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The YouTuber PutoMikel (take a look at his channel about historical divulgation and other things, his video essays are gems) and the comic artist & YouTuber Loulogio/ Isaac Sánchez made a colab about Basque mythology in the film Irati, PutoMikel is talking about this elements shown in the film and Loulogio has drawn two criatures of Basque mythology: a Lamia and a Basajaun.

These are the finished fanarts (×):

#irati 2022 #IratiFilm #art #basque mythology #putomikel #isaac sánchez #analysis #loulogio #irati fanart #lamias #basajaun #Youtube #mikel herranz #mikel herrán subiñas #isaac sánchez gonzález

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Irati (2022) dir. Paul Urkijo Alijo

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I have found some more interviews and made a compilation of them @asongofstarkandtargaryen @queenmiriamele @isadomna @cucullas @luceirosdegolados

I've always been a lover of mythology in general, but above all of Basque mythology, which is mine, the one that was taught to me, and I have always wanted to make a film about this mythological world, this cosmogony.

I've always wanted to do sword and sorcery, which is one of my favorite genres and well that's a bit, that love for the sword and sorcery genre, that love for mythology and medieval history.

-It's better to die by a Christian sword than to live under the Saracens.

- Are you looking for my iron?

-Please!

We wanted to make a film as big as possible, in 2.35, with anamorphics... Visually it was spectacular, epic, big! So for that we had to go to natural locations, as large as possible, the Pyrenees, the forests, the rivers, the caves... Immerse ourselves in that natural world that is very difficult to access to be able to shoot with all the materials and so on, and it is very hard also for the cast.

-Put this on.

-No way.

-The eguzkilore will protect you more than that cross, it is an amulet for the darkness.

-I'm not going to wear that.

Nature is also the protagonist of the film, it somehow represents those mythological deities. Recreate all that historical world, with battles, extras and so on.

As I comented the other day in a post about Irati that Belasko is the antagonist of the film, he and some other nobles are against Eneko inheriting his grandfather's position as lord of the valley and Belasko propose himself as the next lord of the valley, because they believe Eneko's family isn't "Christian enough" because his father believed in pagan beliefs and his mother Oneka is now a Muslim woman because she married Musa Ibn Fortun and had children with him (like Musa Ibn Musa al-Qasawi) after her first husband died ( this marriage meant the beginning of an alliance in the family with the Banu Qasi against the Franks and more or less a good political relationship with the emirate of Córdoba) despite Ximeno and Eneko being staunchly Christian and Eneko starts understanding the old beliefs during his adventure with Irati.

Eneko is a young man who is destined to be the leader of the valley. His father was, so Eneko returns to the valley after a few years wanting to restore a bit of order and peace in the valley.

-I remember little, my father's funeral, a wild tradition. When I am lord of the valley there will be nothing like this anymore

He's in for an adventure...

- What are you doing here?

-Don't worry, there's no need to shed blood. Tell us where the gold is and we'll be in peace.

-Get out or duel!

That will be played by Irati, a mysterious young pagan from the valley with whom he will have to unite if he wants to become the leader of that valley. Then, all his faith and all his beliefs will be put in check to achieve peace. But also review his past and review his father.

-Be careful Belasko, respect or you will go to the dungeon!

-God has cursed your surname.

The most difficult part of the shoot was maintaining my weight, which I gained almost ten kilos for this film, along with also maintaining the choreography of the swords, that the horse listened to me, all these things that are already a bit out of the actor's control. That was really like a leap of faith.

The funny thing is that this film wasn't the first time Eneko Sagardoy has been in prominent changes, although in my opinion in Irati for he didn't change so much, although the following ones were more like an aspect of the effects and the production, there's Handia in which he played Miguel Joaquin Eleizegi, aka the Giant of Altzo, and in Errementari he played as the devil Sartael:

Eneko: Some beings have been created that I want to find in my nightmares. The public is going to be incredibly surprised with the beings that we are going to see during the film. I can not say too much... I think the work that has been done to put body and shape to all this that until now we have only had in our minds, in our imagination is precious and I think it is impressive and that the public is going to hallucinate.

Edurne: Wonderful. Special mention to David Heras because he is also a good friend and is working hard for the effects. It is another of the quadrangular stones that believe a lot in Irati. Him and his entire team, because let's not forget that there are like, I don't know, 120 people pixel by pixel, working to make it believable, so that this universe reaches the screens as big as possible. So this department is really crucial and Paul holds it in high esteem.

Itziar: I remember that I had an LED attached to my hand and to my body that, when she got angry, it turned on the LED, because well, this later with the effects... I didn't understand anything, all full of cables.

The first film by director Paul Urkijo, Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil, despite its defects, evidenced the author's intentions to exploit an almost intact beta in our cinema, that of folklore and peninsular legends.

Paul: We have such a large compendium of legends and there are many people who do not know them, that is a pity, that is, these legends are not transmitted for not giving them importance or taking them as a story, when they really are part of our culture, that is, they root us deeply in the world and our way of seeing the world. We also have to preserve these stories because they are precisely a lesson to preserve all this natural world that we have.

-To arms!

-Prepare for battle!

Now in Irati the director jumps back several centuries, specifically the 8th century to narrate, more accurately than its predecessor, the legend of Eneko, the first king of Pamplona. Once again with the participation of RTVE, shot in Basque, Urkijo repeats the leading role with Eneko Sagardoy, who faced the action challenge typical of these fantasies, apparently far from the actor's physique.

-That's enough, grandfather is waiting for me.

Eneko: He is one of the characters that I would never have thought that any casting director, for example, would have thought of me to play the king of Navarra who rides a horse, and such, that I put on 10 kilos based on sandwiches, cheese and milkshakes, and I gained a lot of muscle. I would never have imagined seeing myself like this or learning to ride a horse, to fight with swords very quickly and I think it was necessary.

Also in that case it was not a question of i Look, how I have transformed!, it was not binding, and it has been nice to see you physically transformed, it is always interesting.

-Calm down, what's up?

-The pain of the forest anguishes him

-This river is full of lamia tears. They left long ago with the construction of your hermitages and mills.

He takes as his starting point the first volume of the comic El Ciclo de Irati with which he builds a precious and careful story of magic and swords in which we witness the return of Eneko years after the battle of Roncesvalles in which his father lost his life. against the army of Charlemagne.

-Boy, you'll have to be strong to be a leader.

-To die!

-To arms!

Eneko will find himself in a region where the emerging Christianity and Muslims coexist with pagan beliefs. To reclaim his dynastic right, he will try to recover his father's body with the help of an enigmatic hermit, the beautiful Irati, played by the young debutant actress Edurne Azkarate.

-He appreciates you, he likes that you give him nuts

-How do you know that?

-Silence!

Paul: I've been able to make a movie three times as big, more serious too, although that adventure is also good, it's a movie with monsters and sword blows, but it's also a drama.

-Lamias...there are no such female creatures with bird feet

-A noble like you will have been with many women, right? Have you seen many feet?

We can affirm that Irati is the best to date, also almost the only magic and swords genre film in our cinema. It contains everything that fans of these formats of evocative adventure landscapes and magical beings such as lamias or mermaids and Basque mythology such as the mother earth goddess Mari or the tartalus, a kind of cyclops.

Paul: What I like is doing fantastic genres with creatures from fairy tale worlds, it's what I like the most, and it's what I want to continue doing as long as they let me.

Its technical envelope transmits a sensation of big-budget cinema, the care from the photography to the special effects or its impressive soundtrack and the epic of its story reminds us of productions such as the classic Excalibur or the recent The Green Knight, excellent distant cousins for a second work by a director to keep an eye on.

- Lamiak, Basajaun, mamarroak, Gaueko...

-Do they all have names?

-Yes, as long as someone remembers them

Previous interviews: Edurne Azkarate, Itziar Ituño

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Next week will be the fourth week of Irati at cinemas, and it will be screened for the first time in Extremadura, in a cinema from Cáceres.

Apart from that, that pic is from the scene when Eneko finally becomes lord of the valley (@cucullas @asongofstarkandtargaryen @luceirosdegolados @queenmiriamele remebering the etymology and sigils post I made about some characters of the film, in this scene there's Eneko's sigil painted on the shield in which Eneko is standing)

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Irati: Heraldy & Etymology

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So I went to the cinema to watch Irati a week ago and I wanted to make something about it.

In some outfits of some characters who are part of the nobility it can be seen some elements like brooches or pendants in which there's elements that represent the sigils of those characters, and some of them are related with the etymology of the names of these characters.

Eneko Aritza

Like I said in this post, his outfit there's some details of oak leaves, and that could be a references of the etymology and meaning of his name.

Eneko is form by the words ene (my) and ko (little), and it's often traslated from Basque as "my little one/ dear", and its Spanish from is Iñigo.

Arizta is a derived form from the word haritz, that means oak. Hence, that's why sometimes he's refered as Eneko the Oak in some sources.

But its sigil isn't related with oaks, it's an eight-pointed star, in his brooch it's golden with an orange detail, although by the end a shield with Eneko's sigil, but this one is a yellow eight-pointed star in a red field. Red and yellow, it could be a reference to the colors of the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Navarra.

Also in one part of the script of the film it's confirmed that Eneko's sigil is a bit inspired by the Eguzkilore (the flower of the sun), it's an important flower linked with Mari and pagan beliefs. The thing is that this sigil is wore by Eneko since we firstly meet him as an adult, and that point he just believes that Mari and the other criatures are just child tales. Although his father Eneko believed in Mari and in the end although Eneko Aritza is a Christian he starts respecting the pagan beliefs after meeting Irati and Mari and finally understanding what his father did.

Apart from that, Eneko had 4 children, Assona, Garztia, Galindo and Nunila. For example, Garztia comes from (h)artz->(h)artzea->kartzea, that means bear, and in Spanish was adapted as García, a name that was popular during the Middle Ages, but later it became very common as a surname.

Belasko

And now I'll continue with the antagonist of the film, Belasko.

Talking about etymology, Belasko comes from Bela or Bele "crow", and the diminutive -sko meaning "little crow". In Spanish was adapted as the names (and later surnames) Velasco and Vasco, that derived into patronymic surnames like Velázquez and Vázquez.

And that is reflected on the sigil of his pendant, two crows with two towers and a cross.

Otsoa

The last of the three, indirectly accomplice of Belasko, there's Otsoa.

This one is very direct, otsoa in Basque means wolf. So, yeah, this man is literally named Wolf. Although it's not used nowadays as name, kt's mainly common as the surname Otxoa or the Spanish adaptation Ochoa.

And that is reflected on the sigil of his brooch, a black wolf with two crosses.

#irati #irati 2022 #IratiFilm #films #eneko aritza #belasko #otsoa #etymology #heraldy

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@cucullas @asongofstarkandtargaryen @luceirosdegolados @queenmiriamele It has been announced that Irati will be available to watch on Amazon Prime since May 5 (tomorrow), although I don't know if it will be just only in Spain or it will be international.

I hope that it would be international release because on cinemas abroad it was limited mainly to some Film Festivals and such things.

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Irati will be screened in Brazil in the International Fantasy Cinema Gestival of Porto Alegre!

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Good news: Irati is currently the highest grossing film in Basque in history!

And if anyone is on Murcia this weekend, Irati will be screened at the beginning of Sombra, the Murcia's Fantasy Cinema Fest in Friday 17 of March, and the director of the film Paul Urkijo and the costume designer Nerea Torrijos will be at the Fest.

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The film Irati will be on more cinemas

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@luceirosdegolados @kei-yuki @queenmiriamele @isadomna @jackredfieldwasmyjacob @asongofstarkandtargaryen

The day has arrived! The film Irati it's finally on cinemas.

I have found this list of cinemas in which the film can be watched. Of the 17 autonomous communities, it is available on almost all of them, except Extremadura and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

Depending on the cinema there's available the Original version with subtitles or the dubbed version of the film, and even in a cinema from Logroño there's a 3D version.

In my case, the nearest cinemas in which the film wil be screend are the ones from Parla and Getafe in Madrid and the Olías del Rey cinema in Toledo, I will try to go to watch the film this weekend, although all of them are the Spanish dubbed version.

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Irati Making Off (9/9)

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