History Film / TheLandOfFarAway

* BalefulPolymorph: Kato is kidnapping children and forcing them to be his slaves. Those who refuse are transformed into birds and forced to circle his castle in flight forever.

He reveals that he's traveled to Earth to retrieve the one bearing the sign of the golden apple. He instructs the boy to grab hold of his beard and then slowly floats out into space and through the galaxy until they reach The Land of Faraway. Oddly enough, Bosse survives this journey. Once there, Bosse is reunited with his real father, who turns out to be none other than the King (no, not ''that'' [[Music/ElvisPresley King]]), played by Bottoms. The King reveals that Bosse's real name is Mio and the boy begins an idyllic life on ''Green Meadow Island''. He's treated with love and adoration by his father and subjects, and even gets cool horse out of the deal, Miramas.

However, not all is well. Something called ''The Whispering Well'' tells Mio that an iron-clawed knight named Kato ([[Creator/ChristopherLee Lee]]) from the Land Outside has been kidnapping children and then forcing them to be his slaves by replacing their hearts with stones. Any children that refuse to serve him are transformed into birds and made to circle above the castle forever. Even his name induces terror when spoken. It also makes the wind pick up and the skies cloud over. He's just ''that'' evil. There's a prophecy about Kato as well. Only a young boy of royal blood, riding a white horse and bring with him a single companion can defeat him.

* BadassCape: Mio and Jum-Jum is gifted two capes which has many practical abilities.

* VillainBeatingArtifact: Kato can only be killed by stabbing a sword which can cut through stone through his heart which is made out of stone.

On the way, he meets the kindly shopkeeper Mrs Lundin. She gives him an apple and asks him to mail a postcard. The postcard is addressed to ''the Land of Faraway'', informing its King of Bosse's impending journey there. After Bosse mails the postcard, his apple turns golden (right as he about to ''bite into it'', no less). Dropping the polymorphed apple in shock, Bosse spots something wriggling around in a discarded beer bottle. He pops it open and out comes the disembodied head that identifies itself as ''The Spirit from The Land of Faraway.''

* [[GenieinaBottle Genie in a Bottle]]: Literally.

!!'''''The Land of Faraway''''' provides examples of:

He reveals that he's traveled to Earth to retrieve the one bearing the sign of the golden apple. He instructs the boy to grab hold of his beard and then slowly floats out into space and through the galaxy until they reach The Land of Faraway. Oddly enough, Bosse survives this journey. Once there, Bosse is reunited with his real father, who turns out to be none other than the King (no, not ''that'' [[ElvisPresley King]]), played by Bottoms. The King reveals that Bosse's real name is Mio and the boy begins an idyllic life on ''Green Meadow Island''. He's treated with love and adoration by his father and subjects, and even gets cool horse out of the deal, Miramas.

* TheChosenOne: Mio is the chosen one, with his destiny prophesied to defeat Kato.

* GenieinaBottle: Literally.

* RuleOfSeven: When Kato has captured our heroes and he puts them in TheTower. The Tower has seven locks, guarded by seven guards and the rest of the castle will be guarded by seven and seventy guards.

* TheChosenOne: Mio is the chosen one, as is his prophesied destiny.

!!'''''The Land of Faraway''''' provides examples of:

The film begins in modern Stockholm. An orphaned boy named Bosse suffers neglect and abuse at the hands of his cruel aunt Edna and his apathetic Uncle Sixton, as well as being picked on by local bullies. For the record, his mother is confirmed dead and his father just disappeared. His best friend is Benke ([[Creator/ChristianBale Bale]]), son of a [[GoodParents kind and loving father]]. The kind Boose wishes he had, too. After an especially horrific night of abuse by his aunt and uncle, he runs away into the night to seek his real father.

''The Land of Faraway'' is an [[TheEighties 80s]] family fantasy film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov, and starring ChristopherLee, Creator/ChristianBale, Nicholas Pickard, Timothy Bottoms, and Susanna York. It's based on the book, ''Mio, My Mio'', by Creator/AstridLindgren.

However, not all is well. Something called ''The Whispering Well'' tells Mio that an iron-clawed knight named Kato ([[ChristopherLee Lee]]) from the Land Outside has been kidnapping children and then forcing them to be his slaves by replacing their hearts with stones. Any children that refuse to serve him are transformed into birds and made to circle above the castle forever. Even his name induces terror when spoken. It also makes the wind pick up and the skies cloud over. He's just ''that'' evil. There's a prophecy about Kato as well. Only a young boy of royal blood, riding a white horse and bring with him a single companion can defeat him.

''The Land of Faraway'' is an [[TheEighties 80s]] family fantasy film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov, and starring ChristopherLee, Creator/ChristianBale, Nicholas Pickard, Timothy Bottoms, and Susanna York. It's based on the book, ''Mio, My Mio'', by Astrid Lindgren.

''The Land of Faraway'' is an [[TheEighties 80s]] family fantasy film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov, and starring ChristopherLee, ChristianBale, Nicholas Pickard, Timothy Bottoms, and Susanna York. It's based on the book, ''Mio, My Mio'', by Astrid Lindgren.

The film begins in modern Stockholm. An orphaned boy named Bosse suffers neglect and abuse at the hands of his cruel aunt Edna and his apathetic Uncle Sixton, as well as being picked on by local bullies. For the record, his mother is confirmed dead and his father just disappeared. His best friend is Benke ([[ChristianBale Bale]]), son of a [[GoodParents kind and loving father]]. The kind Boose wishes he had, too. After an especially horrific night of abuse by his aunt and uncle, he runs away into the night to seek his real father.

Before long, Mio has befriended several local children, including the royal gardener's son Jum-Jum (also played by [[ChristianBale Bale]]). Others include the farm boy Jiri and his siblings, and the shepherd boy Nonno. Nonno teaches Mio and Jum-Jum.

On the way, he meets the kindly shopkeeper Mrs Lundin. She gives him an apple and asks him to mail a postcard. The postcard is addressed to ''the Land of Faraway'', informing its King of Bosse's impending journey there. After Bosse mails the postcard, his apple turns golden (right as he about to ''bite into it'', no less). Dropping the polymorphed apple in shock, Bosse spots something wriggling around in a discarded beer bottle. He pops it open and out comes the disenbodied head that identifies itself as ''The Spirit from The Land of Faraway.''

He reveals that he's traveled to Earth to retrieve the one bearing the sign of the golden apple. He instructs the boy to ''grab hold of his bear'' and then ''sloooooowly'' floats out into space and through the galaxy until they reach The Land of Faraway. Oddly enough, Bosse survives this journey. Once there, Bosse is reunited with his real father, who turns out to be none other than the King (no, not ''that'' [[ElvisPresley King]]), played by Bottoms. The King reveals that Bosse's real name is Mio and the boy begins an idyllic life on ''Green Meadow Island''. He's treated with love and adoration by his father and subjects, and even gets cool horse out of the deal, Shadowfax, er, I mean Shadowfax, I mean Shadowfax... I mean Miramas.

Before long, Mio has befriended several locatl child, including the royal gardener's son Jum-Jum (also played by [[ChristianBale Bale]] for no discernable reason). Others include the farm boy Jiri and his siblings, and the shepherd boy Nonno. Nonno teaches Mio and Jum-Jum.

However, not all is well. Something called ''The Whispering Well'' tells Mio that an iron-clawed knight named Kato ([[ChristopherLee Lee]]) from the Land Outside has been kidnapping children and then forcing them to be his sslaves by ''ripping out their hearts'' (somehow, non-fatally) and replacing them with stones. Any children that refuse to serve are transformed into birds and made to circle above the castle forever. Even his name induces terror when spoken. It also makes the wind pick up and the skies cloud over. He's just ''that'' evil. There's a prophecy about Kato as well. Only a young boy of royal blood, riding a white horse and bring with him a single companion can defeat him.

Mio picks up on the fact that he meets all the job qualifications and thus sets out on his epic journey with his gardener and horse, armed with nothing but magical bread that satisfies all hunger! ...Methinks his plan needs a little more thought.

!!'''''The Land of Faraway''''' provides examples of:

* ClicheStorm: Oh boy, where to ''begin''? The entire movie plays like a Mad Libs where you insert fantasy and faerie tale cliches into the blanks.
** The entire first act plays every ChangelingFantasy plot point entirely straight right down to RagsToRoyalty.
** Mio is TheChosenOne who must go on a quest to defeat the ultimate evil.
** Mio gets a CoolSword to do it with.
** Hell, the bad guy is played by ''ChristopherLee''! ''[[ChristopherLee Christopher]]'' '''''[[ChristopherLee Frikkin]]''''' ''[[ChristopherLee Lee]]''!
** Let's not even start on the Tolkien plot devices is rips off. A young man (Frodo/Mio) recently comes into a rather sizable inheritance (Bag-End and the Ring/being the prince of ''Green Meadow Island''), who finds out that he must embark on a quest defeat evil forever (kill Kato/destroy the Ring), ''WITH HIS GARDENER''!

** Let's not even start on the Tolkien plot devices is rips off. A young man (Frodo/Mio) recently comes into a rather sizable inheritance (Bag-End and the Ring/being the prince of ''Green Meadow Island''), who finds out that he must embark on a quest defeat evil forever (kill Kato/destroy the Ring), ''WITH HIS GARDENER''!
*** *sigh* The World is not the US. The book the movie was based on came out in 1954, the same year as Lord of the Rings (and several years before it was even translated into Swedish). Just because it shares some *very* basic similarities (as do hundreds of other literary works) does not mean it's a rip off. You obviously DidNotDoTheHomework.

** Let's not even start on the Tolkien plot devices is rips off. A young man (Frodo/Mio) recently comes into a rather sizable inheritance (Bag-End and the Ring/being the prince of ''Green Meadow Island''), who finds out that he must embark on a quest defeat evil forever (kill Kato/destroy the Ring), ''WITH HIS GARDENER''!

** The entire first act plays every ChangelingFantasy plot point entirely straight right down to FromRagsToRiches.

** The entire first act plays every ChanglingFantasy plot point entirely straight right down to FromRagsToRiches.

** Hell, the bad guy is played by ''ChristopherLee''! [[ChristopherLee ''Christopher'' '''Frikkin''' ''Lee''!]]

** Hell, the bad guy is played by ''ChristopherLee''! [[ChristopherLee ''Christopher '''Frikkin''' Lee''!]]

!!'''''The Land of Faraway''''' provides examples of:

However, not all is well. Something called ''The Whispering Well'' tells Mio that an iron-clawed knight named Kato ([[ChristopherLee Lee]]) from the Land Outside has been kidnapping children and then forcing them to be his sslaves by ''ripping out their hearts'' (somehow, non-fatally) and replacing them with stones. Any children that refuse to serve are transformed into birds and made to circle above the castle forever. Even his name induces terror when spoken. It also makes the wind pick up and the skies cloud over. He's just ''that'' evil.

With Jum-Jum and Miramis, Mio leaves Green Meadow Island and journeys to the Forest of Mysteries, where he tears his cape on the briars. The Weaver Woman (Susannah York) receives the boys at her house, mending Mio's torn cape and sewing a new lining into it. Hearing the Bird of Grief[3] lament for Kato's victims, and told that the Weaver Woman's daughter Millimani is among them, Mio gradually learns of his long-prophesied destiny to confront Kato in the Land Outside.

Journeying to the Land Outside, Mio and Jum-Jum meet Eno (Igor Yasulovich), a hungry old man living in a cave, and offer him food. In gratitude, Eno tells them to seek a weapon against Kato from the Forger of Swords, who has been imprisoned and enslaved by Kato in the Blackest Mountain beyond the Dead Forest. Meanwhile, Kato's servants capture Miramis. The boys are forced to continue their journey on foot, pursued by Kato's servants through the Dead Forest and the Blackest Mountain. Separated in the mountain's tunnels, the boys find each other by playing their pan-flutes. They finally reach the Forger of Swords (Sverre Anker Ousdal), who tells the boys about Kato's stone heart and provides Mio a sword capable of penetrating it.

Mio and Jum-Jum journey to Kato's castle, where they are captured and imprisoned. Kato throws Mio's sword into the lake outside the castle. However, Mio discovers that his newly-lined cape turns him invisible when worn inside-out, and reclaims his sword with the help of Kato's birds. Armed and invisible, he escapes and makes his way to Kato's chamber, eluding the castle guards. Taking off his cloak, Mio challenges Kato to combat and eventually slays him. Turning into rock, the dead knight crumbles into pieces. Mio picks up Kato's stone heart and holds it outside a window, where it transforms into a bird and flies away.

Kato's birds turn back into children, Jum-Jum and Miramis are freed, and Kato's castle collapses into ruin. The Dead Forest begins to revive. Returning to Green Meadow Island, the children rejoin their families, and Mio rejoins his father. On this happy note, the film ends.

He reveals that he's traveled to Earth to retrieve the one bearing the sign of the golden apple. He instructs the boy to ''grab hold of his bear'' and then ''sloooooowly'' floats out into space and through the galaxy until they reach The Land of Faraway. Oddly enough, Bosse survives this journey. There, Bosse discovers that his real name is Mio, and that his father is the King (Timothy Bottoms). Treated with love and indulgence, Mio leads an idyllic life on Green Meadow Island. He receives the horse Miramis as a gift from his father and makes friends with the local children. The latter include the farm boy Jiri, the shepherd boy Nonno, and the royal gardener's son Jum-Jum, who turns out to be Benke's double. Together, Mio and Jum-Jum learn to play pan flute music from Nonno.

However, not all is well. From a whispering well, Mio learns that an iron-clawed knight from the Land Outside, Kato (Christopher Lee), has been kidnapping children and making them his servants by ripping out their hearts and replacing them with stone. Those who refuse to serve him are transformed into birds and condemned to circle his castle in flight. Even his name induces terror when spoken.