Labyrinth (film)

Labyrinth is a 1986 fantasy film, directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas, and designed through the art of Brian Froud. Henson collaborated on the screenwriting with children's author Dennis Lee and Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones. The leads are David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King, and a teenage Jennifer Connelly as Sarah Williams. The plot revolves around Sarah's quest to rescue her little brother from the Goblin King while trapped in a world that is an enormous fantasy maze. Most of the other significant roles are played by puppets or by a combination of puppetry and human performance. It was shot on location in New York and at Elstree Studios in the UK. It was the last feature film directed by Henson before his death in 1990.

Songs
The following songs were composed by David Bowie and performed by his character, Jareth, in the film. The exception is Chilly Down, which is performed by the Fieries (a.k.a. The Fire Gang).

"Underground" (Opening)
"Magic Dance" (Sometimes known as "Dance Magic")
"Chilly Down"
"As The World Falls Down"
"Within You"
"Underground"

Plot

Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly) is a 15-year-old who loves fantasy and playing dress-up. The movie opens with a scene of Sarah rehearsing lines from her book Labyrinth in the park. Sarah, who is trying to remember the final line of a speech in the book, loses track of time, forgetting that she must babysit her infant half-brother, Toby, that night. When she remembers this task, she runs home only to find her stepmother waiting angrily for her. They quarrel, after which the stepmother leaves with Sarah's father on a date, while Sarah remains behind to babysit Toby. Here, the already furious Sarah realizes her treasured teddy bear, Lancelot, is missing from her room. Storming into Toby's room, she finds Lancelot and shouts at Toby. He begins to cry; Sarah, possibly to tease him further in revenge, begins rehearsing more lines from Labyrinth. The part of the story she cites tells of a young woman granted special powers by the king of the goblins. According to the story, the girl (whom Sarah apparently uses to represent herself) could no longer stand her life's conditions and wishes for goblins to take away her screaming baby brother. As she ends the story and turns off the light, she says, "I wish the goblins would come and take you away-right now." Toby's crying suddenly stops. Worried, Sarah enters his room, to find that Toby has vanished.

A barn owl flutters through the opened window and transforms into the goblin king Jareth (David Bowie), who tells her that he has taken the baby as she had beseeched. Appalled at the realization of what she had done, Sarah begs for the return of her brother. Jareth gives her 13 hours in which to solve his great maze, called the Labyrinth, and find Toby. If she fails, Jareth will turn him into a goblin and keep him forever.

The Labyrinth is not a simple maze; the pathways and openings in the walls of the maze change from time to time, and are riddled with logic-puzzles and tests. At its entrance, Sarah finds Hoggle, a small creature (a puppet), spraying fairies with a solution so they drop to the ground. She eventually bribes him with plastic jewelry to lead her through the maze. Although he eventually sides with Sarah, it is later learned that he is a halfhearted operative deployed by Jareth. Sarah's other companions, acquired along the way, are Sir Didymus, a chivalrous, furry knight who rides a sheepdog called Ambrosius, lives near the Bog of Eternal Stench, and guards a bridge to uphold a sacred oath; and Ludo, a giant, furry, gentle beast she rescues from some of Jareth's goblins. Ludo has the unique ability to summon boulders by howling. Sir Didymus and his English sheepdog steed Ambrosius are the main inhabitants of the bog, along with some frogs and flies. Perhaps because he is there constantly, Sir Didymus' nose seems numb to the bog's pungency. Sir Didymus has sworn a solemn oath with his lifeblood to let no one cross the bridge leading from the bog without his permission. Sarah manages to overcome this promise by simply asking for permission to cross; being extremely polite, he says yes.

After a variety of adventures, including an encounter with detachable-limbed revelers known as "The Fire Gang", who try to remove Sarah's head; a detour through the Bog of Eternal Stench; a stop at the Four Guards, where she must solve a Raymond Smullyan-inspired Knights and Knaves logic puzzle to avoid certain death; a junkyard-like recreation of her own bedroom; and a hallucinogen-induced masquerade ball. There, Jareth attempts to keep her until the 13th hour, dancing with her. She breaks free of his spell and makes her way into the castle beyond the goblin city. Her means of overcoming the obstacles are logical thought, recollection of her purpose, and the aid of her friends. Most of the obstacles are put in her path by Jareth, who (as Sarah herself had stated to Toby) has become slightly enamoured of her and desires her to forsake her task in favor of reciprocating his feelings.

The film climaxes in Jareth's multi-dimensional M. C. Escher-inspired castle, wherein he makes a final appeal for her to abandon her quest and stay with him. He begs for her to stay with him, but she rejects him at the last moment, reciting her monologue from the beginning of the movie, including the line she could not remember: "You have no power over me". The room crumbles away, whereupon Sarah finds herself in the front hall of her home with the clock striking midnight and the barn owl (Jareth) flying away.

In Toby's room, she gives him Lancelot, then returns to her room. As Sarah clears her dressing table, she seems confused about whether she has undergone the turning point in her life between growing up and remaining a child. Hoggle appears, along with Ludo and Sir Didymus, as images in the mirror. They seem to be bidding her good-bye as she leaves behind the fantasies of childhood, but remind her that they will still be available "should you need us." Sarah, however, insists that even as she grows up, she will still need them, whereupon they appear in her bedroom. The film closes as the Labyrinth creatures celebrate in her room. Outside, the owl watches the party for a while, then flies away into the night.

Cast
David Bowie - Jareth the Goblin King

Jennifer Connelly - Sarah
Toby Froud - Toby
Shelley Thompson - Stepmother
Christopher Malcolm - Father
Natalie Finland - Fairy
Shari Weiser - Hoggle
Brian Henson - Hoggle / Goblin (voice)
Ron Mueck - Ludo / Firey 2 / Goblin (voice)
Rob Mills - Ludo / Firey 3
Dave Goelz - Didymus / The Hat / The Four Guards / Left Door Knocker / Firey 3 (voice) (as David Goelz)
David Alan Barclay - Didymus / Firey 1
David Shaughnessy - Didymus / The Hat / The Four Guards / Goblin (voice) (as David Shaughnessy)
Karen Prell - The Worm / The Junk Lady / Firey 2
Timothy Bateson - The Worm / The Four Guards / Goblin (voice)

Frank Oz - The Wiseman
Michael Hordern - The Wiseman (voice)
Denise Bryer - The Junk Lady (voice)
Steve Whitmire - The Four Guards / Firey 4 / Ambrosius (voice)
Kevin Clash - The Four Guards / Firey 1 / Ambrosius (voice)
Anthony Asbury - The Four Guards / Right Door Knocker / Firey 5
Anthony Jackson - The Four Guards / Goblin (voice)
Douglas Blackwell - The Four Guards / Goblin (voice)
David Healy - Right Door Knocker (voice)
Robert Beatty - Left Door Knocker (voice)
Toby Philpott - Firey 1
Ian Thom - Firey 2
Charles Augins - Firey 2 (voice)
Sherry Amott - Firey 3
Danny John-Jules - Firey 3 / Firey 4 (voice)
Cheryl Henson - Firey 4
Kevin Bradshaw - Firey 4
Alistair Fullarton - Firey 5
Rollin Krewson - Firey 5
Richard Bodkin - Firey 5 (voice)
Percy Edwards - Ambrosius (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marc Antona - Goblin Corps
John Aron - Ballroom Dancer
Elfrida Ashworth - Ballroom Dancer
Kenny Baker - Goblin Corps
Michael Henbury Ballan - Goblin Corps
Danny Blackner - Goblin Corps
Peter Burroughs - Goblin Corps
Toby Clark - Goblin Corps
Tessa Crockett - Goblin Corps
Terry Dane - Ballroom Dancer

Warwick Davis - Goblin Corps
Malcolm Dixon - Goblin Corps
Margaret Foyer - Ballroom Dancer
Anthony Georghiou - Goblin Corps
Elizabeth A. Gilbert - Ballroom Dancer
Louise Gold - Ballroom Dancer
Moira Grant - Ballroom Dancer
Paul Grant - Goblin Corps
Derek Hartley - Ballroom Dancer
Andrew Herd - Goblin Corps
Douglas Howes - Ballroom Dancer
Richard Jones - Goblin Corps
John Key - Goblin Corps
San Lee - Ballroom Dancer
Mark Lisle - Goblin Corps
Janis Mackintosh - Ballroom Dancer
Peter Mandell - Goblin Corps
Penny Marsden - Ballroom Dancer
Kim Mendez - Ballroom Dancer
Wendy Millward - Ballroom Dancer
Leonie Palette - Ballroom Dancer
Caroline Pope - Ballroom Dancer
Christopher Preston - Ballroom Dancer
Jack Purvis - Goblin Corps
Katie Purvis - Goblin Corps
Nicholas Read - Goblin Corps
Peter Salmon - Ballroom Dancer
Peter Sim - Ballroom Dancer
Graeme Sneddon - Ballroom Dancer
Linda Spriggs - Goblin Corps
Penny Stead - Goblin Corps
Graham Tudor-Phillips - Ballroom Dancer
David Turner - Ballroom Dancer
Sharon White - Ballroom Dancer
Albert Wilkinson - Goblin Corps
Barrie J. Wilkinson - Ballroom Dancer
Michael Attwell - Goblin (voice)
Sean Barrett - Goblin (voice)
John Bluthal - Goblin (voice)
Peter Marinker - Goblin (voice)

Kerry Shale - Goblin (voice)
Mildred Shay - Goblin (voice)

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