Mead in the cinema

Mead in the cinema

We are happy to learn every day how mead has played a leading role in the history, life and customs of many cultures, and has been used for its properties and chosen as one of the most representative drinks of an entire empire.

We are delighted to discover that the existence of mead is polyhedral and that its presence aspires beyond becoming an identifying drink of a certain historical stage.

So much so that it is enough to investigate a little, with a mentality of discovery, to observe that the seventh art has been seduced by this type of element capable of reconciling enemies and attracting new partners in battles.

Throughout the life of cinema, mead has had some outstanding interventions. Today, so that you can check them for yourself, we are going to see them.

Tuck's mead

If we take a closer look at Ridley Scott's highly acclaimed "Robin Hood", we'll see that one of the spectator's most beloved characters, Friar Tuck, is more than a mead lover, paying tribute to him whenever he gets the chance. In fact, there are some occasions when he can be seen taking care of the bees in order to obtain from them the rich honey with which to make the mead drink.

In another minute of the tape, one of Hood's companions asks the Friar himself for some place where he can taste any drink. Tuck's good man does not hesitate to tell them where, not without first charging them a fee for letting them taste his prized mead, even going so far as to say as a joke that it is "The drink that sanctifies man".

Visibility on the big screen

It is not surprising, then, that with the popularity of the highly successful "Vikings" series and films on Nordic stories, both existing and yet to come, the visibility of mead continues to gain whole and reaching very different ears and palates.

Without going any further, one of the most famous actors that we have in Spain, Antonio Banderas, already showed us the mead on the big screen, hand in hand with his comrades the Nordic warriors whom he joins in "El Guerrero Nº 13".

We learn from this that in the cinema it is studied down to the smallest detail to bring stories as close as possible to testimonies and documentations of historical nature but also fictitious.

Of course, we will be delighted to continue to see characters from all ancient cultures in the cinema, to see the care they gave to their guests and the way in which they considered mead a drink of hospitality and homage for guests of all walks of life, be they hobbits, friars, Vikings or magicians.

Do you know of any other series or feature films where mead is visible? Tell us about it and we can continue to nourish ourselves with knowledge.

Cheers!