Wow, yes, Jareth/David Bowie *should* be the gentleman with thistle-down hair.
I know there are illustrations in the book, but I always saw the gentleman with Jareth's hair. There is so much of it and it has such personality. I'd never seen David Bowie dressed in clothing anywhere near the right era, however, and now the mental casting is solidified. (Sorry, Marc Warren. You were very good at being nonhuman!) Coincidentally, I have just run into this article on the making of Labyrinth which provides the following glorious quote:
Bowie said of his character: 'One feels that he's rather reluctantly inherited the position of being Goblin King, as though he would really like to be – I don't know – down in Soho or something. But he's not. His thing in life is to be Goblin King, and he runs the whole place as well as he can. And he's kind of spoiled. He gets everything his own way. He's a big kid.'
I love the idea of a reluctant king of fairy who would rather be clubbing or trying to make it as a musician. The site's a timesink, by the way. I am not sure that I agree with all of its interpretations, but the information is fascinating to me.
That CD booklet sounds gorgeous.
I just said on DW, but will repeat here because it's true: this is one of the reasons I value albums as artifacts and not just bytes on my computer. The photographs are a beautiful series by themselves.
Or shall I close my eyes and see where my finger lands?
I think any of them will serve as a starting point, but "While Bleeding" was the first one I e-mailed to people.
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I know there are illustrations in the book, but I always saw the gentleman with Jareth's hair. There is so much of it and it has such personality. I'd never seen David Bowie dressed in clothing anywhere near the right era, however, and now the mental casting is solidified. (Sorry, Marc Warren. You were very good at being nonhuman!) Coincidentally, I have just run into this article on the making of Labyrinth which provides the following glorious quote:
Bowie said of his character: 'One feels that he's rather reluctantly inherited the position of being Goblin King, as though he would really like to be – I don't know – down in Soho or something. But he's not. His thing in life is to be Goblin King, and he runs the whole place as well as he can. And he's kind of spoiled. He gets everything his own way. He's a big kid.'
I love the idea of a reluctant king of fairy who would rather be clubbing or trying to make it as a musician. The site's a timesink, by the way. I am not sure that I agree with all of its interpretations, but the information is fascinating to me.
That CD booklet sounds gorgeous.
I just said on DW, but will repeat here because it's true: this is one of the reasons I value albums as artifacts and not just bytes on my computer. The photographs are a beautiful series by themselves.
Or shall I close my eyes and see where my finger lands?
I think any of them will serve as a starting point, but "While Bleeding" was the first one I e-mailed to people.