Why did he kill it? It didn't do anything, it was just minding it's own business, having a drink of water. A bit of poetic justice when Siegfried met the same fate. Served him right.
shareI thought the same but I guess in those days, dragon always = evil. When was the first "nice" dragon? Puff?
Expansion to your ego.
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Yeah that's what I thought, too. The poor creature actually looked kinda sad and lonely there. The Nazi should have sat down and told him a story or something... but no, hier kommt die Vergeltungswaffe... Whattan as-hole.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
Yes, the poor lumbering thing could barely move, gave no indication it was any threat to anyone and certainly didn't even seem able to fly. I disliked Siegfried pretty strongly after he slew the defenceless old creature.
shareYeah, after that part it left me thoughts "Is he's a villain or supposed to be a hero?". The dragon was cute.
shareWas that the dragon with the weirdly hinged jaw?
I saw this movie at the Castro Theater back when there were movie theaters, and the whole audience laughed when the poor beast opened its mouth. I suppose the special effects were great for the time, but someone should have looked at how reptilian jaws work.
I've seen a lot of the 1920s films and I thought it was actually amazing special effects and better than most effects they used back in.
However, this scene was we were talking here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45-8eZViYOE&t=34s
Exactly. People refer to Siegfried as a hero but he doesn't do much that is actually heroic in the movie. And I think that's very deliberate on the part of the filmmakers.
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