The Last Unicorn │Most Existential Scene [Haggard's Kingdom]
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2024
- This scene has gotten the most interesting and widespread interpretations in the comments, probably because we have all felt this mortal pain and fear through awareness in our lives. This resonated with me a lot as a kid as someone who felt an inconsolable, infinite longing and existential pain but couldn't articulate such a vast and complex feeling being so young. This movie gave me a space to have this mirrored in ways it couldn't be in my real life. Profundly comforting and disturbing.
How did it make you feel as a kid when you saw this? How about as an adult? Do you understand it differently than you did?
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"The Last Unicorn" is owned by Production Company: Rankin/Bass Productions ITC Entertainment Topcraft. Release Date: November 19, 1982
Based on the Novel "The Last Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle published in 1968
![The Last Unicorn │ Haggard's emptiness and suspicion of Lady Amalthea [Castle]](/img/n.gif)
Molly knows how much pain a human feels and I think that's why she was just as heartbroken as Amalthea because she knows that know she's lost her innocence and has to live with her mortality.
I love this insight. I think you're right. Her reaction always hit me really hard but I didn't think to read into her past that way.
As a child I had this magical sense of immortality, I always wanted something greater than being human, and now I'm like Molly - where have you been when i was young and naive where was my unicorn
I... I can tell you what you what to know. But please ,just think.. "You are immortal. Now watch." I... I can't save you. But maybe I can help. "Another failure. You foolish man". Perhaps not. But I've got nothing but time.
Humans are supernatural: we are natural, but our capacity for spirituality is what makes us powerful. Many, if not most, have lost touch with their spirituality and thus their power, but the vessel, empty, can still be filled, only if it’s emptiness can be grieved and mourned into spiritual life again, but that is the journey of the soul many are not courageous enough to embark on because of pleasures and temporary comfort.
Don’t lose hope; you still have a unicorn inside you, bursting from the walls of your heart, if you will let it out against all judgment and fear: feel the pain of its stomping and fee the heart ache of its desperate attempt to escape and you will free it eventually. The more you give it ear, and the more you allow it room to be, the more you will become that unicorn you once were 💛💛💛
Yes...just yes.♡
Riiight it's crazy how much closer I feel to Molly now. But I think the story tells us that there's beauty in all of it, in youthful innocence, in aging, in things desired, gained, and lost. So long as we don't delve so deep into bitterness trying to cling to a youthfulness that no longer reflects us, and accept change gracefully, with love.
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Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
Show people his love, don’t tell them about it. One is much harder then the other and is much more fulfilling.
Mia Farrow. Damn, what an actress. She sounds genuinely heartbroken and communicates the terror and pain with absolute perfection.
I know.. I always loved her voice in this movie and the emotional turmoil that comes through.
This movie scared me when I was little (a small ADHD/autistic undiagnosed kid). I knew Shemdrick was trying to save her and didn't want to hurt her. He also doesn't have the best control over his power. But I only understood this scene when I grew up and realized Amalthea's immortal soul is trapped in a decaying prison that she's terrified will take her with it.
We have a lot in common. ;d Yeah it's something we seemed to be able to feel as kids but not quite comprehend and then rewatching it later clarifies and confirms the feelings. Her scratching at her skin and her immediate reaction to the transformation always scared me too.
There is probably no adhd dont trust doctors they mutilate kids and say they can switch gend3d. Just try doing meditation, wim hof method, interminent fasting with keto or carnivore diet. Cold showers and u can even do psylocibe mushrooms it helps too. Better than drugs i tell u
I'm an ADHD-autistic (AuDHD), and this scene never scared me, only confused, I still don't get what the creators of this movie were on
*fridge horror*
This haunts me. I used to think Schmendrick was kinda a jerk in this scene, but I think he just doesn't yet comprehend the horror she is experiencing. Since he was born mortal but was cursed to be immortal he is familiar with the feeling of dying, that is, if he even recognizes it at all.
Well, there's also nothing he can do;
Wait, Schmendrick was cursed to be immortal?
@@potaterjim he tells us in the book, however that specific dialogue line was cut from the movie. He was so bad at magic that he was cursed to be immortal until he becomes a "true wizard".
There is also the pragmatic. As a human she can go unseen because everyone is looking for a unicorn.
See Unicorn? Unleash the Red Bull. See human? The Red Bull option isn't reached for as a go too. That way she has the potential to find out what she wants to know instead of being chased for the ret of her life... Schmendrick put her freedom, and her mission ahead of her immortal life.
But... it goes further. The Unicorn quickly discovers the weakness of mortality, and so she has to learn the strengths mortals must learn to cope with mortality. And as such when she's turned back to a Unicorn she carries the courage she learned with her.
She is indeed touched by mortality. She has known fear and bravery and because she cannot unlearn what she has learned, the memories she carries are tinged with feelings that make her unable to forget. She is no longer a pure Unicorn that is not like us. She is impure, because she became like us. And because of that, she was able to act to free her fellow Unicorns instead of following her nature and losing her freedom as a result.
Schmendrick is supposed to be immortal? I must have missed that.
I totally understand her more as I watch this older. For Shemdrick, he’s trying to save her so she can continue her quest undercover and find the other unicorns. The magic did its will and came out like this, it wasn’t his control. However, he didn’t seem to understand with his mortal soul what a immortal one goes through in great peril when it’s soul is trapped in a dying body. Her fear is so real, she knows she will end up forgetting her true nature, she knows she will die, it’s truly devastating.
I am happy that when she finally turns back to her form she still regains memories of falling in love. That’s something she’ll have for eternity ❤
It just hit me that what she --- Amalthea 🦄🧝🏻♀️ --- is experiencing is representative of what ALL of us felt in "The Beginning 🌌" during the "Fall of Man 🌠" when we gave up our spiritual habitation --- heaven/the spiritual dimension --- and took on human bodies for the 1st time. We STILL feel it every time we incarnate. Yes, we are immortal in terms of our souls living on forever & ever in different bodies until we are able to escape the cycle of reincarnation. But we forget our previous & future which are really occurring simultaneously with the present. I'm sure it's a completely different experience for a unicorn 🦄 which is a flesh & blood creatire who would normally experience immortality in the same body to be thrust into a corruptible body & never forgot what it was like b4 WHILE in the corruptible body. Whereas WE have to "die/transition" 1st & go back to the spiritual realm b4 we can remember & after we are already physically separated from our corruptible body.
And how does a mortal feel when trapped in an undying shell? A stillness they cannot reconcile? the terrifying moment before an unwilling final breath stretched on into eternity? to feel nothing else until time runs out? he has a pretty short temper in some scenes but if you take into consideration neither Molly nor the unicorn where like him a mortal cursed with immortality.
From the book it's said he's been stuck in an undying body for at least several decades... if a mortal body felt like this to a immortal creature... what does an immortal body feel like to one that knows what it is to die with each passing moment. he was short with both of them at times. he knew what this quest would take. as magic will do what it will do. but until this moment the unicorn and molly had no idea this is what it would take. and now they too know the horror he endures each moment of every single day. because if it feels like this to amalthea. it feels the opposite to a mortal like schmedrick and both extremes are suffering but of a different kind.
This was literally me when I turned into an adult
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😂. So true. My childlike innocence dying to adulthood & never being able to hide behind the comfort of naivete' again.
This part of the movie didn't hit me as hard until I went through puberty for the first time and realized how brief my preteen-hood truly was. After having had a brief depression phase that was brought on by fears of how fast my mortality could seemingly go by (hadn't realized I had poor Executive Function issues and time-blindness at the time), this scene hits way harder now as an adult... 0_0
Same, dude, same...
Same. Thinking about it, I'd rather have died when I was a child. 😞
I watched this movie as a kid and this entire scene went right over my little ADHD head. Watched again a month ago and can't stop thinking about this scene and her line. "I can feel this body dying all around me." So freaking dark. A very under rated fantasy movie.
ADHD isnt a personality trait
@@Deport_All_nonWhites It is not but it is a thing you live with which is what Zach meant.
@@BraveryWing26u cant trust doctors for same reason as the name of the user u replied here. Western medicine became a joke. Probably a lifestyle with foods and habits that make people sick and dumb. Loose focus. There are many ways to get attention and a sharp brain without drugs or doctors
@@Deport_All_nonWhitesadhd is probably cause by overestimulation of dopamine throw lots of bad stuff. A "doctor" told i had it and gave me drugs. Then i just stopped taking it and stopped doing lots of other stuff and got focus more than with drugs. You cant trust medics , they do trans operation on kids legal mutilation, addict people with drugs like dealers and do lots of harmful stuff for profit. They did lobotomy n it got nobel prize😂. Anyways just the fact that trang3nder operations exist in medical field is proof they cannot be trusted. Is a joke.
@but_iWantedTo_speakGerman No, but it can certainly shape someone's personality. It's a mental disorder, which means the brain is affected and that controls your personality.
There is a moment when you realize you are old. You may think like a young person, but you are suddenly very aware that the body you are in is dying. That's when you get this scene.
That phrase, is one of the most iconic quote ever said in that film. It's such a powerful realization that immortal beings have little understand of what it is like to be mortal.
The human experience is very powerful. The incredible desire accompanied by such frailty, pain, and so many obstacles. If your desire for beauty is great enough you can learn to bare the pain and endure it, see past it. Then the pain becomes less and less impactful, less frightful. Eventually, when you have the chance to look back, you’re surprised at how much you’ve grown and how much stronger you’ve become.
I was reminded of this scene when I was watching Angel, and Darla was turned human again. She said she could feel her body dying and I was like I’ve heard this before.
Omg good catch. I'm a huge Angel & Buffy fan.
Me too! Two of the greatest shows in my opinion. A good blend of campy vampires, humor, and romance/adventure!
As a child i didn't really get this scene, i didn't get why she was so upset, he was only trying to protect her afterall. But now that I'm older and I realised that I'm actually trans, I get it. I get how it feels to be trapped in a body that's not your own. I get how it feels to feel like the body you're in is dying. I never thought i would relate to a unicorn of all creatures though.
@@Worshiperofgreekgods ❤️
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal.
Edit: For anyway confused, this is a speech from a commercial for Warhammer 40k Mechanicus.
I felt it fitted, Somehow.
Cool connection
jsdjfhdsf I scrolled down and immediately recognized this intro from the game and started cackling
HEAVEN'S FORBID Amalthea ever encountered a Space Marine! 😰
*_"[TASTE. Annihilation.]"_* 👆✊
_"[I learned this from Calgar himself!]"_ 👆✊
_"[Quake with _*_fear.]"_* 👆✊
_"[THE EMPEROR DEMANDS YOUR LIFE!]"_ 👆✊
_"[Your life _*_is forfeit!]"_* 👆✊
I thought this was from the short in Love Death and Robots (Netflix) with the cat lady becoming a machine
Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.
It’s so heartbreaking when she says what have you done to me
I know. And hearing Molly react to that :'(
At first I despised Schmendrick, but now I see he had meant well.
The road to hell is paved as such.
The unicorn deserved it tho; the immortal should not dance with the mortal if it cannot comprehend either.
@@oVoidhawko fair enough
The word schmendrick literally means fool or idiot. Haggard means old and disheveled. I love that they came up with these names 😂
He's also pragmatic and clueless as to what he's done to her. I mean, he's blunt but correct- she'll be surely dead or trapped as she was.
I loved this movie so much as a kid. Played the VHS til it wore out. I watched this masterpiece again just recently, but even knowing this scene was coming, it still hit me like a truck. It flew over my head as a child, with my own little slice of immortality, but as a late 30's adult, that line "I can feel this body dying all around me!" hits too close to home.
@@beastofaaarrrgghh7759 yes, the existential dread applicable to all ages! 🤣 There's nothing like a worn VHS also, that warbly dated feel. Just adds more charm. 😭
What a powerful scene. It's a fascinating choice that Amalthea is drawn in a more elegant traditional anime style compared to the others, who are in that very distinctive and exaggerated Rankin/Bass style epitomized by their Tolkien films. It adds a sense of otherworldliness.
I've heard some people complain about how Amalthea seems ungrateful to Schmendrick for saving her from the Red Bull. But the point that they don't understand is that you have taken a creature that by every definition of the word, is immortal. And has no sense or concept of time the way we humans do. And you suddenly thrust that creature into a human body, and a woman's body at that, who by it's very nature is constantly shifting and changing. When she says she can feel her body dying, she means she can literally FEEL her body aging and dying. This is way Molly gets upset with Schmendrick and in the book, Amalthea does start to go mad at first and Molly has to stop her from tearing at her flesh.
0:43 “What have you done to me? I’m a unicorn! I’M A UNICORN!!!”
1:02 “I wish you let the Red Bull take me, I wish you left me to the Harpy! I can feel this body DYING all around me!!!”
1:28 “I’m afraid of this human body, more than I was of the Red Bull. Afraid……”
Man this whole movie (and book although I'm afraid I only read a little of it) is phenomenal. Such creative and beautiful animation that stands against time, even today. (Although, I would love to see a modern remake of this movie as well!) Mia Farrow does a great job as Amalthea, and Tammy Grimes as Molly Grue. Even now, I am impressed and left pondering the existentialism and subversion of fairy tale tropes in The Last Unicorn. Not to get too religious or spiritual, but I can't help but wonder if a lot of human suffering is because we have immortal souls? Perhaps we were once like Amalthea, immortal and pure. But then we were placed in mortal vessels, born into the bodies of humans that grew to understand mortality and death. And if so, will we be happy again once we regain our true forms (i.e. dying)? I honestly don't know, but I kind of hope so. That being said, I'm in no hurry to die and test that theory, either.
I once read an interesting little book about how animals are happy because they live in the present, not the past or future like we humans do. They don't worry about the future or regret the past, they just are. Maybe we were once that way, too, back before our ancestors split from apes to become human. Maybe, in that sense, animals are immortal because they are unaware of their own mortality. Of course they are scared of death and have natural preservation instincts just like humans, but they don't really understand death as a concept or worry about the fact that they will one day die from old age, if not something else. Well, as far as we know lol. So maybe it was when we first learned the concept of mortality and passing time that we also gained mortality? Not in a literal sense, like before that we were immortal and couldn't die, but in a metaphorical sense because we were previously ignorance of things like sorrow and regret. Like Amalthea was, before she was turned into a human.
0:29 Molly : "Oh no!😢 Oh please, no!" (Cries)😭
I cried when Molly Grue cry. Poor her...🥺
She's afraid of the red bull??? bro they coulda given you wings!! you coulda been a pegasus!!
Haha
This scene hits hard when you're living with chronic pain
I've LOVED this movie ever since my mom brought it home for me when I was a child. This movie is right up there 👆🏾 with my other all-time favorite ✌🏾 children's ✌🏾 movies "The Labyrinth," "The Dark Crystal 🔮🧝🏽♂️," & "The Neverending Story"! I have them ALL on DVD 📀 . I didn't even know what metaphysics and esotericism was back then, but these movies always touch me profoundly no matter HOW many times I re-watch them. I thank the creators of these movies --- whatever their true motives for creating them --- for the seed of wonder they planted in me to look for the magic in the world 🌍 & the empathy it fostered in me for orher beings. Even as a child 👦🏾, I knew these movies were more than "children's" movies. And I feel honored 🙏🏾2 have been witness to them.
I'm a big fan of the Labyrinth! These movies left such a lasting impact.
I felt sorry for her was turning into a human body. I want a hug, comfort and snuggle her.
He had to do it, he saved her life
There was a 4 second video starting at 1:08 titled something along the lines of: me everyday after turning 27.
I can't find it now, so I'm glad this is here.
The fact that the film is Rated G, despite the way the scene with the unicorn turned into a human.
Or the three naked breasts on the harpy
I think I had an existential crisis when I was being raped as a little girl by my sister's father, Bruce Arbtin, during this scene. I definitely resonated with "I can feel this body dying all around me" as I was being raped. I heard he did the same abuse to my sister when she got older. He is a monster who never got punished. But overall, this is a good movie, and I often feel like a beautiful immortal soul trapped in the cage of my body. I am a unicorn. :) I am a unicorn.
Wow thank you for sharing this and giving people another frame of reference to understand this pain 🙏 Very sorry you and your sis had to go through that tormenting experience and probably continue to suffer from it. Wish you and your beautiful immortal unicorn soul the best.
As a little girl I believed in magic and now I'm a witch over joked to know that it is real.
I know some of you’re going to believe me and others that you’re gonna say that I’m insane and psychologically into permanent psychosis. I do not have the ability to tell lies about who I am, and what I truly am. Anything that I lie about my true nature, or rip me up inside it, and psychologically and physically hurt
but anyway here it goes.
I had a major spiritual awakening on December 2023 to discover that I am a star seed and the goddess and a lot more. I use to look like adult woman, but because magic abilities and deep connection with the divine, I’ve been mentally and physically reversing age at a rapid rate and haven been looking more and more like a young teen girl, and even more and more so like an anime teen girl.
Also, deep inside, I have the deepest seated desire to become an anime girl, but I have no control over once I had the major and brought it up to the surface. Any shame, guilt or self loathing makes it very painful to fight oppress.
As the energies from the Earth, the other Astro bodies in the solar system in the galaxy gets stronger that brings the 5D energy. my desire to become an anime girl in my body is more reflected to look like one more intensely.
I feel trapped like this sometimes like the walls are closing in on me because somehow I’m responsible for it, and I want to put the blame on myself and I feel the shame and the consequences that I know on the face.
Oh man when I was 5 36 years ago I fell in love with lady Amalthea as when I was a kid she and Lee the playboy bunny bounty Hunter from critters 2 were hands down the most good looking transformed characters ever.
She with Taarna from heavy metal, lady death, black cat, Storm from marvel, Kida from Atlantis etc are the best white haired beauties ever
Gender and Body Dysphoria is such a big part in this scene, when transitioning from one body to another it can be scary.
As a Transgender person this scene reaches my heart and fills me up with sadness.. its so really to me because I’ve said those same words before... such a beautiful and disturbing scene❤️😿
I never thought of it from the perspective of gender that way-- that's so interesting. I feel that. Like the body your spirit and mind is contained in is so foreign and wrong and constricting the way she feels crushed in a mortal container.
The Second To Last Unicorn
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH THIS MOVIE HAS SHIFTED MY LIFE!!
I’m a teacher , so I’m definitely sharing this movie with any of my kids who struggle, now more then ever. I think this film needs to be revamped or told .. it can’t be forgotten , we can’t be forgotten ❤️💕thank you for reading and understanding ☺️☺️
@@ginaangelina4933 I relate so much to that sentiment! This movie is like a lense I see the world through, it shaped my understanding of the world, and if I express that to others they're like, "oh, that unicorn cartoon?" 🤦 It is sooo much more than that. I love that you use your teaching as a platform to enrich your student's lives. That's such a creative way to connect. Thank you for sharing 😍 the world feels a little less lonely today
trans person here, i totally see what you mean.
As someone struggling with gender identity I was immediately struck by this scene and it echoed my heart and feelings about my dysphoria-inducing body so clearly. I understand what you mean.
I wish they'd let the Red Bull take me too 🥲
I need to watch this
I own this. Very powerful movie, not for kids at all imo. It's too deep.
wow, thos os touching
You get used to it.
She needs to tolerate the inconvenience of mortality a bit longer. Unless she thinks that this inconvenience is worse than losing the lives of the other unicorns.
Uh oh sisters
overreact much?
Good God, what a whiner.
Women and their emotions
what 💀
@@archalys0 the unicorn and the other lady was so emotional
@@213byron Ik it just sounded weird the way he said it
Bro an immortal being became mortal and gained new emotions and consciousness. She wished for death instead of living feeling herself slowly dying.
I've literally had men who threatened to kill themselves because I didn't want to date them after knowing them for two months, so I'm pretty sure it's not just "women" who can be over-emotional.
Lol woman moment
Shes an immortal creature being turned into a human it's not cause shes a woman lel
@@bitchmink9838 I was joking?
Thank you
Yeah, it sucks being trapped in a human body!
This do be sad 😥
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