Do as I ask, and I shall be your slave.įor those of us who were around the same age as Sarah (she’s fifteen) when the movie came out, this sparked lively discussion – should Sarah have rescued Toby or should she have stayed with Jareth and ruled over the Goblin City with him? Isn’t that generous?…I ask for so little. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for *you*! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. You cowered before me, I was frightening. If he had electrical outlets, he probably wouldn’t even put those safety covers on them.Īt the climax of the film, Jareth says that he did everything for Sarah:Įverything that you wanted I have done. Escher-style stairs in a fashion that is CLEARLY not safety minded. He sends the baby crawling after a ball on a set made of M.C.He has Sarah’s memory erased so he can attempt to seduce her via magical roofie.All of which causes Sarah to be almost killed and/or made permanently stinky.And threatens to turn the baby into a goblin.And sends an under-age girl through a maze full of machines and creatures that might kill her. When Toby cries, Sarah says she wishes the goblin king would take him away.Įnter the Goblin King, Jareth, played by David Bowie. She idolizes her missing mom, resents her stepmom, and feels put upon by her father and stepmother when they ask her to babysit her baby brother Toby. She’s a bratty young teen who doesn’t want to grow up. The movie is a coming of age story about Sarah, played by Jennifer Connelly. Labyrinth is a movie featuring people and Jim Henson’s Muppets. I got down-right snotty about it for a while before I realized that I, too, have known the love of a man who is fun to fantasize about but who is a terrible, terrible person…Jareth, from the movie Labyrinth, played by the gorgeous and very, very bad David Bowie. I’ve always struggled to understand why some readers find a controlling, super-alpha hero attractive. We’re resurfacing it here to pay a small tribute to the character and person who transfixed so many of us, and we’re re-opening comments if you’d like to add yours. January 11, 2016: Here at SBTB HQ, we’re quiet and sad about the death of David Bowie, and we kept returning to this entry where we discussed Jareth, his appeal, the layers of bad boy villain and potential redemption.
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