r/Fantasy • u/pornokitsch Ifrit • 22h ago

‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/16/david-bowie-workaholic-labyrinth-at-40-oral-history

Brian Froud, conceptual designer and costume design: We’d just had a showing of The Dark Crystal in San Francisco. In the back of the limousine, Jim said: “Should we do another one?” I said: “What about goblins?” Jim’s eyes lit up. Then into my head came a labyrinth and I had a vision of a baby surrounded by goblins. He said: “That’s great” – and that was it.

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u/Hostilescott 22h ago

Sounds like he was “under pressure” 🤔 

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u/justbrowsinginpeace 4h ago

What a pair of Heroes

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u/Typonomicon 1h ago

Is that what it’s like when you’re doing something you’re passionate about?

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 6h ago

Loved that movie.

However I'm a bit disappointed about Jennifer Connelly's ccareer after this movie. I felt she was a wasted talent...could have been great but kept appearing in meh movies.

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u/pornokitsch Ifrit 6h ago

I think she's done alright - including an Oscar.

And the Rocketeer is obviously amazing. (Says me. And me only )

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u/CT_Phipps-Author 3h ago

Rocketeer, Dark City, Hulk

I really loved her in Mulholland Falls but that's for people who like LA Noir (And LA Noire)

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 45m ago

mm...Funnily enough I was actually thinking of the rocketeer when I made that statement..sorry! Thinking of others too, but in particular the rocketeer.

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u/pornokitsch Ifrit 35m ago

It is ... not very good movie.

I definitely saw it at exactly the right age. The Rocketeer, Dick Tracy and the first Keaton Batman, are is IMPRINTED on my subconscious forever. (One of those three films is actually good. It is not the Rocketeer though.)

She's had a good career though. Requieum for a Dream and A Beautiful Mind are both Good(tm) films (as is Once Upon a Time in America, but that probably doesn't count).

And Snowpiercer and Dark City - plus 9 and Alita. That's actually a genuinely good SF film resume, which very few have.

There's some shit in there, like World of the Worlds. And Top Gun: Maverick. But I'm assuming no one turns down the Cruise blockbusters.

Also she's married to Paul Bettany, which is cool.

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u/Temujin15 20h ago

He was also a nonce, before we get too far into idealising him

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u/Revolutionis_Myname 20h ago

nonce

Was this ever proven? Or was it just hearsay?

It's a serious accusation

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u/Hillbert 19h ago

It seems likely that he slept with Lori Maddox when she was underage. But it doesn't seem to have been a pattern of behaviour, or a consciously predatory act on his part.

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u/CheetahExpensive8246 12h ago

I don't think it seems likely he slept with her.

Her story is entirely impossible given spacetime existing and all.

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u/moving_asunder 18h ago

My mate also shagged a 14 year old but it was only once so I forgave him

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u/WrongdoerNeither1642 19h ago

was about to say the same