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The world is larger than life when you’re a child, odd and suspicious. Everything is new. There is this strange confusion of language, the rules at school, school itself. And just when you learn the rules, they change on you. Once you hit the teenage years, everything is turned upside down all over again, much like the changing staircases in one of the last scenes in Labyrinth (and in Harry Potter, which followed much later). It’s why adolescence lends itself so well to horror . Perhaps Labyrinth was preparing its audience for the explosion of YA, the teen as self-possessed heroine inheriting the Earth, scorched though it may be. Labyrinth". British Board of Film Classification. August 4, 2020. Archived from the original on November 29, 2020 . Retrieved December 8, 2020. Sito, Tom (2013). Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p.194. a b Truitt, Brian (January 21, 2014). "Archaia honors Henson legacy with reprints, new material". USA Today. Archived from the original on January 22, 2014 . Retrieved October 21, 2020.

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a b Lipper, Hal (June 27, 1986). "Fantastic puppets can't escape fairy tale maze". St. Petersburg Times. p.1D, 4D. Archived from the original on August 14, 2020 . Retrieved August 14, 2020– via Newspapers.com.Most of the visual effects on Labyrinth were achieved in-camera with several notable exceptions. The most prominent of these postproduction effects was the computer-generated owl that appears at the opening of the film. The sequence was created by animators Larry Yaeger and Bill Kroyer at Digital Productions [39] [40] and marked the first use of a realistic CGI animal in a film. [41] The owl head maquette was rescued from a skip when the animation company Omnibus went bankrupt in 1987. [42] Labyrinth 's "Escher scene" features an elaborate staircase set inspired by the art of Dutch artist M. C. Escher. [15] A print of Escher's lithograph Relativity is shown on Sarah's bedroom wall in the film. [16] Production [ edit ] Origins and script [ edit ] Anonymous (June 12, 1986). "Bowie talks... about his newest film, Labyrinth". Movieline: 14. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018 . Retrieved January 20, 2012. a b The Jim Henson Company (2016) [Production notes first published 1986]. "David Bowie Talks About Labyrinth: Archival 1986 Q&A". Labyrinth (30th Anniversary Edition) ( Blu-ray booklet). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. pp.14–16.

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The series' ambiguous ending received negative response from some reviewers. Kay Tilden Frost of GeekDad enjoyed the first issue, but by the final installment found the series "went horribly off the rails", writing that the ending was unsatisfying as the story "refuses to answer any of the questions" teased throughout the series about whether or not Maria's baby is indeed Jareth. Frost was also disappointed that Maria "ends up staying ... with her abusive husband, the one who threw her and her son out of the house and started this whole mess." [24] Deron Generally of The Super Powered Fancast was similarly disappointed by the series' conclusion, writing the comic "just falls apart at the end and the final resolution for all of the characters is unsatisfying." [25] Prange found Maria's ending confusing and "lead[ing] to a weird epilogue which ... affects Jareth’s characterization in a rather odd way and goes so far as to drastically change the ending of the film". She wrote that by its conclusion, Labyrinth: Coronation "becomes both a prequel and sequel. While the prequel aspects remain a lot of fun, it's the sequel part which causes the comic to breakdown." [26] Jones has said that Bowie's involvement in the project had a significant impact on the direction taken with the film. Jones had originally intended for the audience not to see the centre of the Labyrinth, prior to Sarah's reaching it, as he felt that, in doing so, it robbed the film of a significant "hook". Henson decided that he wanted Jareth to sing and appear throughout the film, which was something Jones considered the "wrong" decision, with the thought of Bowie starring in the film in mind. Despite his misgivings, Jones rewrote the script to allow for performing songs throughout the film. This draft of the script "went away for about a year". During this time, it was redrafted first by Phillips and subsequently by Lucas. [17] [20] The 77 best kids' films of all time". The Telegraph. April 19, 2019. Archived from the original on September 26, 2018 . Retrieved September 8, 2019.

Hennes, Joe (October 22, 2011). "ToughPigs at NYCC 2011". ToughPigs. Archived from the original on October 19, 2021 . Retrieved October 18, 2021. In Venice in 1797, a young English nobleman named Lord Albert Tyton has spent a year on a hedonistic trip around Europe, ignoring his stern father's demands that he return to England. In Venetian society, Albert and a woman named Maria have been living as a married count and countess with their baby son. Maria was formerly a tavern linen maid, and Albert claims their marriage has been a pretence. This kind of heavy view of childhood had been distant in kids’ films from the 1970s, the era of The Bad News Bears and the Herbie series, The Shaggy DA, and Mountain Family Robinson. Children’s movies were largely saccharine and low stakes, a trend that continued in the early ’80s with movies like Popeye, Annie, and Heidi’s Song.

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