MC Escher inspired Scene from the movie Labyrinth (1986)

[@midwintersnight]

1:39 Bowie’s acting in this scene 🙌 his eyes tell it all. Jareth is watching Sarah go to all these lengths just for her baby brother, and almost entirely ignoring him. He loves her, and he wants her to love him back. He’s losing his grip on her, and it’s probably the first time he hasn’t gotten something he wanted. Bowie is so multitalented. RIP legend.

[@stevewolfe2492]

The nostalgia is so powerful here.

[@Picnicl]

I like the implied metaphor of this scene - Jareth can make supposedly impossible things real, even make an Escher painting exactly what it seems to suggest. "I move the moon and stars for no-one".

[@MunyNou]

my favorite movie, my favorite singer, my favorite artist :)

[@keithhoward4059]

I can understand that . Nice stuff . All three

[@makinseyhardcastle347]

I watch the making of this. Freaking cool how they did it.

[@MajorGrin]

where ?

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@MajorGrin kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3-yi4FnrbOMqZo

[@wyster14]

This scene is so ridiculously beautiful, especially in hd

[@SammEater]

Goddamn, the visuals aged really nicely. Now that's how you make some good fx shots.

[@mr-lucky9739]

I hate rewatching this because it makes me feel so old even tho I’m 15 but this is literally one of my most memorable movie scene

[@highstimulation2497]

imagine how I feel re-watching it, I'm 44.

[@perezosa4318]

​@@highstimulation2497 I'm 54 years old.

[@midnightmoonbeam5600]

I miss David Bowie ;(

[@rntysari]

So having nightmares with endless stairs happen to everyone else too? Thank god i am not the only one. It was heck scary

[@danwoodvine5900]

I wonder how they filmed this

[@ryandalton2834]

MC Escher also inspired The Haunted Mansion of WDW’s Magic Kingdom.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

this scene fucked me up as a kid… I actually had nightmares about such impossible staircases where you had to figure out how to escape there. Bloody awesome movie! Too bad David Bowie disowned it and felt embarrassed about it. :/

[@AndrewBrettWatson]

Indeed. We are all entitled to our opinions he perhaps more so. I think he played it well and it was a great movie at the very least because it was an adventure/fantasy movie of a very different kind and appreciable by all ages. I loved thisd McEsche-esque scene.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

It was this movie that introduced me to David Bowie for the first time. And what a great introduction it was.

[@ladyreverie7027]

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Me too. I only got into his other music because I first saw him in Labyrinth!

[@yosefdemby8792]

Did he? Where did he say that?

[@user-10021]

I thought I was the only one having those nightmares

[@indigokids88]

Love this ❤❤❤

[@tobaliciousholland12]

TOBY!!!!

[@GimEeper1]

What’s the song called?

[@AndrewBrettWatson]

Within You - David Bowie 1986

[@rebulkashatan6933]

❤😮❤

[@michaelhobbs3426]

It’s upside down how come he does not fall it’s the Crystal David Bowie Amazing

[@mysticraven7826]

Only 2 dislikes? Lol wow

[@jimhernandez7712]

No Jennifer's eyes can never be cruel. plot inconsistency i'm calling it.

[@mnomadvfx]

It's all in the eye of the beholder. What Jareth sees as cruelty is Sarah's conflict between temptation and familial obligation.

[@jimhernandez7712]

@@mnomadvfx I think, just sayin, Sarah really loves Jareth secretly, and is just using Toby to get closer to him. And she wants to be power crazed the goblin queen. Can't blame her Bowie could seduce me nd id never know or care. But love them all. And luv as always.

[@jimhernandez7712]

@@mnomadvfx and sometimes a blind man takes you by the hand and says "can't you See!?' luv as always.

[@janmed1592]

she jump like Alicia! in wonderland.

[@a.augustine1234]

Alice

[@mnomadvfx]

It is rooted in that same genre. The difference is that Alice was always asleep beneath that tree while she was enduring a boring lecture from her nanny, whereas Sarah seems to have suffered a sudden loss of consciousness ending with her collapsed on the floor downstairs. This implies that Sarah maybe afflicted by a brain disorder causing her to hallucinate everything in the film based on the contents of her room and the story she was reading at the beginning.

[@Tyln93]

MK Ultra Program!!!

[@Luissstudios]

Is a 80s

[@amadnakateh]

Yea this was released in 86

[@Jay_Flippen]

Don't smoke crack.

[@highstimulation2497]

crack wouldn't do this to a person at all, this is more lsd.

[@yosefdemby8792]

Jim Henson almost never took stuff stronger than aspirin.

[@mnomadvfx]

@@highstimulation2497 Lol no - this aint LSD unless much higher than safe doses achieve this kind of hallucination.

[@chloestewart265]

:)

[@xendarashu1254]

Pleas chek now it's Jesus song

[@mnomadvfx]

Jesus? All he had to do was walk on water - Bowie bruh was walking upside down and rearranging reality to fit what was in Sarah's head!

[@highstimulation2497]

that's not jesus stuff, it's fantasy. demonic. devilish.