Star Knight story
A knight sets out to rescue a princess from a dragon, but the dragon turns out to really be an alien spacecraft. The film is also know as The Knight of the Dragon (Spanish: El caballero del dragón).
13 total · 5 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extraterrestrial being | major | Princess Alba found her knight in shining armor in a spaceman by the name of IX. |
| father and daughter | major | The Count of Rue and his beloved daughter Princess Alba. |
| romantic love | major | Princess Alba found her knight in shining armor in a spaceman by the name of IX. |
| science as magic to the primitive | major | The inhabitants of a Medieval-era territory believed an alien spaceship to be a dragon, and its occupant either an angel or devil depending on the person. |
| speculative spaceship | major | What the inhabitants of a Medieval-era territory believed to be a dragon turned out to be an alien spaceship. |
| alchemy | minor | The film opened with a quotation from the pesudoaristotelian treatise The Secret of Secrets about the transmutation of base lead into pure gold. |
| attitude of superiority | minor | marry a lowly peasants |
| chivalry | minor | The knight Klever challenged the spaceman to a joust over Princess Alba in the name of chivalry. |
| European dragon | minor | The inhabitants of a Medieval-era territory were all up in arms about a dragon, although it actually turned out to be an alien spaceship. |
| speculative full body outfit | minor | The spaceman wore a special black suit that not only let him breathe his native atmosphere, but also functioned as an impenetrable suit of armor. |