Why did Highlander want to kill all the immortals
He could be alone for all eternity if the others are dead, is Highlander mad?!
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I think his fights were mostly defensive. Kurgan was the one who wanted to kill them all.
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I don't quite get your point. He wouldn't be 'alone for all eternity' if the others are dead, he would get .. THE PRIZE!! ... which is never specified, so the writers didn't have to do any brainwork at all.
Neat, convenient.
I have about a thousand questions about all kinds of things relating to the prize, motivations, mechanics, bodily functions, limitations of the immortality, the rules, the creators of the rules, why people would ever obey them, what makes a thing 'holy' (though I am SURE they mean 'sacred'), and a host of other things as well, so your question is like one drop in the ocean of questions I have.
Yes, I have wondered about not only his, but other people's motivations about wanting to kill other immortals (well, 'immortals', since they can be killed)...
Also, the old question of 'if two of them are friends, WHAT forces them to try to kill each other?'.. Is it pure greed for the prize? Wanting to die anyway, so it's basically a favor?
This movie is your typical hollyweird mess, where writers were thinking things like 'camera shots', 'transitions', 'effects', 'locations', 'cultural aspects' and LOTS OF LIGHTNING and whom to hire, and so on, but not so much on WHY things are happening, WHAT forces the rules to exist, and so on. Motivations? Pff, who cares, as long as they try to kill each other WITH SWORDS AND LIGHTNING!
I know there are 'sequels' and 'TV shows' and fanfiction and whatever, but this movie itself does REALLY not explain much, and even the tiny backstory about him being originally a 'highlander' does not explain pretty much anything, so it's almost like a fake backstory so you'd THINK there is a backstory, when there really isn't.
The REAL backstory would be HOW did this whole thing start, WHY did everyone get born to the places and eras they were, did they choose their locations, why did they forget they are 'immortals', why did SOME of them know, and others didn't, and so on and so forth...
If I could arrange all my questions into a list, a really thick book would not even be enough to print it with a tiny font. It would be basically an encyclopedia set, volumes I to MCMLXXXV (ok, slight exaggeration)...
Why is Connor 100% blanked, unequipped, unprepared, while the villain is completely cognisant, fully prepared and almost ganks connor immediately when they first meet? This is like not preparing someone for a battle and sending them anyway, while the other one knows exactly what's up and what to do. Makes no sense to make it this unfair!
Then the villain is EASILY whisked away by a couple of 'dudes', when the villain could just easily kill them and then kill Connor. Why doesn't he? SERIOUSLY, WHY??
He could SO EASILY kill them - - - AND - - - this is supposed to be a BATTLE! It's WAR!
It would not even be suspicious or anything, what the heck?
FURTHERMORE!
Why does the villain NOT ARRANGE it so that he is protected and Connor is not, for the the short moment he needs to kill Connor? He makes ALL these preparations, probably waited eagerly for this moment for a long time, and then just gives up because of a VERY SLIGHT obstacle (from his point of view), so.. again..
WHY?
He does not prepare for THIS eventuality?? WHAT?! How is that even possible?
I have just SO, so very many questions my mind would explode if I tried to get them all down at once. I just can't endure this stupid, childish non-movie any longer.
Take away lightning, the pseudo-'magical' aspect, Sean Connery and Queen, and what do you have left? A really crappy story about a bear-sounding cartoon villain and some douche who no one cares about, in a 'non-story' with the stupidest ending ever devised. End to all wars? NAH!
Food for the hungry? No, thanks. Children rescued from the third-world corporate slavery hell? Of course not.
GETTING OLD, that's the ticket!
What the.. how.. aaggh! I am SO glad I am not 'immortal' so THIS hell will end some day..
"Why is Connor 100% blanked, unequipped, unprepared, while the villain is completely cognisant, fully prepared and almost ganks connor immediately when they first meet? This is like not preparing someone for a battle and sending them anyway, while the other one knows exactly what's up and what to do. Makes no sense to make it this unfair!"
I never thought of this before but you make an excellent point. Why would the creator of the immortals, the prize and the rules set it up so some might not live ling enough to become aware of their potential in the game. I now wonder how many immortals were basically picked off as helplessly as newborn sea turtles trying to cross the beach and reach the water as seagulls pick them off.
I think that the details of "the prize" are best left ambiguous. Trying to over explain or quantify supernatural plots tends to ruin it, sort of like when Lucas tried to explain the force as being a function of midachlorians.
shareThe Prize is fully specified at the end. Mortality, fertility, all knowledge and the ability to hear the thoughts of all people.
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