![]() ![]() Does "good" corrupt (or redeem) "evil"? Or does he just want to defile her purity? He seems pleased when she pretends to have crossed over to the dark side. Why would that be? If he is drawn to her virtues then he can't be entirely evil. "Darkness" (Tim Curry with amazing makeup and head-gear) becomes smitten with Lili. This is kind of cloying with its garden gnomes and Disneyfied fairies, including a Tinkerbell floating light and drunken Irish elves: "Twas a tirrible sight for a sober mon!" Even the goblin soldiers are more like naughty children than anything else.Īnd yet: Lili's striking hellish dance with the cloaked phantom, a presentiment of her future self, is weirdly erotic, like something Powell & Pressburger would have tried in one of their opera or ballet fantasies of the 1940s. Her willfulness harms the unicorns (she just wanted to touch the horn - see where that leads?) and she must enter Darkness's fortress to try to make it up. She runs wild and hangs out with ragged forest-guy Jack (young Tom Cruise). ![]() What exactly Lili is innocent of is not very clear. Unicorns are attracted to "Innocence" so the goblin soldiers follow young Princess Lili and use her as unicorn bait. Evil demon "Darkness" wants to conquer "Light" but the sacred unicorns stand in his way. The plot is like a first effort from a teen girl who has just discovered elves and fairies. Almost all of it was done on a sound-stage without CGI. The air is filled with floating fluff and the people wear skin glitter. ![]() The magic forest settings are just boggling in their poster-art beauty. I had not seen this since it was in the theater and this was my first time with the director's cut and Jerry Goldsmith's score. Legend (1985), directed by Ridley Scott. ![]()
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