There is a Krakowian legend... well, rather a true story, that there lived a dragon... no — The Dragon. Non-believers may go up the Wawel hill and see for themselves: right above the entrance to the cathedral there are remains of him hanging. Beside that there is a stairway leading from the hill to his cave.
The Dragon was living under the Wawel hill, terrorizing citizens, eating virgins, in other words minding his own dragon business. This pissed off the local king, so as all kings do, he offered a reward for slaying The Dragon: half-a-kingdom and some princess. Knights who volunteered to fight weren't actually of this kind who could think outside of the shell and thus failed. However, as usual, there was some witty peasant, who decided to fight dragon with his own (dragon) flaws. He stuffed sheep-fleece with spices and set it sitting on the meadow waiting for The Dragon to eat it. The Dragon swallowed the fake sheep and got extremely thirsty. So he had been drinking, drinking and drinking, until he blew up, leaving the peasant with the reward, Krakow with the legend and a huge meadow in the center of the city, Wawel hill with dragon's bones and cave, and Poles with a saying "Drinks like a dragon".
Why am I writing all of these? Because Poles recently have drawn a very good modern interpretation of the story. There are some more of the Easter eggs in the movie, which are better seen by locals. I suggest reading about them after watching the movie (there are English subtitles).
Firstly, The Heinal or the Krakow anthem, which is played from the top of the tower of Saint Mary's Church, the one which dragon shoots down in the movie. This anthem is indeed played hourly from this tower, however it is purposely ends harshly in the middle. There is another legend to it. The anthem was played as alarm signal at Mongolian invasion. However, horner got an arrow in his throat and thus couldn't finish playing it. The same in the movie, as soon as the trumpeter blows the first tune the dragon shoots down the tower.
Secondly, the building with dragon hive is called Sekeltor or The Castle of Skeletor. It is indeed the building in Krakow — the first skyscraper, which erection started at early seventies, but have never ended. In eighties it got its nickname The Castle of Skeletor (or just Skeletor, for short), due to the popular cartoon "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe". Looks like this place is real source of dark power: the kids, who named it, grew up into respectable people of their forties with own kids, and "Skeletor" still sticks as the rotten tooth into the windows of main railroad and bus stations.
There is no summary to that. I am just excited about the way Poles pictured national legends — they did a descent job and I wanted to share it and spread the word. There is the whole channel, "Legendy Polskie", I believe you will find a lot of interesting movies there.
The Dragon was living under the Wawel hill, terrorizing citizens, eating virgins, in other words minding his own dragon business. This pissed off the local king, so as all kings do, he offered a reward for slaying The Dragon: half-a-kingdom and some princess. Knights who volunteered to fight weren't actually of this kind who could think outside of the shell and thus failed. However, as usual, there was some witty peasant, who decided to fight dragon with his own (dragon) flaws. He stuffed sheep-fleece with spices and set it sitting on the meadow waiting for The Dragon to eat it. The Dragon swallowed the fake sheep and got extremely thirsty. So he had been drinking, drinking and drinking, until he blew up, leaving the peasant with the reward, Krakow with the legend and a huge meadow in the center of the city, Wawel hill with dragon's bones and cave, and Poles with a saying "Drinks like a dragon".
Why am I writing all of these? Because Poles recently have drawn a very good modern interpretation of the story. There are some more of the Easter eggs in the movie, which are better seen by locals. I suggest reading about them after watching the movie (there are English subtitles).
Firstly, The Heinal or the Krakow anthem, which is played from the top of the tower of Saint Mary's Church, the one which dragon shoots down in the movie. This anthem is indeed played hourly from this tower, however it is purposely ends harshly in the middle. There is another legend to it. The anthem was played as alarm signal at Mongolian invasion. However, horner got an arrow in his throat and thus couldn't finish playing it. The same in the movie, as soon as the trumpeter blows the first tune the dragon shoots down the tower.
Secondly, the building with dragon hive is called Sekeltor or The Castle of Skeletor. It is indeed the building in Krakow — the first skyscraper, which erection started at early seventies, but have never ended. In eighties it got its nickname The Castle of Skeletor (or just Skeletor, for short), due to the popular cartoon "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe". Looks like this place is real source of dark power: the kids, who named it, grew up into respectable people of their forties with own kids, and "Skeletor" still sticks as the rotten tooth into the windows of main railroad and bus stations.
There is no summary to that. I am just excited about the way Poles pictured national legends — they did a descent job and I wanted to share it and spread the word. There is the whole channel, "Legendy Polskie", I believe you will find a lot of interesting movies there.
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