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Valiant
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Valiant is a 2005 computer-animated children's film directed by Gary Chapman and produced by John H. Williams, who formerly produced Shrek and Shrek 2. To produce this one, he founded Vanguard Animation, which would later produce Happily N'Ever After and Space Chimps.It is May 1944, in the midst of World War II. A team of Royal Homing Pigeon Service carrier pigeons, headed by Mercury (John Cleese), are carrying a message of vital importance across the English Channel to Great Britain, when they're suddenly ambushed by German falcon General Von Talon (Tim Curry), and Mercury is taken prisoner and interrogated. Meanwhile, the eponymous Valiant (Ewan McGregor) is a young pigeon of small stature in West Nestington who aspires to be a carrier pigeon himself. Heading to London to sign up, he meets with perpetually filthy pigeon Bugsy (Ricky Gervais), who signs up alongside him to escape the wrath of two thugs. The two go to the training camp and meet three more pigeons; Lofty, Toughwood and Tailfeather, and the five undergo training under the thumb of the aptly named Sergeant Monty (Jim Broadbent). Valiant also falls in love with a nurse (a dove) named Victoria (Olivia Williams). Once training is completed, the five are para-dropped into France on a mission to take a message from Rollo and Charles de Girl, of the French Resistance. When the message is captured by the Falcons, it is vital to rescue it from Von Talon's clutches and get that message back to Britain...Not to be confused The Legend of Prince Valiant if such a thing were possible. | |
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Terrible Trio | |
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Terrible Trio: Big Bad General Von Talon is backed by two henchmen: Cuffingk and Underlingk. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Von Talon is described as being "20 pounds of pigeon eating muscle" and flying at speeds of 200 miles per hour. In reality; falcons weigh 2.3 to 3.3 pounds, measure 23 inches (or 34 to 58cm), and fly at 230 miles per hour. | |
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Brutal Bird of Prey | |
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Brutal Bird of Prey: All three of the falcons, especially Von Talon, who is portrayed as an Ax-Crazy Nazi Nobleman. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: Rollo and Charles de Girl. | |
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National Animal Stereotypes | |
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National Animal Stereotypes: The German falcons. Germany, especially Nazi Germany, often used birds of prey in their heraldry (although Nazi heraldry typically depicted eagles rather than falcons). The pigeons are English and the mice are French, which is not the usual nation-species pairing, but it serves the plot. Both species are natural prey of falcons, just like how both nations were attacked by Nazi Germany. | |
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No Swastikas | |
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No Swastikas: No swastikas are seen in Von Talon's lair nor on his uniforms; possibly because this is a children's film. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Von Talon claims he's vegetarian while chewing a pigeon bone. Or he was simply being sarcastic. | |
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TruthSerum | |
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Truth Serum: When the yodeling doesn't work, Von Talon gives Mercury one of these. | |
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Eyepatch of Power | |
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Eyepatch of Power: General Von Talon has one of these. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Rollo, the Resistance's sabotage expert has strong Pyromaniac tendencies, but he's kept around because... well, that's exactly what they need him to do. | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty: Sergeant Monty. | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
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Those Wacky Nazis: The falcons symbolize this. | |
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Disney Death | |
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Disney Death: Gutsy apparently crashes with the group's transport plane, then shows up later in the movie, injured but alive. | |
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show | |
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Despite some hammy moments, Von Talon is quite a sinister villain since he's basically an animal version of a real life Nazi war criminal in an otherwise family oriented cartoon. We also discover that he killed and/or ate various Allied pigeons. Some of them are also stuffed as a sort of Creepy Souvenir. | |
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Action Prologue | |
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Action Prologue: The film opens with Mercury and two pigeons on a flight over the English Channel, where they are attacked by Von Talon and Mercury is captured. | |
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Animal Talk | |
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Animal Talk: Pigeons, falcons and mice can talk to each other. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Tim Curry as typical. Also counts as Evil Is Hammy. | |
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Badass Cape | |
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Badass Cape: Von Talon wears a leather one. | |
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Stomach of Holding | |
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Stomach of Holding: Having no way of carrying the message back to base, Valiant is forced to stuff it down his throat. He then barfs it up when back at base. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: General Von Talon is the main antagonist, plotting to intercept our heroes' message to the Allied Forces. | |
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Eating the Enemy | |
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Eating the Enemy: This is what German falcons do to the English messenger pigeons once they've intercepted their messages. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: Who do you think trained those falcons? | |
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Dead Guy on Display | |
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Dead Guy on Display: Von Talon keeps several pigeons he and his underlings have killed on display in his quarters. Valiant pretends to be one of these to infiltrate his base. | |
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Icy Blue Eyes | |
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Icy Blue Eyes: The single eye General Von Talon has left is light blue, fitting his ruthless personality. | |
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Red Shirt | |
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Red Shirt: The two pigeons accompanying Mercury in the opening, who are killed with little fanfare by Von Talon. | |
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Singing in the Shower | |
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Singing in the Shower: Von Talon does this while humming "Ride of the Valkyries". | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: The film shows Mercury being tortured with Yodeling. It's treated like the sonic equivalent of thumbscrews, and Mercury's ability to withstand it unsettles even General Von Talon. | |
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Loud of War | |
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Loud of War: Von Talon tries to get Mercury to tell him the message by blasting him with annoying yodeling music. | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Nope. They're under-funded, ill-equipped and questionably sane, but their courage and skill are unquestionable. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: While the falcons take a pigeon to a cage he says this quote: "Get your talons off me you filthy falcons!" which is a reference to the 1968 film, Planet of the Apes. | |
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Alternate Species Counterpart | |
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Alternate Species Counterpart: The Royal Homing Pigeon Service are clearly inspired by the British Army's Parachute Regiment, and to an extent the Royal Air Force. | |
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Instant Messenger Pigeon | |
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Instant Messenger Pigeon: Basically the center of the whole film. | |
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Survival Mantra | |
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Survival Mantra: Mercury sings "Rule Britannia" to stave off the yodeling. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The Germans did indeed train falcons to intercept carrier pigeons during WWII. | |
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