Love that line! Forgot about it till I watched this the other day and it made me laugh lol...the futilely he feels and expresses towards the journey that has been his life, is truly stated well here
This is such a great line that I was surprised to find is not in the original novel. There Schmendrick rattles off about a half dozen kinds of magic tricks. Beagle absolutely made the right choice reducing it down to one pithy phrase.
Johnlindsey289 a lot actually, at least between Ariel and amalthea (hav'nt seen the others) Ariel WANTED to be a human in the fist place, it's one of the first things we learn about her.Amalthea on the other hand is a creature who is above humans, something pure.while Ariel might've missed her old home she never expresses that she would lea 've Eric or her human life.amalthea instead is experiencing something she's probably never felt before. Emotions and the fear of death, and the loss of her innocence something that characterizes unicorns so distinctively and sets them so high above humans, they would probably be killed rather then lose it, as it is irreplaceable (mentioned above)
Johnlindsey289 as I said before this movie is much more related to the loss of innocence not feeling love or falling in love with someone's who's another species.for twilight the only parallels I see are that 1 she was turned in to a human and 2 she fell in love with someone who was human.But twilight never felt the things amalthea felt, losing not only your physical form, but losing what characterized her whole species, innocence.you can argue twilight lost her magic, but at the end she got it back, but innocence is impossible to get back.Heck even in the romance department they are widely different, with twilight still having a chance(movie wise) in her own world, but Amalthea and Prince Lir will never be able to experience how far their love would've have gone being in two different worlds(not litterally) so amalthea experiences much more loss and character development, as she's kinder and more emotional at the end.
Well for me since i'm a guy, i felt bad for Prince Lir and him losing what was important to him and felt his pain. i felt bad for Prince Lir so much i wrote a fanfiction alternate ending story where Amalthea doesn't turn into a regular ordinar 4 legged feral unicorn creature! instead she is transformed into an anthro humanoid unicorn being with her dress still on (same body structure of a human with high intelligence, breasts, feet and hands, white fur on her body with tail, shapely body and her unicorn self's head on top as she is something different plus emotions/feelings like a human) with human emotion/feelings as she becomes like something out of a furry artwork or an anthro MLP artwork or any of Hattonslayden's artworks (he draws amazing artworks of Sci-fi/fantasy stuff to human males romancing anthro/xeno/mutant females) as she has gained stronger powers than ever as she fights the red bull her way after seeing her human lover knocked down by the monster. She also goes all moses on the sea to free the unicorns of the world out and she is no ordinary unicorn as she is nether human or unicorn but a fusion as she is humanoid with emotions even the gift of laughter/smile plus she can consent/talk to humans. She not only heals Lir's wounds with her horn but also wakes him up with a kiss of true love which helps him be revived, he is amazed by her as she is something new and he still loves her while she still loves him. Both go to Hagsgate town where Lir's real dad is and his real dad becomes king while Lir marries his anthro humanoid unicorn person lover Amalthea then goes back to live with her in a cottage in her woods. It's a twist on typical happy endings where you don't have to be the same kind of person/different species of person to be in love, similar to Splash or the CBS Beauty and the Beast 80s show with Ron Perlman or Doctor Who's Vastra and Jenny or on Regular Show (Margot's parents) or Bojack Horseman or Eliza and Goliath on Gargoyles or Wolf Children. Afterall Lir loves who he loves which is an inspiration quote.
Wow, when I was a child, and watched this movie, I didn't understand the deeper meaning behind some of the scenes, especially this one. The Unicorn, who was essentially a immortal being; ageless and free from death, becomes trapped in a human body, which she has no understanding of.Whilst being trapped as a human, she questions herself, and her identity. It was almost like she was reborn, in a way. The longer that she was in her human form as "Amalthea", the more she slowly forgets about her true identity, and also her drive to save the other Unicorns. She now felt human emotions, such as sadness, confusion, love, and regret. At the ending of the movie, when she's finally in her true form again, she tells Schmendrick that no unicorn has been born to regret, or love like humans, and she regretted that she was back in her true form because, she truly loved Prince Lir, but could not be with him as long as she was a Unicorn. Even though she was a Unicorn again, she didn't feel truly immortal anymore, and even stated that there was now a mortal element to her being. I still love this movie. It's so underrated, and, even though at some times, it can be dark, it also has some amazing lessons to teach us.
I think it was good that she was human for a time as she discovers love and her love for Prince Lir gave her the courage to stand up to the bull and free her kind. And she stated though she's now different from the other unicorns she is grateful for her human experience and it seems she's become a better and wiser Unicorn.
This was always an incredibly disturbing movie as a kid. Painfully dark but I remember constantly getting it from the library and being an only child watching it often.
I used to walk to the library to rent this movie as well!! I loved it.. this and the Faerie Tale Theatre movies with Shelly Duvall- I lived on those. I could only rent 3 at a time and this infuriated 8 year old- so I would watch them as fast as I could and go back to the library and return them to rent more. ohhhh man.. the 90's.
The voice acting after she’s become human is so emotional, “what have you done to me?” She whimpers as it dawns on her, and dear Molly cries for her, feels like such a genuine scene
Mia farrow is a great actress 🤧 she really sells that sad scared lady scream like in Rosemary’s baby. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ITS EYES?!?! That always gets me
When I was a kid, I used to wonder why she sounded so calm and collected as a unicorn and suddenly became so emotional and almost hysterical as a human. Watching this scene again now, it all makes sense.
I never realized why Molly was so upset until now. I finally get it. Amalthea was the last unicorn in the world. The only one that Molly would ever see. The only one that anyone would ever see. And Shmendrick goes and changes her form so that she's no longer a unicorn, meaning that there are no unicorns left in the world (free anyway).
I think she's also upset that a creature purer than any other in the world has been transformed into a human being, a creature capable of great evil. Amalthea has been scarred.
The more I watch the Last Unicorn the more i pick up on so much psychology I missed as a kid. When you think about it, a near immortal being whose never truly had the capacity for emotions that most humans feel is then turned into a human would most likely create a Trauma unlike any other. The sheer tidal wave of emotions of the new physical existence, especially against their will would most likely create a HUGE mental and spiritual scar that would never be healed. One of the lines that hits me the most is at 4:15 when she expresses "I can feel this body dying all around me!" It's time she's feeling for the first time. Back in the forest her magic kept it Spring like it was always in a magic bubble where time had no place and the animals were protected by her. She feel's time in her body for the first time and it scares her to her core because she knows human fear. In a sense this movie truly personifies True Innocence that we believe Unicorns to be. This movie does an amazing job on the loss of Innocence and Purity on a psychological level no other movie has ever really achieved. This truly is a movie for the ages because it is a movie that is the Loss of Innocence and the desire to reclaim it knowing we can never truly go back to that state. It's irreversible and I am glad this movie achieves it so well.
It can also be taken in a very literal sense too. She can literally feel the cells on her body dying as every second goes past. We probably can too but we just don't notice it because we've always existed that way. If you're interested, I wrote a thing about the relationship between Amalthea and Lir and how much innocence plays a part of it. It's one of the few things I don't think the movie managed to capture quite as well as the book. cilliansramblings.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/the-last-unicorn-an-analysis-on-love/
Very well written and i like the point you make about the essence of True love and how Amalthea and Lir's relationship was. I swear i hope they never remake this and if they door they stay true to the original film and book because knowing most filmmakers of today they would trash part of the script to interest the more naive and less attentive with more modern jokes and much more colorful versions of these characters. Truth be told I always thought Tim Burton would get his hands on this at one point and Helena Bohnum Carter would play Molly Grue. (personal wish)
+ floooooooooooooooood That's exactly how I perceive it. She's been immortal for who knows how long, and now can literally feel herself dying. That would have to be very scary. :(
What makes Ariel the mermaid or Twilight Sparkle in MLP Equestria Girls or Carola from Tales from the Darkside the movie's Lover's Vow (the gargoyle story) no different than Amalthea?
I guess I would have to say the writing. In The Last Unicorn Prince Lir knows that they can never truly be in love and that love at first sight doesn't really exist. It's more like innocent love, like how children perceive it. Love takes time and work, it's not something that just happens from seeing one another in an instant and happiness is guaranteed like in a classic Disney movie. While it's true other cartoons embellish the notion of Love At First Sight this movie tells the truth that although they were attracted to each other they wouldn't know if they could fall in love unless they spent more time together, time they both never had.
I never understood this as a kid, especially the part about her "body dying" she was immortal and has turned mortal. Probably feeling blood circulating and bones aching for the first time ever and not only that but emotions she's never felt before.
As a unicorn, her time on Earth has always been unlimited. To us, our death seems so far away, but to an immortal suddenly trapped in a human body, death is painfully close now.
@Fab Plays That depends on perspective. Technically we could describe "dying" as the aging process that deteriorates our body, which begins around early adulthood. We're "programmed" to die from birth, but we don't "begin" to die until we finished growing up and reached our physical peak.
Agreed Though looking back, I’m surprised they got away showing this much skin here and yet keeping it G Wonder if small children felt weird or uncomfortable here LOL
@@misterdusky She is kind of too skinny and unseductive that one can expect her to awaken straightness. I don't question your gayness, only that this scene would be a reliable test.
Nadia quit making excuses for that horrible unicorn. She was haughty and ignorant about suffering and she needed a life lesson. Okay, she isn't real so yes I am being dramatic, but she was much better off than in the sea.
Nick Machiavelli Excuses? Calm down dude she literally said she feels her body dying, that's gonna take an emotional and mental toll on her It's not that hard of an idea to process
Interesting thing from the book that isn't addressed in the movie: A magician transforming a unicorn into a human has happened before in-universe. There was a magician that transformed a unicorn into a human to save someone, but couldn't change him back. The magician ended up becoming well-known as the most powerful magician in the world, and was also Shmendrick's teacher. Because Shmendrick was so bad at magic, the magician made him immortal until he could perform powerful magic that surpassed his teacher's. Shmendrick returning Amalthea back into a unicorn is a big deal because, not only did Shmendrick gain back his mortality, he also performed magic that used to be thought of as impossible.
I think this film was the first thing that introduced me as a child to the concept of existential fear, not just of individual mortality but the impermanence of mankind itself. "She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales and books written by rabbits."
Looking back as an adult and all the themes you didn't pick up on as a kid, you realize that every character and scene in this movie was about dealing with mortality and death. The magician wanting to live on in fame. Molly regretting that the unicorn never came for her when she was young. The witch knowing that the immortal harpy would always remember the human who captured her, and living forever in that way (which is why she didn't care that the harpy would escape and kill her one day). Amalthea's reaction to a human body as something "dying". Haggart thinking that a son would bring him peace of mind, and turning to coveting immortal creatures when he didn't. Haggart's rotting castle embodying something that should have accepted death long ago. The skeleton refusing to move on and living off of hollow past memories. The old cat being the only happy character because he's content with nearing the end of his life. The unicorn's fish out of water journey comes from her being the only one that doesn't have to experience this, and her arc comes from this scene and after. No animals in her forest can be killed by hunters. The very first creature she meets after leaving the forest is a butterfly, one of the most obvious symbols of life progressing. At the end, she knows she'll never fully fit in again with the other unicorns because she's lost that innocent naivety of not knowing mortality.
I’m gonna be honest.. while the butterfly was important to the story, he was kind of annoying to me. I feel like his songs were just there for filler. I’m not saying he’s a bad character though.
If there's ever a remake, no one will ever be able to voice this part as well as Mia Farrow did. The voice acting across this entire movie is phenomenal.
Powerful scene, for those who get it. An immortal, powerful, pure, magical being, who suddenly finds themselves powerless, in a feeble human body that is dying more by the day. And that awareness of her sudden mortality, when she had never previously had to fear death or loss, or painful human emotions. Molly is pissed at the wizard, because unlike him, she understands the heavy implications for Amalthea of what she has been turned into.
Me and Molly both once I realized as well why the entire thing was so horrible. You take something as majestic, pure, and immortal as a Unicorn; and you turn that into something as BASIC as a human woman.
@@lavenderotaku2481not only basic but insanely fragile. Nature nerfed humans to Hell and back in nearly every way possible. In the original book Amalthea describes the human body as a “burning home” and she’s right. The fire being time and injury, accidents, disease would only add fuel to that fire.
As a young Maid, when you're young and innocent with few questions on your own Mortality, you don't really quite understand what she's upset about. As you grow older and your body begins to fail you in a thousand tiny ways, you understand her fear perfectly.
Her reaction to losing immortality in a fantasy movie draws our attention to our own real life mortality. Children have so much growth and time left that they rarely even think about their mortality. Adults "die" (shrink, weaken, decay) little by little every day. The years rush by, in a race to the bottom, the end state of indifference, nothingness, thermodynamical equilibrium. And the universe, eager as a child, expands faster than light - so fast that thousands of stars effectively disappear for us every second - towards infinite emptiness... I wish you all a great day! 😄
I'm reading the book and watching the movie again for a college essay and there is one part I wish they kept. At one point in the book Shmendrick tells the story of a male unicorn who was turned human to be saved by hunters and died a respected man. He meant it as a happy story but the unicorn said they trapped him in a burning house. I think fitting that line in somewhere would have helped because it perfectly sums up what she thinks of being mortal.
He should produce the new adaptation with James Cameron as co-executive producer as both are fans of the novel and i think the director of the Spanish arthouse films The Orphanage and A Monster Calls Antonio Bayona should direct this new adaptation with Evana Lynch from Harry Potter as Lady Amalthea/Unicorn's voice, Doug Bradley (Nightbreed and Hellraiser) or Patrick Stewart as Haggard, Joel Moore from Avatar (Cameron) as Schmendrick etc. and have New Line Cinema do it
Not help turn the last unicorn human that's what you mean, shed literally rather die, and said she was more afraid of this body more than the red bbull
R.I.P. Alan Arkin Thank you for the memories and for bringing to life one of my favorite Wizard characters. “Magic do as you will. Magic do as you will!”
In the novel, Schmendricks back story is more detailed. In the novel, after turning the unicorn human, he reveals that many years ago he was rendered immortal and that the spell won't break on him until he's mastered the art of magic. He finally achieves this when he turns the unicorn back to her true form he becomes joyful at being mortal again.
dbzgal04 Knowing Amalthea's slight naivety of human culture, this is actually a probable situation. *mystical unicorn voice* Now go, mortal, and bleach your brain of the terrors I have instilled in it! Honestly, I kind of want to write a fanfic about this, but I won't.
In mannerisms when she’s the unicorn Schmendrick is more of an adopted brother to her, but when she’s a human he’s more like a young father to her being that she’s so naive to human culture.
I always get mad with how they treated him. She'd be dead if not for him. Without him there would have been no hope at all. They had no plan, they had no solution, but they cursed the one who saved the day.
Sometimes the only way forward, toward hope and happiness won’t be ideal. You may lose your identity, your innocence, and forever be scarred because of what you had to experience. But you live on, and so do others, even if you don’t want to anymore. This scene and this movie ask the question “What’s more important? Die happy, or live to be miserable? It takes time to recover from an event as drastic as the one shown in the movie, it’s up to you to decide if it’s worth it.
This movie truly has some of the best voice acting I've ever heard. Its the one thing i remember very well from my childhood and even now its so dramatic. You can perceive the emotion thru their tone so well and it really brings you into the scene
Damn, Amalthea’s VA was just- ON POINT with the emotion in this scene. Just the fear that came from being struck down from her true form as a Unicorn and turned into a human woman. Albeit an ethereally beautiful one, but still a human. That’s honestly what I’ve always loved about the art style of this movie and how the characters are portrayed. Shmendrick, Molly, King Haggard, and even Leir are all so rough and mushy-looking and angular. But Lady Amalthea.. She almost looks like some sort of Fae woman. As she very rightly should for being a former unicorn. Something bright and so tragically beautiful to look at, in a world that was already so beautiful and tragic to begin with. The end of the Golden Ages of fantasy, where Unicorns and Magic were a dying source of wonder and awe. No wonder Leir fell in love with her, and no wonder Haggard almost recognized her for what she was from the moment he saw her. Hell, I cried right along with Molly the first time this scene’s message really hit me. Unicorn and Lady Amalthea are just-.. Wonderfully, Beautifully tragic in a soulful sense I can’t even put into words. I love this movie, and this scene will forever have a place in my heart.
i have no idea how mia farrow managed to capture the mind-shattering horror of an immortal being forced into mortality- an experience no human could ever possibly understand- in her voice alone, but holy hell
Molly: "Please, please do something!" Schmendrick: "If I could, I'd change her in some other creature, some beast too humble for the bull to be concerned with, but I'm not a real magician!" Molly: "You can do it! Please!" Schmendrick: *proceeds to transform the unicorn into a human* Molly: "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?!" My reaction: "...Come again?"
@@Widdekuu91 Yes... and Molly is just jealous*... They are both demonstrating forms of human weakness, which is the overarching painful theme of this profound, multifaceted scene. I haven't seen the movie, but it surely seems more suitable for teenagers and adults than for average children. * "just jealous" was kind of provocative. I do not intend to reduce the scene to that aspect. I just thought there could be an element of that too. A change to any mortal being would be a degradation from immortality. The depths of suffering and corruption humans are capable of may be particularly problematic, but on the other hand, constraining/cropping the unicorn's mind to a "shallower" brain would be bad in another way.
@@EliasHasle Molly is definitely not jealous. The idea is that turning a creature as pure as a Unicorn into a human gives it the pain and possibility of corruption of human thought. As a Unicorn she did not exactly think as a human did, now she can. Molly also hates her life and a lot of it is because of how she was treated as a woman so the Unicorn being turned into a human woman probably felt like putting a pure creature through living hell to her.
it's so neat how they portray mortality as it is to something immortal, it's almost like eldrich horror? Like, it's terrifying and completely unknown to them but if they ever grasp it they're forever changed by the experience
The Red Bull is too powerful for the unicorn to handle. So Schmendrick performs a spell to protect her from the Red Bull. Somehow the magic changes her into a human form which provides a temporary protection until the Red Bull is able to recognise her despite being in human form.
Schmendrick gets chewed by both ladies because he... saved the unicorn ??? Thankfully this is just a momentary thing 'cause they're shocked and she apologises in the end
@@nevermindimjustapasserby Since Amalthea doesn't really understand the concept of human emotions, she couldn't express her gratitude properly. She didn't understand it. All could feel was being thrown into another body, one that is fragile and aging day by day.
While I...you know..."get it" about this scene (I think the best way is to picture some oversized, rotting, living dead slug/lump of flesh for a creature and suddenly being turned into that...in which case I wouldn't really care if I was a "beautiful" version of this species, I'd still be horrified to be turned into it even if doing so saved me), I have to admit if I was one of the humans around while she was wailing about being human I'd feel like grimacing and muttering: "Flattery will get you nowhere... I've been dying ever since the moment I was born and you don't see me whining about it..."
Apparently, in the original book, after she says that she can feel her body dying, Schmendrick tells her his backstory. Apparently he was cursed with immortality that can only go away when he masters magic and he's been living hundreds of years (probably) just wishing to be mortal again. He didn't want to hear her talk shit about being mortal because that was his entire goal.
I can confirm this is true. Though I didn't get the impression it was hundreds of years. Just that he was a few decades beyond the 20 or 30 years he looks. I can kind of agree why they left it out of this scene since it does break the flow a little bit but it would have been good if they kept it somewhere in the movie. Mortality is a core theme of the movie and Schemdrick shows an important side to it. The bit with Marduke (the other wizard working for King Haggard who's name I've forgotten how to spell) probably would have been a good place to reference it.
Her problem with it is that the Unicorms never really had to change. They lived in a time bubble where nothing changed. Being human means change. She's afraid about the change she's going to face and that she might face death in her form. She's not complaining about dying, she's so afraid of change and emotions that they all hit her at once, and it's a fucking punch in the stomach. She's so emotionally overwhelmed by her experience as a human so far, she's afraid of what's to come.
I have heard so many people question Molly and the Unicorn's reaction to her being changed into a human. What they don't understand is you've just taking a creature that is immortal and has no sense of time and put into the body of a human. And a woman at that. Whose body by its very nature is constantly changing. When she says she can feel the body dying, she means she can literally feel her body aging and dying.
I must say that I admire and respect Schmendrick for not acting like a pervert. LOL I also can't help but wonder, why exactly is she unconscious after being turned into a human?
+retromermaid: Also, she was probably overwhelmed by the situation in general. I mean, wouldn't you pass out from fear if a huge, flaming red bull chased you?
Likely her sudden experience of being a human--many, many sensations ('I can feel his body dying'), as well as emotions she's never been capable of feeling before. Overwhelmed is a perfect word to describe it. Overwhelmed to the point of passing out.
This makes me sad. It reminds me as well of lost innocence. Almost symbolic of losing your virginity and purity against your will. She’s forever changed and will never go back to how she was. It makes me want to cry.
A cool detail from the book, Shmendrick was immortal due to a curse placed by his master, he wouldn't age until he mastered his magical powers, which were tremendous but he was unable to properly control them. When Molly and the unicorn mad at him for robbing her of her immortality he responds by seeing he would gladly give up his immortal Life in a heartbeat due to being unable to live up to his potential.
While Farrow’s crushing delivery on her lines in this scene is emotional enough, Molly’s pain for her transformation is too. I think it’s been greatly misunderstood. Yes, the world has now “lost” its last unicorn, and it’s a tragedy to the story. But for Molly, the tragedy is greater in that she has become a human girl. Not just human, but a woman. Remember their first meeting where she curses Amalthea for coming to her now in her old age, knowing that the only use she is now is a cook that no one appreciates. She lost her wonder and lust for life as she discovered the truths of being a woman. How dare a unicorn come to her now when she has already forfeit her happiness. The tragedy is that now Amalthea will also have to endure that horrible truth.
Cristina Yes! I’ve loved it for as long as I’ve been alive but no one I know has ever seen it! When I tell people my favourite movie is The Last Unicorn they laugh, probably assuming it’s a bright, cheery, childish cartoon with lollipops and rainbows for six year olds. I wish more people knew about this amazing film.
@@riverfaery I SO agree! It's such an amazing movie, and I even enjoy it (perhaps more so) as an adult! It's so emotive and beautiful, and just so unique! :) I'm so glad someone else feels the same way!
For a movie that came out in the 80's the animation isn't as awkward as I imagined it to be now. I would of never noticed as a kid, but now the red bull is incredibly smooth, only their mouths are slightly awkward.
The fate of the unicorn is so sad at the end, she accomplished everything she set out to do but deeply regrets the loss of her human form. Even after becoming immortal again she still had a mortal heart and no one who she could share it with. This unsettling feeling follows her to the end of time when she realizes her human friends had long since died and feels the crawl of time even as she forgets its existence. The movie ends happily in comparison to the book.
I've always found it wondrous that Molly understood the unicorn's nature so perfectly, despite not knowing her for long. She knew a mortal human body would be tortuous for the unicorn. :(
@@jareththegoblinking3191 Could it be that it was Schmendrick who unknowingly created a human world where unicorns can become human those many years later?
I know this is supposed to be an emotional and important scene but i still find it hilarious because: Molly: Help her! Turn her into something, anything! Schmendrick: *Helps her and turns her into something else* Molly: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?
Oh this movie... Such a masterpiece... I could sense her pain when she realized her new form, this scene Made me understood the big sacrifice she was doing by keeping that form
That scene where the red bull is driving those sweet unicorns in the sea absolutely tears me up!! I found myself crying and almost yelling into the screen "don't go! You don't have to do this!" 😢
This scene is so sad, imagine being this creature of eternity and pureness and then being compressed into a body that could meet death at any time. It's really cruel. He stripped her of what she was, her precious horn is gone as well and she can feel mortality and he just doesn't understand and seems to not even want to understand. I get that they had to save the others but I still think he was pretty callous with what he said here. Molly understood the significance of it all. Every time I come back to this story I understand more and more, with an older mind it really does change how you view it.
When I was little I didn't understand why Molly and the unicorn were so mad at him for changing her into a human to save her, but now I think I do. I believe it's because unicorns are the most pure and innocent animals who are incapable of turning evil, while (most) humans are more hateful, arrogant and greedy than any other living creature. So her being turned into a human is, to her, the same as having her innocence taken away and being defiled. As now she has become something not so pure and easily corruptible.
Just remembering this movie as a kid was weird and dark. But I always remembered the song and the meaning behind this movie is beautiful. I want to watch this movie again. It has been at least 8 years since I last saw it.
Molly reminds me so much of my mother... Who passed on August 10th 2013. We watched this movie a lot when I was a kid back in 1991. I was 12 then. I not only miss her so much, but I need her so much. They say time heals your pain... But not for my Father and I who both miss her. She was a Queen, she was emotional, and she was funny. She was my faith in the Lord.
They desperately wanted him to do something, then when he does; they realize It has some consequences and condemn him for it... this is an accurate representation of the human experience.
@@freelands8355 Doesn't matter. He did what Molly asked. And said his power was uncontrollable. The unicorn was just ignorant, but Molly was ungrateful.
@@freelands8355 I want to push back on it being "bragging" per se. Schmendrick was being a bit self-absorbed, but consider his position: A man who has lived his entire life as being a third rate magician at best who can only do cheap parlor tricks with nary a drop of true magic in him. Sure there was the scene with Robin Hood beforehand but to a great degree he refused to believe that was anything more than a fluke. Him being able to get magic to come at all and do as he wanted felt entirely out of reach. That changed when he transformed the Unicorn into Amalthea. He realized it was not a fluke. That he could indeed call upon the powers of magic and have it respond. He couldn't control it, not yet. But it was possible. Not 5 minutes before he thought him being capable of any form of magic was utterly impossible, and had lead his entire life being convinced of that. You can see it in how he constantly belittles his own capability as a magician. This was a turning point, and he recognized that everything he believed about his own capabilities was a lie. This also meant that he could only improve and get better. He wasn't bragging about his own greatness. He was excited about his own *potential*. This was the first true and major sign that he was capable of being far more than a two-bit, third rate magician.
To everyone saying Molly was unfair -- she probably expected defensive or offensive magic against the Bull, not transformational magic against the Unicorn. She had no reason to expect Schmendrick to shape-shift the last (free) Unicorn in the world into a comparatively powerless, vulnerable and very not-immortal human girl, and was understandably shocked, angry and mournful. Even before she saw how upset the former-Unicorn was over being trapped in an aging human body (with a built-in expiration date even without any outside harm done to it) and suddenly being without access to her formidable horn and hooves.
@@Jotari True. Still, somehow, her being made human seems more shocking. A talking (or at least unicorn/human level sentient) animal still retains a sense of the unworldly about it, plus whatever natural defenses the animal has. Whereas humanity is so fragile and ordinary -- as far as from a unicorn as can get -- that I can understand why Molly must've felt she saw the last bit of innocence and good magic in the world die in front of her. . Not that she doesn't later try to make Schmendrick leave Amalthea as human, lol, but her loyalty was to Amalthea/the Unicorn's happiness, above even her own sense of happiness at beholding a unicorn. . Although speaking of happiness, and to digress a bit... I still blame Molly a bit for Amalthea's troubles to begin with, in that the Unicorn owed no mere man her regard or even kindness, especially when he was trying to court her -- and nobody owes anyone a pity-date -- when the Unicorn was there on a mission; instead she should've keep her nose out of it (not her style, admittedly) or discouraged Lir. Amalthea might not've developed feelings for him if she'd never given him a chance. But then, I guess, the ending would've been different, and maybe a worse one of all unicorns lost forever, eh?
I for one thought it was a good life lesson for the unicorn to become human. immortal beings look down on mortal beings because they don't understand what is it to be mortal. she needed to learn regret, remorse, real sorrow as until now she's been indifferent to the suffering around her. I get it i do i wouldn't what my form to be changed so completely. but that bull would have driven her into the ocean and then there would be no saving the unicorns. And her companions can manage just fine with their bodies constantly dying around them. you don't see them crying about it! especially schemdrick who's been frozen in time with a mortal yet not body. i imagine it's perpetual for him feeling his body dying and then being regenerated so it's the same yet different and he's not making such a fuss. and later had she just looked for the other unicorns instead of spending weeks complaining about being human she'd have been back in her natural form much, much sooner. i almost felt like this transformation was the magic force feeding her a slice of humble pie after how callous she had been throughout the entire movie. I legitimately thought when i first saw this movie when i was little: "are all immortal things such crybabies? if she stopped complaining for like five seconds they could be done and she'd be a unicorn again. does she somehow not know that?"
I totally agree. Even though she never knew what human pain felt like, she needed it least learn that this is what being a mortal is like. I know turning into a whole different species would be awful, it least she can put her self in our shoes instead of like, “OH BOOHOO IM LIKE A MORTAL NOW 😭” like a spoiled demigod.
When I watched this movie for the first time as a kid, I was so surprised that the unicorn had been transformed into a human. It's my favorite scene of the whole movie.
You didn’t feel weird by the nudity though ? It didn’t bother me, just caught me off guard (as well as the boob tree scene LOL) since it is rated G Were they just able to get away with more back then? I know ratings worked differently though
Very noticeable the symbolism of the lost of innocence when "rammed" by an animal associated with virility. Also: amalthea was a pony gijinka before it was popular...
probably the hypocracy in her screaming "do something! do something!" only for him to *do something* which, despite being successful, made her mad and lash out at him with "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" like, really?? you told me to do something, *_so I did something!_* you want something specific then fuckin say so next time, jeez!
I think Molly wanted Schmendrick to save the Unicorn, but at the time he couldn't control what form she would take, hence his saying "Magic, do as you will." It's likely that he thought that she'd turn into some other animal, like a bird or a deer, or something. Neither of them expected her to become human, though.
Moira Palace Molly likely wanted Schmendrick to use his magic to stop the Red Bull either by scaring it away by matching it with power or casting illusion magic to distract the bull from the unicorn not transform the unicorn against her will into a form she’d be unaccustomed with which is why Molly’s horrified when it does happen.
I’ve never watched this and can’t process deep emotion but imagine being told to save someone, doing it, and then getting yelled at. He didn’t choose her form and he was told to change it, obviously it wasn’t really his fault :|
See, I 100% see why Amalthea is so distressed-she’s immortal, and for the first time, she’s in a mortal body. It would be like if we were put in the body of a mayfly. But which is worse-to die as the last unicorn then and there, or to die as a human and know both the mortal and immortal…
“What can I do, do you think the red bull likes card tricks?”
This is my kinda sass
Love that line! Forgot about it till I watched this the other day and it made me laugh lol...the futilely he feels and expresses towards the journey that has been his life, is truly stated well here
That’s two different things besides fire elemental animals don’t care about entertainment
Not to brag or anything but i'm the 1000th like XD. Feels good haha
When I was a little kid they put this movie on at school and that line is literally the only thing I remember.
This is such a great line that I was surprised to find is not in the original novel. There Schmendrick rattles off about a half dozen kinds of magic tricks. Beagle absolutely made the right choice reducing it down to one pithy phrase.
Schmendrick: I saved her from the bull!
Molly: You fucked up a perfectly good unicorn is what you did. Look at it, it's got anxiety!
Emma 'McCormick' Sierhuis
Jesus Christ
XDDDDDD
This movie scarred me
Lmao😭
Jesus christ that's funny
red bull gives you wings
THIS COMMENT
NANI?
(dies laughing)
Nice.
@Savannah the banana
Then she would had been Equestria's best princess
'i can feel this body dying all around me...I am afraid of this human body" simply beautiful, self realization
What makes Ariel from Little Mermaid or Carola from Tales from the Darkside the movie's Lover's Vow (the gargoyle story) no different?
Johnlindsey289 a lot actually, at least between Ariel and amalthea (hav'nt seen the others) Ariel WANTED to be a human in the fist place, it's one of the first things we learn about her.Amalthea on the other hand is a creature who is above humans, something pure.while Ariel might've missed her old home she never expresses that she would lea 've Eric or her human life.amalthea instead is experiencing something she's probably never felt before. Emotions and the fear of death, and the loss of her innocence something that characterizes unicorns so distinctively and sets them so high above humans, they would probably be killed rather then lose it, as it is irreplaceable (mentioned above)
What about Carola from Tales from the Darkside the movie or Twilight Sparkle in Equestria Girls?
Johnlindsey289 as I said before this movie is much more related to the loss of innocence not feeling love or falling in love with someone's who's another species.for twilight the only parallels I see are that 1 she was turned in to a human and 2 she fell in love with someone who was human.But twilight never felt the things amalthea felt, losing not only your physical form, but losing what characterized her whole species, innocence.you can argue twilight lost her magic, but at the end she got it back, but innocence is impossible to get back.Heck even in the romance department they are widely different, with twilight still having a chance(movie wise) in her own world, but Amalthea and Prince Lir will never be able to experience how far their love would've have gone being in two different worlds(not litterally) so amalthea experiences much more loss and character development, as she's kinder and more emotional at the end.
Well for me since i'm a guy, i felt bad for Prince Lir and him losing what was important to him and felt his pain.
i felt bad for Prince Lir so much i wrote a fanfiction alternate ending story where Amalthea doesn't turn into a regular ordinar 4 legged feral unicorn creature! instead she is transformed into an anthro humanoid unicorn being with her dress still on (same body structure of a human with high intelligence, breasts, feet and hands, white fur on her body with tail, shapely body and her unicorn self's head on top as she is something different plus emotions/feelings like a human) with human emotion/feelings as she becomes like something out of a furry artwork or an anthro MLP artwork or any of Hattonslayden's artworks (he draws amazing artworks of Sci-fi/fantasy stuff to human males romancing anthro/xeno/mutant females) as she has gained stronger powers than ever as she fights the red bull her way after seeing her human lover knocked down by the monster. She also goes all moses on the sea to free the unicorns of the world out and she is no ordinary unicorn as she is nether human or unicorn but a fusion as she is humanoid with emotions even the gift of laughter/smile plus she can consent/talk to humans. She not only heals Lir's wounds with her horn but also wakes him up with a kiss of true love which helps him be revived, he is amazed by her as she is something new and he still loves her while she still loves him. Both go to Hagsgate town where Lir's real dad is and his real dad becomes king while Lir marries his anthro humanoid unicorn person lover Amalthea then goes back to live with her in a cottage in her woods. It's a twist on typical happy endings where you don't have to be the same kind of person/different species of person to be in love, similar to Splash or the CBS Beauty and the Beast 80s show with Ron Perlman or Doctor Who's Vastra and Jenny or on Regular Show (Margot's parents) or Bojack Horseman or Eliza and Goliath on Gargoyles or Wolf Children. Afterall Lir loves who he loves which is an inspiration quote.
imagine being immortal for who knows how long and all of a sudden you become mortal that must feel disgusting.
It would have to be terrifying, too terrifying for words. 😨
I got a question if she was immoral y was that bull such a problem
@@joannalopez4367 she doesn't age and would live forever but she can still be killed.
Less disgusting more so confusing and kinda terrifying
@@wildfire317 I think aging would feel gross if I never aged before.
Wow, when I was a child, and watched this movie, I didn't understand the deeper meaning behind some of the scenes, especially this one. The Unicorn, who was essentially a immortal being; ageless and free from death, becomes trapped in a human body, which she has no understanding of.Whilst being trapped as a human, she questions herself, and her identity. It was almost like she was reborn, in a way. The longer that she was in her human form as "Amalthea", the more she slowly forgets about her true identity, and also her drive to save the other Unicorns. She now felt human emotions, such as sadness, confusion, love, and regret. At the ending of the movie, when she's finally in her true form again, she tells Schmendrick that no unicorn has been born to regret, or love like humans, and she regretted that she was back in her true form because, she truly loved Prince Lir, but could not be with him as long as she was a Unicorn. Even though she was a Unicorn again, she didn't feel truly immortal anymore, and even stated that there was now a mortal element to her being.
I still love this movie. It's so underrated, and, even though at some times, it can be dark, it also has some amazing lessons to teach us.
I think it was good that she was human for a time as she discovers love and her love for Prince Lir gave her the courage to stand up to the bull and free her kind. And she stated though she's now different from the other unicorns she is grateful for her human experience and it seems she's become a better and wiser Unicorn.
Same
@@TheMormonSorceress
Perhaps. But she'll forever regret the knowledge of mortality.
@@TheMormonSorceress agreed... life is demands sacrifice
Same thing happened to the phoenix force in marvel.
This was always an incredibly disturbing movie as a kid. Painfully dark but I remember constantly getting it from the library and being an only child watching it often.
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night for me was the most disturbing animated movie i saw as a kid then Watership Down
I used to walk to the library to rent this movie as well!! I loved it.. this and the Faerie Tale Theatre movies with Shelly Duvall- I lived on those.
I could only rent 3 at a time and this infuriated 8 year old- so I would watch them as fast as I could and go back to the library and return them to rent more. ohhhh man.. the 90's.
Me too. Used to drive my mother nuts.
Ik It constantly scarred me watching that scar in her head where that hirn was
Novella ig we had the same childhood lol
The voice acting after she’s become human is so emotional, “what have you done to me?” She whimpers as it dawns on her, and dear Molly cries for her, feels like such a genuine scene
Mia farrow is a great actress 🤧 she really sells that sad scared lady scream like in Rosemary’s baby. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ITS EYES?!?! That always gets me
When I was a kid, I used to wonder why she sounded so calm and collected as a unicorn and suddenly became so emotional and almost hysterical as a human. Watching this scene again now, it all makes sense.
@@ghostbird92 If you did not know, the whole movie is available on youtube.
@@JohnDoe-yq8ox I actually just noticed that this week! Thanks!
"what can I do, d'ya think the red bull likes CARD tricks!?"
Red Bull: *stops attacking* "card tricks, you say? I'm listening."
I never realized why Molly was so upset until now. I finally get it. Amalthea was the last unicorn in the world. The only one that Molly would ever see. The only one that anyone would ever see. And Shmendrick goes and changes her form so that she's no longer a unicorn, meaning that there are no unicorns left in the world (free anyway).
I think she's also upset that a creature purer than any other in the world has been transformed into a human being, a creature capable of great evil. Amalthea has been scarred.
Not only that, but she was changed into something that would grow old and die.
Seriously!!!! Molly tells her why she is upset. When we are young girls we need that bit of magic...
I get why she's upset. But at the same time she should be grateful that she wasn't captured.
Yes but she did encourage him to change her into another creature!
The more I watch the Last Unicorn the more i pick up on so much psychology I missed as a kid. When you think about it, a near immortal being whose never truly had the capacity for emotions that most humans feel is then turned into a human would most likely create a Trauma unlike any other. The sheer tidal wave of emotions of the new physical existence, especially against their will would most likely create a HUGE mental and spiritual scar that would never be healed. One of the lines that hits me the most is at 4:15 when she expresses "I can feel this body dying all around me!" It's time she's feeling for the first time. Back in the forest her magic kept it Spring like it was always in a magic bubble where time had no place and the animals were protected by her. She feel's time in her body for the first time and it scares her to her core because she knows human fear. In a sense this movie truly personifies True Innocence that we believe Unicorns to be. This movie does an amazing job on the loss of Innocence and Purity on a psychological level no other movie has ever really achieved. This truly is a movie for the ages because it is a movie that is the Loss of Innocence and the desire to reclaim it knowing we can never truly go back to that state. It's irreversible and I am glad this movie achieves it so well.
It can also be taken in a very literal sense too. She can literally feel the cells on her body dying as every second goes past. We probably can too but we just don't notice it because we've always existed that way. If you're interested, I wrote a thing about the relationship between Amalthea and Lir and how much innocence plays a part of it. It's one of the few things I don't think the movie managed to capture quite as well as the book.
cilliansramblings.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/the-last-unicorn-an-analysis-on-love/
Very well written and i like the point you make about the essence of True love and how Amalthea and Lir's relationship was. I swear i hope they never remake this and if they door they stay true to the original film and book because knowing most filmmakers of today they would trash part of the script to interest the more naive and less attentive with more modern jokes and much more colorful versions of these characters. Truth be told I always thought Tim Burton would get his hands on this at one point and Helena Bohnum Carter would play Molly Grue. (personal wish)
+ floooooooooooooooood That's exactly how I perceive it. She's been immortal for who knows how long, and now can literally feel herself dying. That would have to be very scary. :(
What makes Ariel the mermaid or Twilight Sparkle in MLP Equestria Girls or Carola from Tales from the Darkside the movie's Lover's Vow (the gargoyle story) no different than Amalthea?
I guess I would have to say the writing. In The Last Unicorn Prince Lir knows that they can never truly be in love and that love at first sight doesn't really exist. It's more like innocent love, like how children perceive it. Love takes time and work, it's not something that just happens from seeing one another in an instant and happiness is guaranteed like in a classic Disney movie. While it's true other cartoons embellish the notion of Love At First Sight this movie tells the truth that although they were attracted to each other they wouldn't know if they could fall in love unless they spent more time together, time they both never had.
I never understood this as a kid, especially the part about her "body dying" she was immortal and has turned mortal. Probably feeling blood circulating and bones aching for the first time ever and not only that but emotions she's never felt before.
The moment we are born we begin to die.
As a unicorn, her time on Earth has always been unlimited. To us, our death seems so far away, but to an immortal suddenly trapped in a human body, death is painfully close now.
Yeah there really are certain emotions you learn only when your body feels pain and suffers
@Fab Plays That depends on perspective. Technically we could describe "dying" as the aging process that deteriorates our body, which begins around early adulthood.
We're "programmed" to die from birth, but we don't "begin" to die until we finished growing up and reached our physical peak.
being mortal is not bad if you know how to make good memories with it
i always thought her as a human is so pretty when i was little
I always wanted purple eyes and white hair from the first time I saw this movie.
SAMEE
Agreed
Though looking back, I’m surprised they got away showing this much skin here and yet keeping it G
Wonder if small children felt weird or uncomfortable here LOL
was my gay awakening
@@misterdusky She is kind of too skinny and unseductive that one can expect her to awaken straightness. I don't question your gayness, only that this scene would be a reliable test.
"Do something do something!"
"Omfg you monster why did you do something!"
-.-'
So I'm not the only one annoyed about that.
He always seemed underappreciated even though he does almost everything.
Mixed feelings. It was the only way to save her but at the same time she did go mad
Nadia quit making excuses for that horrible unicorn. She was haughty and ignorant about suffering and she needed a life lesson. Okay, she isn't real so yes I am being dramatic, but she was much better off than in the sea.
Nick Machiavelli
Excuses? Calm down dude she literally said she feels her body dying, that's gonna take an emotional and mental toll on her
It's not that hard of an idea to process
Interesting thing from the book that isn't addressed in the movie:
A magician transforming a unicorn into a human has happened before in-universe. There was a magician that transformed a unicorn into a human to save someone, but couldn't change him back.
The magician ended up becoming well-known as the most powerful magician in the world, and was also Shmendrick's teacher. Because Shmendrick was so bad at magic, the magician made him immortal until he could perform powerful magic that surpassed his teacher's. Shmendrick returning Amalthea back into a unicorn is a big deal because, not only did Shmendrick gain back his mortality, he also performed magic that used to be thought of as impossible.
Thats gotta be the most bonkers thing ive ever jeard but is 100% accurate to sorcerers being salty at their stidents
I think this film was the first thing that introduced me as a child to the concept of existential fear, not just of individual mortality but the impermanence of mankind itself. "She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales and books written by rabbits."
Looking back as an adult and all the themes you didn't pick up on as a kid, you realize that every character and scene in this movie was about dealing with mortality and death. The magician wanting to live on in fame. Molly regretting that the unicorn never came for her when she was young. The witch knowing that the immortal harpy would always remember the human who captured her, and living forever in that way (which is why she didn't care that the harpy would escape and kill her one day). Amalthea's reaction to a human body as something "dying". Haggart thinking that a son would bring him peace of mind, and turning to coveting immortal creatures when he didn't. Haggart's rotting castle embodying something that should have accepted death long ago. The skeleton refusing to move on and living off of hollow past memories. The old cat being the only happy character because he's content with nearing the end of his life.
The unicorn's fish out of water journey comes from her being the only one that doesn't have to experience this, and her arc comes from this scene and after. No animals in her forest can be killed by hunters. The very first creature she meets after leaving the forest is a butterfly, one of the most obvious symbols of life progressing. At the end, she knows she'll never fully fit in again with the other unicorns because she's lost that innocent naivety of not knowing mortality.
why does this not have more likes
What about Prince Lir?
I’m gonna be honest.. while the butterfly was important to the story, he was kind of annoying to me. I feel like his songs were just there for filler. I’m not saying he’s a bad character though.
If there's ever a remake, no one will ever be able to voice this part as well as Mia Farrow did. The voice acting across this entire movie is phenomenal.
"Two Hearts"
Buy the book.
We can hope.
Ugh, I know how the remake is going to be since it’s on Netflix.
This movie used to scare me so badly as a kid and I still have no idea why
The booby tree frightened me more than the Red Bull or Haggard.
Not me i thought that middle aged knockered tree was hilarious
Misty Wolf it scared me too lol
lmfao the Booby Tree scared me too as a kid.
@@ARiddle1986 me too!!!
Powerful scene, for those who get it.
An immortal, powerful, pure, magical being, who suddenly finds themselves powerless, in a feeble human body that is dying more by the day. And that awareness of her sudden mortality, when she had never previously had to fear death or loss, or painful human emotions. Molly is pissed at the wizard, because unlike him, she understands the heavy implications for Amalthea of what she has been turned into.
In the book she is also in constant pain.
HE SAVED HER. literally she didn't die THANX to HIM. at least they could be a little thankful!!!
@@aronsiklosi3386 She does not comprehend the concept. It is stated in the movie how detached she is from mortal emotions.
@@aronsiklosi3386 she asked for help. And the dude gave it his all. And then she blamed her?! I don't get this woman at all.
@@Guciom i dont care about unicorn, she is a total bitch. im talking about woman that blamed magician FOR SAVING the unicorn lol
"I am a bearer, I am a dwelling, I am a messenger!"
""YOU ARE AN *IDIOT!!"*
Me and Molly both once I realized as well why the entire thing was so horrible.
You take something as majestic, pure, and immortal as a Unicorn; and you turn that into something as BASIC as a human woman.
@@lavenderotaku2481not only basic but insanely fragile. Nature nerfed humans to Hell and back in nearly every way possible. In the original book Amalthea describes the human body as a “burning home” and she’s right. The fire being time and injury, accidents, disease would only add fuel to that fire.
@@destinymcintire2188facts
As a young Maid, when you're young and innocent with few questions on your own Mortality, you don't really quite understand what she's upset about. As you grow older and your body begins to fail you in a thousand tiny ways, you understand her fear perfectly.
Her reaction to losing immortality in a fantasy movie draws our attention to our own real life mortality. Children have so much growth and time left that they rarely even think about their mortality. Adults "die" (shrink, weaken, decay) little by little every day. The years rush by, in a race to the bottom, the end state of indifference, nothingness, thermodynamical equilibrium. And the universe, eager as a child, expands faster than light - so fast that thousands of stars effectively disappear for us every second - towards infinite emptiness... I wish you all a great day! 😄
“Dya think the bull likes card tricks!?” XD best shmendrick line in the whole film!
I'm reading the book and watching the movie again for a college essay and there is one part I wish they kept. At one point in the book Shmendrick tells the story of a male unicorn who was turned human to be saved by hunters and died a respected man. He meant it as a happy story but the unicorn said they trapped him in a burning house. I think fitting that line in somewhere would have helped because it perfectly sums up what she thinks of being mortal.
Mia Farrow really expresses the emotions perfectly in this scene.
I miss animation like this. There was a beauty to it that can't be captured with any computer program they use today.
Wolfwalkers came out a few days ago and it has a very magical, unique traditional style! You should watch it :)
I used to cry watching this scene as a kid. Now it's goose bumps and an ache in my chest.
Me too...touches something so deep inside.
I really wanna see Guillermo del Toro make a live action of this!!!! He could capture alot of the beauty of this story!
He should produce the new adaptation with James Cameron as co-executive producer as both are fans of the novel and i think the director of the Spanish arthouse films The Orphanage and A Monster Calls Antonio Bayona should direct this new adaptation with Evana Lynch from Harry Potter as Lady Amalthea/Unicorn's voice, Doug Bradley (Nightbreed and Hellraiser) or Patrick Stewart as Haggard, Joel Moore from Avatar (Cameron) as Schmendrick etc. and have New Line Cinema do it
@@Johnlindsey289 yes! Maybe Peter Jackson could help add his fantasy touches too! All three of them would be a great power team
No.
@@swarlock
Have you seen Pan's Labyrinth, Devil's Backbone, Cronos, Hellboy 1 and 2 and Shape of Water? he's good at horror and fantasy
He'd be the guy for the job, but people are so attached to the original...
"Help me, Help me!"
"Help her!"
*helps*
"HOW DARE YOU!"
Typical...
Lol!!
Not help turn the last unicorn human that's what you mean, shed literally rather die, and said she was more afraid of this body more than the red bbull
@@munkhbolorbukhchuluunsukh2568 well then she's got great self preservation skills for a unicorn huh? No wonder she's the last of her kind. 😂
he shouldnt have turned her into a human
R.I.P. Alan Arkin
Thank you for the memories and for bringing to life one of my favorite Wizard characters.
“Magic do as you will. Magic do as you will!”
In the novel, Schmendricks back story is more detailed. In the novel, after turning the unicorn human, he reveals that many years ago he was rendered immortal and that the spell won't break on him until he's mastered the art of magic. He finally achieves this when he turns the unicorn back to her true form he becomes joyful at being mortal again.
Lir: pervily looks her up and down in clothes
Schmendrick: Acts completely normal despite "Amalthea" being completely naked
IKR? Could you imagine if Lir just happened to be out and about during this time, and come across Amalthea while she's nude?...
That's because Schmendrick likes Molly.
aeriste, true, true.
dbzgal04 Knowing Amalthea's slight naivety of human culture, this is actually a probable situation. *mystical unicorn voice* Now go, mortal, and bleach your brain of the terrors I have instilled in it! Honestly, I kind of want to write a fanfic about this, but I won't.
In mannerisms when she’s the unicorn Schmendrick is more of an adopted brother to her, but when she’s a human he’s more like a young father to her being that she’s so naive to human culture.
I always get mad with how they treated him. She'd be dead if not for him. Without him there would have been no hope at all. They had no plan, they had no solution, but they cursed the one who saved the day.
It was a moment of passion from them. They do, after all, go to the castle with Schmendrik and agree with his plan.
Its likely the idea that he swapped one predator for a whole host of others they would now have to watch out for constantly
Just like Theseus
Sometimes the only way forward, toward hope and happiness won’t be ideal. You may lose your identity, your innocence, and forever be scarred because of what you had to experience. But you live on, and so do others, even if you don’t want to anymore. This scene and this movie ask the question “What’s more important? Die happy, or live to be miserable? It takes time to recover from an event as drastic as the one shown in the movie, it’s up to you to decide if it’s worth it.
Not dead just trapped on the sea forever
This movie truly has some of the best voice acting I've ever heard. Its the one thing i remember very well from my childhood and even now its so dramatic. You can perceive the emotion thru their tone so well and it really brings you into the scene
Damn, Amalthea’s VA was just- ON POINT with the emotion in this scene. Just the fear that came from being struck down from her true form as a Unicorn and turned into a human woman.
Albeit an ethereally beautiful one, but still a human. That’s honestly what I’ve always loved about the art style of this movie and how the characters are portrayed. Shmendrick, Molly, King Haggard, and even Leir are all so rough and mushy-looking and angular.
But Lady Amalthea.. She almost looks like some sort of Fae woman. As she very rightly should for being a former unicorn. Something bright and so tragically beautiful to look at, in a world that was already so beautiful and tragic to begin with. The end of the Golden Ages of fantasy, where Unicorns and Magic were a dying source of wonder and awe.
No wonder Leir fell in love with her, and no wonder Haggard almost recognized her for what she was from the moment he saw her. Hell, I cried right along with Molly the first time this scene’s message really hit me.
Unicorn and Lady Amalthea are just-.. Wonderfully, Beautifully tragic in a soulful sense I can’t even put into words. I love this movie, and this scene will forever have a place in my heart.
i have no idea how mia farrow managed to capture the mind-shattering horror of an immortal being forced into mortality- an experience no human could ever possibly understand- in her voice alone, but holy hell
Molly: "Please, please do something!"
Schmendrick: "If I could, I'd change her in some other creature, some beast too humble for the bull to be concerned with, but I'm not a real magician!"
Molly: "You can do it! Please!"
Schmendrick: *proceeds to transform the unicorn into a human*
Molly: "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?!"
My reaction: "...Come again?"
did you watch the scene or... "i didnt know you meant to turn her into a human girl" "youve trapped her in a human body, she'll go mad!"
@@gh02tdu2t It was understandably the first thing that came to mind.
@@Widdekuu91 Yes... and Molly is just jealous*... They are both demonstrating forms of human weakness, which is the overarching painful theme of this profound, multifaceted scene. I haven't seen the movie, but it surely seems more suitable for teenagers and adults than for average children.
* "just jealous" was kind of provocative. I do not intend to reduce the scene to that aspect. I just thought there could be an element of that too. A change to any mortal being would be a degradation from immortality. The depths of suffering and corruption humans are capable of may be particularly problematic, but on the other hand, constraining/cropping the unicorn's mind to a "shallower" brain would be bad in another way.
This post was made 2 years ago. Plenty of examples around of
why becoming human was horrbile.
@@EliasHasle Molly is definitely not jealous. The idea is that turning a creature as pure as a Unicorn into a human gives it the pain and possibility of corruption of human thought. As a Unicorn she did not exactly think as a human did, now she can. Molly also hates her life and a lot of it is because of how she was treated as a woman so the Unicorn being turned into a human woman probably felt like putting a pure creature through living hell to her.
This scene is so much more intense than I remember. I don't know why but when Amalthea said "what have you done to me?" I almost cried.
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it's so neat how they portray mortality as it is to something immortal, it's almost like eldrich horror? Like, it's terrifying and completely unknown to them but if they ever grasp it they're forever changed by the experience
I love the subtle voice change when she becomes human
The Red Bull is too powerful for the unicorn to handle. So Schmendrick performs a spell to protect her from the Red Bull. Somehow the magic changes her into a human form which provides a temporary protection until the Red Bull is able to recognise her despite being in human form.
Ohhh now I get it. Thank you for the explanation, I've never seen this movie before and I was confused.
Schmendrick gets chewed by both ladies because he... saved the unicorn ???
Thankfully this is just a momentary thing 'cause they're shocked and she apologises in the end
@@nevermindimjustapasserby Since Amalthea doesn't really understand the concept of human emotions, she couldn't express her gratitude properly. She didn't understand it.
All could feel was being thrown into another body, one that is fragile and aging day by day.
While I...you know..."get it" about this scene (I think the best way is to picture some oversized, rotting, living dead slug/lump of flesh for a creature and suddenly being turned into that...in which case I wouldn't really care if I was a "beautiful" version of this species, I'd still be horrified to be turned into it even if doing so saved me), I have to admit if I was one of the humans around while she was wailing about being human I'd feel like grimacing and muttering: "Flattery will get you nowhere... I've been dying ever since the moment I was born and you don't see me whining about it..."
+John Tumahab That is...actually a really great line. Good thinking--very insightful.
Apparently, in the original book, after she says that she can feel her body dying, Schmendrick tells her his backstory. Apparently he was cursed with immortality that can only go away when he masters magic and he's been living hundreds of years (probably) just wishing to be mortal again. He didn't want to hear her talk shit about being mortal because that was his entire goal.
I can confirm this is true. Though I didn't get the impression it was hundreds of years. Just that he was a few decades beyond the 20 or 30 years he looks. I can kind of agree why they left it out of this scene since it does break the flow a little bit but it would have been good if they kept it somewhere in the movie. Mortality is a core theme of the movie and Schemdrick shows an important side to it. The bit with Marduke (the other wizard working for King Haggard who's name I've forgotten how to spell) probably would have been a good place to reference it.
floooooooooooooooood yeah, I was mostly just guessing with the amount of years considering I don't think the book said how long he was cursed.
Her problem with it is that the Unicorms never really had to change. They lived in a time bubble where nothing changed. Being human means change. She's afraid about the change she's going to face and that she might face death in her form. She's not complaining about dying, she's so afraid of change and emotions that they all hit her at once, and it's a fucking punch in the stomach. She's so emotionally overwhelmed by her experience as a human so far, she's afraid of what's to come.
I have heard so many people question Molly and the Unicorn's reaction to her being changed into a human. What they don't understand is you've just taking a creature that is immortal and has no sense of time and put into the body of a human. And a woman at that. Whose body by its very nature is constantly changing. When she says she can feel the body dying, she means she can literally feel her body aging and dying.
I must say that I admire and respect Schmendrick for not acting like a pervert. LOL I also can't help but wonder, why exactly is she unconscious after being turned into a human?
+retromermaid
Good point.🙂
+retromermaid: Also, she was probably overwhelmed by the situation in general. I mean, wouldn't you pass out from fear if a huge, flaming red bull chased you?
+Chocobear555
I bet I would.🙁
dbzgal04 Maybe she was overwhelmed..
Likely her sudden experience of being a human--many, many sensations ('I can feel his body dying'), as well as emotions she's never been capable of feeling before. Overwhelmed is a perfect word to describe it. Overwhelmed to the point of passing out.
This makes me sad. It reminds me as well of lost innocence. Almost symbolic of losing your virginity and purity against your will. She’s forever changed and will never go back to how she was. It makes me want to cry.
A cool detail from the book, Shmendrick was immortal due to a curse placed by his master, he wouldn't age until he mastered his magical powers, which were tremendous but he was unable to properly control them. When Molly and the unicorn mad at him for robbing her of her immortality he responds by seeing he would gladly give up his immortal Life in a heartbeat due to being unable to live up to his potential.
I haven't watched this movie since I was very young, but I could still remember the dialogue and emotions. Wonderful scene.
While Farrow’s crushing delivery on her lines in this scene is emotional enough, Molly’s pain for her transformation is too. I think it’s been greatly misunderstood.
Yes, the world has now “lost” its last unicorn, and it’s a tragedy to the story. But for Molly, the tragedy is greater in that she has become a human girl. Not just human, but a woman. Remember their first meeting where she curses Amalthea for coming to her now in her old age, knowing that the only use she is now is a cook that no one appreciates. She lost her wonder and lust for life as she discovered the truths of being a woman. How dare a unicorn come to her now when she has already forfeit her happiness.
The tragedy is that now Amalthea will also have to endure that horrible truth.
This has to be the most beautiful, emotional, intricate scene ever written. So underrated :(
the entire movie is underrated!
Cristina Yes! I’ve loved it for as long as I’ve been alive but no one I know has ever seen it! When I tell people my favourite movie is The Last Unicorn they laugh, probably assuming it’s a bright, cheery, childish cartoon with lollipops and rainbows for six year olds. I wish more people knew about this amazing film.
@@riverfaery I SO agree! It's such an amazing movie, and I even enjoy it (perhaps more so) as an adult! It's so emotive and beautiful, and just so unique! :) I'm so glad someone else feels the same way!
You were the one who begged him to save her with his magic...
I remember I used to watch this movie as a kid. I think this is one of myfavourite scenes from it
For a movie that came out in the 80's the animation isn't as awkward as I imagined it to be now. I would of never noticed as a kid, but now the red bull is incredibly smooth, only their mouths are slightly awkward.
This was animated in Japan i believe so they're pretty good at action scenes lmao
@@caleviwin Oh wow really?! thx for the info
The fate of the unicorn is so sad at the end, she accomplished everything she set out to do but deeply regrets the loss of her human form. Even after becoming immortal again she still had a mortal heart and no one who she could share it with. This unsettling feeling follows her to the end of time when she realizes her human friends had long since died and feels the crawl of time even as she forgets its existence. The movie ends happily in comparison to the book.
I've always found it wondrous that Molly understood the unicorn's nature so perfectly, despite not knowing her for long. She knew a mortal human body would be tortuous for the unicorn. :(
and that's how equestria girls was born
nice one dude
Yup they do have similarities no doubt as i think the writers of the first movie was inspired by this and the book
Johnlindsey289
Actually EQG was inspired by Monster High and the human fan art
Maybe that's it. The wizard, using his unpredictable magic, accidentally created a world where unicorns were humans
@@jareththegoblinking3191 Could it be that it was Schmendrick who unknowingly created a human world where unicorns can become human those many years later?
"What have you done"
Oh i dont know maybe he did what you hecking asked him to do
I know this is supposed to be an emotional and important scene but i still find it hilarious because:
Molly: Help her! Turn her into something, anything!
Schmendrick: *Helps her and turns her into something else*
Molly: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?
I was thinking the same thing
im remember myself being 5 or 6..watchin this movie.....the soundtrack took me here...even the story is beautiful
The voice acting is so genuine.
Oh this movie... Such a masterpiece... I could sense her pain when she realized her new form, this scene Made me understood the big sacrifice she was doing by keeping that form
i recently showed this movie to my neice and when the unicorn turned human she asked why is she naked
What movie is this🥺🥺🥺
@@ayomideomoge8931 the last unicorn
@@rossman8919 thank you 🥺❤
I had a huge crush on the unicorn human when I was younger. (That should have been I sign that I would turn out gay)
YOUR PFP SEEMS SO FAMILAR
“Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen. And that was the most terrible thing about it”
God I love Schmendrick, guy is so excited for his own successes. Absolute wild card chad magician
That scene where the red bull is driving those sweet unicorns in the sea absolutely tears me up!! I found myself crying and almost yelling into the screen "don't go! You don't have to do this!" 😢
How is no one talking about how powerful what Molly says is
"You have all the power you need, if you dared to look for it".
This scene is so sad, imagine being this creature of eternity and pureness and then being compressed into a body that could meet death at any time. It's really cruel. He stripped her of what she was, her precious horn is gone as well and she can feel mortality and he just doesn't understand and seems to not even want to understand. I get that they had to save the others but I still think he was pretty callous with what he said here. Molly understood the significance of it all.
Every time I come back to this story I understand more and more, with an older mind it really does change how you view it.
When I was little I didn't understand why Molly and the unicorn were so mad at him for changing her into a human to save her, but now I think I do. I believe it's because unicorns are the most pure and innocent animals who are incapable of turning evil, while (most) humans are more hateful, arrogant and greedy than any other living creature. So her being turned into a human is, to her, the same as having her innocence taken away and being defiled. As now she has become something not so pure and easily corruptible.
The voice acting is soooo good! I feel Molly and the unicorn’s pain and sadness.
Just remembering this movie as a kid was weird and dark. But I always remembered the song and the meaning behind this movie is beautiful. I want to watch this movie again. It has been at least 8 years since I last saw it.
Molly reminds me so much of my mother... Who passed on August 10th 2013. We watched this movie a lot when I was a kid back in 1991. I was 12 then. I not only miss her so much, but I need her so much. They say time heals your pain... But not for my Father and I who both miss her. She was a Queen, she was emotional, and she was funny. She was my faith in the Lord.
Lawrence Riitano sorry for your loss, I’m sure she was a wonderful mother 💕🦋
Finally found this scene!!! thank you!!!
HyperVentalation No problem. Glad to help you. I only put it up less than a month ago so you looked for it right on time!
Me and my brothers watched this every time it came on tv back in the day
They desperately wanted him to do something, then when he does; they realize It has some consequences and condemn him for it... this is an accurate representation of the human experience.
I don't think it helped that he bragged about it at first
@@freelands8355 Doesn't matter. He did what Molly asked. And said his power was uncontrollable. The unicorn was just ignorant, but Molly was ungrateful.
@@freelands8355 I want to push back on it being "bragging" per se. Schmendrick was being a bit self-absorbed, but consider his position: A man who has lived his entire life as being a third rate magician at best who can only do cheap parlor tricks with nary a drop of true magic in him. Sure there was the scene with Robin Hood beforehand but to a great degree he refused to believe that was anything more than a fluke. Him being able to get magic to come at all and do as he wanted felt entirely out of reach.
That changed when he transformed the Unicorn into Amalthea. He realized it was not a fluke. That he could indeed call upon the powers of magic and have it respond. He couldn't control it, not yet. But it was possible. Not 5 minutes before he thought him being capable of any form of magic was utterly impossible, and had lead his entire life being convinced of that. You can see it in how he constantly belittles his own capability as a magician. This was a turning point, and he recognized that everything he believed about his own capabilities was a lie. This also meant that he could only improve and get better. He wasn't bragging about his own greatness. He was excited about his own *potential*. This was the first true and major sign that he was capable of being far more than a two-bit, third rate magician.
Fire elemental vs unicorn.
I loved this movie as a child. I still love it. I can recite the whole movie. Even King Haggards speech. I guess I’m crazy.
And here we see the danger of just screaming "Do Something!" Well, he did something. "Something" is all that was asked for, and they got it.
"Do something! Do anything"
"Okay..."
"WAHT HAVE YOU DONE?"
*sigh*
I always found her human form to be so pretty
"I can feel this body dying all around me!" -Me on my 30th birthday.
To everyone saying Molly was unfair -- she probably expected defensive or offensive magic against the Bull, not transformational magic against the Unicorn. She had no reason to expect Schmendrick to shape-shift the last (free) Unicorn in the world into a comparatively powerless, vulnerable and very not-immortal human girl, and was understandably shocked, angry and mournful. Even before she saw how upset the former-Unicorn was over being trapped in an aging human body (with a built-in expiration date even without any outside harm done to it) and suddenly being without access to her formidable horn and hooves.
But Schmendrick literally says he could try transforming her into something else before doing it.
@@Jotari True. Still, somehow, her being made human seems more shocking. A talking (or at least unicorn/human level sentient) animal still retains a sense of the unworldly about it, plus whatever natural defenses the animal has. Whereas humanity is so fragile and ordinary -- as far as from a unicorn as can get -- that I can understand why Molly must've felt she saw the last bit of innocence and good magic in the world die in front of her.
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Not that she doesn't later try to make Schmendrick leave Amalthea as human, lol, but her loyalty was to Amalthea/the Unicorn's happiness, above even her own sense of happiness at beholding a unicorn.
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Although speaking of happiness, and to digress a bit... I still blame Molly a bit for Amalthea's troubles to begin with, in that the Unicorn owed no mere man her regard or even kindness, especially when he was trying to court her -- and nobody owes anyone a pity-date -- when the Unicorn was there on a mission; instead she should've keep her nose out of it (not her style, admittedly) or discouraged Lir. Amalthea might not've developed feelings for him if she'd never given him a chance. But then, I guess, the ending would've been different, and maybe a worse one of all unicorns lost forever, eh?
Thanks for uploading this! I remember renting it from my local library and watching it over and over when I was younger, so it's nice to see it again
I for one thought it was a good life lesson for the unicorn to become human. immortal beings look down on mortal beings because they don't understand what is it to be mortal. she needed to learn regret, remorse, real sorrow as until now she's been indifferent to the suffering around her. I get it i do i wouldn't what my form to be changed so completely. but that bull would have driven her into the ocean and then there would be no saving the unicorns.
And her companions can manage just fine with their bodies constantly dying around them. you don't see them crying about it! especially schemdrick who's been frozen in time with a mortal yet not body. i imagine it's perpetual for him feeling his body dying and then being regenerated so it's the same yet different and he's not making such a fuss.
and later had she just looked for the other unicorns instead of spending weeks complaining about being human she'd have been back in her natural form much, much sooner. i almost felt like this transformation was the magic force feeding her a slice of humble pie after how callous she had been throughout the entire movie.
I legitimately thought when i first saw this movie when i was little: "are all immortal things such crybabies? if she stopped complaining for like five seconds they could be done and she'd be a unicorn again. does she somehow not know that?"
I totally agree. Even though she never knew what human pain felt like, she needed it least learn that this is what being a mortal is like. I know turning into a whole different species would be awful, it least she can put her self in our shoes instead of like, “OH BOOHOO IM LIKE A MORTAL NOW 😭” like a spoiled demigod.
When I watched this movie for the first time as a kid, I was so surprised that the unicorn had been transformed into a human. It's my favorite scene of the whole movie.
You didn’t feel weird by the nudity though ?
It didn’t bother me, just caught me off guard (as well as the boob tree scene LOL) since it is rated G
Were they just able to get away with more back then? I know ratings worked differently though
@@RYMAN1321 I didn't really pay attention to the nudity as a kid. It was just one of those things that went over my head, really, LOL!
Very noticeable the symbolism of the lost of innocence when "rammed" by an animal associated with virility.
Also: amalthea was a pony gijinka before it was popular...
"What have you done?!" has lived in my head for 40 years. I always use this quote in that exact intonation.
This right here, was my childhood.
And I loved every second of it.
This is a girls movie
@@nastyhardcore7641
Says who?
@@AngellishV lmao just look at all the comments they are all from girls
@@nastyhardcore7641
Don't know about that one chief. There is a top comment from someone named _The Suicide Gods_
@@AngellishV yeah ok well enjoy your unicorn cartoon mr macho man
No doubt one of the best animated scenes but what they said got me mad
+Peter Richards Which spoken lines are you talking about?
probably the hypocracy in her screaming "do something! do something!" only for him to *do something* which, despite being successful, made her mad and lash out at him with "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" like, really?? you told me to do something, *_so I did something!_* you want something specific then fuckin say so next time, jeez!
I think Molly wanted Schmendrick to save the Unicorn, but at the time he couldn't control what form she would take, hence his saying "Magic, do as you will." It's likely that he thought that she'd turn into some other animal, like a bird or a deer, or something.
Neither of them expected her to become human, though.
Moira Palace Molly likely wanted Schmendrick to use his magic to stop the Red Bull either by scaring it away by matching it with power or casting illusion magic to distract the bull from the unicorn not transform the unicorn against her will into a form she’d be unaccustomed with which is why Molly’s horrified when it does happen.
I remember always renting this movie when I was little at block buster
I used to think this movie was so boring when I would watch it as a kid, but as an adult, I’ve never cried so much over a film ever 😭
I’ve never watched this and can’t process deep emotion but imagine being told to save someone, doing it, and then getting yelled at. He didn’t choose her form and he was told to change it, obviously it wasn’t really his fault :|
Dude, as beautiful as she is, do they not care that she's NAKED? BE GENTLEAMAN AND GIVE HER YOUR SHIRT TO HID HERSELF
4:20 - 4:25 LOL
*Wolf whistle* she is
It honestly seems like Schmendrick doesn't even notice it. tvtropes.org/main/notdistractedbythesexy
He gives her his cloak later.
She’s considered one of the most pure creatures in the world, and then suddenly become a human girl, being naked wasn’t her top priority
I watched this movie a lot as a kid, trying to wrap my head around it. I thought it was weird, but now I see how deep it is...
See, I 100% see why Amalthea is so distressed-she’s immortal, and for the first time, she’s in a mortal body. It would be like if we were put in the body of a mayfly. But which is worse-to die as the last unicorn then and there, or to die as a human and know both the mortal and immortal…
Man I never realized how insightful some of this dialogue was as a child
This movie use to make me so emotional.
I thought it was so rare and magical. This movie to this day gives me goosebumps
i loved it since a child, the unicorn in human form kinda looks like anime lol
It's animated in Japan
It is, the Rankin Bass studio eventually evolved into studio Ghibli
This music makes me so fucking emotional oh my god
Now may Tammy Grimes rest *her* soul *too*.
"You trapped her in a human body, she'll go mad" I feel that so much.
When I was younger this movie wasn't so emotional ;-; until now
With blood and rage of crimson red...