Jim Henson's The Labyrinth Novelization: The Novelization

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The most prominent of these postproduction effects was the computer-generated owl that appears at the opening of the film. Petersburg Times felt contrary to these negative views and praised her acting, saying that, "Connelly makes the entire experience seem real.

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While there was an actor named Shari Weiser inside the actual Hoggle suit, his face was made up of 18 motors and took four people to operate.For "Labyrinth," she was the Director of Choreography and Puppet Movement, a job she also did on other Jim Henson projects, like "The Dark Crystal" and " The Muppets Take Manhattan. Lynn Minton in Parade opined that "what [ Labyrinth] lacks in story and memorable music it makes up for, in part, with amusing special effects, loveable and funny "people" and an emotionally satisfying ending".

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In his afterword to the 20th anniversary edition of The Goblins of Labyrinth, Froud wrote that Jareth references "the romantic figures of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and a brooding Rochester from Jane Eyre" and The Scarlet Pimpernel. A demo of "Chilly Down" under its original title "Wild Things", which was performed by Bowie, was leaked in 2016 by Danny John-Jules shortly after Bowie's death. Fans of Labyrinthshould absolutely read the Spurrier/Bayliss series (Spurrier also wrote another Henson film sequel series for Boom! And I could see the potentiality of making that kind of movie, with humans, songs, more of a lighter comedy.The story revolves around an infant Jareth who has been stolen by the previous ruler of the labyrinth the Owl King and follows the quest of Jareth's mother Maria to rescue her son. But Henson changed course and wanted a real human to play Jareth, but not just any human, Henson wanted a musical person, someone who would "change the film's whole musical style. Bowie was not heavily involved in promoting the film, but Jim Henson was nonetheless grateful that he produced a music video to accompany the song "Underground" from the soundtrack, saying that, "I think it's the best thing he could have done for the film. ACM SIGGRAPH 87: Course Notes, 14th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques". The second most complicated puppet, the giant but loveable Ludo, weighed over 100 pounds at first, but the team managed to get it down to about 75 pounds.