And it's not all about me, our goal is to have something for everyone that loves retro pop culture. Thirty years forward this film along with its characters has had a great cult fan base following with its novelization and eventual manga version so to speak. No wonder after waiting for what seems like an eternity a rumored sequel Labyrinth 2 Return of the Goblin King will be coming to theaters soon.I launched 80sTees.com in 1999 because I would wear my favorite 80s cartoons on tees and people would ask me where I got them.Labyrinth 2 return of the goblin king is rumored to be released soon but I cant find a release date anywhere and its floating around facebook like wild fire. 0206 Goblin kings and queens all over, rejoice for a sequel to the cult hit Labyrinth has finally picked up steam.To this day my t-shirt wardrobe is not much different from when I was a kid. It's filled with He-Man, Transformers, and GI JOE shirts and lots of superhero shirts which of course include the classics like Superman Shirts and Spiderman shirts. Spider-Man has been my favorite super hero since I was 2 years old when I had the MEGO doll with the fabric costume.
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Jareth spies on Sarah, comes into her bedroom, drugs her, dances with her, and promises to be her slave if she’ll love him, fear him and do as he says. Jareth’s a 300-year-old Goblin King (played by a 38-year-old pop star) who wants to live within 15-year-old Sarah. Like Bowie’s codpiece, it stares you in the face all the way through the film.
Sarah’s mother Linda Williams is a theatre actor who’s famous enough for her love life to be written about in the papers. She isn’t, as we can see from recent photos around Sarah’s mirror and the scrapbook of press clippings Sarah keeps about her, decorated with hearts, the word “mom”. The film starts with her dressed as a princess and play-acting, and ends with her literally clearing her room of toys and games, and symbolically passing on her beloved teddy bear Lancelot to her little brother Toby.If Labyrinth were a ‘real’ fairy tale, then Sarah’s absent mother (the girl lives with her father, stepmother and new stepbrother) would be dead. It’s a coming-of-age fantasy that teaches Sarah to leave her childhood behind, recognise her inner power and step into the adult world. Using the childhood dolls, stories and ornaments spotted around her bedroom in the early scenes (Hoggle and Ludo toys, a Goblin King statue, a wooden labyrinth game, storybooks from Snow White to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland…), Sarah invents a scenario in which she’s a put-upon fairy tale hero who saves her baby brother. Sarah’s scrapbook in Labyrinth (1986)The events of Labyrinth are a fantasy that takes place in Sarah’s mind.
Smith’s 1986 novelisation of Labyrinth was written with input from Jim Henson and screenwriter Terry Jones. That means that when Sarah was dream-casting the much older lead in her personal coming-of-age fantasy, she gave that role to… her mother’s boyfriend. Therapists of the world, start your engines.A.C.H. The other actor in those photos is played by David Bowie.
Here, it describes Sarah’s bedroom press clippings:Sarah’s mother and her co-star, Jeremy, were cheek to cheek, their arms around each other, smiling confidently. And the novelisation gives us more on the characters of Linda Williams and her actor boyfriend Jeremy. It bears the official stamp. The novelisation is canon, is the point. Jones also spent an afternoon with Smith and gave him permission to use an abandoned boneyard scene in the novelisation which had been originally written for the film.
“He’s an amalgam of the inner fantasies of this girl. “We’re not looking at reality, we’re inside this girl’s head.” Jareth’s costumes were designed to reference “a leather boy”, the armour of a German knight, Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, and male ballet dancers. Sarah, says Froud, is approaching the age of sexual awakening, and so has created Jareth as a composite image of the kind of men who turn her on. In 2016, the film’s conceptual designer Brian Froud explained the thinking to Empire.
Thought of that way and it’s less sure that Sarah’s is the fantasy we’re watching.It was a different time, though, the 1980s. What makes this uncomfortable isn’t the fact that Labyrinth is in part a story about adolescent female sexual awakening, but that its vision of that awakening was dreamt up by grown men and shows an underage girl drawn to a man of their age. Her attraction to him though, especially in the novelisation, is undeniable. There’s more to the film of course, and ultimately, Sarah vanquishes Jareth by rejecting his sinister allure and asserting her own power.
Perhaps the time isn’t quite as different as it should be. (Except, that last anecdote was recounted in 2018. And the 83-year-old writer of a children’s film novelisation could reminisce about how thrilling it was to have danced with the film’s young star at the wrap party, and laugh at how much more thrilling it might have been if only her mother hadn’t insisted on staying so close to her “very beautiful 14-year-old daughter” all night. The charts regularly featured songs about adult men heroically wrestling with their sexual attraction to schoolgirls. Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones could openly ‘date’ a child. 16-year-old Samantha Fox could be photographed topless for Page Three of national newspaper The Sun.
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