So kind of like getting 'Drunk on Alcohol', but the Quickenings are a literal interpretation of the phrase 'Drunk on Power'?It's easy. Quickenings affect the receivers when the writers want them to but not the rest of the time.
Was that ever in doubt? Watching the first Highlander movie about 30 years ago, that is literally what the concept of a Quickening was. If anyone ever thought it was physical, they didn't understand the core of the concept.
Some HighLander fans aren't paying attention to all the details of the lore, so they might misinterpreet things.
The Quickening wasn't even definitively pinned down yet as what it became in later installments.
In the first movie, Ramirez tells Connor that he's feeling The Quickening when they first meet. Connor catches lightning and feels pain without killing an Immortal.
Later Ramirez says it again when they run together and jump off a cliff. And then during the finale Connor yells "The Quickening overpowers me!" after he kills the Kurgan, which is I guess the approach to it that all subsequent stories went with, more or less abandoning those two earlier references.
To be fair, the "lore" gets altered several times (or more correctly, it's kind of in an ongoing state of being changed
).The first movie got altered multiple times (including an attempt to make it more compatible with The Series). The second movie has the theatrical, multiple international versions, The Renegade Version and The Special Edition all available to varying degrees). The third movie has at least three versions. The fourth movie has three commercially available cuts. The fifth movie has two distinct available cuts.
So it all depends on which part of the franchise you're watching.
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I disagree. As in.... I read your entire post, don't worry. Yes, it felt unclear to the Immortals at the time what a Quickening was, because it builds up over time. They don't instantly feel smarter after one beheading, it builds up. But the movie itself makes it very clear that the Prize (aka ALL the Quickenings) is the combined knowledge of ALL Immortals ever. Not physical strength, but knowledge and insights. Wisdom.
Anyway, that's how I felt after seeing the first movie for the first time.
So, in other words, beheading is like taking turmeric.
If that makes you happy...... sure.
My post wasn't really about what you get from a dead Immortal, only what the franchise considers a Quickening to be. What was that happening when Ramirez and Connor first met? The franchise (if I'm not mistaken) never has a Quickening situation like that again.
I would disagree that it's only knowledge. When Connor wins he says that he can concentrate and read the thoughts of the entire world, and can now have children and grow old. So there are also metaphysical and bodily aspects.
I completely forgot about that last part. So yeah, not strength but indeed physical change.
We have our first (unofficial) look at Dave Bautista and, in keeping with the chat a few posts back, he seems to be in a priest’s outfit. Yes, old habits are hard to break and all that:
sffgazette.com
HIGHLANDER Set Photos Reveal A First Look At Dave Bautista As The Kurgan
New photos from the set of Highlander have been revealed, this time revealing our first look at Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista as the villainous Kurgan.
I really hope Cavill's Connor has a dragon head katana as a nod to the original movie.
Why not? It's got cool swordfights, some mystical elements, cool characters - people have been watching movies for less and enjoyed them.
Cavill and Bautista's names rae big enough to draw a crowd and what John Wick did for awesome gunfight action scenes Highlander might do the same for swordfighting, especially giving the team that's producing it.
Now if they can write a good story that brings it all together ( i don't know if they'll just adapt the original movie or go all new) we could have a decent franchise on our hands, especially if they avoid the original "trap" of actually closing the story and then having to come up with harebrained ideas to have sequels that make no sense.
I am digging Dave's wig
I think it's going to be fairly close to the original since they seem to be using a lot of the same characters, but it's going more open ended since they've already said they're approaching this as starting a new version of the franchise.
