Word: beast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken a perilous tailspin. Only one winged geezer remains, living quietly for the most part with a litter of dragon cubs. Understandably, even one fire-breathing creature has the locals a little unnerved, especially since once a month, their ruler picks a young maiden to be fed to the beast. Thus the search for a savior begins, setting up the required battle of good versus evil...
...characters in Dragonslayer, the beast displays the most depth. A last, lonely survivor, it is dying a slow and painful death without all of this trouble from outsiders. When it comes upon its massacred offspring and nudges their mutilated little bodies in desperate hopes of finding a trace of life, you will no doubt feel more sympathy than when some damsel gets herself burned to a crisp. If only there had been some way of keeping the dragon in front of the camera more, perhaps they could have rewritten the whole story and done it from...
...from the history of the sword-and-sorcery genre, though Chloe Salaman is a lovely and spirited prin cess of this mythical realm. It must be said that the uninspired stretches throw the film's magical moments into high relief. The final confrontation between Richardson and the rude beast, a confrontation in which Galen finally rises from apprentice to journeyman in the dragon-slaying game, is grippingly orchestrated. The sequence is as well made and exciting as anything one is likely to encounter in a summer already crowded with good work by those modern Merlins, the special-effects technicians...
...Anglican hymn: All Creatures Great and Small. The rest is history, geography and mathematics. The book hit bestseller lists before the reviews were in. Herriot went on to prove that despite his obscure locale and inarticulate subjects, the right story teller could make a Yorkshire cow a moveable beast. Today some 2½ million copies of his works are in print, making their author the most unlikely literary superstar since Joy Adamson wrote about a lion who was born free...
...entrance of the Kraken, a giant sea beast, is a melodramatic marvel: out of a typhoon of churning sea, one huge hand slithers over a rock, then the second hand -then a third and a fourth...