Willow (1988)

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★★★★☆

Starring: Val Kilmer, Kevin Pollak, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Jean Marsh

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Corrected entry: When Willow shows off some magic after he puts the stick through his arm, you see some kids from the village. Look closely at the upper right hand side of the screen you can see a boy, (not one of the midgets), who is wearing a navy blue T-shirt. This boy looks larger than Willow and looks like he is not part of the scene. (00:10:25)

Correction: The young man is a midget, and is watching the show and clapping with the crowd. His clothes are consistent with the other villagers. He is taller than Willow, but there are several others in the crowd who are as tall or taller.

Corrected entry: When the beast-dog attacks the Nelvin village Vonkar stabs it with a spear, and is thrown back. After he lands you can see he has another spear attached to his belt. Then another Nelvin has to throw him a spear so he can finish the beast off.

Correction: That is because it was quicker for someone to throw him a spear, then it would have been to pull one from his belt.

Bruce Minnick

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie the camera pans to different villagers as they notice Willow returning after his journey. One of the villagers they show is Willow's wife, although they show her in another scene (a minute or so later) walking from a different area and noticing Willow for the first time (again).

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Suggested correction: The first woman we see at 1:59:40 looks like Kaiya but her hair is long (while Kaiya's hair is a short bob), and she wears a long brown dress while Kaiya (at 2:00:15) wears a midcalf reddish-brown dress with a white apron.

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Quotes

Willow: What are you doing?
Madmartigan: I found some blackroot. She loves it.
Willow: Blackroot? I am the father of two children and you never, ever give a baby blackroot.
Madmartigan: Well my mother raised us on blackroot. It's good for you. Puts hair on your chest. Doesn't it, Sticks?
Willow: Her name is not Sticks. She's Elora Danan, the future empress of Tir Asleen and the last thing she's gonna want is a hairy chest.

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Trivia

Trivia: Several of the antagonists were named after movie critics: The villainous character of General Kael was named after the noted film critic Pauline Kael, and the unspoken name of the two-headed dragon is the Ebersisk, a reference to Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel.

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Questions

Question: Why did Queen Bavmorda need a ritual to get rid of the child? Why didn't she simply kill the baby on the spot?

Answer: Bavmorda's ritual was the Ritual of Obliteration - a spell that is used to destroy a living spirit's essence or soul. Presuambly if she'd just killed Elora, the soul would have been later reborn into another baby.

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