Has anyone ever realised that Jareth wanted to send Sarah to the beginning because he knows she won't give up and she will keep coming back so he gets to see her even more? and because he sends her back, he resets time again so she will stay longer! and this then fits in with the ending where he talks about how generous he has been and he wants her to love him!!!
Yeah, because he's a creep. David Bowie does a great job and it's a good movie but I don't get why you're excited about the idea of him manipulating her like that.
Wow, I never realised it but at 0:40 when he says 'I move the stars for no one' he looks so heartbroken like he's about to cry. I guess he means I move them for no one but I've moved them for you, does that mean nothing to you? David Bowie did such a good job
That is EXACTLY what I have come to think he meant there too! At first listen, I thought he was telling her not to be so 'demanding', that he won't move the stars for her. Yet now I realize he must have meant that he already 'reordered time'....etc., as he mentions in the next scene. Powerful, underrated film.
He is within her. This whole construct is within her. He is a part of her. He is a part that wanted validation, but the main part of her on this journey within needed self determination and to protect her principles and assess her values. He has different needs. Within her construct she figured out her priorities. All of this labyrinth is in her. When she came to "reality" she actually woke up twice. She is also a good example of the phrase "Be careful what you wish for." js. He's not a villain. Never was. There's no villains here in this movie, they are all part of her and all needed something, all had a role in her growth and meaning of life and construct of reality. She moved on from each challenging aspect with self determination. She moved on. This whole movie is an inward self processing session. Such is life.
Yup totally agree with your interpretation. And the answer is that we also have all world inside us ,same as everything& everyone around us are simply our creation from inside us. Matrix in Matrix 😂. In my country there's a saying *IF you wanna change the world, then at first begin from yourself* What is inside that is outside - mirroring concert. Mostly these days mirroring from inside out looks like complete crooked mirrors honestly. )) *Mind and Worlds* are the most powerful instruments gifted to us from creator.
I fell in love with Jareth, the Goblin King in the movie Labyrinth, for never have I seen a more beautiful man.The soundtrack, his singing, as well as his speaking voice is mesmerizing.I am so glad I have been blessed to see this movie abd have the soundtrack,as well as so much of my hero's fabulous,unique music .He could do vocal gymnastics like no-one else.
He who plays the Goblin King is called David Bowie. He was a musician and actor. He died just 69 years old. He was a legend R.i.P David Bowie The world will not forget Him.🙏🏽
I once read a theory that Labyrinth is a story Sarah was writing and got lost in. Jareth wants to be her perfect villain, an all powerful, handsome dark figure feard by all. Facing him, she shows she's not scared of her own creation and his powers fade faster and faster. In this scene, he laments that he's everything she wants him to be, but it brings her no happiness and she defies him to the end.
What I love about this movie is that there can be so many interpretations of it. One theory that fits with this is that all of the things and characters in the underground come from her imagination and there’s hints of it in her room. There’s of course the labyrinth book she is reading, the figurine with the silver dress, a statue on her desk that looks similar to jareth, and even a poster on the wall of similar stairs like in this scene.
It’s a well backed theory, everything she sees and encounters is in her room at the beginning, there’s even a picture of David Bowie and her mom in her scrapbook!
In the movie it’s a published book with lots of merch like board games and plushies. She’s obsessed with it and that’s what she’s larping as in the beginning
I am still floored by this scene. How they must have done it! Little CGI back then, people actually had to 'work' for most of their special effects. This was epic. The entire film was!
Everything in this movie was almost entirely practical with the exception of the bubbles and owl and snake transformation they basically edited all of them by hand and basically use a sort of mirror trick when jareth walked through Sarah then pieced it together to give the incorporeal illusion
As he finishes his song, you can feel the ache Jareth feels for her, as though he knew she would not accept his offier but still clung to the hope she might. I really wish this had gotten a proper sequel then, with an adult Sarah who betters understands his actions and a wiser Jareth who realizes how her age affected her decision.
If they did make a sequel I definitely see it going in a different direction. First of all my thoughts on the movie esp the ending is this. Sarah went through jareths labyrinth for the soul purpose of getting her brother back not to be with jareth in any way or for him to be her personal bitch so of course she wasnt gonna accept his offer and as for what Jareth felt for her the only ache he felt was for himself knowing he was losing toby and losing his own stupid game he played with her of taking her brother and making her go theough his maze in order to get him back. Jareth was not one to take anything lightly likie portrayal,defiance or rejection so if they had made a sequel to labyrinth;well lets just say this. Have you ever been on the web siter of the labyrinth fan fics;where people write there own stories of the labyrinth including sequels;well theres this one someone wrote called entrapment of the peach which I thought was exactly the way a sequel would have gone had they decided to make one
I love the movie's message that just because you can't be a child forever and have to grow up, that doesn't mean you can't keep your sense of fantasy and wonder.
I fell in love with David Bowie when I watched this film at 11 years old. Before I even knew who he was and discovered his music. I’m 48 now and I love him still!
@@queenheart6167 There was a Japanese manga who's creators main characters inspiration was Jareth visually. Its a bit of an adult manga/anime but its my favorite one. It's called Bastard!! (Yes exclamation marks have to be included in the title) By Kazushi Hagiwara. Dark Schneider is the character.
She asked him to take the baby, he did. Then he brings her favourite book to life and plays the perfect villain. I think in his twisted view he was doing everything for her and still she refusing to see it
It was a twisted fairy-tale, to be certain. The film was a lot deeper than many realized, including myself, back then. Jareth is giving Sarah what she asked for. Yet he is not. Jareth is represented as Devil-like: demonic yet seductive. Doing what she asked, yet not without paying a Piper for it & as we all know: Evil does not work for free. He was never going to grant any wish other than taking Toby, everything else was a false-promise. If she had give in to him, she never would have seen Toby again.
Also Jareth simply phasing through Sarah at one point can mean two things 1. He isn’t real he’s just a fantasy in Sarah’s mind 2. She’s focusing on her brother and ignoring him. To Sarah Jareth is invisible to her
*Edit as of 6/15/2023; I am aware now that Jim Henson already explained what this scene and story represents but at the time of writing this, I had only watched the movie adaptation and had not read the book or researched the creator and minds behind it all. ^ ^ Still, thank you to those of you who still agree or like my silly interpretation! Means a lot lol . . . Even if Jareth is some representation of the devil or whatever and he was trying to seduce and manipulate her to stay with him forever, still doesn't change the fact that Jareth sounds deeply hurt and lonely here. He does have feelings, even if they come off bitter and selfish. All he has is his goblins, no material thing satisfies him. He was drawn to Sarah because of her strengths, her courage, her purity, things he doesn't posses, despite his bravado's. He admired her for that (and possibly even feared), that's why she was special. She was different, she stood up to him and his challenges. Surely he had attempted this with other females before Sarah and all rejected his offers and failed. The sad thing is though, Jareth doesn't understand that's not how a woman's heart works. You can't always just simply toss pretty gifts in their face and expect them to be wooed and fall into your arms. The human heart is a complex thing, it takes time and reason and relies on connection. Not to mention, stealing your baby brother and threatening to turn it into a goblin doesn't exactly leave a good impression. Not saying Jareth is exactly innocent but I don't think he's necessarily pure evil, just following the wrong paths. Over time, he might have the potential to be good. Idk, it's something about this part of the film. He seems to be admitting his defeat and the fact that she's gotten the best of him. Surely he also admires Sarah for the compassion and dedication she has for her younger brother so when he says 'I can't live within you', I feel like he's also saying: I'm not capable of the same compassion you are. Maybe I'm looking too far into it, I just think there's a lot of possibilities.
They explain what Jareth represents in the labyrinth behind the scenes. Sarah has to choose between growing up and her childish fantasies. The labyrinth is a metaphor for the journey of coming of ageJareth is a representation of the rock star young girls dream of however, intimidating because he's an older man attracted to Sarah. This is where her scared and confused demeanor comes from towards Jareth. She is attracted to him as young girls are to their idols but is scared because it's a different kind of attraction now that she sees it from him. In the ballroom scene you can see it. She feels the tension and is confused between being a child in an adult world. The confusing transition of being a young girl and a woman at the same time. The time represents not only saving Toby but also her time of being a child running out. It's explained completely in the behind the scenes. Jim wanted to show this scary and confusing struggle as he has daughters and wanted to emulate this struggle.
In the end of the movie Sarah rejects the offer of remaining in a fantasy world in order to grow up and face reality and the responsibilities that come with it. Including being an adult. Remember, Sarah didn't want to care for her baby brother. An adult responsibility. Her mother wants her to have a boyfriend and dates. Another adult responsibility. Sarah doesn't want to grow up...and facing the labyrinth made her realize that she has to. When Toby took Lancelot it got her angry. It was her toy. Her teddy bear. In the labyrinth...when she met the junk puppets (which were a representation of one carrying burdened baggages in life) they gave her Lancelot, her room and all her childish things. Sarah realizes....it's all junk. It's worthless. These toys...it's time to grow up and let it all go. Her room crumbles resembling her childhood walls tearing down. Sarah in the end of the movie is seen giving Lancelot to Toby accepting her fate. She's putting away everything in her room that
Makes me feel so bad for him how sad and hurt he looks during this scene especially when he sings “I move the stars for no one” and “I can’t live within you” and how he sings that part in a choppy way to sound like he is holding back tears “I can’t live within you” can mean similar sounding to “I can’t live without you” and that Jareth is simply part of Sarah’s fantasies and he doesn’t want to just be a fantasy to Sarah but something real
It truly does. Because of the way its sung & the plot scene when its heard (the audience is rooting for Sarah).....one can miss some of the incredible 'nuances' in the lyrics!!! I saw this in 1986 & I still 'catch' things I missed! LOVE this film & Bowie, I'll love them forever.
I feel like Sarah has come to the Labyrinth before in dreams but forgotten (see: Hoggle expecting her), but this final time Jareth comes into her physical reality. The “I can’t live within you” is him dealing with the reality that Sarah is growing up and soon won’t have a role for him in her dreamworld anymore as she finally integrates more into the real world. If the Labyrinth is a dreamworld based on a play/story she has and the toys in her room, if it’s not a “real” realm, then her growing up essentially means death or purgatory for him as he can’t live within her imagination anymore. It’s the only line where you can see that he Knows he’s an idea/construct, and though that doesn’t mean he’s not emotionally real, if he can’t live within her mind then where else will he go?
I thought Hoggle expected her, because Jareth told him to expect her. I didn't even realize, fully, that EVERY creature in the labyrinth was against Sarah succeeding. Even the worm! For some reason, as a child, I thought the worm was just 'not the brightest worm in the wall' LOL. But his final comment "If she'd kept goin' on down that way, she'd have gone straight to that caaastle!" was him being TRIUMPHANT at thwarting her! Clever film....& I LOVE how we can all still figure pieces of it out today!
That's the glimpse of true love there. He loved Sarah with all his heart but didn't know how to make her love him so he thought that when he gives her a reason to come to him, in his realm, so he could interact more free with her, manipulate her...she would learn to love him over time. But the love for her baby brother was stronger than everything Jareth threw against her. He thought that she despises her brother so much, that she would love him for getting rid of Toby for her. So he changed his strategy and wanted to maker her love him with pretty presents. He wanted the impossible because here in his realm, he has everything he could desire but not love. Yes, he had his loyal goblin subjects but they feared him and he was unhappy with them, he has gold and other riches but not the only thing nothing can ever buy: The true love of a woman. In the end he was so sad and hurt that he wanted to make her understand that he loved her with all his heart but she had seen his cruel side. It was too late to turn back. And so he remained alone with a shattered heart.
beautiful music and wonderful story and film, loved it already as a little child (and hoped i could be in the fairy world) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling sagas tell, that elves sometime steal (unwanted) babies and exchange them with some creatures. And the story of the film reminds very much to that: somehow invisible entry to another world, the fairy world, where time goes differently ( -> some celtic sagas where someone comes to the fairy world) and creatures that all are named as fairies, goblins, pixies, etc. with an elf as their king. As seen in sagas and Tolkien's books elves can be good and bad, and they love music. The people in the ballroom could be elves, too, so he wouldn't be the only. He seems to feel comfortable among them, but watches the girl who feels afraid & lost because of the staring people. With invading her for dancing it could be a "don't come near, she is under royal protection", too Once read that other stories, too. But thinking of the character of the king, he has too much fun to be king, why should he leave and what would he do? He would be terribly lost in "our" world, where he's no one. Really thinking taking (unwanted) children to the faiy world is because of pity. Wouldn't it be a cute idea when these children play with fairy children?
For educational purposes, if anyone here has read HP Lovecraft, he will often use the phrase, "non-euchlidean" to describe architecture. That room is a perfect example of non-euchlidean, since its mere existence seems to defy reality.
+Wander von der Seele It's Euclidean, after Euclid, the Greek mathematician and "father of geometry". Anyway you're right, very non-Euclidean, very Escherian :)
That bit where at 0:53 where he comes up over the ledge.. so many happy childhood memories of watching this. Then i grew up and got into the man and his music...what a life... RIP Dave...
I remember the first time I watched this, I was 7 years old, in 2011. I didn’t even know who David Bowie was, and I started learning about him from my dad in 2017, I didn’t realize that I could of seen him in person until he died at the beginning of 2016. I wish I could travel back to the 80’s
I really loved that film when I was young.They were making so good films in past.I love more realistic effects over electronic effects nowadays.Look when Jareth walks under the path and comes up at front of her.Good film, great play of both.BTW lyrics and voice is quite sad. Bowie gave climat to this tune.
How You Turn My World You Precious Thing You Starve and Near Exaust Me Everything I've Done I've Done For You I Move The Stars For No One You've run so long You've run so far Your Eyes Can Be So Cruel Just As I Can Be So Cruel Oh I Do Believe in You Yes I do Live without your sunlight Love without your heartbeat I I Can't Live Within You
Dare I say this but sometimes I don't think some women understand how deep they can touch a mans heart I think him and the phantom of the opera show a little of how bad it can hurt even though you try to act tough on the outside inside your dying and hurting I.m. The pain with a broken heart can be the worst pain and loneliness and can change and reshape a person forever especially when you plainly love them for who they are.
My favorite lines in order is: “i move the stars for no one! “ 0:41 “Live without your sunlight, not without your heartbeat, I cant live within you” 1:25 (That whole line honestly touched my heart...especially when he said,” not without your heartbeat” its like he’s saying he cant live without her heart or love...and the last part “ i cant live within you” i guess cuz she rejects him...and she she wont open his heart to him) “Though i do believe in you, yes i do!” 1:12 “Your eyes can be sooo cruel, just as i can be so cruel!” 0:58 When i was younger i was like Eh..david bowie you gotta work on that pitch and what are you talking about (cuz i never understood his songs such like magic dance 💁🏽♀️but i made a good theory what that song is about ) Then when i got a better meaning of the song Im like😔😥aw poor jareth... He’ve been alone so long And when he finally found someone that caught his eye He poor his heart through songs But yer know if he would’ve run into sarah again maybe 6-9 years later 🌝... and shown a lil more chivalry (cuz low key he’s childish) then wouldve gotten sarah attention 1:35 i like how he’s singing about his heart but steady moving toby out of sarah’s reach 😂😂😂😂🥴he op
Jareth is a faerie, and like most faeries he's very childlike and mischievous as well as being frighteningly dark and cruel. He hasn't had much contact with humans and when he does cross paths with them he's used trickery and cruelty to ensnare them in his world. He's trying the same old tricks with Sarah since up to now all humans have stumbled over the same thing and it's amusement to watch them fail, but Sarah is different from all other humans he's encountered. As she spends more time in his world tackling each obstacle before her he becomes enarmored by her strengths and perserverence, qualities that he's never seen before, and now the game turns into desperate attempts to convince her to stay with him. He tries to shower her with things he believes will make her want to stay and over time she does start to develop feelings for him, but her responsibility for the safety of her little brother takes precedence over her own heart so she rejects Jareth in order to persue her quest. Jareth not understanding what true love is nor realising that humans are a lot more complicated than he thinks is left with a mixture of feelings - confusion, frustration, bitterness and heart break - to why she's rejecting him. Those final words he sings "I can't live within you" are his realisation that there's no place in her heart for him. Could he really have changed enough in a sequel to live happily ever after with Sarah if she came back to him? Well surprise, there were sequels but unfortunately their ending were far from that. They were mostly centered around Toby who's now grown up to a teenager and when Jareth finally did confront the now adult Sarah in the human world she had no memory of him or her time in the Labyrinth. I won't spoil too much but if you're interested in knowing the fate of Jareth, Toby and Sarah look up the manga Return to Labyrinth.
This was my favourite film as a kid , literally used to watch it over and over everyday. What am amazing voice Bowie had. Also I last listened this just before Christmas, just before my wife left me .
How does he put so much emotion in his voice. And so many contrasting emotions also. I can be so cruel, but i do believe in you, i cant live within you. Every lyric creates a new angle of the perspective and motives. Many emotional shifts is what im saying.
How you turned my world, you precious thing You starve and near exhaust me Everything I've done, I've done for you I move the stars for no one You've run so long You've run so far Your eyes can be so cruel Just as I can be so cruel Though I do believe in you Yes, I do Live without the sunlight Love without your heartbeat I, I can't live within you I can't live within you I, I can't live within you
In a way when jareth reveal where toby was Its like he was making her choose between toby and jareth Until she did that leap of faith He allowed her to fall slowly to ground even tho using his powers constantly is causing “the world to fall down” Because she “starve and near exhaust him”
It's great to see the amazing discussion about this movie. But it's not a love story and it's not a story about somebody creeping on a teenage girl. He is the embodiment of her imagination. He is singing about the idea that she is about to grow up. He is sad because he knows that when someone grows up their imagination slowly disappears. And he will slowly cease to be. He wants her to stay forever to stay and play to imagine forever to be a child forever
I can't relate to Sarah at all. If I was in Maurits Cornelis Escher's lithograph "Relativity" with Jareth (David Bowie) in skin tight pants I would automatically try to be his Goblin Queen.
The story wasnt about love between family its about letting go of the cradle of youth and embracing the responsibilities of adulthood without losing the kindness of being young, like she starts off split between trying to act more grown up than she is while alsp being still a child in many aspects, she goes through however stages of grief of her childhood as she learns to live with the fact she is no longer her fathers only child.
Jareth represents two things, her relationship with her childhood as do all the characters other than toby, the hoarding woman, representing her child like belongings and memories she holds on for comfort and also her inability to let go of her grief in my opinion.
I wish we could travel back to the 70’s aswell, Time is moving fast. I can’t believe that we are literally going to be 20 years into the 21st century! 1990 will be 30 years old! :(
There really is some powerful imagery in this movie. The ball scene where she shatters the glass of the illusion, taking the plunge in this place, which is basically the heart if the labyrinth. What a great film
To see David was to fall in love with him. To listen to sing his own songs is to become enraptured. To hear him speak is to realize he was a genius. Goodbye, Starman. I still have my tears. 😢
I love Jareth he is sooooo amazing and If where I would have stayed with him regardless of his actions coz in the long run he was doing as she asked in the first place
I love how he walks towards and looking her "your eyes can be so cruel" then showing the crystal to her and yelling "just as I can be so cruel" and it's like he's really talking to her, badassery right here I love this scene
I have to admit this was my first David Bowie movie that I ever seen when I was little not to mention these songs were the first David Bowie songs that I ever heard in my life growing up.
Same here! I remember when this debuted in 1986....I barely knew who David Bowie was & I fell hopelessly, wonderful, eternally in love with David Bowie after this! He just looked like every temptation you could imagine then & to some extent.......today! :) I've loved him ever since. The world is not the same without him.
Such s whimsical movie. Great for kids at that time but it had such adult themes. In my mind, it's clearly about the male and female dynamic. He yearns for her, she yearns for him. It's very clear. And the lyrics to this song, incredible. Just as a make would profoundly think; "I move the stars for no one!" But how often do we? Even females for males. Great stuff.
I have to day david Bowie in this movie he was sexy loved the character he was a awesome artist with a great voice we will never get another David Bowie he is one of a kind
Who watch this in 2024?
I watch this movie at least once a month. I love this movie and have watched it for years. I'm 69 yr old grandmother now💜
Me.
Has anyone ever realised that Jareth wanted to send Sarah to the beginning because he knows she won't give up and she will keep coming back so he gets to see her even more? and because he sends her back, he resets time again so she will stay longer! and this then fits in with the ending where he talks about how generous he has been and he wants her to love him!!!
hm...
Yeah, because he's a creep. David Bowie does a great job and it's a good movie but I don't get why you're excited about the idea of him manipulating her like that.
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You're way over thinking this 😅
@@sarahberkner I'm speechless. What is this world coming to? WTF is wrong with you?
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Wow, I never realised it but at 0:40 when he says 'I move the stars for no one' he looks so heartbroken like he's about to cry. I guess he means I move them for no one but I've moved them for you, does that mean nothing to you? David Bowie did such a good job
Yes nice catch!
The whole song he seems hurt and melancholy but its clearest in that moment
IKR! I caught that subtlety within that lyric too!
Nicely noticed 👌
That is EXACTLY what I have come to think he meant there too! At first listen, I thought he was telling her not to be so 'demanding', that he won't move the stars for her. Yet now I realize he must have meant that he already 'reordered time'....etc., as he mentions in the next scene. Powerful, underrated film.
I come here just to hear him sing the lines:
"_Your eyes can be so cruel
just as I can be so cruel_"
Sander Kuusk I remember saying that to an ex fair to say she didn't get the reference
that's my fave part too!!!
That would be great to say to an ex or girlfriend haha
And "I move the stars for no one."
my favourite lines!
Good old Bowie, he OWNED the role of goblin king x
TheDevilsLovechild does anyone know Jareth's last name I know his full name: Jareth Labyrinth
Absolutely he did
David glowie
Was good, but don’t know why they had to add all of those horrible songs in the movie.
@@garydelong7750 you must have a developing brain
He is within her. This whole construct is within her. He is a part of her. He is a part that wanted validation, but the main part of her on this journey within needed self determination and to protect her principles and assess her values. He has different needs. Within her construct she figured out her priorities.
All of this labyrinth is in her. When she came to "reality" she actually woke up twice.
She is also a good example of the phrase "Be careful what you wish for." js.
He's not a villain. Never was. There's no villains here in this movie, they are all part of her and all needed something, all had a role in her growth and meaning of life and construct of reality. She moved on from each challenging aspect with self determination. She moved on.
This whole movie is an inward self processing session. Such is life.
Yup totally agree with your interpretation. And the answer is that we also have all world inside us ,same as everything& everyone around us are simply our creation from inside us. Matrix in Matrix 😂. In my country there's a saying *IF you wanna change the world, then at first begin from yourself* What is inside that is outside - mirroring concert. Mostly these days mirroring from inside out looks like complete crooked mirrors honestly. ))
*Mind and Worlds* are the most powerful instruments gifted to us from creator.
Her anger and sadness wants more -
Very deep movie
The labyrinth of life
I fell in love with Jareth, the Goblin King in the movie Labyrinth, for never have I seen a more beautiful man.The soundtrack, his singing, as well as his speaking voice is mesmerizing.I am so glad I have been blessed to see this movie abd have the soundtrack,as well as so much of my hero's fabulous,unique music .He could do vocal gymnastics like no-one else.
Jarreth? That’s David Bowie
Me too 🥰
Me too
Yesss! There’s something so charming about him
He who plays the Goblin King is called David Bowie. He was a musician and actor. He died just 69 years old. He was a legend R.i.P David Bowie The world will not forget Him.🙏🏽
I once read a theory that Labyrinth is a story Sarah was writing and got lost in. Jareth wants to be her perfect villain, an all powerful, handsome dark figure feard by all. Facing him, she shows she's not scared of her own creation and his powers fade faster and faster. In this scene, he laments that he's everything she wants him to be, but it brings her no happiness and she defies him to the end.
What I love about this movie is that there can be so many interpretations of it. One theory that fits with this is that all of the things and characters in the underground come from her imagination and there’s hints of it in her room. There’s of course the labyrinth book she is reading, the figurine with the silver dress, a statue on her desk that looks similar to jareth, and even a poster on the wall of similar stairs like in this scene.
It’s a well backed theory, everything she sees and encounters is in her room at the beginning, there’s even a picture of David Bowie and her mom in her scrapbook!
The meaning behind it is actually an old predatory man love bombing a young teen girl.
In the movie it’s a published book with lots of merch like board games and plushies. She’s obsessed with it and that’s what she’s larping as in the beginning
Live without your sunlight.
Love without your heartbeat.
RIP David Bowie :'(
+sophie k 'I move the stars for no-one'.. Still gives me goosebumps 30 years later!
RIP to the Master Chameleon...
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:-( such a loss
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The Blondetrepreneur I want David Bowie back 😭😭😭😭
I am still floored by this scene. How they must have done it! Little CGI back then, people actually had to 'work' for most of their special effects. This was epic. The entire film was!
There was a making of
it was highly mechanical
Toby is one of my favourite characters in the movie. 👶
Everything in this movie was almost entirely practical with the exception of the bubbles and owl and snake transformation they basically edited all of them by hand and basically use a sort of mirror trick when jareth walked through Sarah then pieced it together to give the incorporeal illusion
I agree this and legend with Tom cruise
As he finishes his song, you can feel the ache Jareth feels for her, as though he knew she would not accept his offier but still clung to the hope she might. I really wish this had gotten a proper sequel then, with an adult Sarah who betters understands his actions and a wiser Jareth who realizes how her age affected her decision.
If they did make a sequel I definitely see it going in a different direction. First of all my thoughts on the movie esp the ending is this. Sarah went through jareths labyrinth for the soul purpose of getting her brother back not to be with jareth in any way or for him to be her personal bitch so of course she wasnt gonna accept his offer and as for what Jareth felt for her the only ache he felt was for himself knowing he was losing toby and losing his own stupid game he played with her of taking her brother and making her go theough his maze in order to get him back. Jareth was not one to take anything lightly likie portrayal,defiance or rejection so if they had made a sequel to labyrinth;well lets just say this. Have you ever been on the web siter of the labyrinth fan fics;where people write there own stories of the labyrinth including sequels;well theres this one someone wrote called entrapment of the peach which I thought was exactly the way a sequel would have gone had they decided to make one
I need no sequel. There is no encore to perfection.
Joanna Velez we were supposed to get a sequel but than David Bowie passed away and now it won’t be In the works :(💔
That's why we have fanfiction! There authors who've created great sequels to this story.
There was a graphic novel made that actually does take place when Sarah was older. It’s definitely a different pacing.
He looks like he's about to cry when he says, 'I move the stars for no one' (R.I.P. Goblin King you are missed)
@Delilah_Brooks, he is missed.
I love the movie's message that just because you can't be a child forever and have to grow up, that doesn't mean you can't keep your sense of fantasy and wonder.
Yes that's why huggle said "should you need us"
I fell in love with David Bowie when I watched this film at 11 years old. Before I even knew who he was and discovered his music. I’m 48 now and I love him still!
he is beautiful and amazing! Looks like a manga character.
@@queenheart6167 There was a Japanese manga who's creators main characters inspiration was Jareth visually. Its a bit of an adult manga/anime but its my favorite one. It's called Bastard!! (Yes exclamation marks have to be included in the title) By Kazushi Hagiwara. Dark Schneider is the character.
For real ❤
As much as I enjoy some aspects of him, he's just overrated to me. Like his vocals are meh. So what is it that y'all really like about him?
@Royalty_girlie your probably to young to understand.
This song is so sad because he was giving Sarah everything she ever wanted and its like she's ignoring him
Typical male female relationship
She asked him to take the baby, he did. Then he brings her favourite book to life and plays the perfect villain. I think in his twisted view he was doing everything for her and still she refusing to see it
It was a twisted fairy-tale, to be certain. The film was a lot deeper than many realized, including myself, back then. Jareth is giving Sarah what she asked for. Yet he is not. Jareth is represented as Devil-like: demonic yet seductive.
Doing what she asked, yet not without paying a Piper for it & as we all know: Evil does not work for free.
He was never going to grant any wish other than taking Toby, everything else was a false-promise. If she had give in to him, she never would have seen Toby again.
Also Jareth simply phasing through Sarah at one point can mean two things
1. He isn’t real he’s just a fantasy in Sarah’s mind
2. She’s focusing on her brother and ignoring him. To Sarah Jareth is invisible to her
I was 7 when this movie came out. I fell hard for Bowie, I'm 42 years old and still falling.
Same here 😂 44 and as in love as when 11
When this film came out, I wasn't alive yet.
@@stuartmacleod7466Same, but still got to live at the same time as David Bowie.
*Edit as of 6/15/2023; I am aware now that Jim Henson already explained what this scene and story represents but at the time of writing this, I had only watched the movie adaptation and had not read the book or researched the creator and minds behind it all. ^ ^ Still, thank you to those of you who still agree or like my silly interpretation! Means a lot lol
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Even if Jareth is some representation of the devil or whatever and he was trying to seduce and manipulate her to stay with him forever, still doesn't change the fact that Jareth sounds deeply hurt and lonely here. He does have feelings, even if they come off bitter and selfish. All he has is his goblins, no material thing satisfies him. He was drawn to Sarah because of her strengths, her courage, her purity, things he doesn't posses, despite his bravado's. He admired her for that (and possibly even feared), that's why she was special. She was different, she stood up to him and his challenges. Surely he had attempted this with other females before Sarah and all rejected his offers and failed. The sad thing is though, Jareth doesn't understand that's not how a woman's heart works. You can't always just simply toss pretty gifts in their face and expect them to be wooed and fall into your arms. The human heart is a complex thing, it takes time and reason and relies on connection. Not to mention, stealing your baby brother and threatening to turn it into a goblin doesn't exactly leave a good impression. Not saying Jareth is exactly innocent but I don't think he's necessarily pure evil, just following the wrong paths. Over time, he might have the potential to be good.
Idk, it's something about this part of the film. He seems to be admitting his defeat and the fact that she's gotten the best of him. Surely he also admires Sarah for the compassion and dedication she has for her younger brother so when he says 'I can't live within you', I feel like he's also saying: I'm not capable of the same compassion you are. Maybe I'm looking too far into it, I just think there's a lot of possibilities.
I always thought he was a hot King.
Love the Bowie LONG LIVE THE KNG
#ripDavidBowie
+andstarvinwasborn I wouldn't call Jareth a paedo. Magical beings don't really get the concept of age and time.
+Madeline Main yes, he was... lovely and sexy!!!
They explain what Jareth represents in the labyrinth behind the scenes. Sarah has to choose between growing up and her childish fantasies. The labyrinth is a metaphor for the journey of coming of ageJareth is a representation of the rock star young girls dream of however, intimidating because he's an older man attracted to Sarah. This is where her scared and confused demeanor comes from towards Jareth. She is attracted to him as young girls are to their idols but is scared because it's a different kind of attraction now that she sees it from him. In the ballroom scene you can see it. She feels the tension and is confused between being a child in an adult world. The confusing transition of being a young girl and a woman at the same time. The time represents not only saving Toby but also her time of being a child running out. It's explained completely in the behind the scenes. Jim wanted to show this scary and confusing struggle as he has daughters and wanted to emulate this struggle.
In the end of the movie Sarah rejects the offer of remaining in a fantasy world in order to grow up and face reality and the responsibilities that come with it. Including being an adult. Remember, Sarah didn't want to care for her baby brother. An adult responsibility. Her mother wants her to have a boyfriend and dates. Another adult responsibility. Sarah doesn't want to grow up...and facing the labyrinth made her realize that she has to. When Toby took Lancelot it got her angry. It was her toy. Her teddy bear. In the labyrinth...when she met the junk puppets (which were a representation of one carrying burdened baggages in life) they gave her Lancelot, her room and all her childish things. Sarah realizes....it's all junk. It's worthless. These toys...it's time to grow up and let it all go. Her room crumbles resembling her childhood walls tearing down. Sarah in the end of the movie is seen giving Lancelot to Toby accepting her fate. She's putting away everything in her room that
Video proof that Bowie should have played the phantom instead of Gerard Butler.
Or Raoul; he would have been an EPIC Raoul. Him and Gerard Butler on opposing sides would have been legend.
The Nuharoo I think he was a bit old for Raoul.
Connor Lachmanec
Right, but still, it would have been great to hear him sing "All I Ask of You."
He was not that old.
yass!
Makes me feel so bad for him how sad and hurt he looks during this scene especially when he sings “I move the stars for no one” and “I can’t live within you” and how he sings that part in a choppy way to sound like he is holding back tears
“I can’t live within you” can mean similar sounding to “I can’t live without you” and that Jareth is simply part of Sarah’s fantasies and he doesn’t want to just be a fantasy to Sarah but something real
This and the ballroom scene my favourites 😍
Aaron H. Jackso
Diamond Het-Heru Jackson me to
I like magic dance
and the song in the throne room, too
Same
I think Labrynth would be a Great Musical for Broadway! Would be a Big Hit! Hope someone will make it happen one day!
It won’t be the same without him
To think that cute little baby boy is probably almost 40 now!
RIP David Bowie, you are timeless! ❤
That M.C. Escher set is absolutely genius. It's always been one of my favorite pieces of art.
This song has so many truths behind it.
It truly does. Because of the way its sung & the plot scene when its heard (the audience is rooting for Sarah).....one can miss some of the incredible 'nuances' in the lyrics!!! I saw this in 1986 & I still 'catch' things I missed! LOVE this film & Bowie, I'll love them forever.
@@taracollins5597 You are on the money Tara.
I feel like Sarah has come to the Labyrinth before in dreams but forgotten (see: Hoggle expecting her), but this final time Jareth comes into her physical reality. The “I can’t live within you” is him dealing with the reality that Sarah is growing up and soon won’t have a role for him in her dreamworld anymore as she finally integrates more into the real world. If the Labyrinth is a dreamworld based on a play/story she has and the toys in her room, if it’s not a “real” realm, then her growing up essentially means death or purgatory for him as he can’t live within her imagination anymore. It’s the only line where you can see that he Knows he’s an idea/construct, and though that doesn’t mean he’s not emotionally real, if he can’t live within her mind then where else will he go?
I thought Hoggle expected her, because Jareth told him to expect her. I didn't even realize, fully, that EVERY creature in the labyrinth was against Sarah succeeding. Even the worm! For some reason, as a child, I thought the worm was just 'not the brightest worm in the wall' LOL. But his final comment "If she'd kept goin' on down that way, she'd have gone straight to that caaastle!" was him being TRIUMPHANT at thwarting her! Clever film....& I LOVE how we can all still figure pieces of it out today!
This is sad😢
Who's watching these Labyrinth scenes to remember David after hearing about his passing?
+Kirsten H every chance i get.. in my mind.....and every bit of music he made and every motion picture he did
me....
That's the glimpse of true love there. He loved Sarah with all his heart but didn't know how to make her love him so he thought that when he gives her a reason to come to him, in his realm, so he could interact more free with her, manipulate her...she would learn to love him over time. But the love for her baby brother was stronger than everything Jareth threw against her. He thought that she despises her brother so much, that she would love him for getting rid of Toby for her. So he changed his strategy and wanted to maker her love him with pretty presents.
He wanted the impossible because here in his realm, he has everything he could desire but not love. Yes, he had his loyal goblin subjects but they feared him and he was unhappy with them, he has gold and other riches but not the only thing nothing can ever buy: The true love of a woman. In the end he was so sad and hurt that he wanted to make her understand that he loved her with all his heart but she had seen his cruel side. It was too late to turn back. And so he remained alone with a shattered heart.
beautiful music and wonderful story and film, loved it already as a little child (and hoped i could be in the fairy world)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling
sagas tell, that elves sometime steal (unwanted) babies and exchange them with some creatures. And the story of the film reminds very much to that: somehow invisible entry to another world, the fairy world, where time goes differently ( -> some celtic sagas where someone comes to the fairy world) and creatures that all are named as fairies, goblins, pixies, etc. with an elf as their king. As seen in sagas and Tolkien's books elves can be good and bad, and they love music.
The people in the ballroom could be elves, too, so he wouldn't be the only. He seems to feel comfortable among them, but watches the girl who feels afraid & lost because of the staring people. With invading her for dancing it could be a "don't come near, she is under royal protection", too
Once read that other stories, too. But thinking of the character of the king, he has too much fun to be king, why should he leave and what would he do? He would be terribly lost in "our" world, where he's no one. Really thinking taking (unwanted) children to the faiy world is because of pity. Wouldn't it be a cute idea when these children play with fairy children?
For educational purposes, if anyone here has read HP Lovecraft, he will often use the phrase, "non-euchlidean" to describe architecture. That room is a perfect example of non-euchlidean, since its mere existence seems to defy reality.
+Wander von der Seele It's Euclidean, after Euclid, the Greek mathematician and "father of geometry". Anyway you're right, very non-Euclidean, very Escherian :)
+Wander von der Seele the room is taken from a Escher drawing btw ;-)
Wander von der Seele Dude we are not talking about education we are here to listen to the best 1980 movie song that ever existed.
I'm pretty sure she could spell Euclidean correctly though.
I just came here for labyrinth... rest this idiotic joker god😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂i thought here people might try to find their way out of labyrinth
I can listen it for eternity,,,,, is it me or anyone else feels too that 80s was the last best era for artistic liberation???
That bit where at 0:53 where he comes up over the ledge.. so many happy childhood memories of watching this. Then i grew up and got into the man and his music...what a life... RIP Dave...
@1:39, you can just see the sadness in his eyes because a part of him knows she won't give in.
David Bowie will rest in peace
he was awesome in this movie the Labyrinth will be in my heart Within me at all times also as well the dark crystal
I remember the first time I watched this, I was 7 years old, in 2011. I didn’t even know who David Bowie was, and I started learning about him from my dad in 2017, I didn’t realize that I could of seen him in person until he died at the beginning of 2016. I wish I could travel back to the 80’s
love the leather outfit will miss you David RIP
I love this movie it’s so comforting
That is the most amazing scene I have ever known. *sheds lots of tears from both my eyes*
It is the most amazing scene.:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
I know!!! Happens every time NEVER FAILS!!!
and to think the movie critics blasted David for being a poor actor.
Labyrinth and dark crystal pure childhood when I have children I will only show them the classics
I really loved that film when I was young.They were making so good films in past.I love more realistic effects over electronic effects nowadays.Look when Jareth walks under the path and comes up at front of her.Good film, great play of both.BTW lyrics and voice is quite sad. Bowie gave climat to this tune.
How You Turn My World
You Precious Thing
You Starve and Near Exaust Me
Everything I've Done
I've Done For You
I Move The Stars
For No One
You've run so long
You've run so far
Your Eyes Can Be
So Cruel
Just As I Can Be So Cruel
Oh I Do Believe in You
Yes I do
Live without your sunlight
Love without your heartbeat
I I Can't Live Within You
It's been over 7 years and I still can't believe he's not here anymore.
Love you always
DB 🌹
Dare I say this but sometimes I don't think some women understand how deep they can touch a mans heart I think him and the phantom of the opera show a little of how bad it can hurt even though you try to act tough on the outside inside your dying and hurting I.m. The pain with a broken heart can be the worst pain and loneliness and can change and reshape a person forever especially when you plainly love them for who they are.
Jareth and Phantom are two sides of the same coin :(
The Phantom would kill for you
Jareth would give you the world
My favorite lines in order is:
“i move the stars for no one! “ 0:41
“Live without your sunlight, not without your heartbeat,
I cant live within you” 1:25
(That whole line honestly touched my heart...especially when he said,” not without your heartbeat” its like he’s saying he cant live without her heart or love...and the last part “ i cant live within you” i guess cuz she rejects him...and she she wont open his heart to him)
“Though i do believe in you, yes i do!” 1:12
“Your eyes can be sooo cruel, just as i can be so cruel!” 0:58
When i was younger i was like
Eh..david bowie you gotta work on that pitch and what are you talking about (cuz i never understood his songs such like magic dance 💁🏽♀️but i made a good theory what that song is about )
Then when i got a better meaning of the song
Im like😔😥aw poor jareth...
He’ve been alone so long
And when he finally found someone that caught his eye
He poor his heart through songs
But yer know if he would’ve run into sarah again maybe 6-9 years later 🌝... and shown a lil more chivalry (cuz low key he’s childish) then wouldve gotten sarah attention
1:35 i like how he’s singing about his heart but steady moving toby out of sarah’s reach 😂😂😂😂🥴he op
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂JOKER
Jareth is a faerie, and like most faeries he's very childlike and mischievous as well as being frighteningly dark and cruel. He hasn't had much contact with humans and when he does cross paths with them he's used trickery and cruelty to ensnare them in his world. He's trying the same old tricks with Sarah since up to now all humans have stumbled over the same thing and it's amusement to watch them fail, but Sarah is different from all other humans he's encountered. As she spends more time in his world tackling each obstacle before her he becomes enarmored by her strengths and perserverence, qualities that he's never seen before, and now the game turns into desperate attempts to convince her to stay with him. He tries to shower her with things he believes will make her want to stay and over time she does start to develop feelings for him, but her responsibility for the safety of her little brother takes precedence over her own heart so she rejects Jareth in order to persue her quest. Jareth not understanding what true love is nor realising that humans are a lot more complicated than he thinks is left with a mixture of feelings - confusion, frustration, bitterness and heart break - to why she's rejecting him. Those final words he sings "I can't live within you" are his realisation that there's no place in her heart for him.
Could he really have changed enough in a sequel to live happily ever after with Sarah if she came back to him? Well surprise, there were sequels but unfortunately their ending were far from that. They were mostly centered around Toby who's now grown up to a teenager and when Jareth finally did confront the now adult Sarah in the human world she had no memory of him or her time in the Labyrinth. I won't spoil too much but if you're interested in knowing the fate of Jareth, Toby and Sarah look up the manga Return to Labyrinth.
I miss the 80's best for movies
I grew up with Tim Curry as Darkness, David Bowie as Jareth, and Gerard Butler as the Phantom of the Opera…. Of course I’m in love with Monsters. 😍😍😍
This was my favourite film as a kid , literally used to watch it over and over everyday. What am amazing voice Bowie had. Also I last listened this just before Christmas, just before my wife left me .
Just let my 5 year old watch this. Absolute classic.
How does he put so much emotion in his voice. And so many contrasting emotions also. I can be so cruel, but i do believe in you, i cant live within you. Every lyric creates a new angle of the perspective and motives. Many emotional shifts is what im saying.
When he flips from below to up, that's a practical effect, just amazing how they did it
How you turned my world, you precious thing
You starve and near exhaust me
Everything I've done, I've done for you
I move the stars for no one
You've run so long
You've run so far
Your eyes can be so cruel
Just as I can be so cruel
Though I do believe in you
Yes, I do
Live without the sunlight
Love without your heartbeat
I, I can't live within you
I can't live within you
I, I can't live within you
That voice.....amazing....party like rock god you always were Mr Bowie - we will miss you, but you had a higher calling
In a way when jareth reveal where toby was
Its like he was making her choose between toby and jareth
Until she did that leap of faith
He allowed her to fall slowly to ground even tho using his powers constantly is causing “the world to fall down”
Because she “starve and near exhaust him”
"you run so hard,you run so far," RIP Bowie
I love the labyrinth. The people who liked it thank you.:-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
I've loved Jennifer ever since this movie came out
RIP ... Goblin King .... you are soooo missed
RIP MUSIC LEGEND MR. DAVID BOWIE
R.I.P David Bowie
why did you say that you're sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo mean
+Nicky & Julian I am not being mean...he is another legend who has passed on
This was by far the best song
Ello! I SAID ello!
Favorite scene. David Bowie crossed with mc escher ❤ it is certainly not just his voice that makes him gorgeous and amazing.
I LOVE JARETH
DAVID BOWIE ROCKED THIS ROLE 👌👌
You know David Bowie could of played pinhead and freddy Kruger in fact I would want to know how that would turn out
Wow! I remember watching this movie 23 yrs ago when I was 10 yrs old. I love this movie. It's amazing how fast time passes.
It's great to see the amazing discussion about this movie. But it's not a love story and it's not a story about somebody creeping on a teenage girl. He is the embodiment of her imagination. He is singing about the idea that she is about to grow up. He is sad because he knows that when someone grows up their imagination slowly disappears. And he will slowly cease to be. He wants her to stay forever to stay and play to imagine forever to be a child forever
Labyrinth, Legend, The Dark Crystal....what an era.
This always disturbed me as a kid. I was literally scared of David Bowie.
My parents grew up with this movie and shared it with me it just made my childhood I was so blessed I even named my dog sir didimus
R.I.P
David Bowie
You will always be in my heart, going to miss you so much but I'll never forget your awesome music and movies.
The pain in those last lines... especially: l can't live within you 😢 great delivery by David Bowie
Greatest movie in history 💕
Ikr
I can't relate to Sarah at all. If I was in Maurits Cornelis Escher's lithograph "Relativity" with Jareth (David Bowie) in skin tight pants I would automatically try to be his Goblin Queen.
The story wasnt about love between family its about letting go of the cradle of youth and embracing the responsibilities of adulthood without losing the kindness of being young, like she starts off split between trying to act more grown up than she is while alsp being still a child in many aspects, she goes through however stages of grief of her childhood as she learns to live with the fact she is no longer her fathers only child.
Jareth represents two things, her relationship with her childhood as do all the characters other than toby, the hoarding woman, representing her child like belongings and memories she holds on for comfort and also her inability to let go of her grief in my opinion.
I wish we could travel back to the 70’s aswell, Time is moving fast. I can’t believe that we are literally going to be 20 years into the 21st century! 1990 will be 30 years old! :(
There really is some powerful imagery in this movie. The ball scene where she shatters the glass of the illusion, taking the plunge in this place, which is basically the heart if the labyrinth. What a great film
0:35. Just yes "everything I've done I've done for you" this scene in general is my favorite
My favorite film from my childhood❤
oh David, your unique magic will be sorely missed. always
To see David was to fall in love with him. To listen to sing his own songs is to become enraptured. To hear him speak is to realize he was a genius. Goodbye, Starman. I still have my tears. 😢
The " i move the stars for no one!" Ive always loved that line. Because in his mind hes been moving the stars for her ❤
I love Jareth he is sooooo amazing and If where I would have stayed with him regardless of his actions coz in the long run he was doing as she asked in the first place
So heartfelt and tragic
Aaron H. Jackson Ive been watching this movie since 1991 and I still cannot get enough and feel it just as deeply each time.
I was a kid when I first watched this but David Bowie was my everything in this movie... Lol. #I was a wired kid 🤣🤣
Im here because I love David Bowie. Rip you inspiring creature.
Is it just me or was this whole movie just a fever dream?
This is a majestic song
Labyrinth will be re released on the big screen in select cities in USA only by Fathom Events for 2 days in Sept - Tickets on sale June 17th
What a beautiful piece of music!
R.I.P. David bowie & your amazing timeless life will live on forever ~
Jareth was showing her what is important, a joy he did not get to have, teaching her a lesson.
I would stay 😢... Gosh David is just... Was just perfect. A true artist till the last second... I miss you maestro
Even though this movie is old I really love this movie and this is my fave song and scene in the movie
True
I love how he walks towards and looking her "your eyes can be so cruel" then showing the crystal to her and yelling "just as I can be so cruel" and it's like he's really talking to her, badassery right here I love this scene
I have to admit this was my first David Bowie movie that I ever seen when I was little not to mention these songs were the first David Bowie songs that I ever heard in my life growing up.
Same here! I remember when this debuted in 1986....I barely knew who David Bowie was & I fell hopelessly, wonderful, eternally in love with David Bowie after this! He just looked like every temptation you could imagine then & to some extent.......today! :) I've loved him ever since. The world is not the same without him.
Long live the king. He will be missed
what do you mean??????????????
Nicky & Julian
I know this is late, but in case you did not know, David Bowie is dead.
The King is Michael Jackson.
@@michaeljacksonsliberiangir3821 king Charles the 3rd 🥱
This is the best thing ever
I still wish there were more lyrics to this, this was always my favorite and always too short.
this film is the best ever imagine to get to work with david bowie
David Bowie Rocks!!!
Such s whimsical movie. Great for kids at that time but it had such adult themes. In my mind, it's clearly about the male and female dynamic. He yearns for her, she yearns for him. It's very clear. And the lyrics to this song, incredible. Just as a make would profoundly think; "I move the stars for no one!" But how often do we? Even females for males. Great stuff.
I have to day david Bowie in this movie he was sexy loved the character he was a awesome artist with a great voice we will never get another David Bowie he is one of a kind
That is the most beautiful wig I have ever seen in my life. Hasn't changed my mind over the years it's that one! ❤
This scene has always made me cry as a child and still alittle to this day... trying to be there for her brother no matter the odds