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Titolo originale: Labyrinth
Regia: Jim Henson |
Anno: 1986
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Avventura Famiglia Fantasy
Tag: rescue | race against time | maze | castle | musical | puppet | babysitter | surrealism | baby-snatching | coming of age | growing up | teenage girl | puppetry | fantasy world | child kidnapping | goblin | thoughtful | goblins | magic land | giant creature | grand | bizarre creatures | absurd | goblin king | baffled | ghoulish |
Cast: David Bowie | Jennifer Connelly | Toby Froud | Shelley Thompson | Christopher Malcolm | Brian Henson | David Shaughnessy | Ron Mueck | Timothy Bateson | Denise Bryer | Dave Goelz | Karen Prell | David Alan Barclay | Frank Oz | Michael Hordern | Steve Whitmire | Kevin Clash | Natalie Finland | Shari Weiser | Rob Mills | Anthony Asbury | Anthony Jackson | Douglas Blackwell | David Healy | Robert Beatty | Toby Philpott | Ian Thom | Charles Augins | Sherry Amott | Danny John-Jules | Cheryl Henson | Kaefan Shaw | Alistair Fullarton | Rollie Krewson | Richard Bodkin | Percy Edwards | Michael Attwell | Sean Barrett | John Bluthal | Peter Marinker | Kerry Shale | Marc Antona | Kenny Baker | Danny Blackner | Peter Burroughs | Toby Denver Clark | Tessa Crockett | Warwick Davis | Malcolm Dixon | Anthony Georghiou | Paul Grant | John Key | Andrew Herd | Richard Jones | Jack Purvis | Mark Lisle | Peter Mandell | Linda Spriggs | Katie Purvis | Nicholas Read | Albert Wilkinson | Penny Stead | Michael Henbury Ballan | Elfrida Ashworth | Margaret Foyer | Elizabeth A. Gilbert | Louise Gold | Moira Grant | San Lee | Janis Mackintosh | Penny Marsden | Kim Mendez | Wendy Millward | Leonie Palette | Caroline Pope | Sharon White | John Aron | Terry Dane | Derek Hartley | Douglas Howes | Christopher Preston | Peter Salmon | Peter Sim | Graeme Sneddon | Graham Tudor-Phillips | David Turner | Barrie J. Wilkinson | Jim Henson |

La bella adolescente Sara penetra nel misterioso labirinto per salvare il fratellino rapito dal malvagio re degli gnomi, il demoniaco Jareth. Nel suo viaggio incontra i personaggi più incredibili.

Approfondimenti

The movie is loosely based on the children's picture book "Outside Over There", written and illustra [...] D
During the "Escher room" scene, there is a sequence when Jareth's crystal ball seems to bounce up th [...] D
The original script ended with Sarah punching and kicking Jareth, then watching him shrink down unti [...] D
The novelization clarifies that every individual inside the Labyrinth is a metaphorical island. Jare [...] D
Every time anybody says "it's a piece of cake" in this movie, something bad happens shortly afterwar [...] D
Hoggle was voiced by Brian Henson, Jim Henson's son. D
The large urn that Sarah and Hoggle climb out of ended up in conceptual designer Brian Froud's garde [...] D
Brian Froud explains that Hoggle is part goblin and part dwarf. The back of Hoggle's waistcoat featu [...] D
In 1986, two video games based on this movie were released, one in Japan and one in the U.S. and oth [...] D
An on-going joke is Hoggle's name being mispronounced. In an early instance, Sarah (Jennifer Connell [...] D
The various things that Jareth does with the crystal balls (rolling them around his arms and in his [...] D
When Sarah, Hoggle, Sir Didymus, and Ludo enter the goblin city, several roaming animals can be seen [...] D
After solving the problem of the guards who lie or tell the truth, Sarah falls into an oubliette, wh [...] D
The DVD features revealed that Henson and Froud mentioned that the three most difficult things to wo [...] D
According to "The Goblin Companion" (a book that gives a description of every goblin in the Labyrint [...] D
One of the reasons why Hoggle is always making groaning noises between lines was to keep his mouth o [...] D
Sarah makes the mistake by picking the direction of going "right". When she first enters the labyrin [...] D
This reuses a gag from Monty Python e il Sacro Graal (1975), which Terry Jones co-wrote and co-direc [...] D
The last scene was altered during production. Sarah's communication with Ludo, Hoggle, and Sir Didym [...] D
Before settling on the idea of casting a rock star as the Goblin King, Jim Henson considered Simon M [...] D
There is evidence to suggest that Sarah is a player of the popular role playing game Dungeons & Drag [...] D
One of the choreographers for this movie was Cheryl McFadden. She also appeared, uncredited, as one [...] D
The little creatures that appear from beneath the tiles in the Labyrinth are called "Tilekeepers". D
Throughout the movie there is a black crow. When Sarah crosses the bog, it's perched watching her. I [...] D
Final theatrical movie directed by Jim Henson. D
Producer George Lucas chose not to do any interviews during the release of this movie as to "Not ste [...] D
The talking hat had a much larger role. There was an excised scene in a bar where the hat babbled in [...] D
Toby's name was Freddie in the early drafts of the story. The baby's name was changed because the in [...] D
The "Dance Magic" scene consisted of over forty-eight muppets, fifty-two puppeteers, and eight peopl [...] D
Terry Jones named the top guards 'Alph and Ralph', and bottom ones 'Alph B and Ralph B'. The latter [...] D
According to Brian Froud, Kenny Baker played the machine gun goblin. D
While the novelization describes Hoggle as a Gnome, Jareth describes Hoggle as a Dwarf just after Sa [...] D
This was the first time Jim Henson had worked with a baby in one of his works. D
Monty Python member Terry Jones wrote the first draft of the script. Jim Henson then let others re-w [...] D
A sequence that didn't make it into the movie had Sarah discovering paintings which depicted other s [...] D
David Bowie has the same hair cut that Limahl, the performer of The NeverEnding Story (1984) theme s [...] D
The upside-down room in the Goblin City was directly inspired by a drawing by M.C. Escher (titled "R [...] D
On his audio commentary, Brian Froud mentions that the colors and numbers on the armored goblin knig [...] D
The original script had Sarah accidentally entering the Goblin dimension by grabbing Jareth's mantle [...] D
It appears that the worm has double crossed Sarah since it sends her on the wrong track. However, th [...] D
In the scene where Toby (Toby Froud) is seated on Goblin King Jareth's (David Bowie's) lap, the baby [...] D
Over one hundred pairs of latex hands were made for the "Helping Hands" scene. D
In the novelization, the scene with the talking door knocks was extended. Sarah would try both doors [...] D
The earliest story ideas centered around a king, described as 'Jen from Dark Crystal (1982), twenty- [...] D
This movie has a Robin Hood connection. Sarah has a scrapbook, and on an opened page shows the fox R [...] D
The False Alarms were originally called Phony Warnings. D
Two official music videos by David Bowie promoting this title and directed by Steve Barron were rele [...] D
A Hoggle puppet got lost on an airplane and remained undiscovered, until it turned up at "The Unclai [...] D
As mentioned above, newspaper clippings showing Sarah's mother and a man resembling Jareth can be se [...] D
The split sculpture was an invention of Jim Henson and Debbie the Roboteer for this movie. It looks [...] D
In the DVD version, there are hidden faces in seven scenes. In general, they resemble the head that [...] D
When Sarah recites the 'Hardships Unnumbered' speech, an owl is nearby watching her do it, later in [...] D
When Jim Henson first began making notes for his follow up to Dark Crystal (1982), he wrote several [...] D
Just after the Junk Lady places "dear old Flopsy" behind Sarah, she slips a book titled "The Wizard [...] D
This movie filmed next door to Legend (1985), which meant the cast and crew of both movies often int [...] D
A face pattern can be seen on the back of Hoggle's jacket, showing he is indeed two-faced. D
The thirteen hour margin has a symbolic meaning and was not an arbitrary number chosen randomly. Sar [...] D
Ambrosius wears a leather saddle with silver stirrups atop a colorful blanket decorated to match Sir [...] D
To help the puppeteer inside him to see, there was a miniature video camera in Ludo's right horn tha [...] D
Michael Jackson, Prince, and Mick Jagger were considered to play Goblin King Jareth. Jim Henson pref [...] D
Brian Froud recounts that at the Royal Premiere, King Charles III was the only one laughing during t [...] D
According to the novelization, Hoggle is a gnome. The junk lady, however, is revealed to be a female [...] D
Frank Oz, Bernie Brillstein, Brian Froud, Wendy Midener, Lisa Henson, Lawrence S. Mirkin and George [...] D
The movie was released in the US on the 27th June 1986. Which was the second birthday of Toby Froud, [...] D
In one version of the script, the junk lady was actually a puppet being manipulated by Goblin King J [...] D
David Bowie did the voice (gurgling) for the baby in the song "Magic Dance". D
There are pictures of David Bowie on Sarah's mirror along side of a model figure of King Jareth on t [...] D
The music box was a gift to Sarah by her mother on her recent birthday. Although this detail is neve [...] D
The sources of the characters can be seen in Sarah's bedroom at the beginning of the movie. She has [...] D
The junk lady was in an abandoned series of script draft(s) and was supposed to be revealed as Jaret [...] D
Hoggle consisted of Shari Weiser inside the suit, and four puppeteers led by Brian Henson controllin [...] D
The climactic siege where the army of guards tries to invade the goblin house inside which the leads [...] D
The owl in the title sequence is computer generated. The first attempt at a photo-realistic CGI anim [...] D
Terry Jones suggested Michael Hordern for the voice of the Wiseman. D
Sarah's dog "Merlin" is also used for Sir Didymus' mount "Ambrosius". In Geoffrey of Monmouth's The [...] D
When he learned that the Ludo rig weighed over one hundred pounds, Jim Henson told the Creature Shop [...] D
The name of the giant robot that guards the gates of Goblin City is Humongous. D
The baby who played Toby was Toby Froud, son of Brian Froud, who was the conceptual designer for thi [...] D
Although the junk lady is another creature of the Labyrinth hired by the Goblin King to distract Sar [...] D
David Bowie signed on to do the picture on February 15 1985, two months before filming was set to st [...] D
In the beginning of the iconic "Magic Dance" scene, Toby is seen crying while surrounded by numerous [...] D
Helena Bonham Carter, Jane Krakowski, Yasmine Bleeth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Mary Stuart Masterson, L [...] D