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A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves. A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves. A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.

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• April 18, 1986 (United States)
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• Apr 20, 1986
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Recent movies have created sort of a generic fantasy universe of Muppets and swamps, strange beasts and evil tyrants, damsels and heroic lads, and ancient prophecies and mythical legends. It's a world inspired by ingredients from "Lord of the Rings," the "Star Wars" movies, Dungeons and Dragons gamesmanship, tales of King Arthur and the latest gimmicks from the special-effects people.

In a movie that works, these ingredients can be exciting and delightful. "Legend" does not work.

The movie is a British big-budget, special-effects extravaganza by Ridley Scott , the director of " Alien ." It tells of a time long, long ago, when unicorns roam the Earth and the powers of light and darkness are at war. An evil prince named Darkness lives in caverns far beneath the Earth, scheming to blot the sun out of the lives of all the planet's creatures and to rule the gloom forever.

Earth itself is a sylvan place, filled with flowers and little glades and grassy clearings - but also with dread swamps and moldy fens. Young lovers can kiss for an afternoon in a bath of sunshine, but fearsome storms come up suddenly and lash the land with their fury. A race of evil little druids lives in the woods, and they spread mischief wherever they venture. Their favorite pastime is frightening the unicorns.

Into this setting come our heroes, Jack and Lili. Jack ( Tom Cruise ) is a hero whose mission in life is to vanquish Darkness and allow the sun to prevail. Lili ( Mia Sara ) is the young woman he meets and falls in love with, but she is lured into the underworld and seduced by an exotic priestess into seemingly becoming evil. Will Jack save Lili and defeat Darkness? Or will the movie end unhappily? Can we vote more than once? Let it be said that "Legend" is an impressive technical achievement. Scott is a perfectionist who takes infinite pains to make things look right.

The problem is, the world of "Legend" is itself wrong for this material. To some degree, this is a fairy tale, and it needs a certain lightness of tone, a plucky cheerfulness, to work. Like many recent sword and sorcery movies, it is so effective in rendering evil, so good at depicting the dire, bleak fates facing the heroes, that it's too dreary and gloomy for its own good.

Performances tend to get lost in productions like this. I particularly noticed how easily Cruise got buried in the role of Jack.

Here is the talented young actor from " Risky Business ," where he came across as a genuine individual, and this time he's so overwhelmed by sets and special effects that his character could be played by anybody.

Tim Curry , from " The Rocky Horror Picture Show ," makes an effective Darkness; I liked his style. But, once again, the makeup people have done such a good job with his blazing eyes and gigantic horns that, in a way, almost any actor could be lurking inside there (only Curry's sensuous lips give him away).

Despite all its sound and fury, "Legend" is a movie I didn't care very much about. All of the special effects in the world, and all of the great makeup, and all of the great Muppet creatures can't save a movie that has no clear idea of its own mission and no joy in its own accomplishment.

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Legend (1986)

Tom Cruise as Jack

Mia Sara as Lili

Tim Curry as Darkness

David Bennent as Gump

Alice Playten as Blix

Billy Barty as Screwball

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Legend is a 1985 fantasy film released by 20th Century Fox in Europe and Universal Pictures in the United States and Canada, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise and Mia Sara. Though not a very notable success when first released, it received an Academy Award nomination (for best makeup) and has since gained a cult following. This is the only fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and the only time he worked with Tom Cruise. Ridley Scott's brother - Tony Scott had worked with Tom Cruise only once as well.

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The following synopsis is based on an early 113-minute version later released on DVD as the "director's cut".

The story is set "once, long ago" in a world of unicorns, fairies, goblins, and demons. Hidden in a dark lair, the antagonist, the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) instructs his goblin servant Blix (Alice Playten) to locate the two unicorns that roam in the nearby forest and remove their horns. If the unicorns die and their horns are removed, the Lord of Darkness can ensure that dawn never again breaks, and sunshine never returns.

In the forest, Jack (Tom Cruise), a young hermit, meets with his love, Princess Lily (Mia Sara). As one of few forest dwellers allowed to locate the unicorns, Jack takes Lily to see the creatures, while followed by Blix and her two cohorts Pox and Blunder. The unicorns appear, and Lily ignores Jack's pleas not to touch them. As Lily approaches the unicorns, the goblins attack with a poisoned blowpipe dart, hitting the stallion. The unicorns bolt, with neither Lily nor Jack noticing the attack.

Jack chastises Lily for ignoring his warnings. Unaware of the repercussions of her touching the unicorn, Lily engages Jack in innocent chatter and sets a quest for Jack by throwing her ring into a nearby pond and claiming that she will marry the one who recovers her ring. Jack immediately dives off the cliff into the pond to recover it. Meanwhile, overcome by the venom, the stallion dies and Blix removes its horn. The unicorn's death causes a fierce snowstorm, which freezes the pond. Unable to locate the ring, Jack breaks through the ice and resurfaces, to find world transformed into winter with Lily nowhere in sight. Frightened by the storm, Lily returns to her village and enters a cottage owned by her friend Nell, a woodland dweller. However, she finds that Nell and her family have frozen as part of the curse brought on by the theft of the unicorn's horn. Hearing noises outside, Lily hides just in time to avoid arriving goblins, and overhears clues that explain the cause of the disaster. As the goblins ride off, Lily swears to undo her mistake.

Meanwhile, Jack meets Oona, Honeythorn Gump, Brown Tom, and Screwball (a fairy, an elf, and two dwarves). Due to Jack's great crime of allowing a human to touch a unicorn, Gump is unwilling to lend his aid. At Jack's insistence, Gump puts a difficult riddle to him and offers forgiveness if it is answered correctly, certain that Jack will be unable solve it. Much to Gump's surprise and rage, Jack correctly answers the riddle. Gump soon recovers his composure and admits defeat, and invites Jack to join his party. The group then sets off on its quest together, and they discover the lifeless stallion without its mate, its companion alicorn. Gump and Jack conclude that the alicorn must be found at all costs, and only then will the world return to normal. Jack and the fairies leave Brown Tom with the female unicorn to find weapons for Jack. Lily runs back to tell Brown Tom that the goblins are coming for the female, and tries to help him, but they are discovered by the goblins. After a skirmish, Lily and the surviving unicorn are taken to the Lord of Darkness.

Jack, who has now been fitted with armor and a sword, is happy to learn that Lily is still alive, and resolves to rescue her. The comrades overcome various obstacles to reach the Lord of Darkness' lair, where they witness the evil Dark Lord trying to seduce Lily with his charm and power. Lily seems to succumb to the Dark Lord's advances despite initial resistance, and she asks for the privilege of killing the surviving unicorn.

Jack and his friends overhear the Dark Lord tell Lily that sunlight will destroy him. Consequently they gather large metal dishes to use as mirrors, which they position around the castle in order to channel sunlight into the lair. The Dark Lord brings Lily to the unicorn, and Jack's friends encourage Jack to shoot Lily with an arrow to prevent the animal's death. Jack ignores their pleas, trusting his love. Indeed, Lily betrays the Dark Lord and cuts the unicorn free instead. Angered, the Lord of Darkness strikes Lily and she loses consciousness. Jack then appears and confronts the Dark Lord, but he is undersized and outmatched. As defeat looms, Jack plunges the stallion's horn into the Lord of Darkness' chest just as the last mirror is set in place and sunlight strikes the Dark Lord, destroying him.

Jack tries to revive Lily, but she remains asleep under a spell. Jack dives into the pond and recovers the ring. As Jack slips the ring onto Lily's finger, the Princess awakens. Lily then removes her ring and gives it to Jack, and invites him to return the next day. She returns home, and as Jack runs off into the sunset, Gump, Oona, and the rest of the group, including both unicorns, wave goodbye to Jack, the quest now concluded. The film (as seen in the U.S.) ends with the Lord of Darkness laughing one last time, indicating his statement that darkness cannot be completely destroyed - it always exists to counterbalance light, until the two merge into one, transcending the bounds of duality.

Production [ ]

The film was written by William Hjortsberg and produced by Arnon Milchan, but the behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film is in itself a legend. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios using the 007 Stage, named after, and used for many James Bond films. Part-way through the filming the stage burned completely to the ground forcing the producers to finish the film on hastily completed sets. The film then failed in test screenings: test audiences complained about Jerry Goldsmith's score and of how teenage audiences might accept the film.

The film was first released in Europe, cut down to 94 minutes. Both Universal and Scott decided to cut the film drastically for American release, from nearly two hours in length to 89 minutes. They also replaced Goldsmith's score with music by Tangerine Dream, Yes leader Jon Anderson, and Bryan Ferry. Scott allowed Goldsmith's score, which he thought was "good", to remain on European prints.

Also, an alternate ending (as eventually used in the 1986 U.S. version) was made in which Gump puts the horn back on the dead unicorn and it came back to life and finally, Jack and Lily run off into the sunset together, with Gump, the Unicorns, and the others waving at them. The final scene shows the Dark Lord laughing in his new domain and he will come again when darkness covers the world.

Soundtrack [ ]

Songs in the film [ ].

The following songs were seen in the European and Director's Cuts, with lyrics composed by John Bettis (composer of many Carpenters songs) and music by Jerry Goldsmith:

• "My True Love's Eyes" (the main theme, sung mostly by Lily. Mia Sara provided some of the singing, while session singers provided vocals wherever Sara was unable to perform).
• "Living River" (the first reprise of "My True Love's Eyes", sung as Lily calls to the unicorn).
• "Bumps And Hollows" (sung by Lily after her forbidden act of touching a unicorn).
• "Sing The Wee" (the theme for the fairies. The first sung version was cut from all editions of the film as it accompanied a scene with Jack and the fairies that was itself cut; the final sung version by the National Philharmonic Chorus is heard over the end credits).
• "Reunited" (the final reprise of "My True Love's Eyes", sung by Lily as she says goodbye to Jack).

The following songs appeared in the 89-minute U.S. recut when it was rescored by Tangerine Dream:

• "Loved By The Sun" (music by Tangerine Dream, lyrics written and sung by Jon Anderson, leader of the group Yes).
• "Is Your Love Strong Enough" (written and performed by Bryan Ferry over the U.S. print's end credits).

Film Score [ ]

Due to the changes in the film from its European and American releases, Legend has two different soundtracks. The first, produced and composed by Jerry Goldsmith, was used for its initial European release and restored in the director's cut edition of the Region 1 DVD release. The second soundtrack features music by German electronic artists Tangerine Dream and was used for the initial theatrical and home video releases in the United States. This soundtrack also includes songs by Jon Anderson of Yes and Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music. Both soundtracks are available on CD, though the Tangerine Dream soundtrack has become harder to find.

A promotional music video (presumably for the U.S. market, where the Tangerine Dream soundtrack was used) was created for the Bryan Ferry song "Is Your Love Strong Enough". The video, which incorporates Ferry and guitarist David Gilmour into footage from the film, is included as a bonus on disc 2 of the 2002 "Ultimate Edition" DVD release.

Release [ ]

When Universal released the home version, the running time was extended at 94 minutes. Though the score of the film was not Jerry Goldsmith and still retained Tangerine Dream's musical score.

In 2002, Universal released a 113-minute "director's cut" on DVD restoring previously cut scenes, and the original Goldsmith Score. In creating the director's cut edition, producer Charles de Lauzirika turned to Legend fan and unofficial historian Sean Murphy, who runs the Legend FAQ and Terry Rawlings, the editor of Legend, for help in finding the footage for the Ultimate DVD creation.

Definitive Cut [ ]

Ridley Scott admits that comments made by some pot-smoking attendees at a screening got the director second-guessing himself, and influenced him to cut the film from 150 minutes to 98. Suggesting that there is atleast a 150 minute version of the film itself though such cut has never been released to the public.

External Links [ ]

• Legend at Internet Movie Database
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• "'Legend' is not without whimsical touches, but it surely could have used more humor and invention"  Kevin Thomas : Los Angeles Times
• "A fairytale produced on a grand scale, set in some timeless world and peopled with fairies, elves and goblins, plus a spectacularly satisfying Satan. At the same time, the basic premise is alarmingly thin"  Variety
• "The mythology of 'Legend' isn't easy to follow (...) [It has] sets that keep the eye busier than the mind or the heart"  Vincent Canby : The New York Times
• "[It] is an impressive technical achievement (...) The problem is, the world of 'Legend' is itself wrong for this material (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"  Roger Ebert : rogerebert.com
• "There is something strangely alluring about its confluence of chaos and creativity (...) Unfortunately, whichever cut you watch, you are still presented with a clichéd, hackneyed story"  Michael Leader : Den of Geek
• "Beautifully shot and designed (...) the film lacks the narrative drive that propels Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings"  Tom Charity : Time Out
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In a fantastical forest, the pure-hearted Jack takes Princess Lili to watch the unicorns. But the Lord of Darkness captures the Princess and the unicorns, plunging the world into everlasting night. Jack must descend into the devilish creature’s underground lair to save the kingdom and his true love.

Three years after his iconic Blade Runner , prolific British filmmaker Ridley Scott directed this high-budget, special-effects extravaganza starring acting duo Tom Cruise and Mia Sara. A cherished cult movie, Legend is a gorgeously designed adventure into the most fantastical of universes.

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Blu-ray Review – Legend (1985)

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Legend , 1985.

Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, and Cork Hubbert.

Fans of Ridley Scott’s Legend will want to get their hands on Arrow Video’s handsome new Blu-ray release as soon as they can. In addition to including the U.S. theatrical and director’s cuts, along with new bonus content added to the extras that were ported over, Arrow threw in a nice square-bound book, a poster, and some image cards. Highly recommended.

Ridley Scott’s Legend is one of those films, like so many in the science-fiction and fantasy genres during the 1980s, that underperformed at the box office but later found an audience on home video. Starring Tom Cruise as Jack O’ the Green and Mia Sara as Princess Lili, Legend is Scott’s vision of a traditional fairy tale: Jack must stop the Lord of Darkness from killing two unicorns that live in the forest near his castle and plunging the world into a frigid eternal darkness.

The story opens with an almost Disney-esque feel, as Jack and Lili frolic in the woods and Lili sings to the creatures around them, including the unicorns. However, the film takes a dark turn as Darkness obtains one unicorn horn and strives to get his hands on the other one, kidnapping Lili in the process. Jack sets out to free her with help from some local elves, making his way through a deadly swamp and then entering Darkness’s forbidding castle.

In the 36 years since its release, Legend has become a cult favorite, not just among Ridley Scott fans but also with those who also love Labyrinth , The Dark Crystal , Willow , and other 80s fantasy movies. When I look at the director’s filmography, I’ve always found Legend to be a bit of an oddball entry, given his penchant for more uniformly dark material like Blade Runner and Alien , but it’s still a solid movie that holds up decades later.

Given the film’s cult status, Arrow Video has brought it to us in a new two-disc Blu-ray edition that also includes physical content, which is a nice touch. Arrow and Criterion are the only companies these days adding physical materials to their releases on a consistent basis, and it’s much appreciated by those of us who like to stock our literal shelves with movies, not just our digital ones. (Unfortunately, neither company has the licensing for digital codes, like the major studios do these days.)

The physical goodies include a square-bound book, a poster, and some image cards. The book features a mix of current and archival essays that give a nice overview of thoughts about the film today and when it was released. There’s also an interview with Charles de Lauzirika, who supervised the creation of the Director’s Cut of the film for its initial 2002 release on DVD.

The Director’s Cut of the movie is included here, but it’s the version that was approved by Ridley Scott for the 2011 Blu-ray release of the movie. The booklet also includes text introductions for the Director’s Cut and the U.S. theatrical version (included here too) that were written by the director in 2011. The theatrical version was restored by Arrow for this release – both versions of the film looked beautiful on my setup, complete with an adequate amount of grain, so I imagine fans of the film will be very happy with this edition.

Moving on to the new bonus material, the big one is a commentary track for the U.S. theatrical version by author Paul M. Sammon, who has written, among other books, Ridley Scott: The Making of His Movies . If you’ve heard any of his commentary tracks on other films, you know that he comes prepared to talk about all of a movie’s nooks and crannies, digging deep into everything from making-of information to its place in history.

Each version of the film occupies its own disc, with a batch of extras, and the U.S. theatrical version platter has a new 30-minute documentary called Remembering a Legend , which has interviews with grip David Cadwallader, production supervisor Hugh Harlow, costume designer Charles Knode, actress Annabelle Lanyon (Oona), camera operator Peter MacDonald, set decorator Ann Mollo, and draftsman John Ralph. Those are job titles you don’t normally see in bonus features, so it’s nice to hear from people who put in long hours on movies and aren’t usually asked to sit down in front of a camera to share their experiences. I hope more home video releases take that approach with some of their bonus content.

Arrow also commissioned a new 20-minute visual essay, Incarnations of a Legend , that’s narrated by critic Travis Crawford. It’s a good primer on the different versions of the movie, which actually also include a European cut that was slightly different from the U.S. one and isn’t included here.

The rest of the extras on the U.S. theatrical version disc were ported over from past releases and include:

• The Music of Legend (28 minutes): A two-part featurette that looks at the movie’s competing scores by Jerry Goldsmith (the Director’s Cut) and Tangerine Dream (the U.S. theatrical version), which is probably the most well-known example of a film that has two very different scores to choose from.
• The Creatures of Legend (27 minutes): Another two-parter that looks at the movie’s make-up effects, which predated the CGI era and thus had to be done physically.
• The Directors: Ridley Scott (58 minutes): A 2003 documentary that focused on the director’s career up to then, with comments from Harrison Ford, Andy Garcia, Brad Pitt, Scott himself, and others.

When Legend aired on TV, a voice-over narration was added to the theatrical cut that reads the opening scroll, and that’s included here as a bonus feature too, along with Bryan Ferry’s “Is Your Love Strong Enough?” music video. Remember when MTV was primarily a music video station? Good times.

Moving on to the Director’s Cut disc, nothing new was created for it among its bonus content. The main extra is a commentary track by Scott, who clearly came prepared to discuss the making of the film as it unspools before him. Great stuff. The other extras on this platter include:

• Creating a Myth: Memories of Legend (51 minutes): This is a comprehensive making-of documentary that charts the movie from Ridley Scott’s earliest ideas to its underwhelming release and its later resurgence on home video.
• Archival featurette (9.75 minutes): This is one of those old school featurettes that film studios created way back when to pitch their movies to theater chains and the media. Arrow sourced this from a VHS copy, complete with all the flaws inherent in such a process, but it’s worth watching to step into the Wayback Machine and pretend it’s 1985 again.

Two lost scenes, alternate versions of footage, the first draft of the screenplay and the shooting script (available as text on the screen), trailers and TV spots, and image galleries round out the platter.

Overall, this is a must-have for fans of the film. There’s been some chatter online about the lack of a 4K release for this one, but Arrow has explained that there are technical and bureaucratic reasons why it’s not possible to issue Legend on 4K right now.

Flickering Myth Rating  – Film: ★★★ / Movie: ★★★

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• Bryan Ferry "Is Your Love Strong Enough" Music Video
• Photo Galleries

Product details

• Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.6 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches; 3.2 ounces
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 42927968
• Director ‏ : ‎ Ridley Scott
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 54 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ October 11, 2016
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
• Producers ‏ : ‎ Arnon Milchan
• Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (DTS 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01K4EU7SQ
• Writers ‏ : ‎ William Hjortsberg
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
• #5,747 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
• #10,341 in Action & Adventure DVDs

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