If only people would stop trying to call his character "the devil" or a demon......He's god damned Darkness, its a fairy tale, I understand that Jesus is also a fairy tale but Jesus and the Devil have nothing to do with Legend.
@@lutherheggs451Actually The "Devil" Is In The Movie. When Darkness Wants To Win Lili's Affection He Asks His "Father" For Advice On The Winning Formula To Ensnare Her. A Whispering For From Deep Below Answers Him. Presumably The Devil, Because Who Else Would It Be?
So many amazingly beautiful scenes could be posters or pictures. Lily and Una running through the great hall, the unicorn lying dormant in the snow, Darkness leaning over Lily. And Tangerine Dream ... ok, we may have our preferences on movie scores, but the synths sound felt mystical, magical, truly fairly tail. I tried tried tried to get into it with the symphony score. It felt forced, routine, ... like a standard. I've seen this movie so many times, I recite the lines when watching ... "Mother Night, fold your dark arms about me", "Quiet. How like you my gifts my lady. Does the gown not please you?", "What have we here? A little BOY?". Great great stuff.
My head was blowing away when I found out that Tim played the Devil. As kid it was one of most memorable characters that I always remember because how he looked I always put it up there with The Never-ending Story, Princess Bride and labyrinth as some of the best fairy tales movies of the 80s.
Still to this day one of the most visually stunning films ever made. The practical effects, detail, and amazing shots and music was supreme. Tim Curry was incredible.
*As a kid, it took me a LONG time to warm up to LEGEND. I saw it as a "romance" with some unicorns spliced in for show. It was only after being force fed it (by syndication) that I finally WATCHED the movie and found the underlying themes of nature, duality, innocence, perdition, and seduction. The visual effects are unbelievable, and Tim Curry will forever live up to the name, "Legend".*
"Black as midnight, black as pitch. Blacker than the foulest witch!" It was a privilege to have been right on the verge of adolescence when I saw this film. Fantasy films like "The Dark Crystal" and "Legend" showed a grittier, darker side to the old-school Disney fairytales many of us grew up with. Gen X kids might have already discovered the glory of Tim Curry thanks to his time as Frankenfurter, but he absolutely owned every moment of screentime as Darkness. He even brought a serious sex appeal to the figure of the demon. He was scary as hell, literally, but also kind of tragic and romantic. I don't think I was the only adolescent girl imagining what it would have been like to dance around in the goth bride get-up that Lily ended up in. It's also dang easy to forget that THE Tom Cruise plays a role in this film. This film is a classic! I'd consider it a must-watch for anyone who appreciates twisted takes on fairytales.
I love this film I've seen it so many times❤ The effects hold up so well and I prefer the Tangerine Dream score. And I have to keep bringing up- FUN FACT! Did you know In Blade Runner the unicorn dream sequence was made with unused footage from Legend?? 🦄
@@ryangossett8211 The "Director's Cut" and "Final Cut" were produced much later, and both have the Unicorn footage from Legend - Scott actually seems to remember Unicorn footage was shot for Blade Runner, but nobody was able to find it when it came time to make the Director's Cut, so he just grabbed what was available!
The '80s was full of wonderful fantasy movies that I still love to watch up to this day. Legend, The Never Ending Story, Excalibur, The Dark Crystal, Return To Oz and many more.
As a child of the 80’s, this is by far the best movie I ever watched growing up. I appreciated at the time the incredible make-up and special effects. My crush for Tim Curry also began then ❤❤❤. Now as an adult, I now enjoy it even more. I also really enjoyed the Tangerine Dream music as well. Everything about this movie still holds up today and shines right through my nostalgia.
I remember watching this movie with my mom in the 1980's for the first time. I was 9. I watch it at least once a year. It will always be one of the best parts of my childhood 🙂!!!
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out. I was 14yo, I am 51 and have been obsessed ever since. It's gorgeous and incredible and just so damn cool. Tim Curry as Darkness is unmatched. I am getting a tattoo of my favorite line. "We are all animals, my lady."
Thank you for this. I took my girlfriend to see this when I was 15. It was one of the first adult dates I went on. I loved it as I understood it was paying homage to many European legends and fairytales which play a large role in literature from Shakespeare to Lord of the Rings. Ridley understood how this is part of what Europeans are and is deeply routed in our cultures and not just throwaway childhood tales. I mean that Ridley understood this more than Disney fairytale which stripped out the darkness and fear of spirits and witchcraft and so forth that were very real things in our histories.
I saw this in theaters here in the US back in 85. I was just a young kid, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have noticed over the past years more retrospective videos such as this one made on this film. Good to see people are still enjoying it. Tim Curry is mesmerizing playing darkness.
The film is a wonderfully wicked fairytale. Darkness, Nyx, the dwarves and those rich set pieces all make it one of those films that makes it otherworldly yet so familiar. I loved introducing this to my kids as they were growing up.
Legend is legendary. Don’t usually like "over the top"make-up appliances or films . Saw it as an adult in my 30’s. It is ingrained in my memory. Thanks for covering it .
Ah, The Dark Crystal and Legend started the mid to late 1980's Dark Fantasy craze. I saw Legend in the cinema way back in 1985 and loved it! ...I got a immediate crush on Mia Sara.
Without a doubt it's simply the greatest high fantasy film of all time. I would love for them to find the original negative, with todays tech it would be awesome to witness an extended and remasterd version, given the same love and attention as Blade Runner.
I'm loving this series of videos, you are definitely tugging at my nostalgia strings of childhood. First Beastmaster, now Legend both movies I have seen countless times. The key to Legend is to watch the Tangerine Dream score version. It's not the same movie without it. Tim Curry was stellar as Darkness, this movie doesn't get enough love. I wish they still made movies like this. Fantasy movies were so awesome in the 80s.
The end where you say those of us who watched this in the late 80s have a hard time letting go... and SO MUCH agreement there! It doesn't help that this was one of my brother and I's all time fave movies as kids and we would rewatch it weekly at times. He later passed away in his teens and this is just one of those movies that whisks me back to that childhood with him. It's all about that Tangerine Dream soundtrack. electronic music is just my jam.
I remember watching the theatrical cut and wishing it was longer! Then when they actually released it, I kinda favored the theatrical. I believe that it was much darker than I anticipated. But now I appreciate both versions, the theatrical for sentimental value and director for being darker.
I can't imagine there being more magic in this movie. It's the most beautiful piece of art and every time I watch cgi it makes me sad wishing we'd go back to the 80s
I'm one of those people that can't let go of the U.S. theater version. I'm from the 80's. Not 90's but ALL 80's. And when I saw this movie for the first time I was taken aback by it. As well as, the soundtrack was so damn good with Tangerine Dream (perfect music for the 80's) I remember buying the cassette and wearing it out. Especially the dance. I saw the movie with the original soundtrack. And I don't mind orchestrated music. I really don't. Yet, I tried with all my might and just couldn't let go of the fantasy sounds of Tangerine Dream. ESPECIALLY DURING THE DANCE! lol Still, I'd like to at least see the Director's Cut. I can be fair. And am very curious to learn more about the characters and who they really were. Thanks for putting this together. It was really fun. Most the things I already knew. And some were brand new. Good job!!!
Loved this movie,Curry,Sara...the actorsxand actresses pkaying the fairy and Gnomes..the atmospheric sets and scenery ..the musuc by Tangerine dream. BeautufulNd haunting!
Just a small correction -- the Goldsmith score did not need to be "restored" into the 2002 Director's Cut. The Director's Cut already existed as a fully-edited print with a finished sound mix. The 2-track digital DAT (which had been preserved and archived by engineer Mike Ross-Trevor) was used to produced the 1992 *CD* release of Goldsmith's score. Otherwise, I enjoyed your excellent retrospective of this underrated and unique film.
One of my favorite movies... my secret shame. 😄 Having seen both, and already loving TD, i really thought the Goldsmith cut was much less magical. Music is such an important part of the equation that results in generating emotion and TD really did it for me.
The make up effects in this movie are top notch. As a kid they all terrifies me and as an adult I still don't see any of the creatures as dudes in suits. This is easily one of my favorite films. Underrated masterpiece.
Fun fact- almost no one talks about the TV edits of this. I still have a VHS recording off TV from the 80s that 100% is not the theatrical cut and 100% not the directors cut. When I got the DVD with both I was shocked that neither had the Legend feel that I personally remember
Yes 3 versions of the movie exists. Can get all three on a special edition Blu ray Think the main difference is the rock music for the American release
Yup. It is my personal favorite version. It has the extra extended scenes found in the European version, but with the Tangerine Dream soundtrack, which I personally MUCH prefer.
I first saw this film on TV in the late 80’s early 90’s with family. It always stalled with me and became one of my favorites. AND this was the American cut mind you! Fast forward to 2003 or so when it was released as a Director’s Cut on DVD with the original beautiful poster art. Man, was my mind blown. Especially with the inclusion of the Goldsmith score. It still captured the same feeling I got from when I first saw it, but with a new tone. In my mind Legend is still one the best fantasy, fairy tale films ever made and from that era.
The scene that introduces Tim Curry as Darkness (or the most perfect depiction of how the Devil was described), walking out of the fireplace - absolute terror! My mom was super religious - my grandmother, whose house I first saw the movie, was secular. Similar to how my mom told me my nightly sleep paralysis was demons trying to possess me, I genuinely believed it was the actual devil in the movie (I was only 8 years old in 1985). Religious trauma sucks. Thank goodness I caught on before the oppressive anxiety at the time became worse than the crushing jpanic attacks I deal with now.
I'll have to watch it again. I was absolutely captivated in the theater watching this as a kid, and the amount of atmosphere it has is truly amazing. There were several powerful fantasy films that came out in the 80s, and this ranks among the best.
I grew up with the American Tangerine Dreams version. Although I understand what Scott meant after watching the directors cut on DVD in 2002, I have too much of an emotional connection to the Dreams version. This film is like a recording of a primordial dream.
Grew up in the 80s and when I was kid,this movie freaked me out and I loved it. Basically,this was a young man/boy that saves the Princess and defeats evil.This was an old fairytale version of Star Wars and yes,Star Wars was a space fairytale .
I had no idea there was a director's cut of this classic. Also, that dubbing had happened, though it now explains why as a kid I thought things didn't sound right. Legend, Willow, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride - the 80s had gorgeous fantasy movies.
To this day, my favorite Tom Cruise movie. So much creativity and imagination... as a kid it really showed me that there is good and there is evil in the world.... and that you MUST take a side. If you don't, your just as bad as evil. If you go deeper though, as an adult, it shows me that that darkness and light are not two sides of a coin, they are just the coin. There are no sides and that we all return to the source at the end.
I own on Blu-Ray I love this movie! and the soundtrack so awesome it deserved more attention than what it received upon it's original release, the effects were ahead of there time and the costumes and sets were beautiful Legend is a great movie Mia,Tom and Tim did great I must have seen this film more than a dozen times through the years.
I used to watch this and Top Gun back to back all the time when I was a kid. I normally HATE fantasy films (and the genre in general) but I still LOVE this movie. The original scripts are ridiculously wild compared to the finished film. A shame they never made a sequel, there's so much to this universe to explore, and Tom's star power wasn't even necessary cuz there's so many other characters they could've focused on.
Keith Richard's?? holy crap! as soon as that pic of his face from the early 80's was shown on screen I saw it. that's nuts. she did a great job. and Meg Mucklebones was played by the same actor that played the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager? crazy.
I grew up with the US theatrical release with the knowledge there was a longer international version out there. The one that played on US television in the late 80s was different than both. I have the directors cut and it's almost like watching a completely different movie, but I love it even more. The scenes that I knew word for word had different dialog. I love watching it a couple of times a year.
I've seen so many versions of this film. I remember there was one cut, TBS I think, that the opening scene script was narrated. There was also a part where Gump asked Jack a riddle, about blue bells, and Jack had to answer right or they wouldn't help him. That's not in there either. I wish they would put out that TBS cut because it was really good.
When this first came out in limited release, I was working in a movie theater. I got to watch this several times on the big screen, with the Tangerine Dream score. Later that year I got married, and we used the Unicorn Theme by Tangerine Dream as our wedding music. It was magical.
It's a great film, Ridley Scott is such a visionary it's definitely a more adult fantasy film. Tim Curry is a Legend himself for his performance alone. As is the FX and set designer's. I would've loved to have seen Ridley Scott direct a Bond film.
I love every version of this movie. The original is what I grew up with, but they used to play the European release on TV so I got to see it with the extended Meg Mucklebones scene and some other changes. Now I have the Directors Cut which is what i most often watch when I rewatch the film now. I just love this movie. It's very special to me
I wasn’t expecting such a positive review. I know it’s been much reviled. I have good memories of watching it on TV in 1989, dubbed in Portuguese. I still gotta see the director’s cut with the original voices.
Imagine if this was made today, it would be just a mess of CGI effects. This film a masterpiece of costume/makeup. Tim's face is so well blended with the prosthetics, there just isn't anything quite like it in other films. Loved the soundtrack, Is your Love Strong Enough and Loved by the Sun were fantastic along with Tangerine Dream. It does seem odd that when I mention this film nobody seems to have heard of it.
@@ip3887 I've never watched the version with the Goldsmith score. I loved the movie with Tangerine Dream, and I afraid than the Goldsmith score would ruin it for me.
This a gem of a film with stunning visuals. I saw it when it was first released and recall wondering why it didn't receive more attention. Glad its finally getting its due.
I grew up in the ‘80’s and this movie was and still is my favorite movie. And while I’ve seen the director’s cut and appreciate it, I still love the Tangerine Dream score.
Tim's performance makes the entire movie. Darkness is one of the great theatrical characters of all time.
If only people would stop trying to call his character "the devil" or a demon......He's god damned Darkness, its a fairy tale, I understand that Jesus is also a fairy tale but Jesus and the Devil have nothing to do with Legend.
@@lutherheggs451Actually The "Devil" Is In The Movie. When Darkness Wants To Win Lili's Affection He Asks His "Father" For Advice On The Winning Formula To Ensnare Her. A Whispering For From Deep Below Answers Him. Presumably The Devil, Because Who Else Would It Be?
“ Sunlight is my destroyer!”
@@lutherheggs451IT IS THE DEVIL YOU DIPSHIT
Yes. Most actors, when they overact like crazy, spoil the film. Tim Curry in both this and It, is absolutely OTT but steals every scene.
The dance scene is still one of the creepiest, coolest things Ive ever seen on screen. The production design is amazing.
So many amazingly beautiful scenes could be posters or pictures. Lily and Una running through the great hall, the unicorn lying dormant in the snow, Darkness leaning over Lily. And Tangerine Dream ... ok, we may have our preferences on movie scores, but the synths sound felt mystical, magical, truly fairly tail. I tried tried tried to get into it with the symphony score. It felt forced, routine, ... like a standard. I've seen this movie so many times, I recite the lines when watching ... "Mother Night, fold your dark arms about me", "Quiet. How like you my gifts my lady. Does the gown not please you?", "What have we here? A little BOY?". Great great stuff.
That dress, man. I can't imagine that didn't convert many a girl to the goth aesthetic.
Yeah! As a child, I couldn't watch the mirror scene that followed the dance scene. It was too powerful for me as a youngster Haha
@@20Avalanche06 What have we here? A little boy? I still throw that one around! Haha
Love that scene
One of my favorite movies of all time. I have something I call the 80's fantasy Trilogy: Legend, The Princess Bride and Labyrinth. All just lovely.
No Krull?
Dark crystal is a great 80s fantasy film with a cool Netflix series.
@@FoxUnitNell Still need to watch the series cause Im lazy as hell.
Those are 3 awesome movies.
Never Ending story and Dark Crystal can be added
the forest in legend is one of the most magical depicitions of a fantasy forest ive ever seen. im so in love with it
I always joke about what looks like chicken feather floating around everywhere. Allergy hell
Tim Curry physically cannot do wrong. No matter what movie he's in, he's the best part
Poor choice of words.
I agree. His style is unparalleled.
"CLUE" ❤😂
My head was blowing away when I found out that Tim played the Devil. As kid it was one of most memorable characters that I always remember because how he looked I always put it up there with The Never-ending Story, Princess Bride and labyrinth as some of the best fairy tales movies of the 80s.
Seared into my lil 80’s brain, the devil looks exactly like Tim Curry in Legend. I remember being mesmerized/scared by it.
Defiantly!
You do know Tim Curry was the original clown, Pennywise, in IT .
@@lotstodo duhhhhhhhhh
Still to this day one of the most visually stunning films ever made. The practical effects, detail, and amazing shots and music was supreme. Tim Curry was incredible.
No matter how many times I watch this movie, I'm always mesmerized by the Darkness design and make up. Just Legendary.
*As a kid, it took me a LONG time to warm up to LEGEND. I saw it as a "romance" with some unicorns spliced in for show. It was only after being force fed it (by syndication) that I finally WATCHED the movie and found the underlying themes of nature, duality, innocence, perdition, and seduction. The visual effects are unbelievable, and Tim Curry will forever live up to the name, "Legend".*
Tim Curry’s performance was incredible
Think of the era, the whole thing was incredible
Tim is allways great!!!!
This movie is a masterpiece, one of my favorites growing up, I never get tired of watching it. It's a feast for the eyes and horribly underrated
"Black as midnight, black as pitch. Blacker than the foulest witch!" It was a privilege to have been right on the verge of adolescence when I saw this film. Fantasy films like "The Dark Crystal" and "Legend" showed a grittier, darker side to the old-school Disney fairytales many of us grew up with. Gen X kids might have already discovered the glory of Tim Curry thanks to his time as Frankenfurter, but he absolutely owned every moment of screentime as Darkness. He even brought a serious sex appeal to the figure of the demon. He was scary as hell, literally, but also kind of tragic and romantic. I don't think I was the only adolescent girl imagining what it would have been like to dance around in the goth bride get-up that Lily ended up in. It's also dang easy to forget that THE Tom Cruise plays a role in this film. This film is a classic! I'd consider it a must-watch for anyone who appreciates twisted takes on fairytales.
"May be innocent, may be sweet... ain't half as nice as rotting meat".
Mortal world turned to ice … here be goblin paradise.
"Higher higher burning fire, making music like a choir"
I named my beloved black cat after that mischievous goblin.
“Ahh Blix… come closer.” 😏
The Tangerine Dream score for Legend was one of the first CDs I ever bought, still love it!
YES!
I love Mia Sara. Most people only know her from "Ferris Bueller", but she shines as Lili here. 💖
ya until she married some producer and quit acting because she had all the money she needed.
@@marcussmith4913 "some producer"??? That's Brian Henson, son of Muppets creator Jim Henson!!!
@@marcussmith4913 Good for her.
@@marcussmith4913she escaped the Hollywood machine. Good on her ❤
I 1st saw her in Legend actually. I hadn't seen Ferris Bueller at that point so it was strange seeing her as anything but a fairy tale princess.
This is one of my favorite films from my childhood. It’s still a classic that I have to rewatch every few years or so.
I love this movie. It’s the closest thing we have to a live action legend of Zelda.
I always wondered if Zelda took some ideas from this movie.
Kubo and the Two Strings struck me as the closest thing to Zelda but you have a point here.
@@MisterBrimm you know that also works but this was my first.
@@LetsGetitBoah they both came out pretty close( at least in Japan for the game)
I like the part where Jake kills Ganondalf.
I love this film I've seen it so many times❤ The effects hold up so well and I prefer the Tangerine Dream score. And I have to keep bringing up- FUN FACT! Did you know In Blade Runner the unicorn dream sequence was made with unused footage from Legend?? 🦄
I have never seen either Blade Runner or Legend but this does not make sense. Blade Runner was released years before Legend was filmed.
@@ryangossett8211 The "Director's Cut" and "Final Cut" were produced much later, and both have the Unicorn footage from Legend - Scott actually seems to remember Unicorn footage was shot for Blade Runner, but nobody was able to find it when it came time to make the Director's Cut, so he just grabbed what was available!
The '80s was full of wonderful fantasy movies that I still love to watch up to this day. Legend, The Never Ending Story, Excalibur, The Dark Crystal, Return To Oz and many more.
And not just movies, but the music back then was fantastic as well.
💯‼️♥️
As a child of the 80’s, this is by far the best movie I ever watched growing up. I appreciated at the time the incredible make-up and special effects. My crush for Tim Curry also began then ❤❤❤. Now as an adult, I now enjoy it even more. I also really enjoyed the Tangerine Dream music as well. Everything about this movie still holds up today and shines right through my nostalgia.
I remember watching this movie with my mom in the 1980's for the first time. I was 9. I watch it at least once a year. It will always be one of the best parts of my childhood 🙂!!!
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out. I was 14yo, I am 51 and have been obsessed ever since. It's gorgeous and incredible and just so damn cool. Tim Curry as Darkness is unmatched. I am getting a tattoo of my favorite line. "We are all animals, my lady."
Thank you for this. I took my girlfriend to see this when I was 15. It was one of the first adult dates I went on. I loved it as I understood it was paying homage to many European legends and fairytales which play a large role in literature from Shakespeare to Lord of the Rings. Ridley understood how this is part of what Europeans are and is deeply routed in our cultures and not just throwaway childhood tales.
I mean that Ridley understood this more than Disney fairytale which stripped out the darkness and fear of spirits and witchcraft and so forth that were very real things in our histories.
I completely agree with you
I saw this in theaters here in the US back in 85. I was just a young kid, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have noticed over the past years more retrospective videos such as this one made on this film. Good to see people are still enjoying it. Tim Curry is mesmerizing playing darkness.
"Wow. Forgive that intrusion, great lord...but goblins are inclined to be outspoken, and I like to encourage their initiative. " 😆 Best. Line. Ever.
Just all around a perfect movie. 😊❤
"The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity" is the best line for me. It's just so true.
This movie may not have gone the way they wanted but it’s a forever classic, and a favorite childhood movie for me.
Still my number 1 favorite movie of all time, followed by Highlander, and Ghostbusters!
There can be only one! :-)
And that friend, is the LORD Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.
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I honestly would pay to go the theater to see the director cut version of this as it was originally intended.
Tim Curry, Tom Cruise and Bryan Ferry's haunting song will always be memorable to me.
The film is a wonderfully wicked fairytale. Darkness, Nyx, the dwarves and those rich set pieces all make it one of those films that makes it otherworldly yet so familiar. I loved introducing this to my kids as they were growing up.
Tim Curry is a Legend
Legend is legendary. Don’t usually like "over the top"make-up appliances or films . Saw it as an adult in my 30’s. It is ingrained in my memory. Thanks for covering it .
Amazing soundtrack too. Tangerine Dream. Worked perfectly with the film. I love this film, its characters, the atmosphere.
One of the most beautiful films ever. The soundtrack fit very well. A very nostalgic film of my childhood.
Ah, The Dark Crystal and Legend started the mid to late 1980's Dark Fantasy craze.
I saw Legend in the cinema way back in 1985 and loved it! ...I got a immediate crush on Mia Sara.
Without a doubt it's simply the greatest high fantasy film of all time. I would love for them to find the original negative, with todays tech it would be awesome to witness an extended and remasterd version, given the same love and attention as Blade Runner.
Another great memory, Hall. It’s pretty remarkable to look back at the broad range of Tom Cruise’s career.
I love the closing viewmaster credits!
I'm loving this series of videos, you are definitely tugging at my nostalgia strings of childhood. First Beastmaster, now Legend both movies I have seen countless times. The key to Legend is to watch the Tangerine Dream score version. It's not the same movie without it. Tim Curry was stellar as Darkness, this movie doesn't get enough love. I wish they still made movies like this. Fantasy movies were so awesome in the 80s.
The end where you say those of us who watched this in the late 80s have a hard time letting go... and SO MUCH agreement there!
It doesn't help that this was one of my brother and I's all time fave movies as kids and we would rewatch it weekly at times. He later passed away in his teens and this is just one of those movies that whisks me back to that childhood with him. It's all about that Tangerine Dream soundtrack. electronic music is just my jam.
A great underrated movie. And I would also advise people to watch The Duelist, also a very underrated movie.
I Still have this on VHS 📼.
Darkness is so Badass. The intro to him entering the scene is classic. That scene alone is worth owning the movie.
I remember watching the theatrical cut and wishing it was longer! Then when they actually released it, I kinda favored the theatrical. I believe that it was much darker than I anticipated. But now I appreciate both versions, the theatrical for sentimental value and director for being darker.
I actually love Tangerine Dream's score more than Jerry Golfsmith's.
Directors cut total freaks me out and this is one of my favorites since always. Just makes it a totally different movie.
This film is so beautifully shot. The sets, lighting and costumes mesmerizing.
One of my favorite fantasy movies, beautiful Mia Sara, perfect Jerry Goldsmith’s score. Here in Europe anyway 😉👍🏻
Great Bryan Ferry song over the closing credits ❤️
I can't imagine there being more magic in this movie. It's the most beautiful piece of art and every time I watch cgi it makes me sad wishing we'd go back to the 80s
I'm one of those people that can't let go of the U.S. theater version. I'm from the 80's. Not 90's but ALL 80's. And when I saw this movie for the first time I was taken aback by it. As well as, the soundtrack was so damn good with Tangerine Dream (perfect music for the 80's) I remember buying the cassette and wearing it out. Especially the dance.
I saw the movie with the original soundtrack. And I don't mind orchestrated music. I really don't. Yet, I tried with all my might and just couldn't let go of the fantasy sounds of Tangerine Dream. ESPECIALLY DURING THE DANCE! lol
Still, I'd like to at least see the Director's Cut. I can be fair. And am very curious to learn more about the characters and who they really were.
Thanks for putting this together. It was really fun. Most the things I already knew. And some were brand new. Good job!!!
This movie is so awesome!!!! I remember when it came out and I LOVED it. I have loved it everyday since.
Of all the Cinematic movies made this needs to be remade & hopefully remade amazingly.
Nooooooo
Loved this movie,Curry,Sara...the actorsxand actresses pkaying the fairy and Gnomes..the atmospheric sets and scenery ..the musuc by Tangerine dream. BeautufulNd haunting!
I absolutely love this movie more than anything. It literally fueled my love of all things fantasy
Always love this movie, a great classic.
I love this movie when I was a kid. I snuck in the movie theater over and over again to watch it.
Just a small correction -- the Goldsmith score did not need to be "restored" into the 2002 Director's Cut. The Director's Cut already existed as a fully-edited print with a finished sound mix. The 2-track digital DAT (which had been preserved and archived by engineer Mike Ross-Trevor) was used to produced the 1992 *CD* release of Goldsmith's score. Otherwise, I enjoyed your excellent retrospective of this underrated and unique film.
One of my favorite movies... my secret shame. 😄 Having seen both, and already loving TD, i really thought the Goldsmith cut was much less magical. Music is such an important part of the equation that results in generating emotion and TD really did it for me.
The make up effects in this movie are top notch. As a kid they all terrifies me and as an adult I still don't see any of the creatures as dudes in suits. This is easily one of my favorite films. Underrated masterpiece.
The Bryan Ferry song over the closing credits is perfect ❤
I watched this movie on loop as a kid and still have it. I can say every line. It just had me from the get go
I also saw this as a kid in the 80s and it was memorable. Wish a sequel was made
Same!!!!❤
This is still one of my favorite movies along with the Labyrinth 💖
Nobody could pull off threatening and seductive like Tim Curry.
Fun fact- almost no one talks about the TV edits of this. I still have a VHS recording off TV from the 80s that 100% is not the theatrical cut and 100% not the directors cut. When I got the DVD with both I was shocked that neither had the Legend feel that I personally remember
Yes 3 versions of the movie exists. Can get all three on a special edition Blu ray
Think the main difference is the rock music for the American release
Yup. It is my personal favorite version. It has the extra extended scenes found in the European version, but with the Tangerine Dream soundtrack, which I personally MUCH prefer.
I first saw this film on TV in the late 80’s early 90’s with family. It always stalled with me and became one of my favorites. AND this was the American cut mind you! Fast forward to 2003 or so when it was released as a Director’s Cut on DVD with the original beautiful poster art. Man, was my mind blown. Especially with the inclusion of the Goldsmith score. It still captured the same feeling I got from when I first saw it, but with a new tone.
In my mind Legend is still one the best fantasy, fairy tale films ever made and from that era.
Those viewfinder credits at the end are fantastic.
SPEAKING ON THE VISUALS OF THESE MOVIE, THIS MOVIE WAS AHEAD OF IT'S TIME, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WATCHING THIS MOVIE IN THEATERS IN 1985
LEGEND IS THE MOST UNDERRATED FANTASY MOVIE OF ALL TIME, IT IS NOW A ABSOLUTE CULT CLASSIC
The scene that introduces Tim Curry as Darkness (or the most perfect depiction of how the Devil was described), walking out of the fireplace - absolute terror! My mom was super religious - my grandmother, whose house I first saw the movie, was secular. Similar to how my mom told me my nightly sleep paralysis was demons trying to possess me, I genuinely believed it was the actual devil in the movie (I was only 8 years old in 1985).
Religious trauma sucks. Thank goodness I caught on before the oppressive anxiety at the time became worse than the crushing jpanic attacks I deal with now.
The movie impressed me greatly when I was very young. It actually reminded me of a an animated film I saw from 1982 called The last Unicorn.
This movie amazed me when I was a kid. It was so dark. Beautiful cynematography.
I'll have to watch it again. I was absolutely captivated in the theater watching this as a kid, and the amount of atmosphere it has is truly amazing.
There were several powerful fantasy films that came out in the 80s, and this ranks among the best.
extended version is the best. Favorite movie of all time
I grew up with the American Tangerine Dreams version. Although I understand what Scott meant after watching the directors cut on DVD in 2002, I have too much of an emotional connection to the Dreams version. This film is like a recording of a primordial dream.
Grew up in the 80s and when I was kid,this movie freaked me out and I loved it. Basically,this was a young man/boy that saves the Princess and defeats evil.This was an old fairytale version of Star Wars and yes,Star Wars was a space fairytale .
I had no idea there was a director's cut of this classic. Also, that dubbing had happened, though it now explains why as a kid I thought things didn't sound right. Legend, Willow, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride - the 80s had gorgeous fantasy movies.
Love this film from beginning to end!
To this day, my favorite Tom Cruise movie. So much creativity and imagination... as a kid it really showed me that there is good and there is evil in the world.... and that you MUST take a side. If you don't, your just as bad as evil.
If you go deeper though, as an adult, it shows me that that darkness and light are not two sides of a coin, they are just the coin. There are no sides and that we all return to the source at the end.
I guess all the pun but this has some of the most legendary prosthetic work ever, the darkness is beyond beautiful piece of art : D
Legend is legit on my top 10 favorite films.Megs scene is incredible.Tim is craaaazy good!
The Tangerine Dream score makes it more magical
I own on Blu-Ray I love this movie! and the soundtrack so awesome it deserved more attention than what it received upon it's original release, the effects were ahead of there time and the costumes and sets were beautiful Legend is a great movie Mia,Tom and Tim did great I must have seen this film more than a dozen times through the years.
Great video. Loved this movie so it's awesome to see this.
I used to watch this and Top Gun back to back all the time when I was a kid. I normally HATE fantasy films (and the genre in general) but I still LOVE this movie. The original scripts are ridiculously wild compared to the finished film. A shame they never made a sequel, there's so much to this universe to explore, and Tom's star power wasn't even necessary cuz there's so many other characters they could've focused on.
Keith Richard's?? holy crap! as soon as that pic of his face from the early 80's was shown on screen I saw it. that's nuts. she did a great job.
and Meg Mucklebones was played by the same actor that played the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager? crazy.
Yup.
Robert Picardo also played Eddie Quist, the killer werewolf in The Howling.
I grew up with the US theatrical release with the knowledge there was a longer international version out there. The one that played on US television in the late 80s was different than both. I have the directors cut and it's almost like watching a completely different movie, but I love it even more. The scenes that I knew word for word had different dialog. I love watching it a couple of times a year.
I remember loving this movie as a kid/teen and watched it every time it was on TV.
I've seen so many versions of this film. I remember there was one cut, TBS I think, that the opening scene script was narrated. There was also a part where Gump asked Jack a riddle, about blue bells, and Jack had to answer right or they wouldn't help him. That's not in there either. I wish they would put out that TBS cut because it was really good.
What happened is it became a timeless classic that hold ups to this day.
I hope everyone leaves it alone.
Exactly. It is a perfect movie, and they should leave it be
One.of my kid's favorite movies. Good script. Though I do like Tangerine Dreams soundtrack best. 😊
Watch both versions. Totally kept me looking for a sequel FOR FORTY years 🦄🧚♂️
This one of my all time favorite movies. So epic!
When this first came out in limited release, I was working in a movie theater. I got to watch this several times on the big screen, with the Tangerine Dream score. Later that year I got married, and we used the Unicorn Theme by Tangerine Dream as our wedding music. It was magical.
Tangerine dream’s soundtrack is fantastic!
It's a great film, Ridley Scott is such a visionary it's definitely a more adult fantasy film. Tim Curry is a Legend himself for his performance alone. As is the FX and set designer's. I would've loved to have seen Ridley Scott direct a Bond film.
I love every version of this movie. The original is what I grew up with, but they used to play the European release on TV so I got to see it with the extended Meg Mucklebones scene and some other changes.
Now I have the Directors Cut which is what i most often watch when I rewatch the film now.
I just love this movie. It's very special to me
I love the extended Meg Mucklebones scene, what a genuinely creepy look creature she was.
@LetsGetitBoah that line, "I hope the rest of you is as sweet as your tongue Jack" never fails to creep me out
This one's a masterpiece ❤ Especially the soundtrack. If the studio had caught fire nowadays just call Jeff goldblum or Jamie foxx😂
Which soundtrack ??? There are 2 different ones.I personally love love LOVE the tangerine dream one.
I wasn’t expecting such a positive review. I know it’s been much reviled. I have good memories of watching it on TV in 1989, dubbed in Portuguese. I still gotta see the director’s cut with the original voices.
Still one of my favorite childhood movies
Imagine if this was made today, it would be just a mess of CGI effects. This film a masterpiece of costume/makeup. Tim's face is so well blended with the prosthetics, there just isn't anything quite like it in other films. Loved the soundtrack, Is your Love Strong Enough and Loved by the Sun were fantastic along with Tangerine Dream. It does seem odd that when I mention this film nobody seems to have heard of it.
I was looking for the Tangerine Dream comment. Not ashamed to say I get misty eyed with 🎶Loved by the Sun🎶.
@@ip3887 I've never watched the version with the Goldsmith score. I loved the movie with Tangerine Dream, and I afraid than the Goldsmith score would ruin it for me.
Yes ☺️
This a gem of a film with stunning visuals. I saw it when it was first released and recall wondering why it didn't receive more attention. Glad its finally getting its due.
This film is impressive considering when it was made, I'm surprised I've not heard of this film until now, it looks awesome!
I grew up in the ‘80’s and this movie was and still is my favorite movie. And while I’ve seen the director’s cut and appreciate it, I still love the Tangerine Dream score.
To this day I swear this movie was just a fever dream I had🤣
simply awesome. whatever cut. this is my childhood and I have nothing but love for it.