Highlander
My son has started watching a new DVD every night. With nothing on TV, it only makes sense. Last night’s featured flick was one of my favorites, Highlander. Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery team up in a movie where “there can be only one.”
If you haven’t seen the movie, it is about immortals who roam the Earth. There seem to be a limited amount of the immortals and their objective is to be the last one alive so they can claim “The Prize.” The only way to kill an immortal is to chop off his head (only guys are the immortals, at least in this movie), so they all carry swords.
The main character (Lambert) is named Connor McCloud, of the clan McCloud and was born in the Scottish highlands in the mid 16th century. At the beginning of the movie, he is stabbed in the chest by the movies bad guy, The Kergen, in a battle between two warring clans. Somehow, he magically recuperates. His clan, being a superstitious lot, claim his miraculous recovery is the work of Lucifer and want to burn him. The clan chief banishes him instead and he is forced to leave the happiness of youth behind.
The next scene he is with a beautiful blond named Heather. They live together as man and wife in an old castle in the Scottish Highlands. There life is filled with love and happiness and it seems to be perfect until Ramirez (Sean Connery) shows up. Ramirez is an immortal and he explains to McCloud that he is immortal and begins his training. You get a lot of beautiful scenery and sword fighting at this stage. When the training is complete, Ramirez tells McCloud to leave Heather. That she will grow old and die and he will remain young. Ramirez tries to spare McCloud the pain of watching the love of his life die of old age and there is nothing he can do about it.
The most touching scene of the movie is Connor and Heather on her death bed. She is old and wrinkled and he is young and vibrant. They pledge eternal love and she asks him to light a candle every year on her birthday. The music (by Queen) playing in the background is “Who wants to live forever?” which poses the central theme of the movie. Who wants to live forever if the ones you love all end up as ashes and dust? What would be the one thing, “The Prize”, for an immortal? Oh my bonnie Heather.
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If you haven’t seen the movie, it is about immortals who roam the Earth. There seem to be a limited amount of the immortals and their objective is to be the last one alive so they can claim “The Prize.” The only way to kill an immortal is to chop off his head (only guys are the immortals, at least in this movie), so they all carry swords.
The main character (Lambert) is named Connor McCloud, of the clan McCloud and was born in the Scottish highlands in the mid 16th century. At the beginning of the movie, he is stabbed in the chest by the movies bad guy, The Kergen, in a battle between two warring clans. Somehow, he magically recuperates. His clan, being a superstitious lot, claim his miraculous recovery is the work of Lucifer and want to burn him. The clan chief banishes him instead and he is forced to leave the happiness of youth behind.
The next scene he is with a beautiful blond named Heather. They live together as man and wife in an old castle in the Scottish Highlands. There life is filled with love and happiness and it seems to be perfect until Ramirez (Sean Connery) shows up. Ramirez is an immortal and he explains to McCloud that he is immortal and begins his training. You get a lot of beautiful scenery and sword fighting at this stage. When the training is complete, Ramirez tells McCloud to leave Heather. That she will grow old and die and he will remain young. Ramirez tries to spare McCloud the pain of watching the love of his life die of old age and there is nothing he can do about it.
The most touching scene of the movie is Connor and Heather on her death bed. She is old and wrinkled and he is young and vibrant. They pledge eternal love and she asks him to light a candle every year on her birthday. The music (by Queen) playing in the background is “Who wants to live forever?” which poses the central theme of the movie. Who wants to live forever if the ones you love all end up as ashes and dust? What would be the one thing, “The Prize”, for an immortal? Oh my bonnie Heather.
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