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The Pagemaster

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The Pagemaster	label	The Pagemaster
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The Pagemaster	comment	The Pagemaster is a 1994 film that features both Live Action and Animation, one of only two made by Turner Entertainment's animation unit before Warner Bros. took over (Cats Don't Dance was the other).Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) is a young boy who is — much to his parents’ annoyance — timid to the point of neurosis. He is tremendously afraid of heights and generally obsessed with quoting the statistical risks involved in countless everyday actions, which, of course, explains why he isn't the most popular guy. One day his father runs out of nails while building him a tree house and sends a very reluctant Richard to buy more.On his way to the hardware store, a storm suddenly breaks out, and Richard seeks shelter in a huge and luxurious but rather sinister library. The only person there is its extremely enthusiastic and slightly creepy librarian (played by Christopher Lloyd), who is disappointed that Richard merely sought shelter from the storm and isn't looking for books, but affably points him towards the public telephone so he can contact his parents. While wandering deeper into the library in search of the phone, Richard enters a magnificent rotunda with a ceiling painted with gigantic scenes from classic stories, which surround the image of a blue-robed wizard holding a scroll.The paint descends on Richard, transforming him and the library into an animated world of illustrations where the mystical wizard, the eponymous Pagemaster (voiced by Lloyd), tells him that in order to get home, the boy must face three challenges: The lands of Horror, Adventure and Fantasy. He is assisted by three books which personify those genres (colourfully voiced by Frank Welker, Patrick Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg respectively). Along the way we see references to many classic books such as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, along with a goodly heaping of puns, while Richard learns to confront his fears and to lead a life of bravery.The film is notable for featuring great literary figures... without explaining why they were great. It suffered from a lack of success, but earned a small cult following through strong home video sales. It also had tie-in video games, with a PC adventure game and Sega Genesis, SNES, and Game Boy platform games.
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The Pagemaster / int_16d14f03	type	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks
The Pagemaster / int_16d14f03	comment	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks: A mural depicts Dr. Jekyll (from the book) surrounded by this sort of bric-à-brac. When the characters actually visit Jekyll's mansion, although his "laboratory" is limited to just one table in what appears to be his living room, it's filled to overflowing with all manner of cartoonish-looking lab glassware, none of which Jekyll actually uses (mixing his infamous potion in a martini glass of all things).
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The Pagemaster / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
The Pagemaster / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: Adventure starts ranting about how the dragon doesn't pose a single threat to him, just as said dragon is behind him.
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The Pagemaster / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Pagemaster / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: That sword? The live-action Richard doesn't get it. The animated one does, for a brief time. The cover pictured on this page also features a Frankenstein Monster and a Ghost you never get to meet at all in the movie, and the Pagemaster himself's color schemes is strangely altered.
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The Pagemaster / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Pagemaster / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Richard and the gang encounter some ghost stories, i.e., books that are actually intangible and/or haunted.
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The Pagemaster / int_1d35ec39	type	6 Is 9
The Pagemaster / int_1d35ec39	comment	6 Is 9: The pirates' treasure map uses a letter W for directions, but the pirates mistake it for an M or an E. They would have gotten lost if Long John Silver didn't show them the right way to hold the map.
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The Pagemaster / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Pagemaster / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The dragon eating Richard. Kind of clever when you consider the dragon is supposed to be Richard's fears incarnate and manifested into physical form. Get it? He was consumed by fear?
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The Pagemaster / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Pagemaster / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Long John Silver, and the Dragon all turn out to have been a part of the Pagemaster's Secret Test of Character. When Richard makes it to the Exit, they congratulate him for facing his fears and overcoming them successfully.
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The Pagemaster / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Pagemaster / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: While he's nice enough in the movie, the PC game's version of Dr. Jekyll has him collaborating with Hyde to rule the world.
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The Pagemaster / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
The Pagemaster / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: As the characters approach a frightening mansion in the Horror section, Fantasy reads the names of the residents: "Dr. Jekyll...Mr. Hyde...(Beat)...Must be a duplex." Naturally Fantasy wouldn't know anything about the Horror genre.
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The Pagemaster / int_25e18c14	type	Haunted Castle
The Pagemaster / int_25e18c14	comment	Haunted Castle: Jekyll's house.
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The Pagemaster / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Pagemaster / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Mr. Hyde in the horror section, using a cane instead of an axe. Captain Ahab, to a very worrying degree - red eyes are even used!
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The Pagemaster / int_3cc1336	type	Spooky Silent Library
The Pagemaster / int_3cc1336	comment	Spooky Silent Library
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The Pagemaster / int_3fe6a857	type	Public Domain Character
The Pagemaster / int_3fe6a857	comment	Public Domain Character: Tons of them. In fact, none of the worlds that Richard and the books travel through feature any literary characters that debuted in the last seventy-two years (at the time of the film's release date), which means you will definitely see Dr. Jekyll, Captain Ahab, and Long John Silver in this movie, but not Aslan, Bilbo Baggins, or James Bond.
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The Pagemaster / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Pagemaster / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Long John Silver regards Richard as this once the kid finally stands up to him and holds him at swordpoint. John willingly backs down, and as he leaves fondly praises Richard as being 'a hard lad'.
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The Pagemaster / int_49c68dd3	type	Magic Carpet
The Pagemaster / int_49c68dd3	comment	Fantasy summons a Magic Carpet from the Arabian Nights to rescue Richard.
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The Pagemaster / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Pagemaster / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Dr. Jekyll's (presumably) very Painful Transformation to monstrous Mr. Hyde.
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The Pagemaster / int_552c0a69	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis
The Pagemaster / int_552c0a69	comment	Popcultural Osmosis: The movie seems to run on this, and depends somewhat on a passing familiarity with famous literary characters like Dr. Jekyll or Captain Ahab, etc. Siskel & Ebert even felt this was a major flaw; that the film didn't convey to audiences why these characters were so great.
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The Pagemaster / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
The Pagemaster / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Adventure looks like a pirate, complete with eyepatch. There's nothing wrong with the eye under it - so when he needs to get a better look at something he just lifts it up.
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The Pagemaster / int_5dd880f5	type	Cave Mouth
The Pagemaster / int_5dd880f5	comment	Cave Mouth: Our heroes find a cave, which is full of stalagmites and stalactites. When Adventure accidentally breaks one, it's revealed that the "cave" is actually the mouth of a dragon.
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The Pagemaster / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
The Pagemaster / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License : The eponymous Pagemaster takes a cowardly child and subjects him to all sorts of deadly situations. To all appearances, there was a real chance that the kid would either die or develop severe mental trauma as a result of this. But instead he learns to be courageous, and the Pagemaster gets off the hook because apparently he's just so darn wise that he knew it would work out like this from the beginning.
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The Pagemaster / int_5ec9f980	type	Drunk on the Dark Side
The Pagemaster / int_5ec9f980	comment	Drunk on the Dark Side: Dr Jekyll after becoming Mr Hyde.
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The Pagemaster / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Pagemaster / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: The other kids in Richard's neighborhood who make fun of him for his cowardice when he sets out on his bike to buy nails at the hardware store.
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The Pagemaster / int_64070096	type	Cowardly Lion
The Pagemaster / int_64070096	comment	Cowardly Lion: Richard himself.
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The Pagemaster / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Pagemaster / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Mr Hyde, the deranged psycho version of Dr. Jekyll. He laughs maniacally even when he falls to his doom.
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The Pagemaster / int_69aa26d1	type	Poison Is Corrosive
The Pagemaster / int_69aa26d1	comment	Poison Is Corrosive: Dr. Jekyll offers Richard a bright green beverage which, when knocked out of his hand, dissolves through the wooden floorboards in a matter of seconds. Moments later, the liquid is revealed to be the potion that turns Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde.
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The Pagemaster / int_6b261d5e	type	Artistic License – Statistics
The Pagemaster / int_6b261d5e	comment	Artistic License – Statistics: Richard claims that because 8% of all household accidents involve ladders and 3% involve trees, interacting with ladders and trees together results in an 11% probability of an accident. Given that the film is about getting over his fears, this is probably an in-universe example.
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The Pagemaster / int_6de63fe4	type	I Am Not Leonard Nimoy
The Pagemaster / int_6de63fe4	comment	I Am Not Leonard Nimoy: Be honest, how many of you said, "That's Spock!" when you heard Jekyll's voice?
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The Pagemaster / int_73ff2cc5	type	Just Eat Him
The Pagemaster / int_73ff2cc5	comment	Just Eat Him: The "Alive and Whole" subtype is enacted by the dragon. It could easily incinerate Richard but prefers to do this instead.
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The Pagemaster / int_77c0952e	type	Face Your Fears
The Pagemaster / int_77c0952e	comment	Face Your Fears: What the Pagemaster reveals to have been the basis of Richard's journey.
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The Pagemaster / int_7a98f156	type	Kill It Through Its Stomach
The Pagemaster / int_7a98f156	comment	Kill It Through Its Stomach: Averted. After Richard is eaten by a dragon, he makes a beanstalk appear by opening a book entitled Jack and the Beanstalk that was also inside the dragon's stomach, and uses it to escape. The implacable fiery beast does not die however.
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The Pagemaster / int_7c020e46	type	One-Scene Wonder
The Pagemaster / int_7c020e46	comment	George Hearn as Ahab, which isn't a surprise when one remembers his other roles. He is only on-screen for few minutes, but surely everyone remembers him. Considering how OTT Ahab got when even thinking about Moby-Dick, this characterization isn't too far off.
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The Pagemaster / int_7c4ba0e0	type	Red Sky, Take Warning
The Pagemaster / int_7c4ba0e0	comment	Red Sky, Take Warning: When the dragon appears at the climax.
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The Pagemaster / int_7e5f2db2	type	Talk Like a Pirate
The Pagemaster / int_7e5f2db2	comment	Talk Like a Pirate: Adventure and the actual pirates from the Treasure Island part. Patrick Stewart sounds like he's really enjoying himself.
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The Pagemaster / int_7e9a0f3a	type	Wrote the Book
The Pagemaster / int_7e9a0f3a	comment	Wrote the Book:
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The Pagemaster / int_7f95e396	type
The Pagemaster / int_7f95e396	comment	"Reading Is Cool" Aesop: They certainly tried to do this, but as many people pointed out, it doesn't really encourage reading, instead name-dropping a few literary classics and using loose approximations of their plots and characters for action scenes.
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The Pagemaster / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Pagemaster / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Richard delivers this when confronting the Pagemaster over the dangers of his quest. Double subverted as he also puts a "Jaywalking" point within the list of "Jaywalking" points.
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The Pagemaster / int_81ae45f2	type	Fantasy Helmet Enforcement
The Pagemaster / int_81ae45f2	comment	Fantasy Helmet Enforcement: Inverted. When Richard first sets off on his bike he has a ludicrous amount of safety gear, but loses it by the end of the film as another nod to his character development of growing past his neuroses.
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The Pagemaster / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Pagemaster / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: George Hearn as Ahab, which isn't a surprise when one remembers his other roles. He is only on-screen for few minutes, but surely everyone remembers him. Considering how OTT Ahab got when even thinking about Moby-Dick, this characterization isn't too far off. Patrick Stewart as Adventure also deserves mention. Leonard Nimoy as Mr Hyde. Sounds like he's having fun voicing a cackling maniacally monster.
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The Pagemaster / int_8331d810	type	Magic Librarian
The Pagemaster / int_8331d810	comment	Magic Librarian: Mr. Dewey is implied to be the same guy as the Pagemaster himself. They have the same (voice) actor, give the same instructions for Richard to find the exit sign, and are the first and last characters Richard meets at the start and end of his literary journey. The Pagemaster is the god and guardian of the world of books and the reason Richard crossed over.
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The Pagemaster / int_8e7ada2c	type	Technically a Smile
The Pagemaster / int_8e7ada2c	comment	Technically a Smile: Horror.
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The Pagemaster / int_8fa43c7c	type	Nursery Rhyme
The Pagemaster / int_8fa43c7c	comment	Mother Goose and Humpty Dumpty makes cameos.
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The Pagemaster / int_9056e18d	type	False Crucible
The Pagemaster / int_9056e18d	comment	False Crucible: Richard learns that everything he went through was a test to get him to face his fears.
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The Pagemaster / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
The Pagemaster / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: The Anthropomorphic Personification of a Horror book is seen through a vial of mysterious liquid for a few frames of Beautiful All Along.
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The Pagemaster / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
The Pagemaster / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: The dragon's raw power is matched only by its slooooow advancing.
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The Pagemaster / int_94456fd4	type	Monster Whale
The Pagemaster / int_94456fd4	comment	Monster Whale: The albino whale from Moby-Dick puts in an appearance, first appearing on the mural of the library ceiling. When Richard and his friends are traveling over sea, he sees Captain Ahab, whose entire crew is quickly wiped out by the whale, which then circles back to attack Richard's boat as well.
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The Pagemaster / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Pagemaster / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: In the PC video game, Mr. Hyde is the main villain and plans to destroy the Pagemaster's book and powers.
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The Pagemaster / int_98544469	type	Cane Fu
The Pagemaster / int_98544469	comment	Cane Fu: After transforming, Mr. Hyde uses Dr. Jekyll's cane to attack Richard and the others.
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The Pagemaster / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
The Pagemaster / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: Trapped in an Animated World
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The Pagemaster / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: But seriously, the film is really, really lacking in, shall we say, story structure?
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The Pagemaster / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: The Pagemaster is the all-powerful wizard who sends Richard on a journey to overcome his fears. While he sets the plot in motion, he only appears in two brief scenes.
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The Pagemaster / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: "Whatever You Imagine" by Wendy Moten, which plays during Fantasy's sequence. Also "Dream Away" by Babyface & Lisa Stansfield which plays over the end credits. Unlike Whatever You Imagine, it wasn't co-written by James Horner.
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The Pagemaster / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Three challenges and three books, anyone?
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The Pagemaster / int_ac36578e	comment	Or Was It a Dream?: Richard wakes up from his adventure in Fictionland. However, at the end the shadows and voices of Adventure, Horror, and Fantasy can be seen and heard in the real world.
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The Pagemaster / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Adventure gets one of these, when he realizes that the dragon was right behind him. Earlier in the film, Richard & Co. get a collective one when they see Moby-Dick rising up at them.
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The Pagemaster / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: The dragon pursues Richard constantly.
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The Pagemaster / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Fantasy, to an extent. It helps that she's voiced by Whoopi Goldberg.
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The Pagemaster / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: After his dad is hit on the head with a bucket and falls from the treehouse, Richie says "Can't argue with statistics, Dad!" despite him being the one that set the accident in motion.
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The Pagemaster / int_bccf8613	comment	Lost at Sea: Richard and his friends are traveling across the sea on a dingy when the whale from Moby-Dick destroys their boat. Only Richard and Adventure make it to a raft, although they are quickly picked up by a group of pirates (the ones from Treasure Island no less).
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The Pagemaster / int_bf58b6f5	comment	Stock Audio Clip: Richard saying "Hey, look! There's the exit!" twice.
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The Pagemaster / int_c180f1cb	comment	Advertising by Association: Some of the trailers for the film said "From the creator of An American Tail" at the beginning. This was possibly done to mislead people into thinking it was a Don Bluth film, which it wasn't; David Kirschner produced both films.
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The Pagemaster / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Richard and the books become this.
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The Pagemaster / int_c52a5525	comment	Gulliver Tie-Down: Happens to Horror near the border between adventure and fantasy.
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The Pagemaster / int_c5c79ad3	type	And Your Little Dog, Too!
The Pagemaster / int_c5c79ad3	comment	And Your Little Dog, Too!: The dragon deliberately goes after Richard's only friends, the books, first. This forces him to try and stand up to his fears.
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The Pagemaster / int_c6fe99cf	comment	Creepy Cemetery: The "Horror" section of the library is a giant graveyard with books shaped like tombstones.
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The Pagemaster / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Many classic books are referred to during the course of this movie, from full sequences to quick moments. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Moby-Dick, and Treasure Island all have major roles in the film, as do the dragon and knight from The Faerie Queene. Horror is a direct nod to The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The Pagemaster summons the Argo from Jason and the Argonauts. Adventure inspects several books including The Mysterious Island and Kidnapped before spotting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and summoning the giant squid to help Richard get over his phobia of heights. Richard asks Fantasy if he has to click his heels to leave the library, but Fantasy tells him that he is in the wrong story. Richard, Adventure and Fantasy run away from The Hound of the Baskervilles's titular canine. The gravestone of Jacob Marley is seen in the horror section. A raven cawing "Nevermore!" while swooping down from a bust of Pallas above the archway in Dr. Jekyll's manor. One of the books we see near the phone booth pile is The Snow Queen, later known for a more famous adaptation. Fantasy is wearing glass slippers. Jekyll has a portrait of what appears to be Dorian Gray. Horror is taken prisoner by the Lilliputans. The satyr with the panpipes and the little dancing blue fairies are respectively references to the Pastoral Symphony and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy in Fantasia. Mother Goose and Humpty Dumpty makes cameos. Fantasy summons a Magic Carpet from the Arabian Nights to rescue Richard. Richard pushes over a giant copy of Atlas Shrugged. After being swallowed by the dragon, Richard finds a number of books in its belly including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (encountering the Queen of Hearts), and Jack and the Beanstalk which Richard uses to escape the dragon.
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The Pagemaster / int_caf8c2da	comment	Read the Map Upside Down: Long John Silver avoids this pratfall by not moving from the beach until the treasure map is checked. And when one of his crew reports "It's in the middle, by the waterfall" only to have another argue "No, it's east, by some broccoli", he quickly snags it from them and orients it the right way to discover that both men were wrong.
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The Pagemaster / int_d0a46264	comment	Red Filter of Doom: A particularly gratuitous one during the Captain Ahab sequence.
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The Pagemaster / int_d24c0700	comment	The Foreign Subtitle: A few countries just put Pagemaster: [Something] as the title.
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The Pagemaster / int_e2d7a02f	comment	I'm Not Afraid of You: Averted. Richard in the dragon's clutches, stares down his nemesis declaring he's not scared of it. The dragon doesn't care.
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The Pagemaster / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: The Pagemaster said the whole point was for Richard to face his fears.
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The Pagemaster / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Averted. Adventure's sword came up between Richard's legs.
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The Pagemaster / int_eea96e78	comment	Swallowed Whole: Richard by the dragon. A beanstalk saves him.
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The Pagemaster / int_f4d8ac92	comment	The Assimilator: The dragon shape-shifts into a monstrous painting abomination that absorbs Richard into the worlds of Horror, Adventure and Fantasy. Changing him into an illustration, just so it can devour him later.
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The Pagemaster / int_f7e540ee	comment	Ow, My Body Part!: Adventure yells "Ow! Me binding!" after Fantasy smacks him.
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The Pagemaster / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: In the beginning of the movie, Richard has one of the most death-defying bike rides ever, encountering heavy rain, harsh winds, exploding street lamps and falling trees. Of course the scene is from his point of view, meaning it all seems terrifying to him. Played straighter when he enters the Library, where everything is trying to kill him.
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