Fearful of a prophecy stating that a girl child will be born to bring about her downfall, the evil Queen Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women within the formidable stronghold of Nockmaar. A child, Elora Danan, is born in the Nockmaar dungeons and identified as the prophesied child by a birthmark on her arm. However, before the black sorceress arrives to claim the child, Elora's mother convinces her reluctant midwife to escape with the baby. Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, is entrusted with delivering the royal infant from evil.
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No. But there's a scene in which a woman holding a knife or sword says to a man who was previously disguised as a woman: "Come any closer, and you really WILL be a woman!", thus implying that being a woman equals having no penis/testicles.
It's necessary abandonment. A mother gives her baby to a midwife to hide so it's not killed by an evil queen. The midwife then puts the baby on a floating bed of reeds? and pushes it down river to keep it safe from capture/death.
Nothing ever actually happens to the baby. She is periodically kidnapped, but always cared for by whoever has her. At the climax of the film there is a ritual which is supposed to eventually harm her, but it never gets that far.
There's something called "black root" which could be interpreted as a drug, or it could just be a snack that's not very healthy. There's also a sort of powdered love potion. It's supposed to be magic but it could seem like a drug.
The closest thing to a dragon is this two-headed creature which breathes fire. It's never called a dragon and it doesn't look like a dragon. It does die.
Multiple characters are restrained in various ways throughout the movie: Several are tied up, one is physically held down by another character, several are locked in a cage, one is put in a bag when in animal form, and another is restrained by use of magic.
It looks sort of like someone is on fire (the effect isn't that realistic) but when the fire disappears it's clear there was no actual burning. There's also a lightning strike, but again no actual burning.
No, but a dragon-y thing’s head (it has two) is shot and explodes, but I’ve been told that it looked like sparks. We do see the body afterwards, though.
Yes theres skeletons left in "crow cages" which is where Mad Mardigan is left to die and presumably pecked on by crows hence the name? Nothing is shown besides corpses though.
One scene is quite gore-y.
A troll gets turned into a furry-looking thing that then, for lack of a better word, “sheds” its skin, turning into some horrible, gruesome thing.
Soon after, a dragon-y two-headed thing bites hold of another troll, and the other head does as well. We don’t see the aftermath, but it looked like the troll was going to be torn apart between the two heads.
One of the heads is shot, and explodes, but I was told that it looked like sparks, and then we see the body afterwards.
From the opening of the movie I thought that babies were being killed, but what we actually see happening is that babies who don't have the mark are left alone. There is a baby who is in danger, but it's fairly obvious that this is not the kind of movie where she is going to actually get hurt.
Early on in the movie, a heroic elderly female character, whom we haven't gotten to know well at all, is mauled to death (seen from afar, not graphic) by dog-like creatures. A secondary male character is wounded in battle and has a brief, somewhat moving death scene. The extremely evil main antagonist dies rather spectacularly. The rest of the human deaths are extras in battle scenes, I believe.
No, but another word, presumedly used as a derogatory term for the people with dwarfism, for lack of a better word, are called “pecks” a lot. It reminds me of using other words similar enough that are derogatory.
Not really a jumpscare, but when Willow is looking for Raziel, he thinks she’s not there, and then an old lady’s voice is heard, which isn’t very loud, but it might still scare some people.
A baby spits up white milk on someone's face.
And during a chase scene, the horse carriage is going crazily fast and bumpy, and one of the small guys (I think they're called brownies) is bending over the side acting like he's going to be sick, puffing up his cheeks and kinda heaving ( no sound is heard because of the noisy chase going on) but it never shows him actually vomit. Just looks like he's going to, then cuts away.
No pregnant women are shown dying. There is a woman who has given birth, we don't know exactly how recently, who is later ordered to be killed off screen. I think it's supposed to be the case that she just gave birth, but the baby is obviously not a newborn.
The movie includes many little people or people with dwarfism and they are often called the in cannon slur of "peck". It is mostly uplifting towards them though and I did read it was the largest gathering of little people ever (at the time at least) for filming the village scene.
Yes, but between actors, not between characters (it's neither super-duper obvious nor addressed in-universe): Warwick Davis was around 17 when the movie was made, and the woman who played Willow's wife was around 30. The most intimate physical interaction between their characters is a quick kiss on the mouth, lips closed.
One of the male characters is constantly randomly losing clothes. It's not shot in a way that is terribly objectifying, especially not compared to modern movies. I'm not sure why people are down voting this, it's just a description of what happens, I'm not making any judgments.
Theres gore during the movie one of the more notable parts is Mad Mardigan having a fight with General Kale and both of their faces are smashed and bleeding.