The Last Unicorn (animation): Difference between revisions

 

The film's script was written by Peter S. Beagle himself. In July 2011, he finally got paid.

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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The animated version is held in high regard as being faithful to the text, even though significant parts of the book, such as the poetry and songs, were left out.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Intentionally, in the same vein as ''[[The Once and Future King]]'', there are references to tacos, trains, magazines, [[Child Ballad|Francis James Child's ballad collection]], etc. in a medieval-Renaissance-Arthurian-whatever age.

* [[Animesque]]: Although always intended for an English-speaking audience, the dirty work of animating the film adaptation was done by a Japanese studio called [[Topcraft]] (members of which became founders of [[Studio Ghibli]], incidentally). The anime influence on the movie is unmistakable.

* [[Anti-Magic]]: Arguably the main power of the Unicorn, which it used several times during the story, in order to destroy magical locks, turn back an enchanted tree to normal, and prevent the use of magic against her.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: King Haggard, as shown in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP3DhTq8mXg this scene] where he explains ''why'' he {{spoiler|captured the unicorns. Not from greed, or power... but because they're the only thing that makes him ''happy''}}.

 

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[[Category:The Last Unicorn]]

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