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Dragonheart was a 1996 film directed by Rob Cohen and starring Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer and the voice of Sean Connery.

The music for Dragonheart was composed by Randy Edelman, and the main theme song "To The Stars" was used in the film Two Brothers
(2004) as well as many other movie trailers, such as Mulan
(1998) and Seven Years in Tibet
(1997), making it a very common film score.

Plot

A brave but disillusioned knight, Sir Bowen (Quaid), joins forces with Draco, the last surviving dragon (voiced by Connery), to defeat the tyrant King Einon (Thewlis), with whom both Dragon and knight are linked by fate. Also tagging along for Bowen's quest is the monk Brother Gilbert of Glockenspur (Postlethwaite), and a young village girl Kara (Dina Meyer), whose father fell victim to Einon's tyranny.

In the story, Einon is gravely wounded. The prince's mother took his body to Draco, who split his own heart so the prince could live. However, after his resurrection, the prince became a cruel tyrant. Sir Bowen, the former mentor of Einon, decided that the dragon's heart made Einon evil, and set out to destroy Draco. The heart was connected; if Draco's half was destroyed, Einon would die as well. However, difficulties arrive when Sir Bowen happens to befriend Draco.

Dragonheart is set in the later half of the 10th century in Britain. There are references to King Arthur and the "old code" of Camelot throughout, with Draco taking Bowen, Kara and Gilbert to the fabled island of Avalon at one point in the film. In this, the movie seems to center around the disillusionment of Bowen from his knightly ideals after Einon became a tyrant when his father died, and his eventual revival of the chivalric spirit, as it were. The movie displays the classic theme of good triumphing over evil when Einon is felled, alas at the expense of Draco's life.

Trivia

During the making of the film, over 200 images of Sean Connery's facial expressions were taken along with voice clips to make Draco more like him.

Other media

After its release, Dragonheart spawned a spin-off 2D hack and slash game on the Sony PlayStation called Dragonheart: Fire & Steel (made by Acclaim Entertainment), which was met with mostly negative reviews due to bad gameplay, poor quality graphics and a generally unimaginative design. In late 1996, Acclaim ported a PC version of the game, which received similar criticism.

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