Dragonheart

The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying knight must cooperate to stop an evil king who was given partial immortality.

• Director:Rob Cohen
• Genre:Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
• Runtime:103 minutes

Cast

Dennis Quaid : Bowen
David Thewlis : King Einon
Pete Postlethwaite: Gilbert of Glockenspur
Dina Meyer : Kara
Jason Isaacs : Lord Felton

England, A.D. 984: The tyrannical Saxon King Freyne summons his young son Einon (Lee Oakes) and Einon’s mentor Bowen (Dennis Quaid) to witness the suppression of a peasant rebellion. Though the king’s troops are ultimately victorious, Freyne is killed when the rebels stage an ambush. Einon rushes into the fray to claim his crown and is accidentally stabbed through the heart before Bowen can reach him.

Einon’s mother, Queen Aislinn (Julie Christie) has him taken to a cave in the mountains where she pleads with a dragon to save the boy’s life. The dragon recognizes Aislinn as “the daughter of the Celts,” whose people had revered his kind. For her sake, the dragon removes a part of its own heart and bestows it upon the boy, cauterizing the wound with a blast of fire. Einon revives and is carried home to recover. Grateful for the dragon’s sacrifice, Bowen pledges to repay his debt.

Shortly thereafter, Einon reveals himself to be as brutal and pitiless as his father, enslaving the former rebels and forcing them to begin work rebuilding the nearby ruins of a Roman castle. As the young king gives the order to have the rebel leader blinded, Bowen intervenes and allows the man to escape. Believing that the dragon’s heart is responsible for Einon’s wickedness, Bowen returns to the cave and vows to seek vengeance.

Twelve years later, Einon’s (David Thewlis) castle is rebuilt and Bowen becomes a formidable dragon-slayer. During one dragon-hunt, the knight meets Brother Gilbert (Pete Postlethwaite), a monk and aspiring poet. Impressed by Bowen’s prowess, the priest is determined to follow him and record his heroic exploits in epic verse. The knight stalks another dragon to its cave and engages it in battle, resulting in a stalemate. The dragon (voiced by Sean Connery) tells Bowen that he is the last of his kind, and that the dragon-slayer will have difficulty finding work if the two “pursue this fracas to its final stupidity”. The dragon proposes a partnership, and the two begin defrauding local villages with staged dragon-slayings; the dragon attacks a village, Bowen offers to kill him for a fee, and pretends to spear the dragon, who then falls into a nearby lake and swims out of sight underwater. Since the dragon’s name is difficult for the human tongue to pronounce, Bowen calls him “Draco”, after a constellation that resembles a dragon. Read more

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