SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Despite receiving middling reviews, Millie Bobby Brown's new Netflix movie Damsel has some amazing moments depicting the main character's defiance, despair, and reunions with loved ones. Damsel is a riveting action movie in which young bride Elodie is sacrificed by her in-laws to a bloodthirsty dragon , propelling the "damsel" into a brutal but straightforward mission to survive.
Related 10 Best Fantasy Movies Like Netflix's Damsel Netflix's newest fantasy film Damsel has many similarities and shares tropes with these movies that offer inventive takes on fairytales. 8 Elodie Is Dressed For Her Wedding Elodie's bridal ensemble includes many important items. Close A bodice piece serves as a knife; the scented pomander will ignite to become a lantern; the puffy sleeves will be used to carry healing Glowworms.
6 Elodie Drops Her Wedding Ring & Jumps Chasm Elodie symbolically ends her marriage and takes a leap. Escaping the dragon for a moment of relative safety, Elodie has time to reflect. She makes a show of dropping her wedding ring into the chasm below, before taking a running start and leaping across it.
In the "safe" spot in the network of caves, Elodie discovers that women who came before her have carved their names across a cave wall. She is horrified by this and has a dream of the other women terrified in the cave, tending to gruesome injuries. However, over time, these women have collected the information to draw a map leading out of the mountain.
2 The First Time The Dragon Speaks To Elodie Damsel's dragon is a chilling, complex antagonist. Close Aghdashloo dazzles as the voice of the vengeful mother dragon, who engages in a horror-movie game of cat-and-mouse with Elodie. Damsel throws in another visually stunning moment with the cave briefly being illuminated by flaming birds flying away from the dragon before the dragon speaks and demands Elodie's name.