Beautiful Fairy-Tale
Rating: 9 of 10 
Sometimes there are movies that are just a classic. Sometimes there are movies that have a kind of appeal that cannot be explained, cannot fit into any scheme. Sometimes there are movies where everything works together perfectly - photography, music, actors, dialog, humor, tragedy, imagination. Such a combination can be called movie magic.
'Dragonheart' is such a movie. The vfx for the dragon are astounding, but not surprising in the age of 'Jurassic Park' and 'The Lost World'. The story is of epic dimensions, it is a story that would work in any time frame (except the dragon perhaps). The fight against a madman, against an evil oppressor; the fight against evil itself, and also the inevitability of this fight - and about its dimensions. There is always a price to be paid.
Randy Edelman's score fits the film perfectly, he has created a music that portrays all the tragedy and sadness and humor and heroism the movie has; revealing the bilateral relationship between pictures and soundtrack.
July 12th, 1998 / August 15th, 2002
see also: Dragons in Art and on the Web, by Tim Spalding
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