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Sometimes, it takes several viewings and thirty years to find your favorite things. I rewatched the movie Legend recently. One of the lesser-known classics of 1980s fantasy cinema, Legend follows Princess Lily (Mia Sara) as one of her visits to the nearby village in the forest goes terribly wrong. There are goblins tasked with stealing the unicorns' horns for their power, and Lily is the bait because she has an innocent spirit. The death of the first unicorn leads to a cursed winter and darkness that will last forever if the second is killed too. On top of all that, Lily is captured by the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry), who wants to make her his bride. Her childhood friend and sweetheart, Jack (Tom Cruise), joins a band of sprites, fairies, and elves to rescue her. They have to navigate a hellish landscape to find Lily, save the unicorn, and steal back the horn before it’s too late.
GIF - Mia Sara in white dress kneeling in river reaching out to a white unicorn
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For obvious reasons, I used to get this movie mixed up with The Last Unicorn, and so had a hard time tracking it down to watch again. There are still a few movies I can't find because I know so little about them apart from a few half-remembered images. I've mentioned before that, until I sat down and watched the whole thing properly, I was convinced that The Neverending Story was an elaborate dream I'd had. But that’s still a movie I grew up with and know inside out. Legend is in that rare but slowly expanding category of movies that I only kinda remember from my childhood, but have rediscovered as an adult. Allow me to gush over it for a couple thousand words.
( Black as midnight, black as pitch, blacker than the foulest witch... )
GIF - Mia Sara in white dress kneeling in river reaching out to a white unicorn
Source.
For obvious reasons, I used to get this movie mixed up with The Last Unicorn, and so had a hard time tracking it down to watch again. There are still a few movies I can't find because I know so little about them apart from a few half-remembered images. I've mentioned before that, until I sat down and watched the whole thing properly, I was convinced that The Neverending Story was an elaborate dream I'd had. But that’s still a movie I grew up with and know inside out. Legend is in that rare but slowly expanding category of movies that I only kinda remember from my childhood, but have rediscovered as an adult. Allow me to gush over it for a couple thousand words.
( Black as midnight, black as pitch, blacker than the foulest witch... )