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welcome back to the writers room
everybody if you didn't notice we
wouldn't saw the 30th anniversary
screening of labyrinth
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some reason as a little bit more sexual
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welcome back to the writers room today
we are very excited to be talking about
the 30th anniversary screening of
labyrinth that's right that's right
yes I mean I wasn't music ah we dance
magic dance yeah that's right the night
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today we're talking about the 30th
anniversary screening of labyrinth
dragonite directed by Jim Henson genius
i think its mandibles I think it's like
his wizard of oz his star wars a new
hope it's his you know writers journey
real storytelling to the masterpiece is
what I think well I think it's a
masterpiece
not only because it's a fun story and
stuff it's me it's really out there I
mean you have to be there
I know a lot of people to love labyrinth
or don't like it at all so lecture you
know it's out there for some people but
you know I think it's a masterpiece
because of just the effects that went
into it yeah everything in the movie is
alive and it's all practical yeah it has
there were so many things that happened
in it that were so surprising and
compelling in of you know affecting more
than any computer generated image that
were just so real you lost yourself in
the in the characters in the world the
world felt alive the eyeballs yeah yeah
i mean again everything really it starts
out with a big visual effect 2i mean the
opening title sequence for 1986 is
incredible that owl is completely visual
effects and look amazing i might be one
of the first like fully visual effect
like characters i may be totally wrong
about that but i think that's a mean
like CGI like it's not like yeah yeah
you know stop motion or something but
there was yeah who knows something
fact-check me a comment below tell me
how stupid I happen but surprisingly we
wouldn't saw this movie and two of us
had not seen the movie ever before
LTE I've never seen the movie so what
did you guys think of your first
screening i loved it i thought it was a
fun time and I I will save my favorite
scene for a moment i loved it i thought
it was a fun time I saw the movie
alright is all yeah what did you like
about the movie well it just made me
appreciate Jim Henson to be honest yeah
well my creature shop yes I mean
absolutely those guys are talented
individuals and you can tell just
because I mean like you said every
character is alive and every character
is different there's not one exactly
like or repeated character within that
yeah so kudos to the man himself in
those guys the entire world was
populated absolutely mainly puppets
it was an entire world like the magnet
fantasy very old Ranger shop was emptied
out
yeah yeah it was amazing i mean the the
characters no matter if they're like a
full you know prosthetic or like
animatronic or even just hands doing
things
everything felt fully alive like the
helping hands and stuff oh my god fully
alive their hands yeah with the knockers
yeah Angie's like that would have been a
visual effect today and it looks like at
one point better beneficial effect and I
was like no it's it's real it looks
great because i got up close and you can
see their eyes moving you can grasp
anything about
that was just more immersive think all
of this movie they don't like olives and
yeah that's the thing yeah haha nope i
no knockers eyes
yeah well for your first time screening
was the thing that you liked outside of
the like cool world and everything like
what was one of your favorite scenes or
what your favorite characters my
favorite she was definitely helping
hands just because again really cool
again a helping hand every like hand had
a personality like it was never the same
so it was really cool to see ya got all
these hands coming together also
hopefully the creativity behind the
genius simplicity was just a lighting to
like there are models based on the
lighting for where the eyes would be in
the thumbs and stuff so yeah that's what
I thought is that it was actually a real
achievement in terms of editing shooting
and editing too because the way they
shot and edited it the way Jim Henson
did it it looked like she was moving
down in you know was basically them
shooting the same wall of hands over and
over again just in different
orientations it did feel like they were
geographically moving around yeah i
would have to say my favorite scene is
the bog of eternal stench and absolutely
what doesn't love three and a half
minutes of just pure guys I laughed the
whole time
hi guys don't understand i was sitting
next to Michael your service and I look
over and I was just like losing it in
this everything I've ever wanted to do
you know you guys farts farts farts and
burps it was absolutely perfect cinema
Lola little dog ran across it
hi squeaks OH ambrosia making burgers
there we go America has used those real
dog and puppy dog
yeah I also really like the
the creatures of the wild things kind of
oh yeah a wild of the Wildman their
terrifying and alluring scared the hell
out of me as a kid yeah you're telling
me you don't see ya tryin to me in exact
room with on Bay Street yeah it's pretty
well they're all their eyeballs know
you're saying I couldn't really hear all
the lyrics in that song in the big
screen no they're all about it snow to
the where the wild things are there's a
little note at the end of it thanks
Maurice Sendak and so there's a bunch of
where the wild things are lodges and so
it's like basically singing about how
like when your real life when the world
gives you problems when things are
getting you down you can go hang out
with these guys the Wild Bunch chill
down with the Wild Bunch and right
basically run with the weather while
things are like you know get your Yaya's
out and then you sort of realize the
horror of what that looks like
yeah like nevermind he picked up there
take her head I yeah just yet
essentially was managing yourself
yeah so then she finally is like okay I
gotta go see ya
yeah i mean the really cool thing too is
if you have a chance to see the 30th
anniversary screening in theaters
strongly suggested they don't plenty
trailers or anything like that before
the movie but they do play about a 5 10
maybe 15 minute long behind-the-scenes
look at how they made the movie it was
kind of like a nod to David Bowie the
whole time so it was extorting money
yeah very loving stories about how great
it was to be on set with him how you
always go out the crew afterwards have
here what a nice kind of yeah you know
it's like he had this such a busy
schedule and you know it was kind of
nice that like even those 12 hour days
on a movie set that was still pretty
quiet days for him so he just thought it
was a magical time they all thought it
was a magical times to be around and was
really cool so that is something that is
worth the price of admission alone so i
strongly suggest it like for example he
came up but we came up with in the
beginning of dance magic dance which I
don't forget tells favorite number in
the beginning of that when he grabs the
Goblin puppet he came up with that like
that was him he was playing in space and
he and
just like scenes of him and Jim Henson
working behind the scenes
yeah it is again something that could
probably not be done with CGI today yeah
i mean it would have looked up and I
gotta look also the worlds greatest
fountain all the little dudes being a
little water hole i love that are
outside the castle
it's one of my favorite is it simply
subversive movie and you meet with you
meet hoggle when he's peeing bear upon
killing fairies you know there's that
there's kind of like a dangerous element
to Jared the character of Jairus yeah
you know so it's like kind of it's a
first-movie it's not necessarily a kids
movie Perseids yeah I don't scare me as
a good you know same time like nothing
has real stakes you know like she's able
to evade every challenge that our asses
but you know I mean there's some her
brother Toby interesting balance yeah I
would have loved to walk those Studios
when the production was happening god
imagine everything is being just laid
out and being in the process of building
yeah we've been really cool amazing man
actual cell yeah yeah well he was able
to achieve that you know you do you
think today of the movies are getting
made and they can't do big things like
that with where that you have like
thousands of Muppet creatures they could
cost a fortune and they wouldn't have
time so that's so then you the answer
that is what we don't have the money you
know it takes too much time also jim
henson creative studio where he would
have the resources to do movies like
this day because that's what he wanted
to do and he's able to create something
real that is real that feels real
because it is real on screen that looks
better than your animation so I'm yeah
when you take the time to make it right
it's approved to always be the way it is
Lord of the Rings American Werewolf in
London all that stuff you know this
movie like he made judgments in The
Creature Shop the studio's he made that
so that he could make movies like
labyrinth where it's you get Ludo and
sir didymus
yeah and the Wild Bunch and i'll come on
name or names of more cooking of all the
cool the goblins I mean even more on the
walls inside you know the wall that
turns into a large suit of armor
yeah it's grandad that's wonderful yeah
awesome so yeah so the writers room
that's gonna do it for this week if you
guys enjoyed the episode let us know in
the comments below if you do have a
chance to check out the 30th anniversary
screening we strongly suggest it's a lot
of fun and really cool inside to make
the film and it's an easy way to much to
mr. Bowie where he's in the stars now
but it's good to remember like what he
brought to the table which is somehow
making that look really cool
yeah absolutely so for the writers room
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