this is tengil:
he is the evil dictator who wants to enslave and rule all the people in the swedish film "bröderna lejonhjärta" - a film that all scandinavians are more than familiar with after seeing it countless times at school.
if tengil had motivational posters at his desk, i bet they would go something like this "arbeit macht frei"..
here are the main characthers, the two brothers skorpan and jonathan who have to fight against tengil. jeezus don't they look swedish, or what??:
in hindsight i can see why they made us see it so many times. even though it's a film for kids, it covers a lot of grown up themes like illness, death, tyranny, rebellion - and love, loyalty, hope, courage and pacifism. yet i didn't really care so much for that, and i still don't. my favourite part of the film is the same as it was when i was 10. the reason for why i'm writing this blog post is to share this scene:
ahh fantastic. you just witnessed tengil's dragon katla coming into battle. katla is shocking.
it's so great that they didn't care about their limitations in budget or special effect abilities, but went along and gave the dragon a major apperance anyway. and in my opinion, everything that makes this dragon crude, amateurish etc, makes it better, scarier - and more entertaining than polished hollywood effects could ever accomplish.
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