Skeksis language - The Dark Crystal - The Jim Henson Company
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In earlier versions of this film the Skeksis spoke their own language. Here is a scene with the alternate Skeksis language.
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I love how the decrepitness of the original movie stands out more now, after seeing the Netflix series; you really get a good sense of just how much things have changed or decayed. Even the slower pace of the Skeksis makes you feel the weight of the years.
Yeah it worked a lot better than how Star Wars was made
I believe jim Henson was trying to tell us something with this movie
@bANoMia so nothing then
The message was quite clear.
Puppets aren't just for kids.
I believe that drunk Mel Gibson would agree with that something.
Brian Quint finally someone gets it. Thra is where we are right now. There are “rumours” claiming the royals and really wealthy people, people in power, they shapeshift into lizard-like creatures, they eat us, look for adrenochrome, I’m not making this up, even though the TH-cam algorithm will send people to reply to this comment to make it look like gibberish. Remember the film The Witches from 1990, which was produced by Jim Henson as well, remember the face of the Grand High Witch, compare it to the Skeksis. Powerful people are not human, they feed on us, we are their slaves in this massive deception and division they have created for us.
Start thinking outside the box.
@@anxietywave8735 Exactly
Hearing them spesking their original language, makes the skekdis more menacing
They feel properly alien and otherworldly
Yes because you can’t understand them… makes the experience, the anxiety of it heightened even more!
There is an account here on youtube (someGelflings) who has a version of the dark crystal movie, and I mean the entire movie, the way it was before it was re-dubbed here on youtube.
I rewatched the movie with my girlfriend after finishing the Netflix series, and I was like "JeSUS SkekSo has seen better days!"
I'd love to watch the original cut of the film
Yes so would I
Me too
@@scottjohnnyhelgemoaune2951 me three
Same
My brother and I watched this movie (recorded on our VHS tape from tv) seriously just about every day as kids. We had it memorized! So, so good. The story is fantastic and the puppetry amazing. I wish they still made movies like this one.
I was a kid when this came out and yes that scene scared me shitless XD
The dying skeksis would have scared the shit out of me when I was younger. Good thing I actually saw this later than I did. :D
After so many years The skeksis Emperor Skekso still scares me to this day. He's the prime example what they'll probably look like as zombies...
*shivers in fear*
More scary after seeing him in his prime being talkative and normal and suddenly seeing him wheezing like some animal in the verge of death
"Kai kai kai kai" ? lolz. Still one of the most terrifying films I've ever seen. Not scary in the traditional sense... but maybe you know what I mean.
It's the made-up language the film originally had. Originally, the skeksis spoke a made-up language. This was changed later by the studio for marketing reasons among others. If I had to guess, it means "god" or "emperor"
Kai = he lives. Two components - Kai as in Kai? He still lives, and Kai - he still lives, he is our emperor.
0:37 when your friend wants the potato chips you are eating.
1:21
When you realize that you've awoken your dorm buddy from his sex dream.
This great movie influenced my life so much when I saw this as a child: it made me an artist/illustrator:)
Jim Henson is a hero!
This movie is a work of art. Absolutely stunning. What all movies should be. No CGI. Just hard work of dedicated highly talented artists. I adore it. I wish more movies were created in the same manner.
There was a great recut with the original dialogue added back in completely, do you think wed ever get such a thing as an actual real release?
Delicious Things With the costs involved for re-editing, re-printing DVDs, blu-rays and redistribution plus all the marketing campaigns involved the audience just isn't big enough for them to do it without risking bankruptcy.
The biggest question is: Does the material exists in good condition to do a new cut of the film. That version you're referring to was based on a workprint that was transferred to VHS. Even this scene here is a workprint. .
And if they do have it in good condition, how much restoration would it need to bring it up to today's quality? If not much, then they could do it for very little. (Very little meaning around $25,000) If it needs major restoration, then that's up there. Plus, to kinda reply to what Kenazzle said, DVDs cost $1 if not less to manufacture. Blu-rays cost around $5. What will cost will be the actual restoration of the film. And it has to have a fan base because they're released it multiple times on DVD.
I would be on that release so fast... I feel the movie would have been vastly improved with the Skeksis' original language intact, even though this clip shows us very little of it.
Maybe with the new show there will be interest
i acctually thought the skexix were cool as akid i loved their looks and voices
So, when's the Duolingo course coming out?
0:37 Love how he just snarls at his fellow unlike in the final cut where he said "quiet!"
I love the skeksis
I miss watching old films on VHS, they look so much more authentic
blu-ray makes films unique and theatrical
the hmmmm is a universal constant I see.
The Skeksis language was cut but the Podling language was retained. Gary Kurtz should have taken the hint.
jacoblgames I can understand why. I remember seeing this not knowing how to read, yet, (they were going to use subtitles)
the Skeksis were already scary as FUCK, and the original language would have probably made me shit my pants at that age. lol
“Get back, spithead,” at least eased SOME of the terror.
Now, though, I love their original dialect. So much more badass.
All I heard was skekUng saying "Kaī! Kaī!"
I thought the original movie was made with an artificial language based and egyptian and greek. Did they also make a version with the first idea Henson had with the skesis' language?
The Skeksis language is loosely based off of Egpytian and Greek, and that's at best.
jacoblgames yeah but this sounds more like his idea of the language consisting of noises
obenrob, The film originally was going to have the Skeksis in their own unique Language (based loosely off Egyptian and Greek). The film would've used subtitles whenever a Skesis character spoke. Test audiences didn't like it (Possibly because the Subtitles were too distracting or otherwise), so the scenes were redubbed in English. Though to be honest, I prefer the made-up language dialogue - I'm used to watching foreign movies with subtitles.
I did watch a scene with the original language (a scene that was deleted from the final movie) - which Chamberlain (His real name is skekSil) brings Kira into the Throne room and tells the other skeksis that he brought in 'a live gelfling'.
Love this scene! :)
I cant believe these guys are from the same dude who brought us the Muppets and Sesame Street! XD
Geez these Skesis were soooooo creepy when I was little... still are...
the skeksis creeps me out 0_0
Yeah .... the dubbing was a good idea, gave them more personality then it would had if they kept this instead.
my 3 year old LIKES this movie! WTF?
i liked this movie 4 when i was and still like it to this day lol!
Yesss! Skeksis!! Spot on!
I can imagine the crumbling Skeksis scene being pretty disturbing for young kids 🤔. Though the new version of Dark Crystal is no less gruesome (eye scene).
This and Willow !
@mjn76 I saw it as a child. I loved it. I watched it every chance I got.
@emperorglenuff the body under the sheets is turning to dust, not the bed itself
Scary!
Always felt they should have let one of them speak in that language for the final cut of the film.
I’m glad Jim decided to have the Skeksis speak English.
Why?
So it would be easier to understand them without subtitles.
@@nickp2271 Oh. Okey-Dokey-Artichokey. 😉
@@nickp2271 Jim wasn't even gonna include subtitles. His original vision was to tell the whole story visually with no narration, no context, just allowing the whole plot to evolve organically. I found it confusing as a kid, but loved it. Even today I don't fully understand. But maybe ur not meant to. It's fantasy at it's most raw and visceral. The whole movie feels like a dream
The Skeksis better appear in the sequel, or else...
They will if you watch the trailer for the Netflix series Age of Resistance you'll catch a glimpse of them.
Hm. Good stuff. So, when can we expect the sequel? I've been waiting patiently for the past year. I sure hope it comes to town (or at least fruition).
good news!
Great moment from a great film, but I still don't get why the centre of bed suddenly fades to dust as well. haha
FFS, even when I was 6 I thought the whimpering Chamberlain was possibly THE most annoying thing ever, classic movie though! Still brilliant 28 years on.
RichXboxOne In the movie, the Skeksis shared your distaste for the Chamberlain 😂 They, especially the General, hated his whimpering and backhanded ways.
They never spoke English and there language nearly sounds like Pasertoung snake 🐍 language.
So in the original language, they more hissed and growled as they talked,ad Chamberlain more croaked then whent "MmmmMmmmmm"
I sometimes wonder if my dark sense of humour came from watching this as a 7-year-old lol
what kind of dreams did henson have?? i mean like what type of high was he on?
This whas the most scary movie I watched in my childhood
Watched this movie when I was six.
Does the full original dub still exist somewhere? I would love to see it as originally intended
SkekSo’s death rattles here actually sound pretty similar to his voice in Age of Resistance
Also, this scene messed me up as a kid, but not for the reason you think
Because the emperor seemed smaller than the others and (int he final film at least) had a higher voice, I thought he was way younger than the other Skeksis
Basically my 8 year old mind thought I’d witnessed a baby dying onscreen
I literally lost sleep over this misconception
Tbh if that was the case this film would be a lot more disturbing
It is a tragedy that they executives made him put speaking roles into these characters.
I love the movie Labyrinth best moviee ever ;]
@megamanx1800 um in case u didnt realise the JIM HENSON company uploaded this! they MADE it! lol
@mutation173 yea I know that's what's supposed to be happening, but it still looks like theres a hole under the bed. No big deal hah, just saying it used to bug me as a kid.
@mjn76 yes it was
so thier all vultures looking things?
yeah i am not sure really little kids are scary cat adults should watch
There is a new version or 1nd part coming out next year!!! Man I hope they don't mess it up!!
Movie was experimental enough
i don't know what they're saying
he spoke French and he died.
Reptillian Order
Lol
genius f*&% g.lucas
Hm? Ew?
The Sexists...
NEEDS SUBTITLES CAN'T TRANSLATE!