Daily Dialogue — December 24, 2018

“I … I feel like … I … don’t know what I feel …”

— Labyrinth (1986), screenplay by Terry Jones, story by Dennis Lee and Jim Henson

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Gift. Today’s suggestion by Lois Bernard.

Trivia: The movie is loosely based on Outside Over There, a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak in 1981 (Sendak’s famous book Where The Wild Things Are is seen at the start of the film in the bedroom — these two books, and In The Night Kitchen, comprise a loose trilogy of dreamlike books by Sendak). The story follows young Ida who must enter the fantastical world described as “outside over there” to find her baby sister, who’s been spirited away by some goblins.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Lois: “In a perverse way the first “gift” that came to my mind was that peach that the Goblin King gave Sarah in Labyrinth. Which probably says something about me more than about the script. In searching for the clip I realized I had forgotten how brilliantly incredible this film is. What was I thinking showing it to my then 8 year old? But here goes, as I searched but could not find the clip of the exact moment Sarah accepts the “gift” but here is what follows her accepting the gift.”