#labyrinth 1986

[scarecrow-jo3]

“You remind me of the babe.”

“What babe?!”

“The babe with the power!”

[coldlyholymonster]

These are a couple of movies I've seen lately—plus, I discovered the grimdark genre.

[vee-vee-the-starchild]

I once had a dream where Jareth (From The Labyrinth 1986) started a punk rock band with a bunch of his goblins and came to our world to kidnap recruit new followers for his kingdom. Like, for some reason, his kingdom was running out of followers, and he needed to add to his ranks FAST.

So! 👏 He thought that making a punk rock band and host a concert in our world would be a great idea because then whoever came will eat the food that would be serving there, which is fae food and thus trapping people in his kingdom.

The family and I were pasting through the field the concert was being held. The music, iirc, wasn't that bad and there was a crowd in my dream. Probably cuz, ya know, JARETH.

Also, the only reason me and my family escaped because we were vegan and didn't eat any of the hot dogs being served. LOL

[thechurchwithoutchrist]

[ediblegummibear]

date

ref to that cute cat comic by @nuttimeister on twitter

[thelastperformer]

In the discussions on tumblr about Labyrinth and David Bowie's Jareth being a symbol of the female gaze and Jennifer Connelly's Sarah's female sexuality, I feel one very crucial thing is being left out and that is how Sarah ultimately deals with her crisis and resolves her newly found maturation.

Im not going to write a whole paper on it, but viewers see Sarah struggling with a monologue at the beginning of the movie. At the end, the final line is what she uses to dispell Jareth and take Toby back. Jareth, who wants to control Sarah in exchange for "being her slave" is viewed through this lens as an exploration of her own sexuality. If she submits to her own desires, her desires will also reward her. In contrast, there is Toby, who is the consequence of those real world actions. If she has sex and gets pregnant, she could have a baby and then have the responsibility of taking care of that child. If she gets married, as Jareth's presence is there to remind her, she could be taken care of as a woman and a wife.

However, the line she uses to break free of Jareth's power and the labyrinth is "you have no power over me." This is where Sarah becomes someone who knows how to wield their sexuality. This is Sarah who won't let the fact that she's a woman hold her back in the world.

In telling Jareth, the object of her fantasies and desires, that he has no power over her, she's stating that she is the one controlling her life, not her sexuality, and not what is expected of her because of her gender.

[dreaminonao3]

The next chapter of Chained is up!

[itsame-gigi]

I rewatched the movie labyrinth and was thinking that my original hormonal teenage fuelled opinion of the film would be changed now that I've gone some years past that

But nope. If they wanted me to side against the Goblin King they shouldn't have casted David Bowie!