Clancy Brown stole the show as the Kurgan.
Highlander was a good movie although also very sad (and you have to pretend all the sequels don’t exist). The only uplifting parts of the movie for the protagonist, Connor, were when he met and fell in love with Heather, even though it’s rather depressing how he was banished from his clan’s village, also when he met Ramirez and learned he had a chance to survive, even though Ramirez dies soon after, and then you have to watch his love Heather grow old and die, and his tryst with Brenda, although the Kurgan is hunting him down. I suppose the ending was supposed to be a happy one when he won “the prize”, but all of the historical flashbacks were slightly mystical but very sullen and depressing, and all of the NewYork cuts were rock and roll (Queen soundtrack) and anxious.
I never saw the movie in ‘86 but got a chance to catch it in a campus theater years later during a reshowing. Everyone was cheering for the kurgan, and the theater was loud when he had his scenes.
Oh.... this thread was about actual Kurgans. Heh
That he did. And he got almost nothing for it. He got royally screwed on that deal. I always get a kick of the Kurgan doing the voice of Mr. Krabs for SpongeBob SquarePants.
Starring a Swiss as a Scot and a Scot as a Spaniard?
And a battle scene featuring Clan MacLeod (whose seat is Dunvegan castle, on nearby Isle of Skye) on the front lawn of Eilean Donan castle, seat of Clan Mackenzie?
Ach, sgudal!
Recently I saw it again and the scene where he watches his wife age to Queen's “Who Wants to Live Forever” just struck me as profoundly sad.
Best line in whole movie.
Hi. I’m Candy.
…Of course you are.
/I was rooting for the Kurgan once Connery was gone