Labyrinth: gigan...ah, forget it...

[meganbmoore]

So, it seems that having someone on the f-list say 80s fantasy gives them hives will cause me to make enormous posts of low quality pics for every single 80s fantasy film I love.  Actually, it's probably more because of Stardust than anything else...the feel is very similar to some of these in a way. Count yourselves fortunate that the 80s fantasy I love is limited to 5 movies.  Incidentally, if anyone can tell me how to reformat my computer's disc drive to read DVDs without killing my computer, I will love them forever(and not just for these...)

Anyway, tonight's victim is Labyrinth.  (And actually, I will be at the parents' and away from my pic folders from tomorrow until Sunday, so who knows, I could go off on a whole new tangent by then, thus sparing you the Legend and Ladyhawke posts...)

MVs:


The cutting and editting in this MV are amazing:

 

I also have a weird thing for MVs set to My Immortal:

 

Pics:

This is Sarah



Sarah likes to daydream a lot and pretend she's a princess and wants to be an actress



Sarah is very displeased that her father and stepmother always stick her with babysitting duties, so she wishes the goblins would come and take her baby brother away and give her a break.



Little does she realize that Batman, the Goblin King, exists and actually has a bit of a thing for her.



Ok, his name isn't Batman,  but Jareth.



Or maybe it is Batman.



Jareth and his very, very 80s hair are not pleased with the Batman comparisons.



Yes Jareth, you have very, very 80s hair.  In fact, it is not humanly possibly to have hair that is more 80s than what you have.



Anyway, Jareth(or rather, his minions) whisk baby Toby(whose RL daddy designs all the creatures here, so really, this was just prepwork for the rest of his childhood...) away...



As Jareth is only half villain and the other half is romantic hero, he's actually rather good with the baby:



Sarah, of course, didn't REALLY want her brother to be taken away, so she sets off to get him back.  Unfortunately, she has to make it through this to do so:







Sarah encounters many...interesting...characters:































Then, of course, there's Jareth's rather...interesting method of courtship:













"Uhm...he does do more than just stare at my in ways I was probably too young for in RL and send me off through mazes with all these creatures, right?"



"Well, what's wrong with that?"



"Uhm...it's kinda weird..."



"You wanted to be the heroine in a fairy tale fantasy...I do everything you ever ask for and I get no thanks..."



Ok you two...and Sarah, you have to admit, as far as courtship rituals go, it's a step up from this:



"Wrong movie.  FOCUS!"



"She does have a point, though.  Still..."



Ok, how about that fantasy ball thingie...















"The important question is...do I get the girl?"



Uhm...sorry, I have a nephew and thus have a policy about making Goblin Kings mad...



"What's that supposed to mean?"



And now I shall make a swift exit...

Also, I have (naturally) started making icons out of what pics are of decent quality.  A few of the icons:

   

   

Comments

[forgottenpolish.livejournal.com]

<333333333333333333333333333 Oh I love this movie like SO MUCH.

[stoltingrid.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay~! *claps* Wonderful! I LOVE 80s fantasy movies, so I'm really enjoying all these picspams. Willow, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth... Ahhhh... So many memories. My favorite two are The Neverending Story and Return to Oz, but most people I know haven't even seen those. T_T

I still have a crush on David Bowie. And Cary Elwes. And a whole bunch of other 80s leading men.

REALLY pretty icons, by the way! I especially love the The Princess Bride ones!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I've seen and liked Return to Oz(which, IIRC, was more like the sourse material than the classic movie) and Neverending Story, but they aren't favorites. These movies are why I liked (and kinda still do) Val Kilmer, Cary Elwes and David Bowie. But then, what girl could watch these movies without a little fangirl squeeing...

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

I've seen it this summer for the first time, and loved it so much in all cracky, 80s glory. Jareth! Sarah! prettiness!

I think my favourite scene was where that crazy old snail-woman was trying to make Sarah into a snail too - it was so creepy, wrong and right at the same time, because she was loading her with really priceless and sincere things and memories - and also burdening her down. I hold my breath through all sequence.

and everything else is about cool muppets and crazy humor. good times -)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Sigh...sometimes, I miss puppetry so very much...and the sets...these days, they won't really make a set like that, just cgi most of it in...


Yeah, the snail woman scene was great.

[chomiji]

This was a big favorite of mine too - Bowie was so good in this role. He managed to be just the right amount of sexually threatening and yet otherworldly enough that it wasn't totally pervy. Sarah needs to recognize that she's not really old enough yet for part of what she thinks she wants.

And as someone who clings obsessively to keepsakes from her past ... the scene with the crazy old lady who's smothering Sarah with all her favorite things was so significant.

Have you seen Neil Gaiman's Mirrormask? In many ways, it's the descendent of these 1980s fantasy movies, especially this one - complete with involvement by Jim Henson's shop.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well, I think the whole point WAS her realizing that what you think you want isn't necessarily what you really want, much less what you need. And of course, on the flipside, there was the theme on his side where giving someone what they say they want won't necessarily win you their love. I'm always surprised that the relationship(or should that be non-relationship?) between Jareth and Sarah doesn't come across as more creepy than it does. I mean, when they made the movie, she was still a minor and he was...what...somewhere in his thirties?...I think it's because the way he played Jareth, Jareth could have been 25 as easily as he could have been 2500, so age wasn't relevant, just maturity.

I've seen and loved Mirrormask. I think both mirrormask and Stardust(though not as much there) are heavily influenced by these movies, especially this one and Legend. Have you seen Legend? The heroine, Lily, undergoes a transformation very, very similar to Helena's transformation in Mirrormask, for very similar thematic and plot effect.

But then, Mirrormask and Stardust are the only hantasy movies in recent years that I've really loved(LOTR was good, but as something of a different kind of movie, and I don't really count something like POTC or The Mummy as fantasy, as the mystical elemenmts there are more of the horror variety.)