It's been a few decades since I saw the movie, but this morning I was listening to Queen's "Who Wants To Live Forever?" and a thought struck me.
These immortals spend hundreds or thousands of years fighting each other until only one remains. That one last immortal is given a gift: mortality.
Am I missing something? If it's such a punishment to live forever, to see the people around you die, then why do all these immortals fight so hard not to be killed? Why would the reward for outliving every other immortal be the ability to join them in death?
These immortals spend hundreds or thousands of years fighting each other until only one remains. That one last immortal is given a gift: mortality.
Am I missing something? If it's such a punishment to live forever, to see the people around you die, then why do all these immortals fight so hard not to be killed? Why would the reward for outliving every other immortal be the ability to join them in death?