![]() In the journey he enconuntered danger and a friend: Kira, another survivor of a massacre commited by the evil Skerksis, a sort of buzzard/reptile villains, that enslave and made atrocious experiments with the other sentients beings in the planet. Why did they never do anything with it? Why could they not make the only connection that seemed to him useful: applying all their knowledge to change the world? What was the point? Turned inward, away from the world, they were, Jen thought, collectors of knowledge for its own sake. It was always too slow for Jen, this labored, mannered, painstaking connection of things. It affected everything in their lives, even the ordinary business of a day-sleeping, eating, walking, talking. In their collective obsession with rituals there was something slavish about the urRu. Just that is necesary when the Great Conjuction of the three suns is about to start. Jen is a naive kid (a Gelfling) raised by paceful wise urRu in a isolated valley, that one day is given a dangerous mission without much background. So the kind of richness imagination of the world creatures is a bit missing. The book did not give more details that the film, though after all the years I just remember the basics : the rather Jekyll and Hyde scifi version of this film. This is a novelization of the film "The Dark Crystal"(1982), a wonderful film to watch made with animatronics - tech that I'm most fan. "I was born under a shattered sky," he finally got out.ĭark fairy tale about a boy raised by mistics, a land tainted, and a prophecy because there is always one, innit? There is still so much love for this story today that there are still new books being published on the subject 30 years after the film was released. There is a timeless feel to these stories which I think helps explain why both films (and obviously their stories) remain with us today even when film techniques have dramatically improved over the years. ![]() That all said the books really does capture the feel of the film and reading through the pages it all came flooding back. However what did surprise me was how dark the story got – one reference towards the end of the events in the Podling village struck me as particularly bleak. Looking back the story is pretty straightforward – but then again so are many fairy tales, it is more in the telling and the atmosphere that it is complexity and unique storyline. No wonder he chose then a dark “fairy tale” of a story inspired and coloured by the designs and illustrations of his friend Brian Froud (in fact this deluxe edition has a number of the original sketches and designs dotted through the pages as well as production notes taken from Henson’s own notes). So as different as it may have been I think given the opportunity we could have seen many more. Like Labyrinth this was a story that dramatically departed from the world of Henson’s Muppets which he is most famous for, in fact Henson made a point of experimenting and challenging the ways stories were told. ![]() Like Labyrinth I remember the film although over the years certain details and scenes became hazy (come on it was 1986). Smith is the second title taken from the films of Jim Henson’s films. Watch The Dark Crystal and I guarantee that you will spend a magic hour and a half. For anyone that stumbles across this review: Undoubtedly, as for the visual part, it is one of the best fantasy movies ever made. It has many issues in it, the biggest for sure being very clumsy dialogue, but the artistic power and visual presentation nails it that much that the movie becomes a pure work of art. Now I got to go re-watch the movie, something I will do gladly :) Overall, it was a solid novelization, it could be better, but it also could be worse, so yeah, I am not disappointed. ![]() ![]() Well, I am giving this one 4 stars rather than 3 - the ending saved it. Unlike in the movie, the Pod People part is kind of boring. Btw it is the 23rd of December 2020, and Christmas is in two days just for your information.Ī very unusual writing style, very rich but maybe, just maybe, too descriptive. Really, the movie is a prickin' masterpiece - Jim Henson style! The series is amazing too, it is just so bad we are not getting the second season (according to Netflix).Īlso, Chamberlain is a phenomenal character, prove me wrong.įinally started reading this one, hope to finish it tomorrow so I could totally concentrate on Don Quijote. I'm really excited about this one because it is based on one of my favorite fantasy movies ever. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) ![]()
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