It Better Be Awesome and this should be the last and final episode even though i love these movies. you gotta end sometime unlike Halloween which will never end
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its not a different leprechaun each time leprechaun has always been played by warick davis so it could end sw how he passed out when he got the 4 leaf clovers in his blunt well kill him then then the series would be over loser
shareWhile watching this series, my brother actually made the comment that the Leprechaun was different in every movie. Sure, Warick Davis played the Leprechaun in all 6 movies and he looked pretty much the same, but his character was different in all of the movies.
It's not that he really played the character any different, but the way the character was written in each movie was different. Just look at the way you can kill him in each movie:
1: Four Leaf Clovers
2: Wrought Iron
3: Destroy his Gold
4: Re-create the ending of Alien
5: You can turn him into a statue like in part 3 and clovers will stun him a bit, but if you saw the movie, you know what happened.
6: Went back to the 4 leaf clover thing, but his character seemed like it was actually a combination of the previous Leprechaun's.
Or how about the plot of the movies and what the Leprechaun wanted:
1: He just wants his gold back
2: He wants his gold, but getting his chick was more important
3: Not only does he want his gold, but he wants to get more while he is at it
4: He wants ultimate power and will use the princess chick to get it. The gold itself didn't seem that important
5: Sure he wants his gold, but he really wants that gold flute back
6: Pretty much just wants his gold back again.
The most similar Leprechaun's are from 1 & 6.
I've been dealing with the question of 'how many Leprechauns' for years, and the answer is that no one really knows. Personally, I think it's a different Lep in each movie.
They used slightly different makeup in most of the movies, so there are noticeable differences in the Leprechaun's face (#5 and #6 used the same makeup, though). The Leprechaun has different clothes in each movie, but never changes clothes in any one movie except for brief dress-up moments. His gold looks different in every movie, and so does the container he keeps it in.
He has a different personality in each movie. For example: He was childishly playful in the first movie and much more mature in the others. His percentage of rhyming dialogue varies a lot, from zero in 4 and 6 to 100% in 5. In the fourth movie he did a lot of soliloquizing about power, and repeatedly showed a taste for gunplay that he doesn't display in any other movie. In the fifth movie he's trying to get it on with multiple ladies (even when they're actually men in drag). He's a lot more polite than usual in the sixth movie, asking nicely for his gold more than once and showing good phone manners. The percentage of physical fighting versus magical fighting varies a lot from movie to movie.
In the first movie he says he's over six hundred years old, and in the second movie he has his two thousandth birthday. That isn't completely incompatible since 2000 is more than 600, but it's an odd way to express himself if it's the same Lep.
I wrote an article on my website about the Lep actually being different characters. It's a fun way to look at the series, because the Leprechaun character is so different in each movie.
In reality, what I really think makes the difference was different writers wrote the movies. They had a general idea of what the character was, but added in their own little differences. I really just chalk it up to having poor continuity.
At least pretending that the characters are different adds some fun to the series. The movies at times were fun to watch, but they just weren't all that great for the most part (especially part 4).
The Leprechaun films are considered to be a cult series, which seems to mean that the people who love it are outnumbered by the people who hate it. But there are still enough devoted fans to keep the series going.
I looked up your article and found it at http://www.youngmanridge.com/pop/movies/leprechaun/leprechaun.htm You're definitely not the biggest Lep fan in the world but it was still fun to read, and the fans will appreciate your picture galleries. P.S. The name you assigned to the Leprechaun for #6 is the same as the name of a major character in that movie. Deja vu!
I think the lack of continuity is actually a great thing. Their story options aren't limited by what happened before; they're not locked into anything and they can do whatever they want in a movie. Of course the story in any Leprechaun movie is just an excuse for the Lep to do his thing, but this anything-goes approach helps keep things fresher and more interesting.
To be fair to the series, most of the time it was pretty fun to watch. It gave me enough material to write a decent article about the series. Compared to some of the other stuff we have watched for the website, even the worst of the Lep series was masterful. At least the lack of continuity was kept throughout the series.
Funny thing - the name I assigned for the Lep in #6 (Rory I think), was picked out before I even watched the movie.
no question about it,, i love these movies too, they have to find a way to keep everyone interested,, like maybe come up with a good Leprechaun for him to fight..
are you going to bark all day little doggie,, or are you going to bite
The ending made no sense at all, but the Leprechaun rapping somehow made everything else go away.
It has been a very unstable week for me, I found myself sobbing during an episode of Alf on Monday.
Time-lines overlap so can't be the same. According to this ne he is frozen from the 70s to the late 90s or whenever, so it can't be the same Leprechaun or else 1,2,3 could not have occurred.
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it's good (in not so bad way).
that's all i gotta say.