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One look at my list of eBay purchases will tell you a lot about my reading habits. Namely, I love movie novelizations. Good and bad, I collect them. So when I heard that there was a novelization of 'Dragonslayer,' and found one for a decent price, I snapped it up. The book, written by a fellow named Wayland Drew, has proven an interesting read. Like many good novelizations it expands upon the film's universe and reveals quite a few details left out of the film, like as follows: Valerian's mother was killed in one of the lotteries some years before the movie's events occur, as, here, all women are candidates, not just virgins; her father, unnamed in the movie, is named Simon; Ulrich's servant Hodge has worked for Ulrich ever since the wizard saved him from some ruffians; Galen had many magical abilities as a child and could conjure monsters with his imagination, and his parents, frightened of him, went to Ulrich for help, however after Ulrich proved unable to "help" Galen, he adopted the boy and trained him to be his apprentice; the older Galen got the more he lost his magical abilities and became impatient...and so on. The biggest difference is in the depiction of Brother Jacopus, the Christian priest who comes to Urland. In the film, he's portrayed as a fairly reasonable and levelheaded, if slightly naive, man, whereas in the book he's a few hairs short of being a raving lunatic. Despite this, his death scene is arguably more tragic in the book. In the movie, all his seeming common sense goes out the window as he goes to the dragon's lair with several of the villagers and attempts to stare the dragon down after his flock abandons him and gets roasted. Here, he goes alone, and due to the location of the cave, he has to make quite a climb to reach it, and injures himself on the way. There's a real sense that he knows he's a doomed man by the time he reaches the dragon's lair, but he's determined to see it through regardless. Also, whereas in the movie only one villager who stayed behind witnesses his death, Galen sees him get killed here in the book. All in all, though, Drew's writing is fantastic, and really helps bring the period of the story alive in your mind. So if you're a fan of the movie 'Dragonslayer,' pick up Drew's novelization of it. It's a great read.Vollständige Rezension lesen