David Bowie wasn't the man who worked with the crystal balls. They had a professional behind him moving them. Definitely had talent because he wasn't able to see as he was doing it. One of my favorite movies since I was a kid.
This was actually before Green Screen. They were using black sheets and wearing black cloth. They had to make sure there was not a speck of dust on anything or it would show up. And it was also a bit reflective so they had to make sure there was no wrinkles in it. I hope you can check out a behind the scenes doc called Inside The Labyrinth. It's really amazing.
Yeah, it wasn't that green screen didn't exist it was that green screen at the time didn't play nice with the fur on the puppets so they were trying to come up with a method that would look better with the Fiery design.
they were usually blue screens but your right. kinda like how superman the movie had to make supermans suit a different shade of blue otherwise it would disappear when they finished the compositing, and they adjusted the blue shade after to appear to be the color we see on the movie. @@fromthelostdays
The baby was Toby Froud, as many people have mentioned, he was the son of Brian Froud, a fantasy illustrator, and his mother Wendy Froud, a puppeteer. He grew up to be a puppeteer as well and worked on the new Dark Crystal series; his parents met during production of "The Dark Crystal" movie. He ended up creating a production company called Stripey Pajama Productions after the pajamas he wore during this movie.
33:22 Oh, that is all Bowie! There is a picture of him sitting on a boat with his wife and him wearing a Speedo and it's very clear that nothing was added in Labyrinth!
Toby is played by Toby Froud, son of amazing fantasy illustrator Brian Froud. I got to meet Toby at a writers convention. He was there with his own baby dressed in the same outfit that he was wearing in the movie. It was awesome!
I feel like this movie reaction will appeal to a very specific group of people, and I am one of those people XD. Thank you for watching this! It was one of my fav films as a kid and still is today partly from nostalgia, but I also still enjoy the story and characters. When I was a young teen, It was awesome to see a "coming of age" and journey/quest with a teenage girl. There has been a ton of analysis written on how it represents a girl's journey from childhood to womanhood and exploring themes of budding sexuality, individuality, independence and how scary but alluring those things can be. Which was cool to see as a teen girl who was processing all those things too and could relate to Sarah.
For the crotch thing, Bowie was apparently supposed to have a plastic case over it to make it bigger believe it or not, but the end result didn't work out as envisioned so they took it out. Bowie hated reshoots, so the tralalala scene with Hoggle and Sarah is the only one where he wears it as originally planned. Do we see the difference? Nope. But it's part of the charm, I guess XDD
"Everything I've done, I've done for you. I move the stars for no one." Fun Fact: One of the choreographers for this movie was Cheryl McFadden. You and everyone else knows her better as Gates McFadden, Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Dancing Hands Fact: The "Dance Magic" scene consisted of over forty-eight muppets, fifty-two puppeteers, and eight people in goblin costumes. Over one hundred pairs of latex hands were made for the "Helping Hands" scene. Jareth's Balls Fact: The various things that Jareth does with the crystal balls (rolling them around his arms and in his hands and so forth) are not camera tricks or any other kind of special effect. They are actually done by choreographer Michael Moschen, who is an accomplished juggler. Moschen was actually crouched behind David Bowie with his arm(s) replacing Bowie's. Unlike a typical Muppet performance, however, he had no video screen to view his performance. In other words, his manipulations were performed completely blind.
There are actually 7 (I think) faces of Bowie hidden in the movie. It's supposed to signify that the Goblin King is always watching. There is a fascinating BTS documentary (I think here on TH-cam) that shows you some of the neat stuff like the juggling, the Escher room, making Hoggle, . . . .
Fun Fact: the baby, Toby Froud, is the son of the film's concept artist Brian Froud. Whose wife, a puppeteer he met through Jim Henson studios, while working on The Dark Crystal. All three of the Froud family also worked on the prequel series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
Funny detail - the baby playing Toby was a problem, not because he'd cry, but because he WOULDN'T! The kiddo loved the weird critters around him so much that he kept smiling... Then again, he was none other than the son of Brian Froud, the dude that created the design for all the Goblins - like father, like son, as they say.
Fun Fact: Toby Froud, who played baby Toby, was actually not at all scared of the puppets (his parents were puppeteers and he grew up to be one as well). The only way they could get him to cry in this scene was to wait until he was tired and hungry.
•This movie has been a part of my life since I was a kid. It’s tied as my favorite movie with The Last Unicorn. •It was at all the sleepovers, lol •My dad forced me to rent it, which I was terrified, b/c the synopsis talked about goblins stealing babies and stuff. He was intrigued b/c it was Bowie and Henson, lol. •My best friend and I bonded over this in middle school. •At my wedding, she and her husband did a flute and guitar duet of the medley from the soundtrack. •When my daughter was born, my friend got her a onesie with “power of the babe” on it. •One of my favorite shirts to wear has the barn owl flying and it says “I move the stars for no one”. •I own the different anniversary art books, blurays, and board game. Needless to say, I love this movie.
This movie has always been creepy to me but it's actually scary as well looking back on it as an adult, just the idea of navigating a magical and gargantuan maze with many terrifying creatures is my idea of nightmare fuel,however I do admire the creatures that helped Sarah on her journey to get her brother back for as creepy as they looked,they appear to be genuinely good creatures through all that they have contributed to Sarah's incredible achievement of conquering the huge maze
Wow i feel sorry for anyone who has never experienced this movie! I've seen it maybe a hundred times since i was a kid. I even bought the soundtrack once! Oh and funfact that owl at the beginning is the first use of Cgi in any movie ever!
Not quite. It was the first use of CGI to depict a _photorealistic living creature._ Other films had included photorealistic CGI previously; probably most notable for it was _The Last Starfighter_ (1984), which used extensive photorealistic CGI for all external shots of spaceships and space backgrounds, but there were several other important ones around the same time.
I was in college when this came out and my friends and I raced to watch it. We grew up with the Muppets and David Bowie, so this was a no-brainer to watch, on top of the plethora of fantasy films that hit the market at the time, which hit a sweet spot for those of us who grew with with fantasy novel series that thrived in the 70's and 80's. Still a joy to watch...
I remember seeing it in theaters, and I was lucky, because, like Dark Crystal, it did not do well at the box office. I read in Henson's biography, it only lasted three weeks
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I was 17 when I saw this for the first time. I saw it in 87. Loved it. flipped up my collar on the way home, just to look a bit more like Bowie. Also had a crush on Jennifer Connelly. I so related to living a fantasy reality, still do. Love the ren faires and dressing up for things like that.
Merlin is Sarah's dog in the real world (played by a real dog). Ambrosius was Merlin's secret name, and is the dog's name in the Labyrinth world, where he is a puppet dog. I love that little detail. Also, yes, David Bowie's, er, codpiece is the first time I noticed a man's package. I was a teenager and absolutely transfixed. I mean, by his hair. Cough. I still love this movie, and appreciate that it never crosses the line for Sarah and Jareth -- he remains a romantic figure but at a distance, and he never crosses that line (Bowie actually nixed a kiss in the script).
this was PERFECT timing posting this because I had already been planning for like a week now to re-watch Labyrinth spisificaly today so now I can watch it with you!
Because of this movie, my love for puppetry grew, and my love for plushies as well. I know all the songs to this movie and I watch it every time I see that its available. One of my childhood favorites
I adore this movie, but when I was a kid the Fireys (red monsters that remove their limbs) scared me so much. Even now I find them super unsettling LOL
David Bowie didn't do the manipulating of the crystal balls. Someone else is playing his arms and hands at those points. 12:30 She did figure the riddle out correctly and choose the correct door, but there are many more challenges for her to face, the shaft of hands was just the next challenge, the result of choosing the correct door, not the wrong one. 19:40
@@LatetotheParty very much enjoyed watching your reaction to it. It's such classic 80s, and movies like this and Princess Bride and Last unicorn and Dark Crystal were such a big part of my childhood.
I just love that the man who plays the baby in this movie went on to become a puppeteer and even played an important role in the Dark Crystal prequel series on Netflix ;____; pretty sure when I first watched this movie as a wee little girl that David Bowie was my first crush 😂
I like how they don't bash her in the movie for being "childish" and for her plushies or imagination, the movie helps her grow but she doesn't stop being who she is and liking what she likes
Maybe he did? Like, maybe he now technically owns the Bog of Eternal Stench? I don't know what good it would do him, but I guess he could change the name and sell it to someone who's never been there. Or he could start charging Sir Didimus rent.
@@itzakpoelzig330 I vaguely remember reading in the…manga/ graphic novel that he does become the prince of the land of stench (and he’s miserable as usual) but I meant I thought he would become a handsome prince and he and Sarah would defeat Jareth together :)
9:05 It is a good thing she didn't get to the castle at that point. She wouldn't have gotten past the defenses. The Labyrinth is general is an unwinnable challenge without outside help. Typical fae shenanigans to stack the deck in the fae's favor or in this case Jareth.
Omg guys, I saw this in the theater w/ my grnadma when it was released b/c she loved David Bowie & I loved musical Jim Henson! There’s a couple songs (jeeze, the mirror-ball scene) “when the world falls down” is not-so-secretly my fav Bowie song.
The bit at the beginning was filmed in West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire, England. It then cuts to Sarah running through a town three thousand miles away in New York state.
If you notice the photos on her mirror- to me it ended to her mother being an actress who left the family to be with her fellow actor, David Bowie. Great film choice and reaction.
Found the dvd a long time ago at a thrift store and bought it but hadn’t gotten around to watching it til today and mainly because I saw you were reacting to it and I wanted to see it before watching your reaction.
The crystal ball stuff is called "Contact Juggling" because you are always in contact with the ball. It's pretty cool and fairly simple to learn but extremely difficult to master. It's mostly you moving around the ball so it appears static. They used one of the crew with their arms through Bowie's to make it look like he is doing it. This is a great film. It's fantasy and fairy-tale. It's a bit silly and also scary at the same time. It's just a lot of fun when people open up to the nonsense and buy into the world.
Bowie wasn’t juggling the balls, he had his arms down and there was another guy behind him with his arms brought around the front, if that makes sense lol
I'm pretty sure my parents rented this once back in the day and I haven't seen most of it since then. I remember finding it a little scary, haha. There's a lot to appreciate about it these days.
So happy u watched this movie it was my fav movie as a kid and first movie I remember seeing in the theater! It started my love for bowie and jennifer. Another great movie from my childhood u guys need to check out is the Return to OZ .. so cool with such cool practical effects. And cool story telling using 2 different books and stuck closely to the actual books.. love it! But my fav character is sir Didymus.. so cute
Little bit of trivia! Toby in this is played by Toby Froud, son of the husband and wife Froud team who worked for the Jim Henson company and he went on to work on the Dark Crystal TV series. (shame that got cancelled by the by 😔)
Another good one from this time frame is The Dark Crystal. Still one of the best gift reactions I've ever gotten was when I got a friend a collector's edition of that movie.
The dress and outfit for the ballroom Scene where a modge podge of hot glue, glitter, glass, and many other things. I got to see them at a Jim Henson exhibit in Columbus Ohio
They have tried to reboot Labyrinth many times over the years but no one wants it. Fans of the movie would never, ever want a reboot or a sequel. No one else could never play Jareth, for one thing. And this movie is just too iconic to be redone. So say all the fans I know, and I know a lot of them. I've loved this movie for 30 years, I know literally everything there is to know about it, lol.
If you haven't seen it, I recommend The Storyteller, a Jim Henson series similar to Labyrinth and Dark Crystal, hosted by John Hurt. Tough to find, but fun show.
One of my favourite movies. Interesting it failed at the box office when it had so much going for it. Written by Terry Jones (of Monty Python) Directed by Jim Henson with George Lucas producing and just to put the icing on the cake you also get David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly what more could you want from a film.
Michael Jackson was originally cast as the goblin king but because he wanted to change the songs they past on him and cast Bowie instead bonus triv. Toby the baby grew up and became a production manager for the dark crystal series on Netflix
David Bowie didn't do the crystal contact juggling. It was a man named Michael Moschen who is so talented with it. He actually crouched down behind Bowie and used his arm(s) to look like Bowie's. But you could never tell. It was done so well, and he was doing it completely blind!
It's so rare to encounter folks in your (our? I think?) age group/demographic who... somehow missed Labyrinth? It always felt like one of those songs you can't escape on the radio, like, you absorbed it almost by osmosis... wait, do people still listen to the radio? *feels old * ANYWAY, this film is part of my childhood and is, for better or worse (I mock its many flaws fondly), infused into my bones. It's so cool to see a new reaction to it. (And LttP reactions are always a delight :) ) Set builders: "How much glitter do you-" This film: "YES". Touches of Alice in Wonderland for sure, as well as like, the lore around fairytales and Stories/Words Are Important kind of thing common to many tropes. ...now that I think about it, this film (and The Last Unicorn, and Neverending Story, and Princess Bride, and...) might be a big part of the reason that I love the "trickster creatures/be careful what you wish for/choose your words with care" vibes in like, DnD Feywild lore, or Discworld, or just folklore in general. [/waffling along a mental tangent] ...holy shit. Edit because it NEVER occurred to me that this might be TOBY'S dream, but like, WHAT IF? (This is clearly not what the movie was going for, AND doesn't make sense, lol. Nonetheless it was a genuinely fun thing to consider for a moment, and made me go "...OH SHIT" so I'm sharing.) OKAY, okay, sorry, final edit I swear, but if you love the practical puppeteering, and Henson productions, Fraggle Rock holds up remarkably well. The original series is full of genuinely delightful character moments, fun music, unique little stories, and all kinds of neat worldbuilding. And because it's mostly practical (like the Muppet Show) it's pretty easy to get invested in these weird little characters, and forget entirely that there are puppeteers under a platform, and the world is just painted foam and glitter. Do recommend.
Actually, David Bowie couldn't do the Fasugi, the contact juggling, so instead there is a second person standing behind David, supplying the arms and hands. He is the same person who sells those fasugi balls on late night televison.
BTW I love your shirt, that movie is one of my all time faves. It gets undeserved hate but I digress. The juggling of the crystal spheres was done by a famous French juggler they just angled the camera so you could not see him in the scene so it looked like Mr. Bowie was doing it. Then Henson Creature shop can do such wonders with puppetry and Brian Fraud's artwork in combination can create such wondrous worlds they can look so believable. Oh I almost forgot the baby playing Toby was played by Brian's son Toby Fraud so he was not afraid of the goblins.
A Goblin King cosplay has never crossed my mind. And honestly…I’m scared to Google it for…”reasons”… BTW, my aunt showed me this movie when I was 3. She put me in her room on the bed, turned the movie on and walked out before closing the door behind her. Suffice it to say…I plan on doing the same thing with my kids.
It wasn’t green screen. "The Making of the Labyrinth" documentary shows the muppeteers shooting the fiery scene aganist a stage of black velvet. In post production the scene was superimposed on a forest background. I’ve no idea why black velvet was used.
You guys are the best and that film is my late grandmothers favourite movie and I went to worldcon in Dublin with my mom in 2019 and this guy went passed me and mom and he was wearing the iconic David Bowie goblin king costume and wig and makeup and he looked just like the real David Bowie
The crystal ball thingie is done by a professional juggler that was behind Bowie. If you look at the camera angles used you can actually see how slightly off the arms are in contrast to Bowie's actual position.
This is a very known fact but If you haven't seen the movie til now it may be new for you: The baby noises of Toby were made by David Bowie because for some reason the baby didn't want to make noises when they were recording
Joked with a friend, He said he didn't know he was gay until he saw Bowie in this movie. I said I definitely knew I was straight after seeing Jennifer Connely in it. (I was like 12 when I saw it, so I was crushing on an older girl.)
David Bowie wasn't the man who worked with the crystal balls. They had a professional behind him moving them. Definitely had talent because he wasn't able to see as he was doing it. One of my favorite movies since I was a kid.
Was coming to make this comment lol kudos to that guy!
@@rodneyramos2433 Emmy's are for TV. I think you meant an Oscar, perhaps?
The professional's name is Michael Moschen. He also received the McArthur 'Genius' Grant.
So what you're saying is..... Bowie had someone else fondle his balls for him?
This was actually before Green Screen. They were using black sheets and wearing black cloth. They had to make sure there was not a speck of dust on anything or it would show up. And it was also a bit reflective so they had to make sure there was no wrinkles in it. I hope you can check out a behind the scenes doc called Inside The Labyrinth. It's really amazing.
Green screen certainly existed at this time, but they went a different direction with this.
Yeah, it wasn't that green screen didn't exist it was that green screen at the time didn't play nice with the fur on the puppets so they were trying to come up with a method that would look better with the Fiery design.
they were usually blue screens but your right. kinda like how superman the movie had to make supermans suit a different shade of blue otherwise it would disappear when they finished the compositing, and they adjusted the blue shade after to appear to be the color we see on the movie. @@fromthelostdays
and when you see the superman costume (the 1978 movie) in real life its more of a deep aqua blueish color.
The baby was Toby Froud, as many people have mentioned, he was the son of Brian Froud, a fantasy illustrator, and his mother Wendy Froud, a puppeteer. He grew up to be a puppeteer as well and worked on the new Dark Crystal series; his parents met during production of "The Dark Crystal" movie. He ended up creating a production company called Stripey Pajama Productions after the pajamas he wore during this movie.
Toby also worked and studied with Weta workshop
As the World Falls Down is one of my favorite songs, so happy to see this reaction ❤
The entire Labyrinth soundtrack is the one David Bowie album that nobody remembers!
@@rhonafenwick5643 So true, the whole soundtrack is great 🤩
33:22 Oh, that is all Bowie! There is a picture of him sitting on a boat with his wife and him wearing a Speedo and it's very clear that nothing was added in Labyrinth!
Toby is played by Toby Froud, son of amazing fantasy illustrator Brian Froud. I got to meet Toby at a writers convention. He was there with his own baby dressed in the same outfit that he was wearing in the movie. It was awesome!
Luckiest person alive
Toby Froud is a very talented puppeteer in his own right. When Bowie passed away, he put together a video homage to ‘Magic Dance’ in tribute to Bowie.
I feel like this movie reaction will appeal to a very specific group of people, and I am one of those people XD. Thank you for watching this!
It was one of my fav films as a kid and still is today partly from nostalgia, but I also still enjoy the story and characters. When I was a young teen, It was awesome to see a "coming of age" and journey/quest with a teenage girl. There has been a ton of analysis written on how it represents a girl's journey from childhood to womanhood and exploring themes of budding sexuality, individuality, independence and how scary but alluring those things can be. Which was cool to see as a teen girl who was processing all those things too and could relate to Sarah.
For the crotch thing, Bowie was apparently supposed to have a plastic case over it to make it bigger believe it or not, but the end result didn't work out as envisioned so they took it out. Bowie hated reshoots, so the tralalala scene with Hoggle and Sarah is the only one where he wears it as originally planned. Do we see the difference? Nope. But it's part of the charm, I guess XDD
"Everything I've done, I've done for you. I move the stars for no one."
Fun Fact: One of the choreographers for this movie was Cheryl McFadden. You and everyone else knows her better as Gates McFadden, Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
Dancing Hands Fact: The "Dance Magic" scene consisted of over forty-eight muppets, fifty-two puppeteers, and eight people in goblin costumes. Over one hundred pairs of latex hands were made for the "Helping Hands" scene.
Jareth's Balls Fact: The various things that Jareth does with the crystal balls (rolling them around his arms and in his hands and so forth) are not camera tricks or any other kind of special effect. They are actually done by choreographer Michael Moschen, who is an accomplished juggler. Moschen was actually crouched behind David Bowie with his arm(s) replacing Bowie's. Unlike a typical Muppet performance, however, he had no video screen to view his performance. In other words, his manipulations were performed completely blind.
The bloopers of the contact juggling are quite funny, as well as showing that it really was a challenge to get it right. Definitely gets my respect.
0okamino ...Indeed. The bloopers are a must watch.
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
Another fun random fact: one of the writers of the screenplay was Terry Jones, better known as one-sixth of Monty Python. :)
Cool facts bro
Bowie's pants not only deserve a credit in the movie, it f*in deserves an Oscar! 🤣🤣🤣
Yes,,,,give it all the awards!
That owl in the opening credits was the first ever CGI animal in a movie.
One of the choreographers for the movie - primarily for the ballroom scene - was Cheryl "Gates" McFadden, AKA Dr. Crusher from ST:TNG.
There are actually 7 (I think) faces of Bowie hidden in the movie. It's supposed to signify that the Goblin King is always watching. There is a fascinating BTS documentary (I think here on TH-cam) that shows you some of the neat stuff like the juggling, the Escher room, making Hoggle, . . . .
And the face thing was Bowie's idea
Fun Fact: the baby, Toby Froud, is the son of the film's concept artist Brian Froud. Whose wife, a puppeteer he met through Jim Henson studios, while working on The Dark Crystal. All three of the Froud family also worked on the prequel series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
Funny detail - the baby playing Toby was a problem, not because he'd cry, but because he WOULDN'T! The kiddo loved the weird critters around him so much that he kept smiling...
Then again, he was none other than the son of Brian Froud, the dude that created the design for all the Goblins - like father, like son, as they say.
Fun Fact: Toby Froud, who played baby Toby, was actually not at all scared of the puppets (his parents were puppeteers and he grew up to be one as well). The only way they could get him to cry in this scene was to wait until he was tired and hungry.
•This movie has been a part of my life since I was a kid. It’s tied as my favorite movie with The Last Unicorn.
•It was at all the sleepovers, lol
•My dad forced me to rent it, which I was terrified, b/c the synopsis talked about goblins stealing babies and stuff. He was intrigued b/c it was Bowie and Henson, lol.
•My best friend and I bonded over this in middle school.
•At my wedding, she and her husband did a flute and guitar duet of the medley from the soundtrack.
•When my daughter was born, my friend got her a onesie with “power of the babe” on it.
•One of my favorite shirts to wear has the barn owl flying and it says “I move the stars for no one”.
•I own the different anniversary art books, blurays, and board game.
Needless to say, I love this movie.
One of my favorite shirts to wear has the door knockers on the chest and reads "It's Very Rude to Stare"
One of the all time greats! Saw this and the dark crystal in theater back then as a kid! Loved it even until now! Soundtrack and score are great too!😊
Me too!
The movie came out in 1986. The band Ludo was 2001. The band named themselves after the character Ludo from Labyrinth.
The baby grew up to become a puppeteer himself and worked on the reboot of Dark Crystal on Netflix.
This movie has always been creepy to me but it's actually scary as well looking back on it as an adult, just the idea of navigating a magical and gargantuan maze with many terrifying creatures is my idea of nightmare fuel,however I do admire the creatures that helped Sarah on her journey to get her brother back for as creepy as they looked,they appear to be genuinely good creatures through all that they have contributed to Sarah's incredible achievement of conquering the huge maze
Wow i feel sorry for anyone who has never experienced this movie! I've seen it maybe a hundred times since i was a kid. I even bought the soundtrack once! Oh and funfact that owl at the beginning is the first use of Cgi in any movie ever!
Not quite. It was the first use of CGI to depict a _photorealistic living creature._ Other films had included photorealistic CGI previously; probably most notable for it was _The Last Starfighter_ (1984), which used extensive photorealistic CGI for all external shots of spaceships and space backgrounds, but there were several other important ones around the same time.
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I see. Very interesting!
You said that it felt a bit like Alice in Wonderland. It's also a bit Monty Python as Terry Jones helped with the screenplay.
I was in college when this came out and my friends and I raced to watch it. We grew up with the Muppets and David Bowie, so this was a no-brainer to watch, on top of the plethora of fantasy films that hit the market at the time, which hit a sweet spot for those of us who grew with with fantasy novel series that thrived in the 70's and 80's. Still a joy to watch...
I remember seeing it in theaters, and I was lucky, because, like Dark Crystal, it did not do well at the box office. I read in Henson's biography, it only lasted three weeks
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I was 17 when I saw this for the first time. I saw it in 87. Loved it. flipped up my collar on the way home, just to look a bit more like Bowie. Also had a crush on Jennifer Connelly. I so related to living a fantasy reality, still do. Love the ren faires and dressing up for things like that.
Merlin is Sarah's dog in the real world (played by a real dog). Ambrosius was Merlin's secret name, and is the dog's name in the Labyrinth world, where he is a puppet dog. I love that little detail. Also, yes, David Bowie's, er, codpiece is the first time I noticed a man's package. I was a teenager and absolutely transfixed. I mean, by his hair. Cough. I still love this movie, and appreciate that it never crosses the line for Sarah and Jareth -- he remains a romantic figure but at a distance, and he never crosses that line (Bowie actually nixed a kiss in the script).
this was PERFECT timing posting this because I had already been planning for like a week now to re-watch Labyrinth spisificaly today so now I can watch it with you!
Because of this movie, my love for puppetry grew, and my love for plushies as well. I know all the songs to this movie and I watch it every time I see that its available. One of my childhood favorites
So glad you got to enjoy it once again, but this time with us! 💜💙
We make it a monthly tradition at my grandmars to sing or dance to "dance magic"😂
Grandma's
My top picks for fantasy films
1. Labyrinth
2. Dark Crystal
3. Legend
And Neverending Story
"did henson work on that too?" LMAO 🤣
I adore this movie, but when I was a kid the Fireys (red monsters that remove their limbs) scared me so much. Even now I find them super unsettling LOL
David Bowie didn't do the manipulating of the crystal balls. Someone else is playing his arms and hands at those points.
12:30 She did figure the riddle out correctly and choose the correct door, but there are many more challenges for her to face, the shaft of hands was just the next challenge, the result of choosing the correct door, not the wrong one.
19:40
Fantastic work editing in almost every reference you made!
Thanks! We usually try to give a visual guide to the stuff we reference for those who don't know what we're talking about or don't remember.
This is one of my fave movies of all time, I even named my son Jareth.
Happy you got to enjoy it once again with us! Jareth is an awesome name!
@@LatetotheParty very much enjoyed watching your reaction to it. It's such classic 80s, and movies like this and Princess Bride and Last unicorn and Dark Crystal were such a big part of my childhood.
I admired that movie. You can hate it and you can love it. I am loving it i never mind.
But i would watch it.
I just love that the man who plays the baby in this movie went on to become a puppeteer and even played an important role in the Dark Crystal prequel series on Netflix ;____;
pretty sure when I first watched this movie as a wee little girl that David Bowie was my first crush 😂
I like how they don't bash her in the movie for being "childish" and for her plushies or imagination, the movie helps her grow but she doesn't stop being who she is and liking what she likes
This was a favorite of mine growing up ❤. The first time I saw it I really hoped Hogel was gonna turn into a prince when she kissed him :(
Same here! Really hoped he'd get that moment!
Maybe he did? Like, maybe he now technically owns the Bog of Eternal Stench?
I don't know what good it would do him, but I guess he could change the name and sell it to someone who's never been there. Or he could start charging Sir Didimus rent.
@@itzakpoelzig330 I vaguely remember reading in the…manga/ graphic novel that he does become the prince of the land of stench (and he’s miserable as usual) but I meant I thought he would become a handsome prince and he and Sarah would defeat Jareth together :)
@@Charlie_Wolfe That would be a whole different story. I would read that fanfic, if you ever write it!
9:05 It is a good thing she didn't get to the castle at that point. She wouldn't have gotten past the defenses.
The Labyrinth is general is an unwinnable challenge without outside help. Typical fae shenanigans to stack the deck in the fae's favor or in this case Jareth.
Love your reaction! This is one of my favorite movies ever. Like you said, the practical effects is what makes it so good
I am a huge fan of this film, my childhood in a film. I resently saw this at a place in downtown Detroit with a live band it was fantastic💥💜
Omg guys, I saw this in the theater w/ my grnadma when it was released b/c she loved David Bowie & I loved musical Jim Henson! There’s a couple songs (jeeze, the mirror-ball scene) “when the world falls down” is not-so-secretly my fav Bowie song.
Let's go!!!! Labyrinth is so good. Saw it a few years ago for the first time and loved it.
Omg I can’t wait. This is one of my all time favorite movie!!!
The bit at the beginning was filmed in West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire, England. It then cuts to Sarah running through a town three thousand miles away in New York state.
I love how the owl at the opening of the movie was the first attempt at cgi owls/animals
If you notice the photos on her mirror- to me it ended to her mother being an actress who left the family to be with her fellow actor, David Bowie.
Great film choice and reaction.
Found the dvd a long time ago at a thrift store and bought it but hadn’t gotten around to watching it til today and mainly because I saw you were reacting to it and I wanted to see it before watching your reaction.
👏🙌 Way to crush it, Robert and Vanessa!
The crystal ball stuff is called "Contact Juggling" because you are always in contact with the ball. It's pretty cool and fairly simple to learn but extremely difficult to master. It's mostly you moving around the ball so it appears static. They used one of the crew with their arms through Bowie's to make it look like he is doing it. This is a great film. It's fantasy and fairy-tale. It's a bit silly and also scary at the same time. It's just a lot of fun when people open up to the nonsense and buy into the world.
would never have guessed you had not seen this one, its been a favorite of mine since childhood.
Bowie wasn’t juggling the balls, he had his arms down and there was another guy behind him with his arms brought around the front, if that makes sense lol
So.... a reach around? 😂
Michael Moschen was the contact juggler
@@LatetotheParty Exactly. Bowie had a reach around ball fondler for this movie.
It's called contact juggling
I love that Sir Didymos is ballsy, both demonstrably and etymologically.
I'm pretty sure my parents rented this once back in the day and I haven't seen most of it since then. I remember finding it a little scary, haha. There's a lot to appreciate about it these days.
So happy u watched this movie it was my fav movie as a kid and first movie I remember seeing in the theater! It started my love for bowie and jennifer. Another great movie from my childhood u guys need to check out is the Return to OZ .. so cool with such cool practical effects. And cool story telling using 2 different books and stuck closely to the actual books.. love it! But my fav character is sir Didymus.. so cute
Little bit of trivia! Toby in this is played by Toby Froud, son of the husband and wife Froud team who worked for the Jim Henson company and he went on to work on the Dark Crystal TV series. (shame that got cancelled by the by 😔)
Another good one from this time frame is The Dark Crystal. Still one of the best gift reactions I've ever gotten was when I got a friend a collector's edition of that movie.
One of my favorites. Jennifer was one of my earliest crushes.
The dress and outfit for the ballroom Scene where a modge podge of hot glue, glitter, glass, and many other things. I got to see them at a Jim Henson exhibit in Columbus Ohio
They have tried to reboot Labyrinth many times over the years but no one wants it. Fans of the movie would never, ever want a reboot or a sequel. No one else could never play Jareth, for one thing. And this movie is just too iconic to be redone. So say all the fans I know, and I know a lot of them. I've loved this movie for 30 years, I know literally everything there is to know about it, lol.
If you haven't seen it, I recommend The Storyteller, a Jim Henson series similar to Labyrinth and Dark Crystal, hosted by John Hurt. Tough to find, but fun show.
One of my favourite movies. Interesting it failed at the box office when it had so much going for it. Written by Terry Jones (of Monty Python) Directed by Jim Henson with George Lucas producing and just to put the icing on the cake you also get David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly what more could you want from a film.
The stone face that you saw when the goblin King showed up, that was David Bowie's face.
Michael Jackson was originally cast as the goblin king but because he wanted to change the songs they past on him and cast Bowie instead bonus triv. Toby the baby grew up and became a production manager for the dark crystal series on Netflix
BOWIE BALLS!
Love the film and soundtrack.
Heard that in the voice of the "Bocce Balls" guy from Splash!
@@LatetotheParty 🤣 that’s pretty much how you have to say it!
This is my all time favorite movie.
I love this movie so much
David Bowie didn't do the crystal contact juggling. It was a man named Michael Moschen who is so talented with it. He actually crouched down behind Bowie and used his arm(s) to look like Bowie's. But you could never tell. It was done so well, and he was doing it completely blind!
Another great film to watch. Midnight Madness from 1980.
I wonder if Jarreth was played by two people at once…
David Bowie and his… own “goblin” 😂😂😂
It's so rare to encounter folks in your (our? I think?) age group/demographic who... somehow missed Labyrinth? It always felt like one of those songs you can't escape on the radio, like, you absorbed it almost by osmosis... wait, do people still listen to the radio? *feels old *
ANYWAY, this film is part of my childhood and is, for better or worse (I mock its many flaws fondly), infused into my bones. It's so cool to see a new reaction to it. (And LttP reactions are always a delight :) )
Set builders: "How much glitter do you-"
This film: "YES".
Touches of Alice in Wonderland for sure, as well as like, the lore around fairytales and Stories/Words Are Important kind of thing common to many tropes.
...now that I think about it, this film (and The Last Unicorn, and Neverending Story, and Princess Bride, and...) might be a big part of the reason that I love the "trickster creatures/be careful what you wish for/choose your words with care" vibes in like, DnD Feywild lore, or Discworld, or just folklore in general. [/waffling along a mental tangent]
...holy shit. Edit because it NEVER occurred to me that this might be TOBY'S dream, but like, WHAT IF? (This is clearly not what the movie was going for, AND doesn't make sense, lol. Nonetheless it was a genuinely fun thing to consider for a moment, and made me go "...OH SHIT" so I'm sharing.)
OKAY, okay, sorry, final edit I swear, but if you love the practical puppeteering, and Henson productions, Fraggle Rock holds up remarkably well. The original series is full of genuinely delightful character moments, fun music, unique little stories, and all kinds of neat worldbuilding. And because it's mostly practical (like the Muppet Show) it's pretty easy to get invested in these weird little characters, and forget entirely that there are puppeteers under a platform, and the world is just painted foam and glitter. Do recommend.
Great reaction, you could do with raising the audio level a bit, the adverts nearly gave me a heart attack!
Actually, David Bowie couldn't do the Fasugi, the contact juggling, so instead there is a second person standing behind David, supplying the arms and hands. He is the same person who sells those fasugi balls on late night televison.
The previous owner of Scanlan’s Mythcarver was a bard known as The White Duke, and Matt based him on David Bowie
BTW I love your shirt, that movie is one of my all time faves. It gets undeserved hate but I digress. The juggling of the crystal spheres was done by a famous French juggler they just angled the camera so you could not see him in the scene so it looked like Mr. Bowie was doing it. Then Henson Creature shop can do such wonders with puppetry and Brian Fraud's artwork in combination can create such wondrous worlds they can look so believable. Oh I almost forgot the baby playing Toby was played by Brian's son Toby Fraud so he was not afraid of the goblins.
Because ....
YOU DON'T HAVE POWER ON ME
A Goblin King cosplay has never crossed my mind. And honestly…I’m scared to Google it for…”reasons”… BTW, my aunt showed me this movie when I was 3. She put me in her room on the bed, turned the movie on and walked out before closing the door behind her. Suffice it to say…I plan on doing the same thing with my kids.
WhaaaaaTT?!!
You've never seen Labyrinth?
Get out!
Good on Vanessa for seeing it first.
Hmm... She reminds me of the babe!
... What Babe?
@@daniellanctot6548 The Babe with the Power!
@@Moochtv ... What Power?
It wasn’t green screen. "The Making of the Labyrinth" documentary shows the muppeteers shooting the fiery scene aganist a stage of black velvet. In post production the scene was superimposed on a forest background. I’ve no idea why black velvet was used.
You guys are the best and that film is my late grandmothers favourite movie and I went to worldcon in Dublin with my mom in 2019 and this guy went passed me and mom and he was wearing the iconic David Bowie goblin king costume and wig and makeup and he looked just like the real David Bowie
The baby wasn't scared as he is the child of the makers of the puppets and been around them since birth.
The crystal ball thingie is done by a professional juggler that was behind Bowie. If you look at the camera angles used you can actually see how slightly off the arms are in contrast to Bowie's actual position.
This is a very known fact but If you haven't seen the movie til now it may be new for you: The baby noises of Toby were made by David Bowie because for some reason the baby didn't want to make noises when they were recording
Your shirt!!!! HACK THE PLANEEEEEEET 🙌 holy shit
Hackers is my favorite movie, wasn’t expecting that 😅
Mess with the best, die like the rest!
WOW...... I just LOVE this movie.... so so good.....
Bowie did all the "baby" voices during the song part.
Sad thing is the Hoggle puppet was found in some airport unclaimed baggage rotting away sometime in recent past.
She fought Bowie as a teen and is now married to Vision.
Joked with a friend, He said he didn't know he was gay until he saw Bowie in this movie. I said I definitely knew I was straight after seeing Jennifer Connely in it. (I was like 12 when I saw it, so I was crushing on an older girl.)
This one goes under one of my all time favorite movies of all time Top Ten List - No Joke
Jennifer Conley was the manic pixie dream girl of the 1980s.
I love the song of the in the ball.
Beware the package! That's all I have to say 🤣🤣
Funny you mention the masks looking like the goblins, because that's exactly what they were styled to look like.
You remind me of the Babe. What Babe?... LOVE IT!
The screenplay was written by Terry Jones of Monty Python.