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Legend
Various Information about the film
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The first
draft of the script was a violent and disturbing horror story. The writer
was asked to rewrite it for a younger audience, hence the dark and mature aspects of
certain moments in the film. Consequently, this film was often said to be too dark for
children (then) but too fairy-tale like for adults. |
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The wonderful
forest is completely artificial and was built on the set. Illustrator Alan Lee, most famous for his recent extensive
contribution to Peter Jackson's adaptation of Lord of the Rings, had started his cinematic career on
Legend. He had also produced 50 wonderful watercolour paintings for the 1991 illustrated version of Tolkien's
much-loved trilogy, which until the film had been the best known representations of the Middle-Earth. |
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There is a cut
scene after Jack admits his guilt. In the missing scene, the
elves cast a spell onto him, forcing him to dance until he dies
of exaustion as punishment for his
crime. However, when he claims love as the reason for his action, Gump breaks the spell
and asks his riddle. This explains why the character is suddenly unexplainably out of
breath, terrified and covered in sweat in the final version and why Gump calls him a "dancing fool". |
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In Blade Runner, also by the same director, the main character
dreams of a unicorn. This apparently out-of-the-blue dream is a clue of primary importance to understand
something about him which will only be grasped by the attentive viewer. |
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