Two problems…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — DragonHeart
hellnback1234 — 12 years ago(January 21, 2014 09:50 PM)
1 - Even if Einon kept Draco locked up "forever", eventually he would need to eat or he would die. All Draco had to do was refuse to eat. Einon could never have lived forever.
2 - Draco didn't have to die Einon wasn't a freaking magician or anything. His "evil" could have easily been stopped by locking him in a cell deep underground, and he would have either starved or been kept alive thanks to Draco, (not sure how that works) but either way he would have posed no threat. Draco died only for the ending to be "sad" and "dramatic". I like the movie, but near the end things get lazy plotwise.
What should have happened was that the rebellion should have failed and the only way to stop Einon would be to kill Draco there, simple. At least then we could just assume all the troops gave up when he was killed. -
ncrawford82 — 12 years ago(March 16, 2014 05:40 AM)
1: Maybe you're right. But it's like when people win the lottery and they don't think they'll have to pay taxes at first. Einon was obviously only thinking of the fact that he pulled an arrow out of his heart and thought, "Sweet deal. Better get the dragon under chains before the slayers make my day miserable."
2: I'm not saying your idea isn't valid and you're probably right about the ending, but think in the long term. Everything that happens to Einon happens to Draco as well. So that means they'd have to feed Einon and keep a close eye on him to make sure that he doesn't deliberately start harming himself just to screw with Draco.
That gives Einon plenty of opportunities to plan an escape, by either killing the guard who brings him food, or manipulating any followers who are still loyal to him.
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Filthy_Peasant — 11 years ago(August 26, 2014 12:27 PM)
I agree largely with ncrawford82.
(From what I gathered) For the second point I'd like to add that choosing to giving up his own life was the only way he could redeem himself after making the mistake of giving the heart to Einon in the first place (despite genuinely good intentions). Apparently that is enough to earn his place in the stars, which could be up for debate but it allows for a clean cut ending.
The only other way for him to redeem himself (
provided
Einon could have been legitimately imprisoned
) would have been to perform some other great gesture You might argue that he could have attempted to fix the rift between dragons and humans but to what avail? He does kind of do this by sacrificing himself.