meemalee:

tyrannousstars:

meemalee:

Sarah: *I’m* the Goblin Queen, bitches – you go wave your fans somewhere else.

(From Labyrinth: The Ultimate Visual History)

The Labyrinth commentaries are an Absolute Fucking Delight, seriously – from Goblins of the Labyrinth  to the deluxe edition DVDs, they are replete with balls-out nerdery from Froud/Henson/Lucas, over-the-top teenage delight from Jennifer Connely who, at 14, got to SLOW DANCE WITH DAVID BOWIE!!!!!!!!!…and, wonder of wonders, sheer fucking dorkiness in the person of aforementioned rock god.

Like…

-He kept stumbling on the stairs in the ballroom scene. Jennifer keeps laughing at him because, oh my fuck, you’re David Bowie, aged 40something, Rock God Supreme, stupidly beautiful, actually trained in all this shit….and my adolescent ass remembers these stairs are here, but you don’t?!?!???????/

– The script originally called for Jareth and Sarah to kiss, but David Bowie straight up refused because Jennifer Connely was a minor and he was a grown-ass adult.

– Henson wanted a famous musician to play the Goblin King and had debated casting Michael Jackson, until David Bowie came over and…hopped up onto the table, and, with a wicked gleam in his eye, pulled a bone flute out of his pocket, hopped up onto the table, and, crouching thereon, played it at him and Henson was like “that is the Goblin King right there”

– Jennifer was apparently an absolute dream to work with and they didn’t realise how dangerous some of the stunts she acted were until they saw an actual teenager, say, going down the shaft of hands

– David Bowie was TERRIFIED OF HEIGHTS.  During the Diamond Dogs tour in the 1970s, he got stuck on an elevating chair on stage, and later, in the 80s, during Glass Spider, he had an elevated prop fucking PRECIPITATELY DESCEND under him.  Nonetheless, he did a lot of the Escher Room stuff himself – not all of it, some of it is a stunt guy, but damn, for a dude with acrophobia, doing ANY of it is impressive.

– Basically Jennifer Connely and David Bowie are/were fantastic to work with, and Jim Henson, who decided of his own free will to work with a baby, a teenager, numerous chickens, and a neurotic musician, was a madman.  A magnificent madman, but a madman nonetheless.

Reblogging for this glorious comment. Thanks @tyrannousstars!

Casually reading about Goblins and Fae when…

thebeetlequeen: “Looking them in the eye. It is said that you can gain control over a fae/rie, if you look him/her straight in the eye and hold that gaze.” SHIT FUCK SEND HELP

snipehunt:

variablejabberwocky:

the-real-seebs:

glamdamnit:

My sister asked if the events of “The Labyrinth” are meant to be Sarah dreaming, or are they real? Although my primary reaction was that she shouldn’t put that much thought into any children’s movie (or any instance of David Bowie in tight pants), I’d like to take this opportunity to put so much thought into this children’s movie, that it’ll blow your mind.

So why is David Bowie kidnapping a child from an underage Jennifer Connelley?

In a time long long ago a sorcerer named Jareth fell in love with a girl named Sarah. Sarah’s father and step-mother would not let her marry Jareth because they wanted her to keep her, as a servant, to care for their other child. In a fit of rage Jareth kidnapped this other child and spirited it away to the fairy world. In this new world Jareth built a palace for his Sarah. He turned the spoiled child into a goblin, and kept it to be a servant.

Many stories of the fairy world tell us that time moves differently there than in our world (Rip Van Winkle for one). In the time it took for Jareth to build his kingdom, which he may have thought was little more than a few years, Sarah grew old and died.

Overcome by grief and addled by a lifetime spent in a strange world filled with monsters, Jareth goes mad. He refuses to believe that he has lost his love. He searches the mortal world from his castle, looking for her.

Sarah is Hebrew name. So, it is common, and has been in use for thousands and thousands of years. It does not take long (for him) to find a dark haired girl named Sarah, who has a younger sibling, and who feels that she is treated unfairly by her step mother. In a fit of rage he kidnaps this other child and spirits it away to the fairy world. Perhaps this new Sarah dies in the quest to find the child, perhaps she wins her sibling back and flees.

Jareth searches the mortal world from his from his castle, looking for her.  It does not take long to find a dark haired girl named Sarah…

This is how Jareth becomes the goblin king. Every goblin in the goblin city is a child Jareth has stolen, who was not recovered by a Sarah. (he told the current Sarah that Toby would become a goblin if she did not find him in time)

This is why he builds the maze. The magic bog, the junk yard of useless treasures, all tricks to slow Sarah down. Because if he can only have his Sarah for the time it takes for her to regain the stolen child, he will make it take as long as possible, keep her as long as possible.

This is why there exists in our world a book containing the story. Because it has happened before. So many times. At some point some lucky Sarah must have returned to our world to tell the story.

This is why when the most recent Sarah first meets Hoggle at the start of the labyrinth, and introduces herself; “I’m Sarah”, Hoggle responds “That’s what I figured.”

Because of course she’s Sarah.

They were all Sarah.

That makes entirely too much sense.

BRB crossing “Sarah” off the list of likely names for kids.

Creeeeeeeepy

also, awesome meta!

Is… Is this Labyrinth Creepypasta?

musicalluna:

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thescienceofjohnlock:

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ineffably-crowley:

sparkafterdark:

glumshoe:

sparkafterdark:

tenaflyviper:

He is, however, perfectly willing to fuck with time and reality.

And also steal your infants.

He didn’t steal anything. She literally asked him to take the baby. Don’t make him the bad guy just because she was a shitty sister.

I think you are severely misinformed as to how baby ownership works.

It was not her baby to give.

David Bowie is unquestionably the villain.

Which do you think existed first, modern custody legislature, or the goblin king? 

The girl was entrusted by her parents with the care and custody of the child. By the laws governing the goblin king and his transactions, the girl was the current rightful owner of the child and made a deal with the king to take the child. Perhaps you’re not familiar with english folklore. Fae have rules, they’re tricksters, they can be sneaky, but they never break the rules.

Slammin’ it down in the Labyrinth fandom tonight, kids.

Jfc

Indeed there are rules and she got what she asked for. Be careful what you wish for kiddos.

Okay, look.  I love the Goblin King, okay?  But just because there were rules doesn’t mean he wasn’t the villain.  Serial killers have rules.  Brutal dictators have rules.  The fact that his character was incredibly nuanced and that his motivations were ambiguous make him interesting, but doesn’t automatically default him to good. (And this is something that continuously drives me crazy about fandom interpretation of complicated bad guys.  Although it almost always seems to favor bad guys who are attractive men, and usually to the detriment of lady characters who oppose them.  Hmmm, I WONDER WHY.)

Do you remember how he shortened her time when she was doing well?  Do you remember how he had little brownies changing the marks she made in the maze when she was trying to find her way?  Do you remember how he tried to trap her in a dream to slow her down?  None of those things were in the rules. 

Abusive people set “rules” in relationships all the time.  It makes it appear as if the abused has some sort of control over how much they get hurt and manipulated.  “Don’t break my rules and you won’t get punished.”  Or, in other words, “Why you gotta make me hurt you?”  But those rules are illusions.  The abuser will always find a way to change things to their favor, and then use an air of reasonableness to convince the abused that it’s their fault.

Well, the abused and, apparently, a bunch of people watching a fifteen-year-old girl get kicked around by a man who is a) much older and b) has literally all the power in the universe while she has only the power of fabulous hair and practical shoes and plucky nerve.

AND THAT’S ANOTHER THING, don’t hate on Sarah to make Jareth look better.  First of all, Sarah was awesome.  She was smart.  She had nothing but the clothes on her back and what was in her pockets when she flung herself into an alternative dimension to save a kid she didn’t even really consider family.  And using only her wits, some plastic jewelry, lipstick, and the words of a book she had memorized, she defeated a powerful supernatural being in his own house.  She convinced his own oppressed people to fight against him.  She used the power of friendship and being a book nerd to take back what was hers and bring Jareth to his skinny David Bowie knees.  If you don’t think that’s INCREDIBLY RAD you can get the fuck out.

Secondly, Jareth  loved Sarah to the point of obsession.  He wanted to possess her.  If you don’t think Jareth would condemn you to the deepest depths of the Oubliette or to wander the The Bog Of Eternal Stench forever for talking shit about her, you obviously were not watching the movie very closely.

a++++++ commentary kahn