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Labyrinth is a 1986 musical fantasy film directed by Jim Henson with George Lucas as executive producer. Based on conceptual designs by Brian Froud, the film was written by Terry Jones, and many of its characters are played by puppets produced by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
A stylized, younger version of Sarah appears frequently in flashbacks and in scenes of Jareth's imagination. Mizumi briefly takes this form while mocking Jareth about his apparent loss of power. After leaving the Labyrinth to Toby, Jareth approaches Sarah in the human world and is disappointed to find she does not remember him and has discarded ...
Jareth is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1986 musical fantasy film Labyrinth. Portrayed by David Bowie, Jareth is the powerful and enigmatic king of the goblins to whom protagonist Sarah Williams wishes away her baby brother Toby.
However, Sarah Monette of Uncanny Magazine refuted that Labyrinth is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast because Sarah does not reform Jareth, and wrote, "Just as Sarah refuses Jareth, Labyrinth refuses the incredibly dangerous myth that the “love of a good woman" can change a brute (beast) into a prince". [114]
Magic Dance" was written for a scene in which Jareth and his goblins entertain a crying baby that has been wished away to them by the film's heroine, Sarah Williams. In the film, Bowie performs the number with Toby Froud as the baby, and 50 puppets and 12 costumed extras as the goblins.
"As the World Falls Down" is one of five songs Bowie wrote and recorded for the film, in which he also starred as Jareth, the king of the goblins. [2] [3] A love ballad, "As the World Falls Down" was written for a dream sequence in which Jareth and the film's heroine, Sarah, dance at a fantastic masquerade ball. [4]
In the frame narrative, Sarah reaches the centre of the Labyrinth and defeats Jareth, returning home with Toby. Beetleglum asks Jareth what happened to the baby in the story, recalling that soon after Maria entered the machine with her baby, Jareth arrived in the Labyrinth as a fully grown man and assumed the goblin throne.
From 2016 to 2017, he appeared in the CBS drama Madam Secretary as Jareth Glover, the English fiancé of Stevie McCord. [4] In 2016, he appeared in Boston Marathon bombing film Patriots Day. [5] [6] Also that year, he was cast in the film Alaska is a Drag. [7] In 2017, O'Shea starred in the romantic comedy, A Simple Wedding alongside Tara ...