...is all the damn glitter. I love this movie and the TD soundtrack, but man Ridley Scott seriously had some kind of glitter fetish. I think it made a lot of the set pieces look really cheap. Like a team of strippers exploded.
shareI dunno, I kinda get it. Like, the movie is one giant cliche. Golden-hearted boy finds pure-hearted princess girl who is kidnapped by big red bad guy, taken to a black castle, blah blah, happy ending.
So, to add to the cliche, he just went with it instead of trying to be more original. And I think him going with it, accepting that he was filming a cliche, is what made the movie so original.
Fairies are pictures as these glittering little girls with wings, and the peaceful, good lands are pretty and colorful with flowers and all that shiny *beep* I kinda get it.
Also, remember that this is from the 80's, lol.
Like, the movie is one giant cliche. Golden-hearted boy finds pure-hearted princess girl who is kidnapped by big red bad guy, taken to a black castle, blah blah, happy ending.
Actually without it, the sets would look kind of bland and non-illustrious like in Dune.
shareI think all that glitter was an aesthetic choice to give the movie that faerie-world like feel to it. In my view, it worked very well and it's the movie's charm.
shareAgreed. Visually the movie is the most perfect looking fairy tale for me. Even the cheap looking sunny backdrop at the end doesn't bother me much, since most of everything else is flawless.
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Agreed, night-wolf. It definitely made the film look like a storybook come to life.
I am a person who dislikes glitter (it hangs around & around on every surface lol) but I LOVED it in this film!
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i agree. Without it wouldnt have had that great feel. It makes the movie better for it and it makes it stand it because of it.
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Hmmm...I don't think David Lynch does "glitter", except for the bit with the Good Witch at the end of Wild At Heart. "Don't turn away from love, Sailor..." Nic Cage is still finding bits of sparkle in what's left of his hair. True story.
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I may sound like a dork here, but I kind of like glitter in old school fantasy movies.
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It says, I believe in the Director's dvd release, that the set burned down and had to be rebuilt in a hurry before shooting. I think this is the reason for all the glittery scenery.
shareWhen I describe this movie, I always start by mentioning the glitter and the soap bubbles. It's to me part of what makes its personality. :)
Come on, don't you think it's funny? Spontaneous glittery cheeks, and glitter raining, and glittering snow with soap bubbles. Mmm, Legend.
The glitter on the doors in Darkness's lair was a bit much, and in another scene or two, but the glitter on the snow was somewhat realistic. Yes it was overdone for effect, but snow does actually glitter, so for a fantasy movie, it wasn't too bad.
sharefeathers too ;)
shareLike a team of strippers exploded.Okay...now that's just funny; I don't care who you are.
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I love all the glitters. No flaw at all. Sorry.
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I sometimes remark to myself at ALL the glitter lol...as I HATE glitter as a rule!
But I must admit I liked it in this film! It added the perfect touch to the faerie-style in every scene.
The poster that said they didn't like it on Darkness' door, I agree. It seemed 'off' there.
It was perfection on the snow, as it showed us that we are not looking at anything 'real', its wondrous fantasy.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
The glitter needed to be there! It was awesome!!! There's no such thing as too much glitter :D
shareSpeaking of glitter, anyone know why Tom Cruise doesn't talk about this bloody amazing film? The only time I've heard him speak of it was in a 1988 issue of Rolling Stone, and it wasn't exactly in the positive.
shareMaybe Tom Cruise doesn't think it was serious acting or something. Who knows?
I loved the glitter! I mean: Princesses, unicorns, fairies...Of course there is going to be glitter!
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I think it looked great in the VHS format but on a plasma television the special effects/glitter/costumes can be jarring
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Legend was an interesting thing. I don’t know how Harrison Ford has done so many of those types of films. I mean, I did All The Right Moves, and I thought, “Okay, I’ve done the two extremes of high school life. I’ve done that.” In Legend, I’m this magical character, Jack O’ The Green. The sets were huge. Sometimes we would be working on a scene that might last 30 seconds in the film, but it took a week to shoot it. It’s stunning and gorgeous and poetic and most of the time I would be looking at a piece of black tape and having to imagine all of it. It was exciting, but it made me hungry to do a piece like Top Gun.