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Date: December 11, 2019 06:10AM
The Hielander movies that I remember are a whole series of movies based on the theme from the first movie about a guy named Connor Macleod from ancient Scotland, who was immortal and who lives all the way in to modern times as a young person. In these stories, there are several immortals and their goal is to cut off the heads of all of the other immortals, which is the only way to kill them. If you are the last immortal left, then you get the privilege of growing old and dieing. They often say "there can be only one" when they fight with their swords. They somehow know who the other immortals are by feeling something in the presence of another immortal. When they need to talk civilly, they meet in an church because they can't fight on holy ground. These immortals never know they are immortal until after they die and then wake-up alive again. At that point, they stop aging and the other immortals can then tell that they are immortal and start hunting them. There are good and bad immortals. Some of them are real predators and others just want to be left alone to live their immortal lives. One of them even became a monk, so he would be safe living on holy ground. In the final movie, Connor McCleod kills the bad guy immortal in self defense, and then as the last immortal left, grows old. But in his old age, his mentor Rimeses who had been killed earlier and one other immortal are sent back to earth. McCleod kills the other immortal, and becomes young again in the process, despite his desire to grow old and die of old age.
Not much is told about where these immortals come from. But there are a few scenes in a few of the movies where they leave their home planet to go to earth to be born into the human population. Once they are born on earth, they lose the memory of their former home and former life. They don't even know they are not human until after another immortal who is older and wiser fills them in on the details. But meanwhile, the people they love often all die of old age while they remain young, and they can never have children.
I always thought the 'better to burn out than fade away' scene was pretty funny because of this bad guy's contempt for the church. Connor McLeod is the good guy in this scene. Notice the partially severed neck on the bad guy. Rimeres almost killed him in a sword fight but lost the battle.
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