The sequence's lack of frivolity dovetailed well with the somber attitude of its main character.
#TAARNA THE TARAKIAN FROM HEAVY METAL MOVIE#
The humorous aspects of earlier segments, such as " Den," "Captain Sternn," and "So Beautiful, So Dangerous" disappeared, and the movie got down to business in a savage conflict between good and evil. Hence, perhaps being a lone voice in the wilderness, I have constructed this encomium to Taarna, and herein set out the elements that shape my views.įirst, The Legend of Taarna was dramatically juxtaposed against the other stories in the film. In her I perceive certain qualities which, in my opinion, cause her tale to eclipse all of the others, and make her character worthy of praise. I feel, however, that Taarna cannot fairly be bound to this shallow image. This conclusion could easily be justified if one considered only the undeniably male, adolescent orientation of Heavy Metal, with its liberal dosage of sex, drug use, and rock music. To some, even perhaps to most of those who have reviewed the movie, Taarna is merely an overly endowed sex object in a dominatrix outfit. My interest, which had remained dormant for twenty years, was rekindled when the DVD was released in 1999. Taarna captivated me when I first saw Heavy Metal at the impressionable age of seventeen. The plethora of reviews of this movie have been far from uniform (see reviews and user comments at the Internet Movie Database), but many viewers have expressed the opinion that the longest and final story, The Legend of Taarna, directed by John Bruno, was well-executed and entertaining. The movie consists of eight stories linked together by the "Loc-Nar," a glowing sphere, unbounded by time or space, that represents "the sum of all evils." In each story, the Loc-Nar demonstrates its capacity for evil, and its malevolent influence and manipulation of human affairs. Heavy Metal was originally released on August 7, 1981, and in several respects was a ground-breaking piece of animation.
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