HIGHLANDER - L'ULTIMO IMMORTALE

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HIGHLANDER - L'ULTIMO IMMORTALE Movie

1986

(7,2 out of 10)
Azione (Avventura|Fantastico)
1 h 57 min - 117 min
Directed by Russell Mulcahy

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	Christopher Lambert
	Roxanne Hart
	Clancy Brown
	Sean Connery

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New York, 1985. Due uomini si affrontano in un duello di spade nel parcheggio sotterraneo del Madison Square Garden. Uno dei due uccide l’altro decapitandolo e subito dopo viene investito da una potente energia emessa dal cadavere dello sconfitto. All'arrivo della polizia, l’uomo cerca di fuggire, ma viene fermato e interrogato dalla polizia: l’uomo, un antiquario di nome Russell Nash, è infatti sospettato di aver ucciso l’avversario per prendergli la sua spada, un’arma di foggia rarissima e di inestimabile valore. Nash verrà rilasciato poche ore dopo per insufficienza di prove. <br>Il tecnico forense Brenda J. Wyatt recupera alcune schegge della spada di Nash e scopre che la datazione dell’arma è incompatibile con l’epoca a cui risale la tecnica di realizzazione: secondo le analisi, infatti, la spada di Nash, una katana, è stata fabbricata almeno un migliaio di anni prima dell’invenzione della sua tecnica di forgiatura. Brenda, decisa a saperne di più, segue Nash e si ritrova coinvolta in un duello tra l’antiquario ed un certo Victor Kruger, a sua volta armato di spada; l’intervento della polizia costringe Kruger a battere in ritirata. Nash intima a Brenda di abbandonare le indagini, dopodiché rientra a casa, dove ricorda il suo passato. <br>Scozia, 1536. Connor MacLeod, un guerriero delle Highlands, viene ferito a morte da un cavaliere alleato del clan rivale dei Fraser. Connor si riprende miracolosamente e i MacLeod, terrorizzati e convinti che Connor abbia stretto un patto con il diavolo, lo scacciano. Cinque anni dopo, Connor, che si è rifatto una vita altrove e vive felice assieme alla moglie Heather, viene avvicinato da uno strano individuo, Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez, un maestro d’armi spagnolo di origine egiziana che sembra sapere tutto su di lui. Ramírez gli rivela che Connor è un immortale, proprio come lui, e che al mondo ne esistono molti altri come loro: tutti gli immortali sono destinati a combattersi e quando saranno rimasti in pochi, gli ultimi si recheranno in una terra lontana, dove prenderanno parte ad un’Adunanza in cui si batteranno per una Ricompensa finale. Anche il Kurgan, il guerriero che ferì Connor anni prima, è un immortale e rappresenta il lato oscuro della loro stirpe: se sarà il Kurgan ad ottenere la Ricompensa, il mondo sarà condannato alla distruzione. Ramírez addestra Connor all'uso delle armi e lo istruisce sui poteri degli immortali, che possono morire solo per decapitazione e sono incapaci di procreare, ma viene infine ucciso dal Kurgan. Connor prende la spada dell’amico, una katana realizzata nel 593 a.C. dal grande fabbro Masamune, e alla morte di Heather, deceduta di vecchiaia, si mette in cerca degli altri immortali, assumendo molte identità nel corso dei secoli, tra cui quella di Russell Nash. Nel 1985, Connor sconfigge nel duello al Madison Square Garden uno degli ultimi immortali rimasti, Iman Fasil, mentre il Kurgan, che ora si fa chiamare Victor Kruger, uccide l’immortale africano Sunda Kastagir. Connor e il Kurgan sono adesso gli ultimi rimasti a battersi per la Ricompensa. <br>Connor è costretto a rivelare a Brenda la sua vera identità quando la donna, indagando sui passaggi di proprietà della sua casa, scopre le prove della sua immortalità. Brenda e Connor si innamorano, e il Kurgan rapisce Brenda per costringere lo scozzese ad affrontarlo. Alla fine, Connor riesce ad uccidere il Kurgan e ottiene finalmente la Ricompensa: una vita mortale, la possibilità di avere figli e il potere di consigliare le menti dei potenti della Terra, inaugurando una nuova era per l'umanità.

The MacLeod tartan they wear in the 16th century was in fact not adopted by the clan until 1910. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the scene where the Kurgan is fighting Ramirez he is using his modern, detachable high-tech sword. Even the fissure where the blade is divided can clearly be seen in several takes. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the very first shot of Eilean Donan Castle, as the camera elevates above the villagers, the sun reflects off of a car traveling along the A87. Visible very briefly, it emerges from behind the fir trees, in the top right hand side of the shot, as it follows the shoreline. <br>------------------------<br><br>We see bagpipes with three drones in the 1500s; the long third drone was added after 1700. <br>------------------------<br><br>The Sword that Connor uses (the one he got from Ramirez) has a screw, fastening the handle to the blade. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the establishing flashback to Scottland, a priest announces the year as 1536, but the Gregorian calendar (along with its modern tabulation of years) was not implemented until 1582. <br>------------------------<br><br>The bagpipes seen in the 1500s are the wrong style. These are 'Regulation' pattern pipes, which only came into being about 1850, pipes from the time frame of the movie should be 'Chalice' pattern, ie, the top of the drone should look like a wine glass. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the first fight between Connor and Fasil, when Connor grabs the metal pipe, Fasil swings and hits the pipe twice, the second time the connection sound is heard twice, when it clearly only connects once. <br>------------------------<br><br>Brenda, a weapons expert, calls the sword a "samurai". Samurai refers to the Japanese swordsman. His weapon is called a "katana". (In mitigation, she is talking to non-experts and may well just be dumbing down for their sake.) <br>------------------------<br><br>When the police are questioning Nash they refer to the swordas a broadsword. The sword (the Toledo Salamanca) was actually a rapier. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Connor meets Brenda in the bar he orders a "Glenmorangie on the rocks". Single malt whisky has to be drunk "hand-warm" and people from Scotland would never commit such a faux pas and drink it with ice. Moreover, the drink seen in his hand as Brenda walks out of the bar appears to be a glass of beer, unless the already ravaged-by-ice single malt is served in a beer glass (the correct glass would be a tumbler). The amount of liquid in said glass is also greater than even the largest of double whiskys. <br>------------------------<br><br>Ramirez calls himself the chief metallurgist to King Charles Fifth of Spain. Charles Fifth was not this king's official title in Spain, but his title as Holy Roman Emperor. He was King Carlos Primero, or Charles First, in Spain. Therefore, Charles Fifth was his title in Germany, that he had at the same time that his royal treatment in Spain. His historical full name is accurately Charles First of Spain and Fifth of Germany. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Brenda is researching the birth of Russell Nash, Dr. Kenderly reveals that he was illegitimate, and died after his birth. This is a serious breach of ethics for physicians (even retired) that violates doctor/patient privilege - even if a patient is deceased. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Brenda tests the sample of Connor's sword she says "It was folded over 500 times" Even if you could keep the layers from being forge welded back together, folding a bar stock for a sword so many times would create layers so thin they would have almost no structural integrity. Folding and layering is not a "More is better" process<br><br>She possibly meant "It has 500 layers" which is 9 folds. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Ramirez sheathes his katana he does it with the edge pointing down. Katanas are sheathed with the edge in upper position so they don't lose it. A man who was living long in Japan and related to a master swordsmith should know this. Crearly seen after the conversation with Connor about letting Heather go. <br>------------------------<br><br>When at her apartment, Connor calls Brenda's .38 caliber service revolver a ".45." Anyone at all familiar with handguns would not make this mistake. <br>------------------------<br><br>Conner has learned to hide his immortality, but he didn't bother to change neither his address nor his handwriting for over 200 years, although he's older than the science of graphology itself. <br>------------------------<br><br>Sean Connery's character is supposed to be Egyptian yet he speaks with a thick scottish accent throughout the movie. At least Christopher Lambert, despite being french, tried to give his character some credibility by speaking with a mock scottish accent. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Nash is in Brenda's apartment and they are having drinks, Brenda says; "Shall we have a toast?" and Nash agrees, but she is then seen drinking before either of them say anything else. <br>------------------------<br><br>Conner is supposed To be Scottish, yet from the time that they show him actually living in Scotland before he was killed and throughout the entire movie he does not have a Scottish accent at all but speaks in a French accent. This makes no sense and would not be possible. <br>------------------------<br><br>The vigilante drives a 1978 Firebird Trans Am, which soon turns into a 1979 Firebird Formula.<br><br>Also.. when the vigilante grabs his gun and goes to confront the Kurgan, he leaves the headlights on, but in several later shots the headlights are off. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the Kurgan and Brenda look at the Silvercup building from the bridge, the sign says "Silvercup Studios." When MacLeod and the Kurgan fight on top of the building, the sign simply says "Silvercup." <br>------------------------<br><br>Fazil loses his mirrored sunglasses, but soon has them back. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the Highlander is in the sword duel in 1783, before he is stabbed the second time, his opponent flips his rapier out of his hand. As he falls to the ground and gets back up, his rapier is back in his hand. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the parking garage, Fasil is doing flip-flops. In the next shot he is running and the next shot after that he is doing more flip-flops. <br>------------------------<br><br>During MacLeod's drunken duel with Bassett although MacLeod gets skewered over and over there is no blood nor does his outfit show any rips. <br>------------------------<br><br>Kurgan drives a Chevrolet Impala which switches to a Dart. <br>------------------------<br><br>Speed of Sean Connery's legs moving when he runs along the beach VERY different to that of the stunt double's. <br>------------------------<br><br>Just before Connor arrives at Brenda's apartment for dinner you see her place a gun in the second from the top drawer of a small chest. When Connor arrives and walks into the room he goes to the chest and opens the top drawer, removes the gun and holds it up. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Brenda's purse (which she left on the desk) moves between shots when she returns to the office to sneak a look at the file. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the hotel clerk comments on the Kurgan's kinkiness, the drunk moves from standing to sitting between shots. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Connor enters the bar and meets Brenda his position, and the amount of drink in the glass changes between shots. <br>------------------------<br><br>Immediately after Ramirez slices the Kurgan's throat in their fight in the castle, there is no blood on Ramirez's sword. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the quickening after Connor beheads Fasil, Connor is holding the katana in his right hand, and drops it from his outstretched arm. After the quickening, when he collapses to the floor, the katana is to the left of his left hand. <br>------------------------<br><br>Connor and Kurgan fight their final battle on a flat rooftop. After they fall through the skylight, the room they are in clearly has a sloped roof. <br>------------------------<br><br>The flap on the torn-open roof of the green car Kurgan steals, swaps sides between shots. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Connor is being questioned, detective Walter Bedsoe (who is standing right next to the police officer watching over the interrogation) disappears and reappears between shots. <br>------------------------<br><br>While Lieutenant Moran visits the injured guy in the hospital the right blue curtain in the sick-room changes position between shots. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the final fight between Kurgan and MacLeod, Kurgan kicks MacLeod's sword behind and away from him. There are a couple of close shots, and when they cut back to the wide shot (same angle) MacLeod's sword in seen on the ground in the forefront. The cycle repeats twice - another set of close shots, then a wide shot with no sword, close shots, followed by another wide shot that includes the sword. <br>------------------------<br><br>Near the beginning of the first battle, Connor knocks Fasil's sunglasses off. But a couple of seconds later, Fasil is briefly seen wearing them when he strikes the power box with his sword. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Ramirez and the Kurgan are fighting in the tower, there are some scenes in which the Kurgan hits the walls with his sword and stones from the walls fall into the tower. In one of these, shortly before Heather starts to scream again, one can see a crew member behind the wall. He is probably the one who pushed the (prop-)stones inside. If you want to see it: the crew member is on the right side of the screen, a little above Ramirez. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the kidnap 'chicken run' scene when Kurgen is driving on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic the car accidentally collides with an oncoming vehicle as they both swerve in the same direction. The camera truck can be seen to slow and camera operator/director/crew member can be seen to rise up a little more and look back. <br>------------------------<br><br>Before the fight between Kurgan and Ramirez in the tower, when Heather and Ramirez are dinning and Ramirez perceives Kurgan, he looks at the roof and the posed doves fly away. The flash of the explosion used to frighten them is clearly visible, and also the smoke moments later. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the Kurgan is driving and listening to the radio talk about Connor, the close in camera shot is followed by a long shot where the front seat camera guy is visible. <br>------------------------<br><br>Newspaper stand in "New York" displaying "Have You Seen This Man" headline is shot in front of the Sheraton Centre of Toronto. <br>------------------------<br><br>The wrestling match shown is supposed to take place at Madison Square Garden. That promotion - the AWA based out of Minneapolis, MN never had an event take place in NYC. The WWF were the only promotion running shows at MSG. <br>------------------------<br><br>Brenda uses a metal detector to find particles of sword in reinforced concrete. This cannot work as the signal from the metal in the reinforcement bars would swamp the signal generated by the sword particles. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the fight under Madison Square Gardens, several car windshields are broken. In every case the glass shatters into pieces, which is impossible as all car windshields are laminated with a layer of plastic in order to prevent just this for safety reasons. <br>------------------------<br><br>The character of Garfield, the uniformed NYPD officer who fights with MacLeod, wears a sergeant's stripes but his cap and badge are that of a patrolman. A NYPD sergeant would have a gold badge and cap insignia, not silver. <br>------------------------<br><br>Lieutenant Moran, while questioning MacLeod, refers to a Toledo Salamanca Broadsword. The Toledo Salamanca is actually a rapier sword. <br>------------------------<br><br>Immortals are blessed with healing powers, yet the Kurgan keeps the throat scar after Ramirez cuts him that should have healed. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Kurgan is fighting Ramirez (in the 16th century), he is using his modern, detachable high-tech sword. Even the fissure where the blade is divided can clearly be seen in several takes. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Kurgan is fighting Vamirez he is using his modern, detachable high-tech sword. Even the fissure where the blade is divided can clearly be seen in several takes. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the final fight scene, the roof is flooded after the water tank is broken. However, when MacLeod and the Kurgan fall through the roof, water does not flood in to the room with them. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Connor McLeod is having his duel with Bassett in 1783 one can clearly see that Bassett pushes his sword between McLeod's arm and chest in several killing attempts. <br>------------------------<br><br>Immortals are able to "feel" each other's presence. In the zoo however, MacLeod can't feel the Kurgan, who is well within sight, so not far away. <br>------------------------<br><br>Ramirez tells Connor that if The Kurgan were to win The Prize that "mortal man would suffer an eternity of darkness." Not true. Once he received The Prize, The Kurgan would begin to age normally again, and the world would only suffer until he dies of old age. Of course, his statement could just be speculation since they don't know that he will begin to age again. <br>------------------------<br><br>Conner claims to be born in 1518. His first battle is supposed to be (based on the war-cry of the priest) in 1536. However, if these details are correct, he looks at least a decade older than he should. <br>------------------------<br><br>Connor conceals his Katana inside his trenchcoat, yet he is able to move around, sit and even remove the coat all without showing any sign of the concealed sword. <br>------------------------<br><br>Immortals aren't invulnerable. But when Connor is shot from behind by a German with a sub machine gun, there is no blood on the back of his shirt, plus there are no bullet holes in the shirt. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the Silvercup sign falls forward, the support wires in front of it remain taut, showing that the crew are pulling the sign down. <br>------------------------<br><br>The face of Christopher Lambert's stunt double is clearly visible for several seconds when MacLeod slides down the wire during the rooftop fight. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the church scene, the plastic cap worn by Kurgan seems to have come off around the ears. <br>------------------------<br><br>The Kurgan slices the roof off a Chevrolet Mailbu/Chevelle but when it emerges from the alley it becomes a Plymouth Duster. <br>------------------------<br><br>Sparks flying off the railing in front of the car supposedly causing them. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the final fight when the water tower falls, water can clearly be seen coming from behind the broken tank. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Brenda and Connor are talking in her apartment, looking at each other in her mirror, Christopher Lambert's eye line shows he is clearly looking at himself in the mirror, not at Roxanne Heart's (though she is looking at his reflection). <br>------------------------<br><br>When Connor is impaled by the Kurgen on their first acquaintance, the Kurgen's sword clearly enters from the left hand side of Connor's ribcage, below his extended arm. When the plot cuts forward to Connor on his death bed, the blood stains on his bandages imply a frontal sword wound to the sternum area of the chest. <br>------------------------<br><br>After the Kurgan beheads Kastagir in the alley and stabs the vigilante, the onlookers are watching the scene through the fence. When the camera shot is pulled back, the fence is clearly missing during the light show and then returns in the remaining shots. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the Kurgan is speeding to the Silvercup building after kidnapping Brenda, the Cadillac he is driving smashes into another car, severely damaging the right front end. Yet, for the remainder of the scene, the Cadillac is shown with the entire front end still intact. <br>------------------------<br><br>After the Kurgan has slain Ramirez, the staircase he is standing on is struck by lightning destroying the upper stairs and collapses with the Kurgan to the rubble below. Later in several scenes, the ruins are seen to have the staircase intact as it was just before the lightning strike. <br>------------------------<br><br>Brenda is on the roof during the final fight scene, and when the Kurgan and McLeod fall through the roof, Brenda is still on the roof. The next moment she is in the same room, despite clearly not falling through the roof. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the Kurgan beheads Ramirez, in one shot he is swinging his sword from his right side in a forward arc. In the next shot, he's swinging it with the same hand only backhanded, from his left side. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the scene when Kurgen kidnaps Brenda and plays chicken with cars the camera van can be seen driving parallel to their racing car. It is on the far right of the shot and is driving with it's hazard/emergency lights flashing. A member of the crew can be seen standing out of the roof of the vehicle and on the right of the vehicle (left in shot) you can clearly make out the camera. Check out 1h 38m 27s onwards to find this. <br>------------------------<br><br>Obvious wires suspending MacLeod as he receives The Prize. <br>------------------------<br><br>The support cable attached to Roxanne Hart during the rooftop fight is clearly visible in numerous shots. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the Kurgan cuts down the Silvercup sign, there are several shots of Brenda where her safety line is clearly visible. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Connor decapitates Kurgan the Quickening begins with the large windows behind him blowing out of their frames. When this occurs you can clearly see the primer cord encased in the windows igniting just as the glass shatters. <br>------------------------<br><br>