At the Movies
December 20th, 2006 by Sonja

The LightChildren, PlusOneFriend and the SheepFamily all went to the movies yesterday. We went to see the long awaited Eragon. This is a movie that has been made out of a book. The book is special because it was written by a homeschooled teenager. It’s also a genre that is favored by all of our children. Fantasy. Dragons. Elves. All the best stuff.

The main plotline of the story goes that in a land far away and long ago (or something) there used to be dragons. And there used to be dragon riders. The dragon riders were connected to their dragons in a special way. Dragon riders were sort of elite or something like that. I haven’t read the book, so I’m just going off the movie. Then along came a dragon rider with a whole bunch of hubris and he killed all the other dragon riders and their dragons. And he marshalled all the forces of evil and became king of the worst sort. Until a savior dragon rider was born along with a savior dragon (can you tell where this is going?). That was the main plot of the story … the savior dragon rider and the savior dragon. Rather fortuitously they met up with an old dragon rider. He was the last one. His dragon had been killed in the big fight.

In one particularly moving scene he gave this bit of advice to his protege (the main character, Eragon), “Protect your dragon. Life without her isn’t worth much at all.” I’ve been thinking about that and tossing it around a bit since then.

I’ve been thinking about what that means. About how we are all given various gifts and talents to use in this life. That we should protect them, use them, grow them, build them. Because without being able to do that, life just isn’t worth much at all.


2 Responses  
  • John Smulo writes:
    December 21st, 20061:54 amat

    It’s a great story line. I haven’t read the book, but my wife and oldest son have. We’ll probably all go see the movie too. What did you think of it?

           
  • aBhantiarna Solas writes:
    December 21st, 20068:24 amat

    **I** really enjoyed the movie and thought it was quite good. Until the very end when the main female character was riding away with her guard. Her guard was dressed like Monty Python in the Holy Grail and I burst out laughing (soda through the nose kind of laughing) … which was completely inappropriate for the moment in the movie. However, everyone else I was with had read the book and all they did was complain about what a terrible job the screenwriter had done at translating the book to the movie. Apparently, it needed to be about 3 hours long rather than 2. So … you will likely enjoy the movie and your wife and son will spend the several conversations telling why it was so horrible and then you won’t need to read the book afterall! 😉

           


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