The Old Code
“A knight is sworn to valor.
His heart knows only virtue.
His blade defends the helpless.
His might upholds the weak.
His words speak only truth.
His wrath undoes the wicked.”
If you had watched Dragonheart before, you would have by now known that it’s the Old Code, whereby all knights should pledge and abide by it.
All right, Dragonheart is so 1990s — I know. But I just watched Dragonheart 2 — A new Beginning which was released circa 2000. And yes, I’m late by 5 years because I wasn’t really keen on watching a sequel as I thought it would be really hard to append a proper sequel to it, like many other shows. Or so I thought.
But today I was proven wrong. Though I won’t say the sequel is the work of a genius, but the story still revolves around the dragon’s heart and for most parts of it theorically reasonable, and partially unexpected. Sadly, they just simply mentioned that the egg of a last dragon (to-be-Drake) was a miracle, and I thought a more fantasy explanation about it would be nice.
And though Draco, Bowen, Gilbert, and Kara are no longer in the show, it didn’t stop giving me a sense of familarity, because the crew had used back the following in the sequel from its predecessor :
- Randy Edelman - The World of the Heart
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It’s this main theme that warms one heart making you know that you’re indeed watching a sequel, and not an entirely new story. And you just feel like nothing else really matters.
I can’t really describe what it feels like to be listening to this music in the show, but I guess all Dragonheart addicts should feel the same way when you hear the music.
- Same old dragon
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The dragon in this show, Drake, looks like a baby Draco with short horns and all, looks totally cute. It would just be like Draco when he was younger, perhaps.
Though the dubbed voice was cool enough, but I still miss Sean Connery playing as Draco’s voice. How memorable.
- the Old Code
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’nuff said.
But the computer-generated dragons didn’t look so real this time and I don’t know why when the production crew was the same, and the sequel also reused some scenes of the previous show — the bombing of the mills. Money saving moments huh? Well I guess.
Don’t ask how I realised because I just know — I’m an addict of the show. But these factors didn’t make me like the show any lesser. I’m still a die-hard fan of it and Dragonheart, the sequel or not, is definitely staying as one of the all-time favourite movies, at least in my book it’s here to stay.