Dragon heart themes

Dragon Heart Themes

For my next Dragon heart task, I had to look into 3 of the Dragon heart themes and find some quotes that relate to them and explain what the theme is about.

The first theme I am covering is Rediscovering one's faith. These lines of dialogue show this theme greatly as Bowen rediscovers his faith in the old ways and begins to believe in them once again. This scene greatly shows this theme of the movie and even develops the main character massively. It also plays into the second theme of rediscovering one's honour. Of course, there are other lines that represent this them but I believe this is one of the best.

King Arthur: A knight is sworn to valour.

Bowen: A knight is sworn to valour.

King Arthur: His heart knows only virtue.

Bowen: His heart knows only virtue.

King Arthur: His blade defends the helpless.

Bowen: His blade defends the helpless.

King Arthur: His might upholds the weak.

Bowen: His might upholds the weak.

King Arthur: His word speaks only truth.

Bowen: His word speaks only truth.

King Arthur: His wrath undoes the wicked.

Bowen: His wrath undoes the wicked!

The second theme is about honour and courage, a major theme present throughout the movie shown by almost all of the main characters. Relating to the last quote shows the restoring of someone's honour. Bowen has gone from being a ragtag dragon slayer fuelled with misjudged vengeance to a once again honourable knight of the old ways. However, for the courage part of this theme, this quote from Bowen when trying to kill Draco shows that even though he is fueled with rage but is still showing courage with confronting a Dragon. Here is the quote, Bowen: I will not stop until I've rid the world of every last one of you.

The third and final theme is good vs evil. A pretty simple theme that is shown more by tone and scenery than words itself in the film. However, the theme is definitely shown with the mocking Einon gives Bowen in their first fight. It is obvious that one side is evil and the other is good. In this quote good vs evil is shown by how mocking of Bowen Eionon is. It shows how much he has supposedly changed from when Bowen taught him and because of this you see the good vs evil theme in action through this dialogue.

King Einon: [laughing] Well, well, well. It can't be. But it is! My old mentor. Still giving carving lessons?

Bowen: Get off your horse and I'll give you one.

King Einon: Time's not been kind to you, Bowen. You should never have broke with me.

Bowen: It was *you* who broke with me.

King Einon: And yet you return to me with this girl I lost.

Bowen: [Bowen looks at Kara. Kara shakes her head and raises her dagger] I think she wants to stay lost.

King Einon: Not her decision, I'm afraid!

[Brok starts to dismount, but Einon raises a hand to stop him, then dismounts himself and draws his sword]

King Einon: I'm ready for my lesson now, knight.

Dragon Heart 4 main characters resume

Dragon Heart Character Resume

Characters are a vital part of a film, it makes the film work or it makes the film bad story wise. You need engaging characters to have a good story. For my next Dragon heart task, I had to create a resume like thing for 4 different characters.

Bowen

Interesting facts

• Used to train Einon before becoming his enemy
• Believes in the old knight's code but never knows how to bring it back
• Is consumed by revenge at one point and forgets about his ways.
• He becomes king after Einons death
• Much of his past beyond this is unknown.

Challenges he faced

• The betrayal of Einon
• Struggling with the thoughts of returning to the old ways and how he could accomplish that

How he reacted to these problems

• These two main problems he faced intertwined with each other. To cope with the betrayal of Einon he first hunted down dragons believing they caused it until he met Draco and after a while of fighting and mistrust, befriended him. With Draco, he returned to the old ways and once defeating Einon sought to return the kingdom to the old ways.

Words that best describe him

• Brave
• Loyal
• Honorable
• Conflicted

Eionon

Interesting facts

• Was trained by Bowen before turning evil
• Never believed in the old ways
• Was always as corrupt as his father
• He raised taxes extremely high and pillaged farms that didn't pay up
• Always felt hatred for Bowen
• Never knew he was immortal

Challenges he faced

• Rebuilding a crumbling kingdom
• Crushing rebellions
• Fighting Bowen

How he reacted to these problems

• For the first two, he would of most likely brung his soldier to take out rising up peasants and crush them before they became a threat. He would then once asserting dominance over them take lots of their money with high taxes allowing him to keep a professionally trained army but making the peasants resort to trading goods.
• Once he discovered Bowen once again he moved to counter him quickly. After the first fight hen ever underestimated him until when he found out he was immortal.

Words that best describe him

• Cocky
• Arrogant
• Smart
• Manipulative
• Greedy

Brother Gilbert

Interesting facts

• Looked up to Bowen after meeting him
• Was a natural at using a bow
• Never fought before

Challenges he faced

• Preparing for the battle with EInon
• Becoming friends with Bowen

How he reacted to these problems

• For preparing for war with Eionon he practiced day and night hooning his archery skills and doing whatever he can to prepare himself
• For becoming friends with EIonon he just followed him around and was lucky to see him again.

Words that best describe him

• Spiritual
• Annoying
• Comic relief
• Gifted

Draco

Interesting facts

• Was scared of death
• Never knew how to bring down Einon
• Never knew he would have to die for Einon to die
• Strongly believes in the old ways

Challenges he faced

• Proving himself so his soul does not disappear
• Finding a way to defeat Einon
• Sacrificing himself to kill Einon

How he reacted to these problems

• He never knew how to prove himself until he met Bowen, he remembered Bowen from years ago and believed he might have a chance to beat Einon. When he realized he had to die so Einon could die he did everything he can to make Bowen kill him so he could have a worthy death and allow Einon to die.

Words that best describe him

• Smart
• Hopefull
• Strong
• Spiritual

Freytag's Pyramid on Dragon Heart

Dragon Heart plot using Freytag's Pyramid

Freytag's Pyramid is a normal structure of a Shakespear or Greece film with some modern movies following it. The Pyramid is a structure that has been in use quite often and shows how many movies have been structured. It is seperated into 5 seperate stages. Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and finally Denouement. Lets start with the first one Exposition.

Exposition

Exposition is the starting point of the story. This is when important background information is talked about, it is also when the characters get set up into the universe and when the story kicks off. This bit of the pyramid is used in almost every movie that's highly rated as you do need to give some story right at the start to make a movie good. This bit is used in Dragon Heart since right at the start of the movie moments leading up to the main story play out, giving background information and setting up our main characters.

Rising Action

Rising Action is the events that lead up to the big turning point, the Climax. For example in Dragonheart when Bowen meets Kara that is the start of the rising action as the two slowly become friends, hope is given to the main characters and they begin to rally the people for a battle. The battle will obviously be the Climax. In these series of scenes, the main characters change from "oh no our life is bad we got no chance" to "oh yeah we gonna beat dem up".

Climax

The climax of a movie is when usually in this type of movie the good guys fight the bad guys. All the rising action leads up to this and this is when the main characters switch positions of power. The bad guys are no longer in the lead and the good guys are now. In Dragonheart, the climax is when the massive fight begins leading right up to the final duel which is the falling action bit of this movie.

Falling Action

Falling action is usually the final duel between the main characters. With either the good guy or bad guy winning, usually, this bit of the movie will begin closing of the story with a satisfying ending and possibly an unexpected plot twist. In Dragonheart, this is the final duel between EIonin and Bowen resulting in Draco and Eionins death.

Denoument

Denoument is when the story is wrapped up with usually a happy ending if the heroes won or a sadder darker ending if the evil guy win. In Dragonheart, this is of course when Eionin is shown dead and the heroes look at Dracos dead body. With Draco's body then disappearing and him talking to Bowen the story is wrapped up in a satisfying ending for the audience.

Dragon Heart timeline

Setting

For my next film study task, I did a Dragonheart timeline based on settings of a film. The setting of a film is crucial to its success, just like most things in a movie if it doesn't go well your film can be ruined. I made a thing for it on Venngage here is the link. Click this.

Dragon Heart: The purpose of shots

Continuing on with my film study work I am up to The purpose of shots. For this, I decided to create a Thinglink going over the purpose of some shots in the film. In each shot, I've labeled 2-4 things related to the use of camera shot. Camera shots if you didn't know is how a scene is captured using what's called "Camera Shots". Here are the 4 I created, I was unable to post these directly onto blogger so you will have to use the links below.
1st one
2nd one
3rd one
4th one

Film Visual Sounds and Techniques Kahoot

We have recently started working on a film study in English. For this film study, we watched Dragonheart. For 5 weeks we choose 1 task out of 4 options based around the category. For the first one, we are looking at Film Visual and Sound Techniques. It is currently only able to be played by myself (because it is being stupid) so here is just a simple screenshot of it. Once it is ready I will put a link up.