The Flight Of Dragons From 1982 - James Earl Jones (Darth Vader)
The Flight Of Dragons From 1982 - James Earl Jones (Darth Vader)
Opening with a scene where "green wizard" Carolinus tries to warn men to take care with their machines when a swan is killed in a water wheel, his fading powers fail to magic away the wheel and he is ridiculed by the mill owners. Sensing man's shift away from magic, he calls on his three other brothers, each responsible for a different realm: sea and stars (blue wizard), air and contemplation (yellow) and all that is bad is embodied in the red wizard, Omadon, voiced by James Earl Jones. Whilst the former three wish to create a protected realm for their waning powers, Omadon senses his powers getting stronger and wants to infect the spirit of man with greed and avarice, setting man against himself until he destroys himself in a nuclear armageddon. Pretty stern stuff for a children's film released in the cold war hysteria of the mid-80s!
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