A child of prophecy marked by the very priests he wars against, Dar Marc Singer holds dominion over a black tiger, an eagle and a pair of mischievous ferrets. That facet alone is the only thing that makes the property stand out as something unique and it's used in the film with great affect. Dar is able to scout long distances ahead by looking through the eyes of his eagle, can overwhelm opposing forces with the strength of the black tiger and uses the ferrets to steal keys, enter narrow spaces, chew through ropes There's humor and action and magic and mayhem in The Beastmaster, doled out in equal measure with misogyny, animal cruelty, downright awful storytelling and sub-par fight sequences.
Yet The Beastmaster could still be a diamond in the rough if it acquires some proper polishing. There are many, many flaws with Coscarelli's Beastmaster that audiences today would never stand for, both on screen and behind the camera.
Storywise, Dar, our heroic protagonist, uses his power over animals to trick and damn near rape the central love interest, a half-naked woman named Kiri Tanya Roberts who is your basic damsel in distress, but is later revealed to have a bit more to do with the plot sort of. It's interesting to note that Conan had a similarly macho protag but managed to handle the sex scenes in less creepy fashion by contrast.
You've also got a vanilla villain in Maax, played by Rip Torn who could not care less about his performance , whose sole purpose is to kill the warrior prophesied to bring about his downfall The only one who really seemed to be taking things seriously besides Singer was John Amos Coming to America who played the glorified bodyguard, Seth.
The film clearly reminds us that although "No Animals Were Harmed" has been around since , some mistreatment still slips through the cracks. The eagle was apparently pretty stubborn and wouldn't fly on cue, so they dropped it out of a trap-door in the bottom of a hot air balloon.
One of the ferrets dies in the film presumably not in real life and the other is nearly drowned in quicksand in an early scene that establishes Dar's character as kind of a douche. The black tiger, Sultan, which was actually a normally-colored tiger that was coated in black dye, died not long after the film due to complications from an allergic reaction to the colorant.
So if there's so much awfulness, why reboot The Beastmaster? Although it was a straightforward swords-and-sorcery story at its heart, the coolest thing about it was the hero's ability to work in concert with the animals.
That's something that deserves to be explored for a new generation of audiences. Watching The Beastmaster as a kid, I couldn't help but get excited at the prospect of having a tiger as a pet and partner or being able to watch through the eyes of an eagle as it soared over the landscape. Real-world animals aside, Beastmaster also featured some fantastical creations, such as the humanoid bat-people, who could feast upon an entire human by wrapping their wings around them and digesting them down to the bones.
The question is whether to continue with the trend that Coscarelli's first film began which was derailed by the horrendous sequel that tripped into modern-day Los Angeles or to revisit Norton's original books. There's a caveat in either case. Swords-and-sandals epics are hit or miss: the Clash of the Titans franchise, while not great film-wise, has had a successful box office run; the Conan the Barbarian reboot was a flop.
Things get goofier in the sequels. Read on for spoiler filled recaps. A Crone smuggles the baby out of town inside a cow? A passing Farmer stabs the Crone and takes the baby home. Scene Two: Forest. Years Later. BEAR: Roar! Bear attacks a villager. BEAR: Roar? BOY: We cool? BEAR: Roar. Bear walks away. Scene Three: Farm. Marc Singer is introduced sliding down a rope in a short tunic and leather briefs.
DOG: Woof! Barbarians ransack his village, killing everyone. Even the dog. Singer is unable to save them. Scene Four: Forest Singer strips to a loin cloth. Ferrets steal his loin cloth leaving him in… a smaller loin cloth. He saves the Ferrets from drowning in quicksand. Eagle leads him to a Puma being hunted. Marc kills the hunters.
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