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Quotes
Sarah: Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great. You have no power over me.
Mistakes
In his throne room, Jareth starts to sing, "Dance, magic, dance..." In the overhead shot when they sing the words, "Put that magic spell on me," he kicks the little guy up, then in the next front shot when he sings the second line, "Jump, magic, jump," and just before and during which he throws Toby in the air, in all these shots either his lips do not reflect the words heard or his lips move and no sound is heard. See more...
Trivia
These all come straight from the Labyrinth DVD. The Goblin City required the biggest panoramic backcloth ever made. The Enchanted Forest that Sarah visits was constructed from 40,000 sprays of artificial leaves, 120 truckloads of tree branches, 1,200 turfs of grass, 850 pounds of dried leaves and 133 bags of linchen. The Shaft of Helping Hands was made up of 150 human hands as well as 200 foam rubber hands. The Bog of Eternal Stench has to be the best effect in the whole movie, it was made up of 30,000 gallons of water, mixed with a ton of celacol (stuff to thicken the water with, a paste almost) brown and blue dyes, liquid paraffin and hundreds of little glass beads were also thrown in to add to the effect. See more...
Labyrinth (1986) - 6 questions
Directed by Jim Henson, starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Shelley Thompson, Toby Froud (add more)
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
The "questions" section is for any random questions that occurred to you while watching this film, or anything you didn't entirely understand, and which Google or the IMDb can't help with. Submit them as a question, and hopefully someone will answer (the bold comments in brackets) - check back regularly. If the answer is wrong, or missing information, please use the "clarify answer" option. Don't feel limited - want to know what music played in a certain scene? Whether this was the first film to use a certain effect? Here's the place to ask!
Question: On the IMDB Trivia page, it says that little of Terry Jones' script was kept past the point where Sarah eats the peach. I have two questions concerning this: 1) Who wrote the rest of the film? and 2) Why was some of his material removed?
Answer: As with any film, there are often numerous rewrites of the script as the writing process progresses, and it's not at all uncommon for different writers to be brought in to tweak plot points, enhance dialogue and so forth as the script is honed towards the point where they have a finished product that they can shoot. Who ends up with the eventual credit is a highly complex and somewhat arcane process, involving judgement calls on who has contributed what towards the final script. As such, Jones' script being heavily rewritten after a certain point is nothing particularly unusual, but what amounts to standard practice in the movie industry - presumably it was felt that his script subsequent to that point lacked punch in some way, leading to another writer being brought in to revamp it. Other writers known to have worked on the script include screenwriter Elaine May, childrens author Dennis Lee and the film's director Jim Henson. There may well have been others.