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Legend
Legend is a 1985 American epic dark fantasy adventure film directed by Ridley Scott, written by William Hjortsberg, and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert and Annabelle Lanyon. The film revolves around Jack, a pure being who must stop the Lord of Darkness who plots to cover the world with eternal night.
Plot
In order to cast the world into eternal night, the Lord of Darkness sends the goblin Blix to kill the unicorns in the forest near his castle and bring him their horns. Told by Darkness that the best bait is Innocence, Blix and her colleagues Pox and Blunder follow Princess Lili as she visits her forest-dwelling paramour, Jack in the Green. Jack teaches Lili to speak to animals, then takes her blindfolded to a forest stream where the unicorns frolic. When Lili holds out her hand to touch the stallion, Blix shoots him with a poison dart from her blowpipe and the unicorns flee. Jack is angry, but Lili laughs off his concern and issues a challenge by throwing her ring into a pond, declaring she will marry whoever finds it. While Jack dives in after the ring, the goblins track down the poisoned stallion and sever his horn, causing winter to descend. Lili runs off in terror, and Jack is barely able to break through the surface of the now-frozen pond.
More details
author | William Hjortsberg |
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contentLocation | http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/f1419658a82e4855de72c1794e9a2d48 |
director | Ridley Scott |
editor | Terry Rawlings |
events | conflict between good and evil innocence purity rescue |
genre | adventure fantasy |
keywords | attack blowgun blowpipe different worlds dwarf elf fairy forest elf goblin hag jack in the green laugh mare mourn ogre poison poison dart prison cell run slay stallion survive their horns their way track down true love unicorn unicorn horn will-o'-the-wisp |
musicBy | Jerry Goldsmith |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling |
producer | Arnon Milchan |
productionCompany | Embassy International Pictures N.V. |
publisher | 20th Century Fox Universal Pictures |
recordedAt | Pinewood Studios |
theme | dance romantic fantasy |