American Cinematographer - August 1986 - 121

Sarah, played by
Jennifer

Connelly,

encounters

the

strange Fireys, who
are

able to

disconnect their
heads and limbs.

Photos

Goblin World Created for

by John Brown and Nancy Moran

Labyrinth

by Ron Magid
A vast

rises up

against a painted
sky, luring a young girl
deeper into its heart, towards the se¬
ductive palace of the Goblin King. Her
way is fraught with unexpected perils
and pleasures, but as she encounters
the terrors of this strange new world,
she is aided and befriended by a wise
old wizard, a gigantic but lovable mon¬
ster named Ludo, and a spry old dwarf
called Hoggle. You won't find this myth¬
ical land on any map, but in the fertile
imaginations of Jim Henson and Brian
Froud, two magicians who once before
combined their artistry to create the
fantasy universe of The Dark Crystal.
maze

summer

blue

Henson maintains that Laby¬
rinth, resembles The Dark Crystal only

in its attention to detail and fantastic
characters and situations - but its tone
is much lighter. "With Labyrinth, we
started off to do a much smaller film,
we started off to do a more intimate

whose beautifully illustrated volumes,
Gnomes and Faeries, became an inter¬
national publishing phenomenon, was

thing about the relationships between

film's muppet

these characters, and also, we intended
it to be lighter weight because of Terry
Jones' (of Monty Python fame) screen¬

"It started with

play. One of the best things about Lab¬
yrinth is it enabled us to do something
like the muppets and slightly like The
Dark

Crystal - a
While The Dark
world
own,

nice middle ground."
Crystal depicted a

completely divorced from our
Henson has wisely chosen to in¬

corporate two

human characters into

Fantasy artist Brian Froud,

only responsible for designing the
characters, he also devel¬
oped the original concept for the film.
not

an

journey through

idea of Brian's about

labyrinth," Henson
through a
lot of different configurations of the
story before we ended up with this one.
Since The Dark Crystal, Brian did a
little pop-up book of goblins, a delightful
little book, and I wanted to get the
feeling, the wit and the whimsey of
these goblins into the film."
a

a

remarks, "and then

we went

Labyrinth.
August 1986

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Cinematographer

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