The Dark Crystal

[Basman]

Genuinely Captivating and creative gem of a movie that I wanted to share. It's a beautiful story about the duality of selfishness and selflessness in an alien enchanted forest type world with a spiritual component. A rare fantasy world that is truly original in it's concept. No horses anywhere in sight 🐎

Jim Henson, the lead producer, had to fund this movie through his more successful work with the Muppets Show. He made several movies just to make this one. I've noticed that often creatives have to fund their passion projects through work they're less passionate about but that the market rewards. The Dark Crystal was profitable, but no suit would ever touch a Dark Crystal movie. The movie is a creative deluge, but production costs must have been out of this world 🪐🌀

The premise of the story:

You can watch the whole thing on YT.

I love watching the making of films of old movies. There was very limited things you could do with computers. Everything was practical and people had to get very creative in order to make a convincing film. I think Lord of the Rings was kind of the cut off point where movie productions became more and more reliant on CG and they started to lose their charm a little. They stopped using miniatures and shit. I think the only cg heavy movie I like is Revenge of the Sith, because it's so earnest in its corniness. They genuinely thought that the cg was super cool.

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Isn't this a cult classic? 

This was on background rotation in my childhood... Fuck I'm old lol 

I agree though, sick movie