Well being that the story is viking etc. It is going to be Euro
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "sancochojo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Its just annoying that fantasy is so Euro. No creativity or
> imagination.
>
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, KeithBJohnson@ wrote:
> >
> > I might have to check this out. When first reading the plot, I
> thought "boy does this sound cliched and familiar". But of course
> nowadays any fantasy film would sound cliched if it's filled with
> magic swords/rings/lances/spears, common people with uncommon
> destinies, quests, evil kings and wizards, etc. That's the
archetype
> of the fantasy novel. Also, I remembered the trailers
saying "Before
> Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter". This is evidently based on
much
> older tale(s) that provided much of the mythological grounding
for
> LOTR and others. I guess it's kinda like filming something with a
> great flood, continent sinking, or a hero who dies and is
> resurrected: the myths have been around so long, anything sounds
> like a ripoff.
> >
> > http://www.scifi.com/darkkingdom/about/
> >
> > Europe, the Dark Ages. When the evil Twin Kings betray the King
of
> Xanten, the slain monarch's infant son, Prince Siegfried, narrowly
> escapes with his life, spirited away by the kindly blacksmith
Eyvind.
> >
> > Eyvind raises Siegfried as a simple blacksmith and tells the boy
> nothing of his true kingly heritage. But then the gods hurl a
fiery
> meteor to Earth, to propel Siegfried toward his true destiny. The
> flash of impact leads him to the meteor, which is rich with the
> metal of the gods metal that he and Eyvind forge into his
weapon,
> a sword like no other on Earth.
> >
> > Discovering the meteor also leads young Siegfried to the woman
who
> becomes his one true love: Brunhild, the Valkyrie warrior queen.
> Duty drives them apart, but they both swear to reunite and to
> never love another.
> >
> > Siegfried journeys to the kingdom of Burgund, where he earns the
> respect of King Gunther and the romantic desire of Princess
> Kriemhild. Gunther reveals to him that a powerful evil plagues his
> land, an evil that he is unable to defeat. It falls to Siegfried,
> armed only with his sword forged from the gods' metal, to slay the
> wyrm Fafnir and to claim the dragon's gold as his own.
> >
> > With this treasure, however, comes the curse of its rightful
> owners: the mystic Nibelungs. Siegfried's success also draws the
ire
> of King Gunther's adviser, the villainous Hagen, who covets the
> Nibelungs' gold for himself.
> >
> > To seize the treasure from Siegfried, Hagen uses black magic to
> make the noble prince fall in love with Princess Kriemhild and
> forget Brunhild, the love that the gods themselves had chosen for
> him. But Hagen's curse takes on a malevolent life of its own,
> spinning an expanding web of betrayal, deception and greed that
> ensnares everyone plunging a world in chaos, and a kingdom into
> twilight.
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
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