ha! Brilliant! :D
Jag talar inte svenska.
Tack så mycket.
Nei,jag kan talar svenska,jag studerar svenska pa universitet.
@@johnodu2790 Jag bor i Kalifornien.
@@goheine Jag bor i Alberta,Canada.
Jag bor I Melbourne, Florida.
So funny
What about some sort of flame resistant coating: ua-cam.com/video/iYCKhgSZxH8/v-deo.html
Apparently they tried that. It burned down.
พินแก้ว
Damn, I thought my town (Galva Illinois) was named after some amazing place in Sweden..I was wrong!
You mean that a city older then your country ain't amazing?
i too live in galva
the reason galva was named this way was because one of the bishop hill trustees olof johnson named it after his hometown of gävle, but it was founded by william and james wiley
seems like yet more marketing. that pagan dude sounds fake. this is how nessy was born. set up a perimeter and have a security guard 24/7. problem solved. duh
Actually, they DO have that but it still often doesn't stop the saboteurs. They have fire they can throw...
then make the perimeter larger. come on, this is simple to solve. they want this to happen.
they can't make the perimeter larger because it's surrounded by the main roads. They could move it, but its tradition so they wont. And secretly they want it to burn down because if it doesn't they have to spend money taking it down.
and if it didn't burn down, no one outside of that small town would care about it!
+Kevin Giambrone
They even explained that one year it was set on fire using fire arrows - didn't you watch the video?
:)
This is hilarious
What a fascinating and important thing to do a story on. Now let's get back to ignoring those weekly gang related bombings.
So the things that has to do with ordinary people, that's not worth watching?
Their stories isn't worth telling?