![]() Nobody carries the Dog Boy.”) they pretty much leave him to die in the desert. ![]() She takes over because Dog Boy is kind of a dick and at his request (Quote: “No! No. ![]() When the town’s Jugger team loses its Qwick, Kidda volunteers and injures our heroes’ own Qwick, Dog Boy (a character in awful scar-faced make-up that makes his head look like a half-melted candle), to the point that he can no longer walk. When we’re introduced to Kidda she’s a poor laborer in a small dog town (no explanation of this colloquialism is given but it seems to refer to poor farming and mining communities) who dreams of fame and fortune. In any case, the plot is only really only about Jugger in as much as it affects the life of Kidda (Joan Chen). In any case the real-world rules seem to contradict the movie and real-life Jugger is somehow even lamer than real-life Quidditch.Įven though you may not understand the rules, you can pick up enough to know whether someone is losing or winning and the fact that the matches don’t last very long (three rounds of a designated person throwing a pile of one-hundred similar sized stones at a piece of sheet metal) makes for an ideal sport to be utilized in a movie. Just out of curiosity I looked up the rules and found out that Jugger is a real game that is played in Germany and Australia because sometimes people misunderstand the messages of movies. Still it’s never clear what the difference is between Rutger Hauer’s position and position of team-mates Anna Katarina and Delroy Lindo they seem to be the same role but they wear different gear and have different titles. The viewer can puzzle out the basics: the Qwick carries the skull and impales it on the opposing team’s stick, the Slash swings their flail around their head to protect the Qwick, and everyone else hits each other with sticks. The first and the biggest mistake the movie makes is not telling the audience how Jugger is played. The Blood of Heroes (or The Salute of the Jugger as it was originally known) is a sports movie about a team of Juggers (post-apocalyptic athletes in a game which is never named in the movie, but which the internet tells me is also called Jugger) who travel from town to town playing a very American football/rugby-esque game where the goal is to impale a dog skull on a stick. Surprisingly this formula isn’t unpopular and often represents two great tastes that taste great together, as Rollerball and Deathrace 2000 can attest. The marriage of something as thematically shallow as a sports movie to something as thematically deep as a doomsday picture is more than a bit contradictory. Yet all these movies end with big triumphant celebrations even when the victory was just trying really hard and still losing ( you get the most epic slow claps for that). Rudy only got to play one period in an unimportant game of a sport he wasn’t even any good at, Rocky‘s career is book-ended by defeat, The Replacements go back to being nobodies once the strike ends, the Mean Machine still have to continue being prisoners after having just made fools of the people in charge of their lives, and Major League 3 happens. I’m not saying that sports movies aren’t entertaining or that they’re not often well made or that they can’t be inspiring, but they represent a simplified version of “good” and a hollow sense of triumph. They didn’t remember when Juggers first played The Game or how it came to be played with a dog skull.” – taken from the opening of the movie. They didn’t remember the miraculous technology or the cruel wars that followed. “People no longer remembered the Golden Age of the 21st Century. Rutger Hauer (Sallow), Joan Chen (Kidda), Delroy Lindo (Mbulu), Anna Katarina (Big Cimber), Vincent D’Onofrio (Young Gar), Gandhi MacIntyre (Gandhi) The Blood of Heroes/The Salute of the Jugger (1989)
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