Eragon the (fail) Movie

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl

SOME SPOILERS!

Yes, of course it has been quite awhile since Eragon the Movie first hit theaters on December 16, 2006. But, considering I only started this blog a few months ago, pretty much all of my blogs have been a bit late on the scene. Eragon(movie) was, to be blunt, a disappointment to me and, I assume, any fan of the books. 

Right out of the gate the movie botched the storyline of the book. Now I am not going to cover all of the points in which the movie veered from the book because most of them were not a big deal, but some really changed the story. The first thing that really bothered me was that Saphira grew to her full size instantly upon taking flight. That obviously did not flow with the story and especially messes with some of the lore that Paolini set up about dragons stating that they continue to grow over the course of their lives. In the book Eragon often had to deal with Saphira being a relatively small dragon because she was still young, however the movie decided they would skip that plot element entirely. 

Next up on my list of changes that made this movie blow is that the Razac did not kill Brom, instead Durza killed Brom when brom lunged in front of a magically thrown spear hurtling for Eragon. This completely ruins the  vengeance that Eragon wants upon the Razac which culminates into quite an adventure in the third book where Eragon confronts the Razac once and for all. Yes, that is right, the THIRD BOOK is where the Razac find their demise.

The aformentioned sets me up for the thing that bothers me the most with the movie; BROM KILLED A RAZAC! That is just terrible planning. The Razac are a major focus throughout the Cycle thus far and they had to go ahead and kill one off immediately in the first movie. Were they trying to ruin the movies to come, to set them on par with the atrocious representation of a brilliant work of literature that they already produced?

I have no idea what the writers were thinking and furthermore, I want to know why Christopher Paolini signed off on this script. I would have liked to think that Paolini cared more about delivering the CORRECT story via film, rather than just making that extra cash on a botched version that was sure to upset his readers.

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3900000/

Oh, and why does Saphira look like she has feathers?!? Check out more movie info at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449010/

Advertisement