The growing up of Saphira the dragon under the care of Eragon was completely taken away, so the strong bond that was made between them growing up was not shown. The movie however, had little of these aspects.
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The book was a fascinating read, full of development, plot and character. The main difference between the movie and the book was the impact that each of them had.
Though still similar in guidelines, the movie had no impact, and the important events were put together with little thought. Many characters lost some characteristics, or entirely disappeared, events were altered carelessly and the overall impact was lost. A movie with the same name was later made with the same basic story, but had many disturbances that altered the original story greatly. The credit of this review goes to The Drunken Hobo 365, Sean the man, jakusdahutt, Urmudda0007, mickymouse2, AllenP, bommy, Don Mehaffy, Infinity, giorgia27 and rainstinks, who posted in the topic ‘Eragon the film’ and made it possible for me to compile their words into a single piece.Ĭomplied and Written by Artrain of MediaSlice Forums.Eragon by Christopher Paolini is a story about a young farm boy who becomes a Dragon Rider and fights the tyrannical rule of the Empire. This movie review is due to Sean’s inspirational idea of basing it on the thread of movie which can be found in the ‘Films’ section titled ‘Eragon the film’. For others, all it did was make them feel a mix of confusion, frustration and disbelief. On the whole, it seems that the only good the movie did was serve as a publicity platform for the books, and a bit of entertainment for those who think reading is too boring and all the excitement is in the movies. It is also speculated that the people who watched the movie thought that, “Surely the book won’t be as dreadful as the film was” and went out tried the novel. But on the whole, after hearing charming comments by those who had read the books, it just made them read and compare for themselves, after which they too joined the long line of people who were shouting that the movie is total sh*t. Serious doubts have been raised by the viewers as to whether Stefen Fangmeier will be able to direct another film.įor those who hadn’t read the books in the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr), the movie seemed okay and enjoyable, some even say it rocked, though it got slightly cheesy and unrealistic in places.
Considering all the eccentric exploits of the director, some of the viewers were just relieved that at least Saphira was shown as a female dragon, not a horse with wings. It has also given rise to spouts of hate against the poor man, and an idea for his name to be on the Wall of Shame. These facts have caused doubts to arise as to whether the director was drunk whilst making the movie, or maybe he never read the book at all but just had a memo sent to him about the story. In the film, Saphira is shown to grow instantly, within a space of two minutes as she flies through the clouds, while in the books it takes half a year almost. The Ra’zac, who are the killers of Eragon’s uncle, die in the film, whereas in the books they don’t and later play a vital role. Arya’s hair should have been black, not ginger which should not have been much of a problem unless the prices of hair dyes are rocketing. The Urgals are shown very poorly, just a bit modified form of humans (fat blue guys), when in actual fact they have a totally different physic in the books. The first thing that comes to the mind if you’ve read the book is that the movie is wrong and bits of it are pretty much sh*t. On his journey, he meets Murtagh, who also helps him, and rescues Arya from the clutches of one of Galbatorix’s servants. The rest of the movie shows the journey which Eragon takes along with Brom, who decides to help him with his knowledge of dragons, to track his uncle’s killers which are servants of Galbatorix, and later find his way to the Varden, who are a group of rebels.
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The stone appears seemingly out of nowhere and turns out to be a dragon egg, the first free dragon born since the time of the tyrant king named Galbatorix, and picks Eragon as its rider. The story goes that a common farm boy living in a land known as Algaesia, finds a bright blue stone in the forest in which he is hunting. The movies were directed by Stefen Fangmeier and starred Ed Speleers as Eragon, Jeremy Irons as Brom, Sienna Guillory as Arya, and Garrett Hedlund as Murtagh. It looks good, don't it?Released in 2006, the movie Eragon is supposed to be based on the book which goes by the same name and is the first one of the Inheritance Cycle, written by Christopher Paolini.