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The Last Unicorn
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The Last Unicorn is an animated Film of the Book, based on the novel by Peter S. Beagle, and animated by Topcraft for Rankin/Bass Productions. It was produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, seeing release on November 19, 1982, distributed by Jenson Farley Films.In a certain lilac wood, the leaves and snow never fall. This eternal springtime is watched over, and caused by, its magical resident—a unicorn (Mia Farrow). Having never left her forest, the unicorn is surprised to overhear two hunters speaking about the disappearance of the unicorns. In fact, they believe her to be the very last.Unwilling to accept this, the unicorn leaves the safety of her forest and sets out to find others of her kind, following the information given to her by a philosophical butterfly. Along the way, she learns through bitter experience of human cruelty, ignorance and greed. She is mistaken for a horse (much to her displeasure), captured and placed in a circus sideshow, and pursued by a demonic being—the Red Bull, which, according to local legend, is responsible for the disappearance of the other unicorns. She also meets allies who join her in her journey; the incompetent but sweet-natured wizard Schmendrick and Molly Grue, a middle-aged bandit woman with a purer heart than most virgins.Their quest takes them to the barren lands of the embittered King Haggard (Christopher Lee), master of the Red Bull, and his naive foster son Prince LÃr (Jeff Bridges). It is here that the unicorn, superior and aloof to all mortals, is transformed into a mere human, taking the name "Lady Amalthea," forced to see and suffer human weakness and emotion firsthand.One of the overriding themes is the power of memory. The King remembers feeling happy once and tries to recapture it by kidnapping unicorns; the skull remembers wine; Amalthea is in danger of forgetting herself; Molly Grue remembers her lost youth; and the unicorn will forever remember being in love.The film's script was written by Peter S. Beagle himself. In July 2011, after years of legal dispute with the distributing company, he finally got paid.Unrelated to the fantasy RPG game. | |
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"The Villain Knows" Moment | |
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"The Villain Knows" Moment: Downplayed. Mabruk, angry at being cast out by Haggard, starts to summon a powerful spell, only for Amalthea to step between the wizard and Haggard. Mabruk sees the star shaped mark on her forehead glow and pulse, and starts laughing madly at Haggard, showing Mabruk knows who and what Amalthea really is. It's hinted shortly after the arrival at Haggard's castle that he suspects that Amalthea is, in fact, a unicorn. But he confirms it while confronting Amalthea on a balcony. Schmendrick also is aware that Haggard knows, telling Molly. | |
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Godiva Hair: This plus her considerably paleness protect the unicorn's modesty when she is human. | |
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Relatively Flimsy Excuse | |
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Relatively Flimsy Excuse: As noted above, Schmendrick says that the "Lady Amalthea" is his niece when he meets King Haggard. They don't really buy it, but they don't ask any more questions. | |
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Anti-Magic: The unicorn's main power is to be proof against magic, though apparently she can only do it consciously. Mommy Fortuna is able to take her asleep. | |
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Marshmallow Hell | |
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Schmendrick the Magician accidentally brings a tree to life trying to free himself from ropes, and finds himself nearly crushed to death by bark covered Marshmallow Hell. | |
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Wild Magic | |
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Wild Magic: Schmendrick is in possession of so much magic that he can't control it; he can only turn it loose to do what it wants. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good Is Not Nice: Unicorns may be incorruptible, but they're also wild. | |
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Genre Deconstruction | |
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Genre Deconstruction: All of the characters know they're in a fairy tale, and the fairy tale itself mocks, parodies, subverts and plays straight Fairy Tale tropes. One of the most moving scenes comes from this exchange: | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Intentionally, in the same vein as The Once and Future King, there are references to tacos, trains, magazines, Francis James Child's ballad collection, etc. in a medieval-Renaissance-Arthurian-whatever age. | |
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness | |
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Unicorns, Molly, and LÃr. | |
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Sexual Karma | |
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Sexual Karma: The talking tree and her "attributes". | |
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You Can Talk? | |
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You Can Talk?: Molly is only mildly surprised when the cat speaks ("Oh! You can talk!"), in more of a "why are you speaking now" rather than "Oh my God! A talking cat!" This is probably due to the general Medium Awareness in the film. Neither she nor Schmendrick are particularly surprised or creeped out by the talking skeleton, but in that case it's probably because the cat warned them about it earlier. Of course, this is a world of wizards, unicorns, and demonic creatures (the Harpy and the Red Bull). A talking cat is just par for the course. | |
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The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson | |
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The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson: The butterfly who speaks only in songs and poetry quotes a lot of things anachronistic to the medieval setting, including popular songs from the twentieth century. | |
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Gossip Evolution | |
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Gossip Evolution: When the unicorn asks Schmendrick to tell what he knows of Haggard and the Red Bull, he replies that he's heard too many stories to know what's really going on. "Some say the Bull is real, the Bull is a ghost, the Bull protects Haggard or else it keeps him a prisoner in his own castle..." | |
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Placebo Effect | |
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Placebo Effect: Schmendrick tricks the skull by pretending to turn a flask of water into wine and then drinking it. When the skull demands to be given some, Schmendrick objects that the skull can't smell or taste wine, to which the skull responds that it remembers the smell and taste of wine. Schmendrick hands the empty flask to the skull, and it proceeds to "drink" from it and act intoxicated. | |
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You Can See Me? | |
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You Can See Me?: Most ordinary people mistake the unicorn for a white horse, and Mommy Fortuna has to put a fake horn on the unicorn to exhibit her to the public. Mommy Fortuna, Schmendricknote who lies to Mommy and tells her he only sees a white mare, Molly, and (terrifyingly) the Red Bull all know the unicorn when they encounter her. The cat is also able to see her, because "No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike humans, who seem to enjoy it." Haggard isn't sure at first, but he's spent enough time staring at unicorns that he quickly begins to suspect who Amalthea really is. King Haggard launches into a furious tirade when he reveals to Amalthea that he knows she's a unicorn in disguise. It's implied that animals can clearly see the Unicorn for who she is, too. | |
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Strange Secret Entrance | |
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Strange Secret Entrance: Although the skull claims the clock "is just numbers and gears, pay it no mind", the fact is that the way to the Red Bull's lair in the caverns beneath Haggard's castle is to "walk right through it". It is clearly a physical object (Haggard is able to attack and topple it with his sword), but when the heroes do as the skull says, they do indeed pass right through magical mists into the tunnel on the other side, and these disappear when the clock is destroyed. Like the Red Bull itself (or the skull for that matter), it's never explained how Haggard has such magic (other than, it's implied, via Mabruk). | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Mommy Fortuna, upon seeing the harpy flying loose, knows that it will kill her and uses her last words to remind the harpy that not only was she kept captive by a mortal, she required the assistance of others to escape. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The unicorn saves her people at the cost of the happy human life she could have known, as well as having to live an eternal, immortal life with the pain of regret. However, she also knows what human love is like, and it's implied that LÃr will have some share in her immortality, since she will remember him. | |
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Stock Sound Effects | |
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Stock Sound Effects: The dragon LÃr slays has Godzilla's roar — though this is removed in some versions of the film — and the Red Bull sounds like Gamera. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: Being a G-rated film, we don't actually see Mommy Fortuna or Rukh die at the Harpy's claws, but we hear plenty (and Nothing Is Scarier). We also don't really see LÃr being struck and killed by the Red Bull. | |
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The Hero's Journey | |
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The Hero's Journey: The story is all the unicorn going on a quest to know whatever happened to her people. | |
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Jumped at the Call | |
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Jumped at the Call: Both Schmendrick and Molly are willing to travel with the unicorn within hours of meeting her. | |
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The Walls Are Closing In | |
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The Walls Are Closing In: Schmendrick's second botched attempt to free the Unicorn from the wheeled carnival cage by magic causes it to shrink around her. He's hard put to halt the spell before it can crush her, leaving her confined in a cage too small to stand up in. | |
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Stumbling in the New Form | |
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Stumbling in the New Form: After Schmendrick turns the unicorn into a human being, she rises, takes a couple of unsteady steps before leaning against a tree for support. She tries to walk again a moment later, only to fall to her hands and knees. | |
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Quest for the Rest | |
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Quest for the Rest | |
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Beta Couple | |
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Beta Couple: Schmendrick and Molly. They don't get together until the very end, but unlike LÃr and Amalthea, they get their Happily Ever After. | |
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Functional Genre Savvy: Several characters, particularly LÃr, who makes a much-quoted speech (see below) about the proper order of things during the climax of the story. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
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Adaptation Distillation: The animated version is held in high regard as being faithful to the text, even though significant parts of the book, such as the poetry and songs, were left out. | |
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Magic Enhancement | |
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Magic Enhancement: The unicorn buffs Schmendrick's magic when he casts an illusion of Robin Hood. | |
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Creative Closing Credits | |
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Creative Closing Credits: The opening of the movie is drawn to resemble a series of medieval tapestries come to life (and a few images from the Book of Hours)—specifically, the Unicorn Tapestries. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: When the Unicorn glances back at her forest a final time before leaving, there are a couple of dodo birds among the animals watching her go. Throughout the film, if you pay close attention you'll notice Mommy Fortuna's crow left her after her death and is slowly accompanying our heroes throughout their adventures. We see him in Haggard's castle and at the end, entering into the unicorn's forest. The pirate cat survived the collapse of the castle. In the goodbye scene afterward, you can just glimpse the cat on the back of Molly's horse. | |
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Glorious Death | |
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Glorious Death: Mommy Fortuna is frequently warned that the harpy Celeaneo will kill her, or as the Unicorn puts it, "Your death sits in that cage, old woman, and she hears you." Mommy Fortuna, however, is already well aware. "Oh, she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that I held her. So there's my immortality, eh?" Later, when Mommy Fortuna is killed, Schmendrick regrets how it happened, but the Unicorn points out that it was the death that Mommy Fortuna wanted. "She chose her death long ago. It was the fate she wanted." | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Mabruk, King Haggard, Mommy Fortuna, and Rukh are all extremely quick to take offense, and enjoy bullying and intimidating others. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Implied with King Haggard in regards to Prince Lir. Lir is his adopted son, not his biological one, and Haggard admits he only adopted the boy in order to see if being a parent could rouse him to happiness. Given how miserable King Haggard is in the present, the notion clearly didn't work well enough. Regardless, Haggard still raises Lir well into adulthood and proclaims in his introductory speech he will suffer the presence of nobody who doesn't make him happy — while his son is standing just a few feet away from him. | |
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Who Dares? | |
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Who Dares?: Molly asks of this to the unicorn arriving too late. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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LÃr starts off as a lazy schmuck, but eventually fights the Red Bull, lays down his life to save the unicorn, and becomes King. | |
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Bizarrchitecture | |
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Bizarrchitecture: The lower levels of Haggard's castle have grotesque faces randomly protruding from the rock. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: Turns LÃr from a lazy coward into a Genre Savvy hero, and allows the Unicorn to face her greatest fear. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Several. The unicorn's alias, "Amalthea," is a reference to the nanny goat who nursed Zeus. The original Amalthea had lost a horn, which became the Cornucopia, effectively making her a unicorn. "Haggard" pretty much speaks for itself. "Schmendrick" is a Yiddish word meaning someone who is foolish, clueless, or hopelessly out of his depth: a boy sent to do a man's job. The Harpy is named "Celaeno," after one of the three classic harpies, because she is the dark and twisted yang to the Unicorn's light and pure yin. "LÃr" is an Irish name which means "the sea". | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_6c287f89 | type |
Drama Panes | |
The Last Unicorn / int_6c287f89 | comment |
Drama Panes: Haggard approaches Amalthea as she stands at the window of his castle. She shouts, "Don't!" He says, surprisingly reassuringly, "I will not touch you." then asks "What are you looking at?" She replies, "The sea." Haggard nods and says softly, "Ah yes. The sea is always good." | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_6c287f89 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
The Last Unicorn / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "The Last." | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_7464705c | |
The Last Unicorn / int_796fa10c | type |
The Ageless | |
The Last Unicorn / int_796fa10c | comment |
The Ageless: As the unicorn herself says, unicorns can be killed. Nevertheless, they are eternal creatures of the world and do not simply 'vanish.' | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_796fa10c | |
The Last Unicorn / int_7b4ac30a | type |
Status Buff | |
The Last Unicorn / int_7b4ac30a | comment |
Status Buff: Done in one instance by the unicorn to Schmendrick, when he successfully summons an illusion of Robin Hood and his allies. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_7b4ac30a | |
The Last Unicorn / int_859ec5d8 | type |
The Fair Folk | |
The Last Unicorn / int_859ec5d8 | comment |
The Fair Folk: Magical creatures in general seem to behave like this. In addition to their magical qualities, they all follow Blue-and-Orange Morality to a degree and even benevolent ones like the Unicorn fall into Good Is Not Nice. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_859ec5d8 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
The Last Unicorn / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Four men-at-arms are mentioned (very minor characters in the book), but they never make an appearance. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_884e513b | type |
Medium Awareness | |
The Last Unicorn / int_884e513b | comment |
Medium Awareness: Far less so than in the book, but the characters hint they know they're in a fairy tale. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_884e513b | |
The Last Unicorn / int_90d44f44 | type |
Karmic Death | |
The Last Unicorn / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Mommy Fortuna and King Haggard. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_90d44f44 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_963aab4a | type |
Speaking Up for Another | |
The Last Unicorn / int_963aab4a | comment |
Speaking Up for Another: When the Unicorn, as Lady Amalthea, makes disparaging remarks about Schmendrick being "the King's poor clown", Molly takes umbrage on Schmendrick's behalf. | |
The Last Unicorn / int_963aab4a | featureApplicability |
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The Last Unicorn / int_963aab4a | |
The Last Unicorn / int_97926168 | type |
Rewatch Bonus | |
The Last Unicorn / int_97926168 | comment |
Rewatch Bonus: The butterfly tells the Unicorn the whole plot, but since he Speaks in Shout-Outs, it requires a second viewing. ("The king is in his counting house! Counting house! Counting!" = King Haggard counts his precious unicorns.) | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_97926168 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_984ef9ef | type |
"Not So Different" Remark | |
The Last Unicorn / int_984ef9ef | comment |
"Not So Different" Remark: Celaeno comments on this to the Unicorn, calling them "sisters". The Unicorn doesn't disagree. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_984ef9ef | |
The Last Unicorn / int_9bcd82c0 | type |
Took a Level in Badass | |
The Last Unicorn / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: Schmendrick, who goes from being a mere medium of magic to being able to command it at will. LÃr starts off as a lazy schmuck, but eventually fights the Red Bull, lays down his life to save the unicorn, and becomes King. The unicorn, who goes from terrified, fleeing prey animal to the one who drives the Red Bull into the sea. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_9bcd82c0 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
The Last Unicorn / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The unicorn is captured by Mommy Fortuna, who knows that she's courting her own death and is fine with the idea, because an immortal being will forever know she held them. Haggard captured almost all the unicorns, and knows Amalthea is his doom, and doesn't care. His last words are "I KNEW YOU WERE THE LAST!" | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_9d12bbc1 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_9e8760ab | type |
Tongue Twister | |
The Last Unicorn / int_9e8760ab | comment |
Tongue Twister: "And be wary of wousing a wizard's wath! Rousing a rizard's... Be wary of making a magician angry!" | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_9e8760ab | |
The Last Unicorn / int_a116a489 | type |
Herald | |
The Last Unicorn / int_a116a489 | comment |
Herald: If not the two hunters at the beginning, the Butterfly, who tells the unicorn that all the others have been pursued by the Red Bull. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_a116a489 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_a20386a2 | type |
Serious Work, Comedic Scene | |
The Last Unicorn / int_a20386a2 | comment |
Serious Work, Comedic Scene: This is about a unicorn who leaves her forest, setting out to find the rest of her kind, pursuing vague rumors of a Red Bull, a nightmarish beast that was reputed to have driven all the others from the ends of the Earth. Before the film is over, she is turned human, confronts the Bull, and the terrible King Haggard, and falls in love, only to lose that love when she becomes a Unicorn again. But lest anyone think the film is entirely grim: Schmendrick the Magician accidentally brings a tree to life trying to free himself from ropes, and finds himself nearly crushed to death by bark covered Marshmallow Hell. After Molly Grue joins the group, and Schmendrick tries to forbid it, she has to inform him that they're going the wrong way. After Prince Lir has cut himself peeling potatoes for the third time, Molly Grue suggests he cut away from himself, not towards. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_a20386a2 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_a4247d2b | type |
Multiboobage | |
The Last Unicorn / int_a4247d2b | comment |
Multiboobage: As if having saggy human breasts on a vulture's body wasn't enough to make Celaeno look creepy, she's got three of them. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_a4247d2b | |
The Last Unicorn / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
The Last Unicorn / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: After Mabruck dramatically tries to take revenge on Haggard for releasing him, and being AntiMagicked by Amalthea, LÃr sighs and promises to write him a good reference. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_a4c37cbe | |
The Last Unicorn / int_a5d817b0 | type |
Celebrity Endorsement | |
The Last Unicorn / int_a5d817b0 | comment |
Celebrity Endorsement: Folk rock band America provides the soundtrack for the film. Jimmy Webb wrote the songs. Dan "Danny Sexbang" Avidan, of Ninja Sex Party and Game Grumps, loves the film, stating that it's a happy memory from his childhood. He even covered the theme song to promote the re-release. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_a5d817b0 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_aedf28fe | type |
Falling-in-Love Montage | |
The Last Unicorn / int_aedf28fe | comment |
Falling-in-Love Montage: Amalthea and LÃr in "That's All I've Got To Say". | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_aedf28fe | |
The Last Unicorn / int_b1efb7a7 | type |
Mayfly–December Romance | |
The Last Unicorn / int_b1efb7a7 | comment |
Mayfly–December Romance: Prince LÃr and the unicorn as Lady Amalthea. They could live a mortal life together as humans, but that becomes impossible when she turns back into a unicorn, making her both immortal and unable to love him. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_b1efb7a7 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_b476386f | type |
Sweetie Graffiti | |
The Last Unicorn / int_b476386f | comment |
Sweetie Graffiti: When it opens up to Captain Cully's campfire, you can see a tree with the words CC + MG carved inside a heart. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_b476386f | |
The Last Unicorn / int_b6060b7 | type |
Run or Die | |
The Last Unicorn / int_b6060b7 | comment |
Run or Die: Subverted. The unicorn explains that running from anything immortal only attracts their attention. Not that this stops her from bolting in a panic when she meets the Red Bull, though it could be justified by the fact that the Bull's attention is already fixed on her, and he is actively chasing her. | |
The Last Unicorn / int_b6060b7 | featureApplicability |
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The Last Unicorn / int_b6060b7 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_b8e3f20a | type |
Demoted to Extra | |
The Last Unicorn / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: The film only mentions Haggard's four men-at-arms. They have a larger role in the book. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_b8e3f20a | |
The Last Unicorn / int_bb5126ec | type |
Prophecy Twist | |
The Last Unicorn / int_bb5126ec | comment |
Prophecy Twist: The mysterious riddle the cat gives Molly to unravel the way to the Red Bull's lair turns out to be rather literal, and mostly irrelevant: Schmendrick just drinks the water while pretending to turn it into wine and, as the skull itself says, the clock is "just numbers and gears, pay it no mind"; all that really matters is using the "wine" to get the skull to tell them of the passage through the clock. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_bb5126ec | |
The Last Unicorn / int_bcb452a9 | type |
Weirdness Magnet | |
The Last Unicorn / int_bcb452a9 | comment |
Weirdness Magnet: Unicorn gives Schemendrick advice on how not to be one. | |
The Last Unicorn / int_bcb452a9 | featureApplicability |
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The Last Unicorn / int_bcb452a9 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_bcff3e56 | type |
The Last Title | |
The Last Unicorn / int_bcff3e56 | comment |
The Last Title: The film is about the last unicorn. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_bcff3e56 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c042eee9 | type |
Invisible to Normals | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c042eee9 | comment |
Invisible to Normals: Unicorns look like white horses to people who don't believe in them. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_c042eee9 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Mommy Fortuna has a carnival of supposed magical creatures that are really ordinary animals bewitched with illusions (for example an old lion appears as a Manticore to the people). When Mommy Fortuna catches a real mythical creature (the Unicorn), she must put a fake horn on her to make them believe she's a real unicorn. Also Mommy Fortuna's powers are only to imprison the creatures and create illusions, as her servant Schmendrick reveals when he says "she can't turn cream into butter." Schmendrick is the one who turns out to be able to transform creatures into other forms, as seen when he turns the unicorn into a human woman. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_c335b9ec | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c3d6c819 | type |
Counterpoint Duet | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c3d6c819 | comment |
Counterpoint Duet: "Now That I'm a Woman"/"That's All I've Got to Say" - Amalthea's mixed feelings about being human and LÃr's song about failed attempts to court her. Becomes a love duet at the end. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_c3d6c819 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c40c8b74 | type |
And Starring | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c40c8b74 | comment |
And Starring: The opening cast roll ends "with Paul Frees and René Auberjonois." | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_c40c8b74 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c555059a | type |
There Is Another | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c555059a | comment |
There Is Another: Schmendrick and Lady Amalthea discover that there are other unicorns, but they are all captives of King Haggard. The story then becomes about trying to rescue them. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_c555059a | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: When Rukh shows up in the middle of Schmendrick releasing the unicorn, he reveals what riddle Schmendrick told him to stump him: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" | |
The Last Unicorn / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
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The Last Unicorn / int_c75df49a | |
The Last Unicorn / int_cc6d95ac | type |
Generic Cuteness | |
The Last Unicorn / int_cc6d95ac | comment |
Generic Cuteness: Averted. Nobody looks good except LÃr and Amalthea, although Molly perhaps looks younger than she should. | |
The Last Unicorn / int_cc6d95ac | featureApplicability |
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The Last Unicorn / int_cc6d95ac | |
The Last Unicorn / int_d28d210a | type |
Daydream Believer | |
The Last Unicorn / int_d28d210a | comment |
Daydream Believer: Molly and all of Captain Cully's crew believe there really is a Robin Hood. Molly also believes there are unicorns. (She's right, obviously.) | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_d28d210a | |
The Last Unicorn / int_d6a84ac8 | type |
Villainous Badland, Heroic Arcadia | |
The Last Unicorn / int_d6a84ac8 | comment |
Villainous Badland, Heroic Arcadia: The Unicorn's forest is rich with greenery explicitly due to her presence inside. Haggard's Castle and its town are instead situated at the edge of a rocky, treeless precipice bordering the sea. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_d6a84ac8 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
The Last Unicorn / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: The book explains that she meant either "gizzard" or "weasand" (an archaic term for the throat), and amalgamated the two. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_d848560f | |
The Last Unicorn / int_db08a39d | type |
Animesque | |
The Last Unicorn / int_db08a39d | comment |
Animesque: Although always intended for an English-speaking audience, the dirty work of animating the film adaptation was done by a Japanese studio called Topcraft (members of which became founders of Studio Ghibli, incidentally). The anime influence on the movie is unmistakable. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_db08a39d | |
The Last Unicorn / int_dce448d | type |
Reduced to Ratburgers | |
The Last Unicorn / int_dce448d | comment |
Reduced to Ratburgers: The bandits complain that Molly keeps serving them rat soup. "At least she could use a different rat! The third night, anyway!" Made strange by the fact that the soup cauldron is surrounded by plates of tacos. | |
The Last Unicorn / int_dce448d | featureApplicability |
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The Last Unicorn / int_dce448d | |
The Last Unicorn / int_de0406f6 | type |
Soup of Poverty | |
The Last Unicorn / int_de0406f6 | comment |
Soup of Poverty: Molly's group complains about being served rat soup for three nights in a row, and laments that at least she could have used a different rat. | |
The Last Unicorn / int_de0406f6 | featureApplicability |
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The Last Unicorn / int_de0406f6 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_e1b3c8a1 | type |
Almighty Idiot | |
The Last Unicorn / int_e1b3c8a1 | comment |
Almighty Idiot: The Red Bull has no real will or personality; he is just a mindless, pursuing force who surrenders the moment the (comparatively tiny) unicorn turns on him. In the book, it's said that he serves anyone who has no fear. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_e1b3c8a1 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_e3cee2e7 | type |
Empathic Environment | |
The Last Unicorn / int_e3cee2e7 | comment |
Empathic Environment: According to Schmendrick, when Haggard built his castle, the verdant land became barren and hardscrabble. Indeed, when Haggard dies, the land seems to be healing (it doesn't hurt that it was trampled over by hundreds of life-giving unicorns.) | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_e3cee2e7 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_e4cf1ef0 | type |
Load-Bearing Boss | |
The Last Unicorn / int_e4cf1ef0 | comment |
Load-Bearing Boss: Haggard's castle crumbles into the sea once the Red Bull is defeated, taking Haggard with it. Since the film lacks the story of the castle's origin and prophesied fall, the implication is that it collapsed under the tremors of thousands of unicorn feet. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_e4cf1ef0 | |
The Last Unicorn / int_e596f27b | type |
Star-Crossed Lovers | |
The Last Unicorn / int_e596f27b | comment |
Star-Crossed Lovers: Amalthea and LÃr. She eventually reciprocates his feelings, but since she's a unicorn, she can't stay with him or even love him anymore after returning to her true form. She can only live with the regret of not staying with him forever. | |
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The Last Unicorn / int_e596f27b | |
The Last Unicorn / int_ea39d156 | type |
Who Wants to Live Forever? | |
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Who Wants to Live Forever?: A major theme in the story is that immortal beings cannot appreciate mortality. Mommy Fortuna had a twisted view of immortality in regards to the Harpy: Also Schmendrick comments at the end that LÃr will achieve immortality through the unicorn's memory of loving him. There's also the immortality of stories and fairy tales and how they live forever since we know often how they develop. | |
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"I Am Becoming" Song | |
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"I Am Becoming" Song: 'Now That I'm a Woman.' | |
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Creepy Crows | |
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Creepy Crows: Mommy Fortuna kept one as a pet. After her death, it followed the unicorn and Schmendrick to Haggard's castle, and returns with the Unicorn to live in her forest at the end of the movie. | |
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Mix-and-Match Critters | |
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Mix-and-Match Critters: The unicorn, reflecting their depiction in medieval artwork. She has split hooves, legs too thin for her body, a lion's tail, and a spiraling horn. The film also gives her strangely elongated ears, eyes like a human's, a mane that is the texture of human hair if not finer, and a muzzle so narrow that her eyes are basically at the front of her head. | |
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The Archmage | |
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The Archmage: Mabruk, King Haggard's court magician, is a master sorcerer. When Haggard replaces him with Schmendrick, Mabruk tries to attack his former employer with powerful magic, only for Amalthea to step between them and cancel his spell. Recognizing what she truly is, Mabruk leaves laughing, telling Haggard that he has let his doom in through the front door. | |
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Anything but That! | |
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Anything but That!: Captain Cully's men reaction to his telling his bard to sing a song about "Captain Cully and His Band of Free Men." | |
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Ridiculously Cute Critter | |
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Ridiculously Cute Critter: The unicorn herself and all her forest companions. | |
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