Dueling Movies: Difference between revisions

| ''[[Legend (film)|Legend]]'' || ''[[Labyrinth]]'' || Big-budget, lavishly designed and special effects-heavy fantasies with a youthful hero/heroine and newfound fantastical companions on a quest to face off with a [[Big Bad]] and right a terrible wrong. A major plot point has the seductive, [[Large Ham]] villain (played by [[Tim Curry]] in the former, [[David Bowie]] in the latter) attempting to woo the leading lady. Both films share a cinematographer (Alex Thomson). While in the U.K. they were Christmas releases for 1985 and '86, respectively, the North American releases were but two months apart in the spring/summer of '86. || The two movies take [[Hero's Journey]] in different directions. [[Ridley Scott]]'s ''Legend'' is an archetypal, straightforward [[Fairy Tale]] with a [[Nature Hero]] saving a [[Princess Classic]] and unicorns from a villain who's effectively [[Satan]], and the fate of the world is at stake. [[Jim Henson]]'s ''Labyrinth'' is an often-humorous musical take on the [[Down the Rabbit Hole]] plot, with the [[Present Day]] heroine merely seeking to rescue the baby brother she wished away into the land of the Goblin King, and the major characters have more complex personalities and development. The former film uses prosthetic makeup for its non-human characters, while the latter uses [[Starring Special Effects|animatronic puppets]] instead. || Both films were box-office flops in the U.S., the latter only doing a little better than the former with critics, but gained cult followings on the video market. In recent years, ''Legend'''s reputation has gone up a bit thanks to a Director's Cut (the U.S. release was significantly shorter and had a completely different score), but ''Labyrinth'' has proven popular enough to spawn several [[Memetic Mutation|memes]] and an [[Expanded Universe]] in graphic novel form.

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| ''Pixels'' || ''[[Wreck-It Ralph]]''|| [[All CGI Cartoon]] about video game characters || ''Pixels'' is an expansion of a short film, and appears to be about video game characters invading the real world. ''[[Wreck-It Ralph]]'' is a Disney feature about an [[Expy]] of [[Donkey Kong]] and [[Popeye (comic strip)|Bluto]] trying to prove he has what it takes to be a hero. || Too soon to tell.