"Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage and she hears you" is such a raw line. You can tell she knows this for sure, and that it is a dire warning.
The harpy is a immortal magical being. It was only a matter of time before she escape. Fortuna was aware of that, she admitted to the unicorn that she knew the harpy would be the death of her.
That and "Don't look back, and don't run. NEVER run from anything Immortal, it attracts their attention." You can hear it in her voice... SHE wants to run but she knows better.
Fortuna knew this, that was something she’d accepted, and saw that as a form of assuring her own immortality, of sorts. After a few generations, most humans forget past, deceased humans ever existed, and Fortuna knew she’d be forgotten by man; but the Harpy would never forget who had caged her, and would remember her forever on. Twisted but affective.
@@kiddfaith4397 "I held you" Indeed. The frustration at such a memory, of being held helpless by a mortal creature, will likely haunt that harpy forever.
There really are people like this. People who do horrible thing to others just for the sick satisfaction of knowing they'll forever be a core memory for the ones they hurt. The best punishment for those vile people is honestly just forgetting them. Nothing wounds them more than being so insignificant that they're not even worth a partial memory.
@@MistressSuki92 this is pretty much what she did. It's not that she was happy to die, but that she knew her immortality started the second she was killed.
"you must never run from anything immortal it attracts their attention" that line always sticks with me when I get the creepy feeling I'm being watched by something not human, or when something stands in the corner of your eye but disappears once you look
Lord if it were me in Schmendricks shoes having to slowly and calmly walk away from a grizzly double murder (or risk being a third casualty if I foolishly ran) I’d stuck to the Unicorn like gorilla glue and I’d be crying rivers and shaking like a leaf caught out in a hurricane with every step.
I saw this as a young child, and let me tell you: that scene still givers me chills to this day. It wasn't the Harpy that frightened me, though: it was how willingly Fortuna literally EMBRACED HER DEATH. Seleno was careening toward her and she grinned. She was likely wearing that smile as the Harpy ATE HER. Having controlled magical creatures for even a few years left her so fulfilled that she was unafraid to DIE. What a mindset; to be enthralled with a thing or concept you know will kill you so much that you will hold it forever. Until the day it destroys you. Scary stuff.
Fortuna did it for the same reason people have children: a form of immortality for themselves. Parents imagine they will be remembered by their offspring, but the truth is that everyone is forgotten by the fourth generation or so. What was your great, great grandmother's favorite color? You don't know, and you never will. But Fortuna died knowing that a truly immortal being will remember her literally forever. As the sun burns out, as the stars die, that harpy will still curse her, and thus remember her name.
Best part of this sequence is how Fortuna's like: "Yes, she'll kill me. But she'll remember me for eternity because I held her." She's not even the least bit afraid. For an antagonist, she's respectable. Also, the details in the animation subtly give you a hint as to how STRONG that Harpy is. Her perch, CREAKS dangerously with every squeeze of her talons. A more than likely four-inch thick piece of hardwood, ominously straining under the crushing power of her barely contained rage. And then, when the lock is broken, and whatever magic constrains Celaeno is broken, she _immediately_ annihilates the cage wagon that was her prison. Schmendrick was wise to be afraid of letting her loose.
I get what you're saying, but I think that Fortuna is a good example of why human evil is so much more despicable than creatures like the harpy. The harpy is what it is, it acts according to its design. Fortuna is a human, with free will and agency, and CHOSE to be cruel and spiteful. I don't like the harpy and it's clearly an evil creature, but seeing it locked up made me pity it.
@@louthegiantcookie what a profound observation. I love the way you distinguished between the evil of the harpy as being an immortal creature who just IS, with it's nature predetermined and set in stone vs humanity that has a say in how they act and behave. And how since we have free will that the times we choose to be evil is more vile because it was a choice. But it begs the question, if the Harpy's true nature is that of an evil creature and has no choice in what it's nature is, can we really call it evil? Because for the most part among humanity evil is a choice so is the Harpy truly evil or just primal. Maybe primal is the wrong word because it has an intelligence about it. It spoke to the unicorn and is self aware to know it is magical and plead it's case for freedom. Or do you think the harpy truly is evil and had a choice even while lacking the free will and agency of humanity to be malevolent that is unique to what it is?
@@Passions5555 To be evil, you have to know the difference between good and evil and actively choose evil. If the harpy just act according to her nature, is she really evil?
"She will kill you." "No doubt. But she will always remember me, remember that she was once caged up, and that it was I who caged her. There's my bit of immortality for you."
I don't know how much I respect that point of view. It really seems silly to me. All she wanted was someone to remember her with contempt? I like the idea of someone ageless becoming somewhat more removed and whimsical. Anything they do gets erased with time. I wonder if this idea comes as a result of a world where actions were less persistent. Today social media keeps all our little details in crystal clarity to be looked back on.
+Andrea Pegasus She held immortal creatures captive. So that's an accomplishment no witch has ever dreamed of so Fortuna feels a sense of life achievement.
While it terrified me as a kid, I did learn not to run from predators. I remember getting away from a dog by just walking slowly. A friend of mine panicked in the same situation and got bitten. I guess it's a german thing to terrify children with stories in order to teach good lessons. It works.
I learned this exact thing at a young age, I don’t even think anyone taught me. Running from a stray animal (ex. a dog) will always be the worst decision. The animal literally can’t chase you if you’re not running, but some peoples flight kicks in and they can’t help it
Yeah i think it also depends on the dog, some will leave you alone if you act thought but others will take it as if you were mocking them and were a threat
Education is seen as boring, and memorizing is a long and difficult process that only works with repetition and/or self motivation. Fear will haunt you, and teach you to survive any time you are afraid again. That's why we have fear, after all; to survive when our brain can't think fast enough.
Considering the unicorn thought she might be the last of her kind, it makes sense that she might be considering the harpy's deal. She is terribly lonely after all
@@samwiseraleigh7833 Unicorns are use to loneliness, it's their nature after all. She didn't seemed to be bothered by being alone until she learned she might be the last.
Fun fact. There's also a book and in the book harpy was more honest about herself and warned the unicorn that she will kill her if she will free her. The unicorn still freed her.
@@godfirst3709 I think it was just simply part of her nature. Just like the unicorn was like a protector of life and symbol of pozitive magic the harpy was her complete oposite.
@@eleanorhogan8643 Prefer the book, because the movie makes the Harpy Dishonest and "bad" to simplify the character for the Audience. the Book is essentially the Harpy saying "I am what I am" and the Unicorn responds in kind. Imagine as an Adult watching a Lion hunt and kill a Gazelle and the animal tracker tells you "The Lion does this because it is cruel and evil" and being enough of a simpleton to need that type of an explanation because you cannot fathom animals will do what is in there nature and it is neither good or evil, that term has no place with them.
When I was young I thought the Harpy could only see movement. I wasn't until many years later did it occur to me it's because people can't see immortals for what they are. Thus if you were to run, it's likely you saw past the magic.
The line "You must never run from anything immortal" actually helped saved my butt as a kid when I was on a trail hike on a path I frequently took to go and help at the ranch I lived by, and a coyote or wolf stepped out of nowhere. I think we surprised each other, thankfully, the big guy wasn't hostile, so I just stayed still and spoke until he walked away, and calmly walked to the ranch and got a lift back on the main road after explaining that incident. ^.^'
Actually wolves tend to leave people alone. There's actually only been 2 recorded wolf attacks in the past 150 years and both of those involved a dog with the person, and the person wasn't even harmed It's wild dogs you have to worry about.
@@Shadowtiger2564 Thank you, I actually am aware of those statistics. I live in a rural area where both coyotes and wolves are very abundant. However, I never said I was attacked, just that staying still thanks to remembering that phrase helped me keep calm.
@@Shadowtiger2564 that is not even remotely true. Literally hundreds of people have been killed by wolves in recent times. mostly children in developing nations but say in the US two fatalities happened within the last 20 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks
To think harpies started out as beautiful half woman half eagle emissaries of the air and then turned into just the most grotesque gargoyles conceivable.
Harpies got the Christian treatment like everything else in the religions of old or other. If it’s not defined or mentioned in the Bible, then it’s evil.
I love the appearance of the unicorn, it looks like an antelope with a horse's head with a horn and a lion's tail. it makes her look more personal, more real than being just a horned horse.
If you would show a 'modern' unicorn to everyone from just a 100 years ago, they would laugh at you and think you were crazy. Honestly I hate the modern version, the only time I like it is when it is from My Little Pony. But otherwise, no. Just no.
I think this is the only depiction of a harpy I've seen that is actually scary. It's human enough to be uncanny, but animal enough to be monstrous. You really feel like this is a creature that could actually exist, and that the world is better off because it does not.
Fortuna's entire schtick was that she wanted to be remembered, perhaps praised, but remembered for her greatness. She got what she wanted when she caged the harpy, which is why she felt mystified when she saw the unicorn but not overjoyed or exhilarated. Being remembered for all eternity by immortal creatures, especially the harpy, means her memory will live on while all other mortals perish from the earth. That's my theory, anyway.
That's literally in the book. Fortuna straight-up says that the harpy will never forget her because she had successfully caged the harpy. And existing in the memory of an immortal creature is a type of immortality itself.
Huh, never really noticed the harpy breasts before. And I never really noticed how violent this scene is for children. Jeez, I first watched this back when I was 5 and I wasn't bothered badly at all.
Sarah Dunning LOL I showed it to my cousin because she really liked unicorns and to me this was to perfect opportunity to show her what a fantastic movie this was
"Set me free... We are Sisters, you and I..." was the most raw line I heard from the harpy, if not her only line. It stuck with me since I first watched it
FACT: The Harpy's voice actor was a man. His name was René Auberjonois, he also voiced the elder vampire Janos Audron in the Legacy of Kain videogame series. He is now sadly deceased, so are Angela Lansbury (Mommy Fortuna the witch) & Christopher Lee (King Haggard). RIP you legends, you may be gone but you will certainly NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!
@@ChoppaBoy . Oh right. I haven't watched Star Trek in ages, he was the Shapeshifter in Deep Space Nine. No you couldn't forget him if you were either a Trekkie or a fan of the actor.
When I was a child that harpy terrified me just as much , if not more than the red bull. She was something like primordial evil or horror. She reminded me of the force of nature. Despite being intelligent and ancient she was a beast .
I agree, and I think part of it was that the harpy just... left. The red bull, as powerful and terrifying as it was meant to be, was positioned as an antagonist, a force to be confronted and overcome. The harpy was set up as an evil immortal being of old magic that would absolutely kill the unicorn given the chance, and the only reason she and Schmendrick got away was that she wasn't going to bother looking harder for them and just flew off into the night. Gone, but only for now, and for a little kid, that meant that she was still out there somewhere.
@@Glassgothgirl No actually Humans were never really hunted by birds This is why we are really bad at looking up. I real life where we rarely want to crane our necks, we don't love having cover above us like cats and dogs. But also in the digital world, in games one thing one quickly notice when they start looking. People do not look up
One of the best classic fantasy stories to ever exist, in my opinion. Mythology is scary, and modern day fantasy doesn't explore that aspect of itself enough.
@@silversamurai0267 Lovecraft is one of the few that does so and even then his themes are starkly different: a vast, distant and apathetic thing that destroys simply because it IS, vs the horrors in myths that actively seek out and destroy.
@@silversamurai0267 It can be scary, but it is damn hard to have something positioned as female without it getting turned into a waifu, or at least into something with tits slapped on (...ok, non horrifying tits).
Very true. I remember watching this as a kid and knowing that despite the Unicorn's good intentions, the Harpy was still dangerous and not to be trusted.
I remember an Aesop's fable; a farmer picked up a snake which was ice cold, and put it under his shirt to warm it up. When the snake could move again, it bit the farmer, poisoning him with deadly venom. When the farmer asked the snake "Why did you bite me after I saved you?" it responded, "It's in my nature, after all I am a snake."
I love how it shows doing good purely for goodness' sake, not doing good expecting gratitude or a reward. The unicorn knew it was unwise to set the harpy free, but she did it anyway and was ready to handle the consequences of doing what she believed was right.
I didn't get it when I was a kid, but when I watched this recently I found a new respect for Mommy Fortuna. She caught and caged Celaeno, fully aware that it would one day break free and kill her. But in a way that was the point, "you never could have freed yourselves alone. I held you." Fortuna would still die the victor because Celaeno would always remember. It wasn't brought low by powerful sorcery, just the magic of a shriveled old hedge with running a third rate side show of illusions.
Darth Karnis yes and as Fortuna pointed out the harpy only escaped bc the unicorn set her free and not by her power something that resonances with the Celaeno
I never fully understood why the Harpy went after Unicorn, but now that I'm older, I understand a little better that he was simply a demonic being basically.
You're wrong, the harpy was trapped and used as a spectacle and abused for so long, trapped in her hatred she repeated the only kind words she heard in so long. "We are sisters you and I". The unicorn said they were and the harpy blind with rage and hatred attacked any and all who moved including her saviour. She was blinded by the ages of abuse Mommie Fortuna had put her through and could no longer tell friend from foe. Not to mention she was probably starved adding to her abusive situation. All beasts in that carnival were abused including the unicorn upon her short encounter with the witch. Demons are not to blame for everything the witch was human and in her human nature committed evil that would eventually demand feeding. And the harpy fed. And eventually she will return to whence she came and recuperate becoming her old self though predator she would remain. Just because she's a predator does not mean she's a demon. She only did what came to her naturally being starved and abused the way she was. She was entitled to her vengeance and sadly the unicorn and the wizard were in the cross hairs of her burning anger.
In case you didn't know, it actually WAS a man doing the Harpy's Voice. René Auburjonois, better known as the Ancient Vampire Janos Audron from the Legacy of Kain Videogames. Creepy Eh?
Found this movie as a kid at the rental store, expecting a cute, happy movie about a unicorn. Then this scene played and proceeded to gave me nightmares. However, I would rent it again and again. Even found the book and read it. Love both incarnations to this day. Kind of wish they had been able to keep Hagsgate, but you can't have everything. Still a great movie, even if it scared the bejeezus out of 7 year old me.
@@AXELcreepMANIA Yes. She wasn't in the film. Mommy Fortuna had two extra beings in the last rings of the carnival. One was herself standing in as Elli, the Norse personification of old age, but another was a simple spider that fell hard for Fortuna's illusions and actually *believed* she was Arachne, spinning galaxies in her webs. The unicorn seemed to feel pity for her, believing what she wasn't, and her calls to the spider that reality was better went unheeded. When Fortuna dies and the Harpy goes free, all the other animals escape of course, but as Schmendrick and the unicorn walk away, the sound of the spider's weeping fades in the distance. It kinda bookends the unicorn's struggle with her brief mortality in a sense, the other side of that coin being that you tasted what you thought was immortality and limitless potential, but it was just a warped dream.
It literally took me like 15 years to figure out why I have a returning nightmare of a really big monstrous looking eagle in the woods that can somehow find me by having a frenzy on an old lady, until I saw this again. People say they never noticed as a kid how unsettling it is. Well for me this whole movie always got me horrified but at the same time I was so amazed by it. Must have watched it like a hundred times as a kid. Like other movies/series that gave me that same feeling...The Land Before Time, Watership Down, The Animals of Farthing Wood, some intense parts of Fantasia. It was all so damn disturbing but so good as well.
that line, (You must never run from anything Immortal, it attracts their attention) seems to have attracted alot of attention for no particular reason.
Not for no reason. Because it's true. You never run from anything beyond your understanding or ability to fight. If you run the creature knows you're weaker and easy pickings. If you walk you instill a shred of doubt in most predators of "this thing isn't messing with me because it just doesn't want to waste it's energy. It can probably kill me." And immortal creatures if they do exist just won't see you as worth their time because you put on an air of confidence and will seemingly fight back.
Semi Perfect Cell. Make that brother. It was a man doing the Harpy's voice, his name is René Auberjonois, he did the voice of Janos Audron in the Legacy of Kain Videogames. Janos was the oldest living Vampire in the games story.
@LaBelleDame DuManor I think that was intentional, as the harpy was a mockery and twisting of ideal femininity: a female creature which is not feminine.
Wow! No wonder I never watched nor even heard of this movie when I was a kid! The Harpy seems more creepy, sinister and dangerous in my opinion than the Red Bull!
And to think, Harpies are known to lie down with men. That is just creepy --- that they are meant to target a whole half of humanity like that. Of course the film creators knew this because no-one does not know it.
the unicorn was fully aware that the danger the harpy poses is specific and predictable; she understood that the harpy is an (immortal) apex predator who is angry and hungry at that moment. the unicorn showed no fear and parried celaeno’s attacks, and the harpy would have given up even if easier prey didn’t show up at that moment
...I remember how as a kid this scene scared me so much, I did have nightmares...oh yeah, I still remember those nightmares, me playing in the backyard, suddenly I heard a noise, then turn to see it, the harpy, there on a near tree, watching me, me frozing, the harpy making her noises as moves her wings, me unable to even scream, just close my eyes...to soon wake up inside my bed, covered in sweat and my heart racing... Oh sweet old times.
Fun fact! According to the commentary by Peter Begle (the author of the book the movie is based on) he never decribed the harpy with boobs. That was solely the animators touch. Japan gotta Japan I guess. Dear people who are commenting upset. Please note this is a joke. I know harpies have breasts in other cultures. The point is in the book, it was not described as such. Yes, Rankin Bass company worked on it. As did the Japanese animation studio Topcraft, who moved on to become part of Studio ghibli.
This harpy is very strongly based on harpies from Hygini Fabulae, by Gaius Julius Hyginus, his harpies had "heads of birds, wings, human arms with large claws and bellies, breasts and 'parts' of women" so not exactly just Japan being Japan as much as Japan having Greek sources.
American and European media and society used to be filled with sexual stuff with women too only a very short time ago and the west often did way bigger stuff than Japan usually does. I hate people nowadays act like attrative women and sexual stuff with women is a Japan only thing. Nowadays the west does sexual stuff with men all the time but it almost never does it with women anymore. Here in the west now if you focus on hot and sexy girls or do anything sexual with girls everybody is always extremely negative about it but if you do it with guys nobody cares or people even sees it as a good thing. And like the previous comment said this is based on old Greek mythology so its not a Japan thing.
This movie scarred me for life when I watched it. I think I was maybe 8-9? It was terrifying and sad in a way I couldn’t understand at the time. I could never bring myself to watch it again as an adult.
If I were you, I would give this movie one more try. Put it on during a day when you're feeling particularly brave, with a friend or family member to watch it with you. I was traumatized by Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban as a child, and while the werewolf's howl still sends shivers down my spine, it's now my favorite movie of the series. I, too, refused to watch it for years. My family and I would always skip it when watching the series. But when I was older, and felt a little braver, I started watching it. And I found that some scary things stop being so scary after a while, and that you start to notice the other things that make the movie great.
I found it interesting how Fortuna's Crow kept popping up for the rest of the movie, like a semi-additional companion for the group, and ultimately goes to live in the Unicorn's forest by the end.
was it evil from the harpy to try and kill the unicorn? i think not because despite the truth that they are in fact sisters she will always be a predator and the unicorn was the first available prey around... as for the old woman, she had set her fate the moment she captured this dangerous magical being. her pride and arrogance became her doom
Honestly though, Fortuna got what she wanted. She knew the harpy would kill her, and it was just a matter of when. However, the memory of the old woman will live on. Caelena will forever remember that a mere mortal once held her prisoner, humiliation that will last for eternity. If anything that just makes Fortuna one of the more admirable antagonists. She’s arrogant and prideful, but she understands exactly what she’s getting into and doesn’t regret it one bit.
This movie is rated G. When I first watched it and saw the harpy I was like "What the fuck? This is rated G! Why?!" Maybe it's because it was 1982, stuff like that is okay in G-rated films and the fact it was animated by Topcraft, an anime company. There was cussing in this movie.
when I was small I was scared at this part and then I got over it, ide watch this movie over and over till i passed out. I still have it but its in no condition~
I remember this movie like a fever dream from my childhood, now that I'm an adult I almost felt like I never actually watched it. It was absolutely terryfing but facinating and beautiful at the same time, and now It's back, in my reccomendations Imma watch it again ✌️
I watched it all the time apparently and yet when I watched it as an adult it felt like I was watching it for the very first time. So weird. It's like it made its way into some deep part of my mind. Nothing else that I watched this frequently as a kid did that. Little kid me knew there was some deep stuff going on 😂
The last unicorn is My favorite movie, I use it as a test for potential partners. If they can watch the whole thing without making a rude comment about the soundtrack than they pass . The soundtrack fucking rocks.
Mommy Fortuna, the poor old woman, owner of the Midnight Carnival. She chose her own death the night the harpy was set free and it killed her. Fortuna was a witch of sorcery and used her illusion spell to disguise animals as unpleasant creatures such as a lion into a manticore, an ape into a satyr and a snake into a midgard serpent. And there were also real creatures like the dragon, the harpy and the unicorn. But when the unicorn was released by Schmendrick the Magician, she freed the caged animals and the harpy too. Once she killed Mommy Fortuna and her assistant, the Schmendrick and the unicorn escaped the carnival without running and looking back. Like the unicorn said, "you must never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention," and she was right. At least the harpy was set free and not caged anymore. I'm glad of it.
Is there a comparison to be drawn between the harpy’s and Mommy Fortune relationship and Lady Almathea/Unicorn and Lir? Fortune’s desire to keep the Harpy for a ridiculously bold reason-“a chance at immortality,” represents greed and arrogance, which could be the exact opposite of Lir’s desire to love Lady Almathea and earn her heart in return, in a way which I consider to be full of respect and reverence to her character? In both cases, the unicorn is disguised from the public and in both cases the unicorn is trapped. The only difference is that the unicorn recognized the historic, infamous wrath of petty human desires unflinchingly, while in the other the unicorn was shocked to discover an individual kindness that being an immortal creature could not have expected. I need sleep
This film had wonder, fantasy, mystery, adventure, horror and drama all rolled into one. I ask you, how many other films have done this? I can think of barely a handful.
I absolutely adored & was in total awe of this movie as a child! I had it on VHS 📼 When my daughter was little I found it on DVD 📀 We still have that one! And one day I’ll show it to my grandchildren.. 🤍 🦄💙 🧙🏼♂️ 🪄
Whaddup Chameleon I rewatched dozens of times as a kid and had no idea lol. I did notice her teeth and ears, though lol. Although, the tree struck me as odd, though. I wasn't sure just what, but I noticed something was maybe off, lol.
Now please bear in mind that I've never seen this movie in full, I've only heard of it from video reviews from over a decade ago... with that said, I always found it interesting that they had a man do the voice of that harpy despite the fact that harpies are meant to be female. It just adds to the qualities of her hideousness in my opinion. I don't think I've ever heard a man's voice saying "Set me free, we are sisters you and I" and found it out of place in my entire life. It just oddly fits.
I was visiting Mexico when I first saw this movie as a small boy. That was over 20 years ago now and I’ve never forgotten this movie. Truly an underrated classic
Lord if it were me in Schmendricks shoes having to slowly and calmly walk away from a grizzly double murder (or risk being a third casualty if I foolishly ran) I’d be stuck to the Unicorn like gorilla glue and I’d be crying rivers and shaking like a leaf caught out in a hurricane with every step. 😰
A while ago- we had gotten a DVD copy because my mom introduced us to this movie when we were kids. Loved it. Watched it...everyday when we were youngin's. I was disappointed because the copy we got didn't show the witch dead on the ground and they cropped out "DAMN YOU" when Molly was crying to Amalthea.
"Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage and she hears you" is such a raw line. You can tell she knows this for sure, and that it is a dire warning.
The harpy is a immortal magical being. It was only a matter of time before she escape. Fortuna was aware of that, she admitted to the unicorn that she knew the harpy would be the death of her.
That and "Don't look back, and don't run. NEVER run from anything Immortal, it attracts their attention." You can hear it in her voice... SHE wants to run but she knows better.
Fortuna knew this, that was something she’d accepted, and saw that as a form of assuring her own immortality, of sorts. After a few generations, most humans forget past, deceased humans ever existed, and Fortuna knew she’d be forgotten by man; but the Harpy would never forget who had caged her, and would remember her forever on. Twisted but affective.
@@kiddfaith4397 "I held you"
Indeed. The frustration at such a memory, of being held helpless by a mortal creature, will likely haunt that harpy forever.
Gives me goosebumps
Fortuna didn't even mind dying because she knew she'd live rent free in the harpy's brain for all eternity.
Indeed, from a certain point of view, she acquired her immortality through this way.
There really are people like this. People who do horrible thing to others just for the sick satisfaction of knowing they'll forever be a core memory for the ones they hurt. The best punishment for those vile people is honestly just forgetting them. Nothing wounds them more than being so insignificant that they're not even worth a partial memory.
@@MistressSuki92 this is pretty much what she did. It's not that she was happy to die, but that she knew her immortality started the second she was killed.
Like the Unicorn said, it was what she wanted
@@MistressSuki92 I choose to forget them but my subconscious does not.
"you must never run from anything immortal it attracts their attention"
that line always sticks with me when I get the creepy feeling I'm being watched by something not human, or when something stands in the corner of your eye but disappears once you look
That is scary. Please pray and ask God for protection from these evil spirits. Don't let them have power over you. I wish you the best 🙏
See...why did you have to go and add that last part?
@@ldangerb7962 fuck god 😂
God is one of the things I want to get away from. Why would I ever want to worship a “god” who threatens to torture me if I don’t obey him? He’s evil.
there are so many haunting things like this I remember from these cartoons as a kid.
Schmendrick: _Literally having a panic attack at the Harpy being released and devouring Mommy Fortuna._
The Unicorn: *"It is what it is."*
It doesn’t look like a harpy
The unicorn did flinch a little.
Lord if it were me in Schmendricks shoes having to slowly and calmly walk away from a grizzly double murder (or risk being a third casualty if I foolishly ran) I’d stuck to the Unicorn like gorilla glue and I’d be crying rivers and shaking like a leaf caught out in a hurricane with every step.
Well, it IS what it is. Fortuna was greedy and very sure of herself. Her arrogance got her killed and the unicorn even warned her as much.
I think it’s explained that unicorns don’t feel emotions like humans do
I saw this as a young child, and let me tell you: that scene still givers me chills to this day. It wasn't the Harpy that frightened me, though: it was how willingly Fortuna literally EMBRACED HER DEATH. Seleno was careening toward her and she grinned. She was likely wearing that smile as the Harpy ATE HER. Having controlled magical creatures for even a few years left her so fulfilled that she was unafraid to DIE. What a mindset; to be enthralled with a thing or concept you know will kill you so much that you will hold it forever. Until the day it destroys you. Scary stuff.
Fortuna did it for the same reason people have children: a form of immortality for themselves. Parents imagine they will be remembered by their offspring, but the truth is that everyone is forgotten by the fourth generation or so. What was your great, great grandmother's favorite color? You don't know, and you never will.
But Fortuna died knowing that a truly immortal being will remember her literally forever. As the sun burns out, as the stars die, that harpy will still curse her, and thus remember her name.
These days, the closest thing we got to that are cigarettes and politicians.
Yeah I ended up watching this way too young I remember absolutely nothing except for the ocean unicorns, the last unicorn and the bull.
Yep, but it was definitely the skeleton scene that did it for me.
What movie is this? I’m dying to try and figure it out and watch iy
Best part of this sequence is how Fortuna's like: "Yes, she'll kill me. But she'll remember me for eternity because I held her." She's not even the least bit afraid. For an antagonist, she's respectable.
Also, the details in the animation subtly give you a hint as to how STRONG that Harpy is. Her perch, CREAKS dangerously with every squeeze of her talons. A more than likely four-inch thick piece of hardwood, ominously straining under the crushing power of her barely contained rage. And then, when the lock is broken, and whatever magic constrains Celaeno is broken, she _immediately_ annihilates the cage wagon that was her prison. Schmendrick was wise to be afraid of letting her loose.
I get what you're saying, but I think that Fortuna is a good example of why human evil is so much more despicable than creatures like the harpy. The harpy is what it is, it acts according to its design. Fortuna is a human, with free will and agency, and CHOSE to be cruel and spiteful. I don't like the harpy and it's clearly an evil creature, but seeing it locked up made me pity it.
@@louthegiantcookie what a profound observation. I love the way you distinguished between the evil of the harpy as being an immortal creature who just IS, with it's nature predetermined and set in stone vs humanity that has a say in how they act and behave. And how since we have free will that the times we choose to be evil is more vile because it was a choice. But it begs the question, if the Harpy's true nature is that of an evil creature and has no choice in what it's nature is, can we really call it evil? Because for the most part among humanity evil is a choice so is the Harpy truly evil or just primal. Maybe primal is the wrong word because it has an intelligence about it. It spoke to the unicorn and is self aware to know it is magical and plead it's case for freedom. Or do you think the harpy truly is evil and had a choice even while lacking the free will and agency of humanity to be malevolent that is unique to what it is?
@@Passions5555 In my opinion the harpy is evil and is just pissed she was bested by a elderly midget
@@Passions5555 To be evil, you have to know the difference between good and evil and actively choose evil. If the harpy just act according to her nature, is she really evil?
@Éfar Isti that is the question that I am putting forth.
"She will kill you."
"No doubt. But she will always remember me, remember that she was once caged up, and that it was I who caged her. There's my bit of immortality for you."
I don't know how much I respect that point of view. It really seems silly to me. All she wanted was someone to remember her with contempt?
I like the idea of someone ageless becoming somewhat more removed and whimsical. Anything they do gets erased with time. I wonder if this idea comes as a result of a world where actions were less persistent. Today social media keeps all our little details in crystal clarity to be looked back on.
Andrea Pegasus Never said I endorsed her viewpoint, I was simply quoting it. No hard feelings though, just clarifying.
Soooo fucked up.
Love it.
''You must never run,from anything immortal,it attracks their attention''
+Andrea Pegasus She held immortal creatures captive. So that's an accomplishment no witch has ever dreamed of so Fortuna feels a sense of life achievement.
While it terrified me as a kid, I did learn not to run from predators. I remember getting away from a dog by just walking slowly. A friend of mine panicked in the same situation and got bitten. I guess it's a german thing to terrify children with stories in order to teach good lessons. It works.
I learned this exact thing at a young age, I don’t even think anyone taught me. Running from a stray animal (ex. a dog) will always be the worst decision. The animal literally can’t chase you if you’re not running, but some peoples flight kicks in and they can’t help it
Yeah i think it also depends on the dog, some will leave you alone if you act thought but others will take it as if you were mocking them and were a threat
Staring a dog in the eyes is a dominance thing in dog body language. If you are maintaining eye contact it could be seen as a challenge.
I was told to just not move at all and avoid eye contact, it saved my life
Education is seen as boring, and memorizing is a long and difficult process that only works with repetition and/or self motivation.
Fear will haunt you, and teach you to survive any time you are afraid again. That's why we have fear, after all; to survive when our brain can't think fast enough.
In the book the harpy said " I will kill you if you set me free, set me free".
I will bite the hand that feeds, now feed me.
Well, she's a harpy, so she was going to behave like a harpy.
Like Mr. Dung Eater
Considering the unicorn thought she might be the last of her kind, it makes sense that she might be considering the harpy's deal. She is terribly lonely after all
@@samwiseraleigh7833 Unicorns are use to loneliness, it's their nature after all. She didn't seemed to be bothered by being alone until she learned she might be the last.
Fun fact. There's also a book and in the book harpy was more honest about herself and warned the unicorn that she will kill her if she will free her. The unicorn still freed her.
If I’m not mistaken, she cares for all creatures of the forest(?) So that makes sense.
But why did the harpy want to kill the unicorn if she freed her?
@@godfirst3709 I think it was just simply part of her nature. Just like the unicorn was like a protector of life and symbol of pozitive magic the harpy was her complete oposite.
That is why I prefer the lines in this film, she says in this "set me free, we are sisters you and I"
@@eleanorhogan8643 Prefer the book, because the movie makes the Harpy Dishonest and "bad" to simplify the character for the Audience. the Book is essentially the Harpy saying "I am what I am" and the Unicorn responds in kind.
Imagine as an Adult watching a Lion hunt and kill a Gazelle and the animal tracker tells you "The Lion does this because it is cruel and evil" and being enough of a simpleton to need that type of an explanation because you cannot fathom animals will do what is in there nature and it is neither good or evil, that term has no place with them.
"You must never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention"
Darth Fedor She is highly intelligent.
God somewhere be like DA FUQ U RUNNIN FO BITCH
thats a life lesson
Unicorn with the factoids.
When I was young I thought the Harpy could only see movement. I wasn't until many years later did it occur to me it's because people can't see immortals for what they are. Thus if you were to run, it's likely you saw past the magic.
The line "You must never run from anything immortal" actually helped saved my butt as a kid when I was on a trail hike on a path I frequently took to go and help at the ranch I lived by, and a coyote or wolf stepped out of nowhere. I think we surprised each other, thankfully, the big guy wasn't hostile, so I just stayed still and spoke until he walked away, and calmly walked to the ranch and got a lift back on the main road after explaining that incident. ^.^'
Wow that's amazing but terrifying glad everything was safe for you
Actually wolves tend to leave people alone. There's actually only been 2 recorded wolf attacks in the past 150 years and both of those involved a dog with the person, and the person wasn't even harmed
It's wild dogs you have to worry about.
@@Shadowtiger2564 Thank you, I actually am aware of those statistics. I live in a rural area where both coyotes and wolves are very abundant. However, I never said I was attacked, just that staying still thanks to remembering that phrase helped me keep calm.
That was lucky.
@@Shadowtiger2564 that is not even remotely true. Literally hundreds of people have been killed by wolves in recent times. mostly children in developing nations but say in the US two fatalities happened within the last 20 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks
Best advice: "you must never run from anything immortal".
BrownRiceBunny1 "It attracts their attention" 0.0 woah.
Never run from anything if you don't want to be chased.
Isn't it "immoral" not "immortal"...
Thanks for the advice.
Fluffy Sheep,
Watch the movie if you're confused.
Harpy: Let me free
Unicorn: Mmkay *opens cage*
Harpy crushes cage instead of flying through the door...
I noticed that, too lol.
Well since she was caught it held her inside not by the strength of tbe cage but by the rules of magic
I always assumed the lock was magic.
MrOrmanley
It was the magic that allowed the Harpy to be free.
2:02 It's explained here.
“ your death sits in that cage and she hears you”...damn
To think harpies started out as beautiful half woman half eagle emissaries of the air and then turned into just the most grotesque gargoyles conceivable.
She looks more like a giant vulture.
likely making her a grotesque gargoyle creature was a deliberate choice to desexualize the concept, since the movie is very pg.
Harpies got the Christian treatment like everything else in the religions of old or other. If it’s not defined or mentioned in the Bible, then it’s evil.
@@bethnor **the tree tho**
Yeah, now it's just a vulture with boobs. I'll give it to them, if the goal is to scare us, I would be scared of a vulture with boobs.
Friendship may be magic, but magic may not always be nice.
Using the power of friendship to turn your enemies into stone or banish them is not a nice thing to do, but it is sometimes necessary.
Nice quote Sassy but please return to the LISA franchise, it's both surprising and terry-fying that i see LISA fans in random places
@@captaindevileye3682 i ain't goin back!! you cant make me!!!
I certainly did not expect to see a lisa fan here
Did someone say friendship is magic
I love the appearance of the unicorn, it looks like an antelope with a horse's head with a horn and a lion's tail. it makes her look more personal, more real than being just a horned horse.
Éfar Isti that what old depictions of unicorns were.
ah, in this case, the modern versions have brought it much closer to the horse. for some reasons.
Éfar Isti that... that is literally how a unicorn used to be depicted
If you would show a 'modern' unicorn to everyone from just a 100 years ago, they would laugh at you and think you were crazy.
Honestly I hate the modern version, the only time I like it is when it is from My Little Pony. But otherwise, no. Just no.
Éfar Isti and the cloven hooves, don't forget them! That's my biggest issue with most renditions of unicorns
I think this is the only depiction of a harpy I've seen that is actually scary. It's human enough to be uncanny, but animal enough to be monstrous. You really feel like this is a creature that could actually exist, and that the world is better off because it does not.
You might like the harpies drawn by Paperiapina
(I'll try linking their art, but yt might not allow it)
@@GandalfTheTsaaganI'd say just sharing the name is more than enough. We can start our own research from there. Thanks, mate! 👍
I thought Harpies were half woman and half bird. but this one seems to be all bird. Like a giant evil turkey.
The real Celaeno is more beautiful than any woman you have ever seen
Fortuna's entire schtick was that she wanted to be remembered, perhaps praised, but remembered for her greatness. She got what she wanted when she caged the harpy, which is why she felt mystified when she saw the unicorn but not overjoyed or exhilarated.
Being remembered for all eternity by immortal creatures, especially the harpy, means her memory will live on while all other mortals perish from the earth. That's my theory, anyway.
I think that is a good theory.
That's literally in the book. Fortuna straight-up says that the harpy will never forget her because she had successfully caged the harpy. And existing in the memory of an immortal creature is a type of immortality itself.
I can see that I suppose
"Free her!"
"What? And leave show business?"
She outright says it herself
Huh, never really noticed the harpy breasts before. And I never really noticed how violent this scene is for children. Jeez, I first watched this back when I was 5 and I wasn't bothered badly at all.
those are serious boobies. and yep, this film at 7 shaped my life. I love the America soundtrack, I weep..jeeeez
that makes 2 of us
+Sarah Dunning make that 3 and chances are the numbers will keep growing. Heh I actually showed this to my younger cousin
Ashley Iglesias
my 7 year old sister likes this movie, but cant
stand movies with less horror than this
Sarah Dunning LOL I showed it to my cousin because she really liked unicorns and to me this was to perfect opportunity to show her what a fantastic movie this was
"Set me free... We are Sisters, you and I..." was the most raw line I heard from the harpy, if not her only line. It stuck with me since I first watched it
FACT: The Harpy's voice actor was a man. His name was René Auberjonois, he also voiced the elder vampire Janos Audron in the Legacy of Kain videogame series. He is now sadly deceased, so are Angela Lansbury (Mommy Fortuna the witch) & Christopher Lee (King Haggard). RIP you legends, you may be gone but you will certainly NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!
How could you forget Odo?
@@ChoppaBoy . Oh right. I haven't watched Star Trek in ages, he was the Shapeshifter in Deep Space Nine. No you couldn't forget him if you were either a Trekkie or a fan of the actor.
Actually, the voice of the harpy is Keenan Wynn. Rene Auberjonois voiced the Skull.
_You're telling me that_ CONSTABLE ODO was the voice of that Harpy?! 🤯
May he rest in peace, yo. He was a legend in more ways then one.
Not just that, he voiced Mr. House from Fallout New Vegas too
When I was a child that harpy terrified me just as much , if not more than the red bull. She was something like primordial evil or horror. She reminded me of the force of nature. Despite being intelligent and ancient she was a beast .
I agree, and I think part of it was that the harpy just... left. The red bull, as powerful and terrifying as it was meant to be, was positioned as an antagonist, a force to be confronted and overcome. The harpy was set up as an evil immortal being of old magic that would absolutely kill the unicorn given the chance, and the only reason she and Schmendrick got away was that she wasn't going to bother looking harder for them and just flew off into the night. Gone, but only for now, and for a little kid, that meant that she was still out there somewhere.
That actually makes perfect sense because there used to be giant birds on Earth and our ancestors were on the menu.
@@Glassgothgirl No actually
Humans were never really hunted by birds
This is why we are really bad at looking up.
I real life where we rarely want to crane our necks, we don't love having cover above us like cats and dogs. But also in the digital world, in games one thing one quickly notice when they start looking.
People do not look up
@@Cerebrosum in Tribes 2 you got in the habit of looking up because everyone had jetpacks
oh DAMN, this is a HARPY ass harpy. Not any of these anime style ones. It is an old fashioned, greek myth one- in all of its horribleness.
One of the best classic fantasy stories to ever exist, in my opinion. Mythology is scary, and modern day fantasy doesn't explore that aspect of itself enough.
@@silversamurai0267 Lovecraft is one of the few that does so and even then his themes are starkly different: a vast, distant and apathetic thing that destroys simply because it IS, vs the horrors in myths that actively seek out and destroy.
@@silversamurai0267 It can be scary, but it is damn hard to have something positioned as female without it getting turned into a waifu, or at least into something with tits slapped on (...ok, non horrifying tits).
Schmendrich: "Run away from here now!"
Unicorn (puts on shades): "No. I don't run"
scariest moment of my childhood :')
spooky Lilly same
spooky Lilly yep ;v;
never was my childhood wished i saw it :I
Its was like my favorite show
spooky Lilly This scene always scared me as well.
Damn this shit is downright unsettling. I didn't even bat an eye at it when I watched this as a 6 year old. Plus I never noticed the harpy's breasts 😐
Vipere neither did I tell you pointed it out to me. Thanks a lot.
I did
I definitely did... D':
I never noticed it when I was a kid. I'm 33 now...even more surprising that this film is rated "G"?!
Three boobs to be precise
This movie has so many life lessons it's amazing. This showing how even when you do right for some the evil in them still over powers
Very true. I remember watching this as a kid and knowing that despite the Unicorn's good intentions, the Harpy was still dangerous and not to be trusted.
I remember an Aesop's fable; a farmer picked up a snake which was ice cold, and put it under his shirt to warm it up. When the snake could move again, it bit the farmer, poisoning him with deadly venom. When the farmer asked the snake "Why did you bite me after I saved you?" it responded, "It's in my nature, after all I am a snake."
Janet Kazarowski Funny was just going to say the frog and the scorpion.
I love how it shows doing good purely for goodness' sake, not doing good expecting gratitude or a reward. The unicorn knew it was unwise to set the harpy free, but she did it anyway and was ready to handle the consequences of doing what she believed was right.
I didn't get it when I was a kid, but when I watched this recently I found a new respect for Mommy Fortuna. She caught and caged Celaeno, fully aware that it would one day break free and kill her. But in a way that was the point, "you never could have freed yourselves alone. I held you." Fortuna would still die the victor because Celaeno would always remember. It wasn't brought low by powerful sorcery, just the magic of a shriveled old hedge with running a third rate side show of illusions.
Darth Karnis yes and as Fortuna pointed out the harpy only escaped bc the unicorn set her free and not by her power something that resonances with the Celaeno
when Celaeno said to the unicorn you are sisters you and me it her saying it out of respect and knowing they are the same race of the possible last
I never fully understood why the Harpy went after Unicorn, but now that I'm older, I understand a little better that he was simply a demonic being basically.
*she all harpys are female
You're wrong, the harpy was trapped and used as a spectacle and abused for so long, trapped in her hatred she repeated the only kind words she heard in so long. "We are sisters you and I". The unicorn said they were and the harpy blind with rage and hatred attacked any and all who moved including her saviour. She was blinded by the ages of abuse Mommie Fortuna had put her through and could no longer tell friend from foe. Not to mention she was probably starved adding to her abusive situation. All beasts in that carnival were abused including the unicorn upon her short encounter with the witch.
Demons are not to blame for everything the witch was human and in her human nature committed evil that would eventually demand feeding.
And the harpy fed. And eventually she will return to whence she came and recuperate becoming her old self though predator she would remain.
Just because she's a predator does not mean she's a demon.
She only did what came to her naturally being starved and abused the way she was. She was entitled to her vengeance and sadly the unicorn and the wizard were in the cross hairs of her burning anger.
In case you didn't know, it actually WAS a man doing the Harpy's Voice. René Auburjonois, better known as the Ancient Vampire Janos Audron from the Legacy of Kain Videogames. Creepy Eh?
+elizabeth ann o'connell oh i remember rene from star trek ds9 as odo lmao
GreenCookieWolf AJ. I remember the show but I wasn't a frequent watcher of it, who was Odo? Was he the Shape Shifter?
"Set me free. We are sisters, you and I" for some reason that line always stuck with me since I was a kid
Seriously one the best designed Harpies ever in my opinion . Really love that they both made it look monstrous yet also kinda animalistic .
a harp with low hanging tits lmao
Just wanted a cute movie about a unicorn from blockbuster and came out a little scarred as a kid from this scene 🤣
This scared kids
@@robertbreschard3493 All Dogs Go To Heaven / Land Before Time ... TLU = honorary Bluth
Found this movie as a kid at the rental store, expecting a cute, happy movie about a unicorn. Then this scene played and proceeded to gave me nightmares. However, I would rent it again and again. Even found the book and read it. Love both incarnations to this day. Kind of wish they had been able to keep Hagsgate, but you can't have everything. Still a great movie, even if it scared the bejeezus out of 7 year old me.
That last line about "Arachne" after Fortuna's carnival fell still haunts me.
@@MonstrousRegiment is Arachne in the book? I don't remember in film
@@AXELcreepMANIA Yes. She wasn't in the film. Mommy Fortuna had two extra beings in the last rings of the carnival. One was herself standing in as Elli, the Norse personification of old age, but another was a simple spider that fell hard for Fortuna's illusions and actually *believed* she was Arachne, spinning galaxies in her webs. The unicorn seemed to feel pity for her, believing what she wasn't, and her calls to the spider that reality was better went unheeded. When Fortuna dies and the Harpy goes free, all the other animals escape of course, but as Schmendrick and the unicorn walk away, the sound of the spider's weeping fades in the distance. It kinda bookends the unicorn's struggle with her brief mortality in a sense, the other side of that coin being that you tasted what you thought was immortality and limitless potential, but it was just a warped dream.
This was nightmare fuel for me as a kid. 21 now and it still disturbs me...
Alan Morris 5to
It literally took me like 15 years to figure out why I have a returning nightmare of a really big monstrous looking eagle in the woods that can somehow find me by having a frenzy on an old lady, until I saw this again. People say they never noticed as a kid how unsettling it is. Well for me this whole movie always got me horrified but at the same time I was so amazed by it. Must have watched it like a hundred times as a kid. Like other movies/series that gave me that same feeling...The Land Before Time, Watership Down, The Animals of Farthing Wood, some intense parts of Fantasia. It was all so damn disturbing but so good as well.
Really TearStreakedPhoenix? That didn't happen with me
I never noticed they showed Fortuna and Rukh’s corpses after the Harpy killed them
yeah I didn't notice that either, I noticed it this time around
that line, (You must never run from anything Immortal, it attracts their attention) seems to have attracted alot of attention for no particular reason.
Not for no reason. Because it's true. You never run from anything beyond your understanding or ability to fight. If you run the creature knows you're weaker and easy pickings. If you walk you instill a shred of doubt in most predators of "this thing isn't messing with me because it just doesn't want to waste it's energy. It can probably kill me." And immortal creatures if they do exist just won't see you as worth their time because you put on an air of confidence and will seemingly fight back.
I remember watching this as a kid, multiple times, and it never even registered with me that the harpy had bare breasts. Huh.
Shiranova nowadays theyd censore it...
I was always more confused that she has 3 instead of 2.
Saaaame
i mean, it would look silly with a bra
Bc it was a harpy. A creature, like a cow with udders. And yet, also a mockery of the feminine in a way.
"Let me free. We are /s i s t e r s/ you and I."
Semi Perfect Cell. Make that brother. It was a man doing the Harpy's voice, his name is René Auberjonois, he did the voice of Janos Audron in the Legacy of Kain Videogames. Janos was the oldest living Vampire in the games story.
Elizabeth Ann O'Connell
Still sisters, all harpies are female so.
Elizabeth Ann O'Connell regardless of voice , harpies are all female for a race of mythical creatures.
The most metal line in the film
@LaBelleDame DuManor I think that was intentional, as the harpy was a mockery and twisting of ideal femininity: a female creature which is not feminine.
wait does it have 3 titties
Enzo greeck mythology 😏😏
Yep, she indeed has
Envious Green Egyptian mythology...
Enzo I never noticed that as a kid...
I feel like they got rid of that in the version I watched.
1:19 does anyone else like the neigh she does sometimes?
Its so cute! Never noticed it before
Oof! 💞 right in the cute feels
Wow! No wonder I never watched nor even heard of this movie when I was a kid! The Harpy seems more creepy, sinister and dangerous in my opinion than the Red Bull!
In Ancient Greek Polytheism, harpies were believed to be wind spirits sent by Zeus to punish evildoers. So they're naturally supposed to be scary
Really? I watched this and Flight of Dragons hundreds of times as a kid.
And to think, Harpies are known to lie down with men. That is just creepy --- that they are meant to target a whole half of humanity like that. Of course the film creators knew this because no-one does not know it.
@@thegrimmretails3777 Flight of dragons is good...I love rankin bass movies
When I babysat I watched a 4yo girl who would only watch this or the Land Before Time
A creature with three breasts that kills an old lady.
A FAMILY PICTURE!
srbarkerchan
Hey, i saw Total Recall in theaters 4 times when i was 8 and noticed the woman in that movie had 3 tits too
srbarkerchan These wer kids movies before they had to be happy go lucky, welcome to the good 'ol days
+douglas “Ansury” wahid
that last paraghraph, i was the evil middle child, always trying to get my big brother in trouble
And Tom and Jerry were two household animals brutally attacking each other with dangerous weapons. Your point?
I love Mia Farrow's voice.
Lily Chun Best voice acting I have ever heard!
Lily Chun ,😑😑😑😑
THATS MIA FARROW? SHE HAD THE DEVILS KID NKW SHES A UNICORN???
AND SHE WAS MARRIED TO FRANK SINATRA CHRIST CRAZIEST LIFE EVA
I came to this video on a complete whim and it opens me to a commercial for Red Bull. Coincidence?
Bluedragon094 NOOOOOOOOH THE UNICORNS!!!!!!!
I DON'T THINK SO! .jpg
... Just don't drink it near the sea...
This movie was such a work of art.
the unicorn was fully aware that the danger the harpy poses is specific and predictable; she understood that the harpy is an (immortal) apex predator who is angry and hungry at that moment. the unicorn showed no fear and parried celaeno’s attacks, and the harpy would have given up even if easier prey didn’t show up at that moment
“You must never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention.”
Me, taking notes: Aight aight, thanks for the tip queen
"Not alone!! You never could have freed yourselves alone!! I held you!!"
That's gotta be the most terrifying part of the movie, imo.
Exactly
...I remember how as a kid this scene scared me so much, I did have nightmares...oh yeah, I still remember those nightmares, me playing in the backyard, suddenly I heard a noise, then turn to see it, the harpy, there on a near tree, watching me, me frozing, the harpy making her noises as moves her wings, me unable to even scream, just close my eyes...to soon wake up inside my bed, covered in sweat and my heart racing...
Oh sweet old times.
Fun fact! According to the commentary by Peter Begle (the author of the book the movie is based on) he never decribed the harpy with boobs. That was solely the animators touch.
Japan gotta Japan I guess.
Dear people who are commenting upset. Please note this is a joke. I know harpies have breasts in other cultures. The point is in the book, it was not described as such. Yes, Rankin Bass company worked on it. As did the Japanese animation studio Topcraft, who moved on to become part of Studio ghibli.
This harpy is very strongly based on harpies from Hygini Fabulae, by Gaius Julius Hyginus, his harpies had "heads of birds, wings, human arms with large claws and bellies, breasts and 'parts' of women" so not exactly just Japan being Japan as much as Japan having Greek sources.
American and European media and society used to be filled with sexual stuff with women too only a very short time ago and the west often did way bigger stuff than Japan usually does.
I hate people nowadays act like attrative women and sexual stuff with women is a Japan only thing.
Nowadays the west does sexual stuff with men all the time but it almost never does it with women anymore.
Here in the west now if you focus on hot and sexy girls or do anything sexual with girls everybody is always extremely negative about it but if you do it with guys nobody cares or people even sees it as a good thing.
And like the previous comment said this is based on old Greek mythology so its not a Japan thing.
The harpies in ancient Greece mythology were large birds with human heads and breasts.
This was made by Raskin Bass...
I think it works really well. It really helps sell the vibe that it's not quite animal and not quite human
This movie scarred me for life when I watched it. I think I was maybe 8-9? It was terrifying and sad in a way I couldn’t understand at the time. I could never bring myself to watch it again as an adult.
Creature of mystery that unicorn
You should try again when you get a chance, It's really worth it!
Same
I was the exact opposite. I saw it a a kid and I fell in love with the movie. I watched it over and over.
If I were you, I would give this movie one more try. Put it on during a day when you're feeling particularly brave, with a friend or family member to watch it with you.
I was traumatized by Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban as a child, and while the werewolf's howl still sends shivers down my spine, it's now my favorite movie of the series. I, too, refused to watch it for years. My family and I would always skip it when watching the series. But when I was older, and felt a little braver, I started watching it.
And I found that some scary things stop being so scary after a while, and that you start to notice the other things that make the movie great.
"do not boost old woman your death rests in that cage and she hears you..."
I found it interesting how Fortuna's Crow kept popping up for the rest of the movie, like a semi-additional companion for the group, and ultimately goes to live in the Unicorn's forest by the end.
The only thing that kept the harpy from tearing apart the entire wagon from within was that lock.
was it evil from the harpy to try and kill the unicorn? i think not because despite the truth that they are in fact sisters she will always be a predator and the unicorn was the first available prey around... as for the old woman, she had set her fate the moment she captured this dangerous magical being. her pride and arrogance became her doom
I agree. It wasn't evil the same way a lion eating an antelope is not evil. It is simply her nature.
Honestly though, Fortuna got what she wanted. She knew the harpy would kill her, and it was just a matter of when. However, the memory of the old woman will live on. Caelena will forever remember that a mere mortal once held her prisoner, humiliation that will last for eternity.
If anything that just makes Fortuna one of the more admirable antagonists. She’s arrogant and prideful, but she understands exactly what she’s getting into and doesn’t regret it one bit.
"Let me out, we are sisters you and I."
By far, my favorite line of all time.
In the book, Celaeno actually says, "I will kill you if you set me free. Set me free."
@@Godzillakingofkaiju1 I should have known this was based on a book. Thank you ! When did you read it? 😦
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@@Godzillakingofkaiju1 Cool ! Thought maybe you were a kid also, when this movie came out.
I bet if the Harpy Celaeno met the Harpagornis Eagle she wouldn't seem as scary in comparison . . .
The bird had fuckin HRANNY TITs
This movie is rated G. When I first watched it and saw the harpy I was like "What the fuck? This is rated G! Why?!" Maybe it's because it was 1982, stuff like that is okay in G-rated films and the fact it was animated by Topcraft, an anime company. There was cussing in this movie.
have you ever seen watership down? another old violent kids movie its so good tho
pandalover22100 YES YES YES 8D that movie is epic! haven't finished it tho.
pandalover22100 it's based on a novel and that novel is not for kids.
+Lily Pham yeah, the full movie is on TH-cam I can send you the link if you want
pandalover22100 i want one that is HD and isn't cropped
when I was small I was scared at this part and then I got over it, ide watch this movie over and over till i passed out. I still have it but its in no condition~
To this day, the harpy makes me scared.
It’s not really female
Angela Lansbury makes the best witch in the Last Unicorn and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. RIP Dear Angela 🙏.
Man that crow flew off the witch's shoulder when he saw that thing flying down like "fuck that."
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well, he wasn't going to stay and die, he had nothing to do with it after all.
@America It’s a mood I can definitely respect 😆
lmao imagine caring about likes
@@FoxSqueeArt Hey man it do be like that sometimes 😌✌️
"You must never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention..."
*Runs through the forest with a ribbon baton looking for a unicorn*
0:32 "Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage and she hears you."
Now we need THE LAST HARPY movie
🤣🤣🤣
And tell those animators to not cheap out on those saggalicious tiddy physics
@@ohmygodbecky6829 You are EVIL!
I need that movie right now
One of my favorite movies of all time..
I remember this movie like a fever dream from my childhood, now that I'm an adult I almost felt like I never actually watched it. It was absolutely terryfing but facinating and beautiful at the same time, and now It's back, in my reccomendations
Imma watch it again ✌️
I watched it all the time apparently and yet when I watched it as an adult it felt like I was watching it for the very first time. So weird. It's like it made its way into some deep part of my mind. Nothing else that I watched this frequently as a kid did that. Little kid me knew there was some deep stuff going on 😂
I JUST REDISCOVERED MY CHILDHOOD.. THANK YOU TH-cam. I watched this movie almost every day as a kid.
The last unicorn is
My favorite movie, I use it as a test for potential partners. If they can watch the whole thing without making a rude comment about the soundtrack than they pass . The soundtrack fucking rocks.
When the last eagle soars,
Over the last lonely mountain.
Great test. ❤ My ex scoffed that the book must be better than the movie after just 5 minutes, and pulled out his phone several times. He did not pass.
@@rileyjackson1762 a bop and will always be a bop
Who would make a rude remark about the soundtrack? It's both enchanting and melancholy.
"We are sisters, you and I" -obviously an old man
Naw, just a twisted old woman...
I love the music in the scene where she sets the Harpy free.
at 2:36 as the unicorn is saying "and don't run" just look at the dude's face he looks so unimpressed and annoyed LOL
Great movie, the foreshadowing and the dark elements are the crazy things in the movie.
I watched this over and over and over ..... when I was a kid.
Mommy Fortuna, the poor old woman, owner of the Midnight Carnival. She chose her own death the night the harpy was set free and it killed her. Fortuna was a witch of sorcery and used her illusion spell to disguise animals as unpleasant creatures such as a lion into a manticore, an ape into a satyr and a snake into a midgard serpent. And there were also real creatures like the dragon, the harpy and the unicorn. But when the unicorn was released by Schmendrick the Magician, she freed the caged animals and the harpy too. Once she killed Mommy Fortuna and her assistant, the Schmendrick and the unicorn escaped the carnival without running and looking back. Like the unicorn said, "you must never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention," and she was right. At least the harpy was set free and not caged anymore. I'm glad of it.
"Your death sits in that cage, and she hears you"
Is there a comparison to be drawn between the harpy’s and Mommy Fortune relationship and Lady Almathea/Unicorn and Lir?
Fortune’s desire to keep the Harpy for a ridiculously bold reason-“a chance at immortality,” represents greed and arrogance, which could be the exact opposite of Lir’s desire to love Lady Almathea and earn her heart in return, in a way which I consider to be full of respect and reverence to her character?
In both cases, the unicorn is disguised from the public and in both cases the unicorn is trapped. The only difference is that the unicorn recognized the historic, infamous wrath of petty human desires unflinchingly, while in the other the unicorn was shocked to discover an individual kindness that being an immortal creature could not have expected.
I need sleep
I remember watching this when I was little. I didn't realize the harpy had breasts then. I wonder what else I overlooked during my childhood?
I loved this movie when I was younger and still now
Mystic Blue Me too :)
Mystic Blue Same! I still have this movie on a DVD.
I was always scared of that bird thing. But i never remembered it had tiddies
She's so brave and kind.
I love when the harpy lactated. Best part of the movie 10/10. Really adds to plot because the harpy is canonically pregnant.
That’s nasty
@@everlunacreations2712 for a second I thought you said tasty
No she didn't.... Sicko
The plot is lost on you , exploitative loser
Really
This film had wonder, fantasy, mystery, adventure, horror and drama all rolled into one. I ask you, how many other films have done this? I can think of barely a handful.
I absolutely adored & was in total awe of this movie as a child! I had it on VHS 📼
When my daughter was little I found it on DVD 📀
We still have that one! And one day I’ll show it to my grandchildren..
🤍 🦄💙 🧙🏼♂️ 🪄
Loved this movie so much as a kid. I rented the video so many times that my mom started refusing to get it. She’d say not that unicorn movie again. 😁🦄
i never noticed the tits as a kid
omg same
Whaddup Chameleon I rewatched dozens of times as a kid and had no idea lol. I did notice her teeth and ears, though lol.
Although, the tree struck me as odd, though. I wasn't sure just what, but I noticed something was maybe off, lol.
Oh my god
Now please bear in mind that I've never seen this movie in full, I've only heard of it from video reviews from over a decade ago... with that said, I always found it interesting that they had a man do the voice of that harpy despite the fact that harpies are meant to be female.
It just adds to the qualities of her hideousness in my opinion.
I don't think I've ever heard a man's voice saying "Set me free, we are sisters you and I" and found it out of place in my entire life.
It just oddly fits.
Update: I finally did get to watch the movie a few months ago, and BOY is it good!
If you pause at 2:45 you can see that the harpy has already killed Mommy Fortuna, and is now working on Ruhk.
yeah I never evne processed she'd moved onto Ruhk the first time I assumed she had stayed in place
I was visiting Mexico when I first saw this movie as a small boy. That was over 20 years ago now and I’ve never forgotten this movie. Truly an underrated classic
And that is why you don't try to capture and contain mystical creatures.
that harpy scared the living soul outta me as a kid. Scarier than that boob tree scene.
Lord if it were me in Schmendricks shoes having to slowly and calmly walk away from a grizzly double murder (or risk being a third casualty if I foolishly ran) I’d be stuck to the Unicorn like gorilla glue and I’d be crying rivers and shaking like a leaf caught out in a hurricane with every step. 😰
This was one of my favorite movies. But it felt like a fever dream to be watching this scene again tbh
Still love my this movie. One of the best from my childhood.
BEST advice
Never run from something immortal it attracts there attention.
god this movie still holds up.
A while ago- we had gotten a DVD copy because my mom introduced us to this movie when we were kids. Loved it. Watched it...everyday when we were youngin's.
I was disappointed because the copy we got didn't show the witch dead on the ground and they cropped out "DAMN YOU" when Molly was crying to Amalthea.
hate that censorship
I remember being younger and being entralled with the designs of the monsters especially the harpy
The TREE 🤣😭