Editing Labyrinth (1986 film) (section)

==Influences==
{{rquote|right|I think what we are trying to do with this film is kind of harken back to a lot of those classic fantasy adventures that a young girl goes into: ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|The Wizard of Oz]]'', ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', and the works of [[Maurice Sendak]]. I don't mind comparisons. It's not like we are trying to outdo them. We are simply related; ''The Wizard of Oz'' and ''Alice in Wonderland'' are so much a part of us. This is the fantasy world that she (the ''Labyrinth'' heroine) has grown up with. These are the stories that have fascinated her.|[[Jim Henson]] on comparisons of ''Labyrinth'' to other works.<ref>{{cite news |first=Bob |last=Porter |agency=[[Dallas Times Herald]] |date=7 July 1986 |title=Jim Henson Up To More Tricks The Fantasy Film 'Labyrinth' |newspaper=[[The Charlotte Observer]] |page=7B |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57310690/jim-henson-up-to-more-tricks-the/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-access=limited |access-date=14 August 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200814074024/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57310690/jim-henson-up-to-more-tricks-the/ |archive-date=August 14, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>}}
[[Richard Corliss]] noted that the film appeared to have been influenced by ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|The Wizard of Oz]]'' and the works of [[Maurice Sendak]], writing that, "''Labyrinth'' lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are".<ref name="Corliss">{{cite magazine|last=Corliss|first=Richard|title=Cinema: Walt's Precocious Progeny|magazine=Time|date=July 7, 1986|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,961696,00.html|access-date=January 21, 2012|archive-date=August 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824220853/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,961696,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Nina Darnton of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that the plot of Labyrinth "is very similar to ''[[Outside Over There]]'' by Mr. Sendak, in which 9-year-old Ida's baby sister is stolen by the goblins."<ref name="Nina">{{cite news|last=Darnton|first=Nina|title=Screen: Jim Henson's 'Labyrinth'|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9a0de5dc1139f934a15755c0a960948260|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 27, 1986|access-date=January 21, 2012|archive-date=August 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809064302/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/27/movies/screen-jum-henson-s-labyrinth.html|url-status=live}}</ref> This almost got the film into legal trouble, as the similarity caused Sendak's lawyers to advise Jim Henson to stop production on the film. However, the legal complaint was eventually settled, with an end credit being added that states that, "Jim Henson acknowledges his debt to the works of Maurice Sendak".<ref>{{harvp|Jones|2013|pages=80-81}}</ref> Sendak's ''Outside Over There'' and ''[[Where the Wild Things Are]]'' are shown briefly in Sarah's room at the start of the film, along with copies of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', ''The Wizard of Oz'', and ''[[Grimms' Fairy Tales]]''.

The film's concept designer [[Brian Froud]], who had previously collaborated with Henson on ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'', has stated that the character of Jareth was influenced by a diverse range of literary sources. In his afterword to the 20th anniversary edition of ''The Goblins of Labyrinth'', Froud wrote that Jareth references "the romantic figures of [[Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)|Heathcliff]] in ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' and a brooding [[Edward Rochester|Rochester]] from ''[[Jane Eyre]]''" and ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]''. Bowie's costumes were intentionally eclectic, drawing on the image of [[Marlon Brando]]'s leather jacket from ''[[The Wild One]]'' as well as that of a knight "with the worms of death eating through his armor" from ''Grimms' Fairy Tales''.<ref name="Goblins">{{harvp|Froud|Jones|2006|pages=139–153}}</ref> In his audio commentary of ''Labyrinth'', Froud said that Jareth also has influences from [[Kabuki]] theatre.<ref>{{cite AV media | people=[[Brian Froud]] |year=2007 |title=Labyrinth (Anniversary Edition) |chapter=Audio Commentary by Conceptual Designer Brian Froud |medium=DVD |publisher=[[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]]}}</ref>

The [[dialogue]] starting with the phrase "you remind me of the babe" that occurs between Jareth and the goblins in the ''[[Magic Dance]]'' sequence in the film is a direct reference to an exchange between [[Cary Grant]] and [[Shirley Temple]] in the 1947 film ''[[The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Taylor |first=Dawn |title=Scenes We Love: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer |url=http://blog.moviefone.com/2009/05/07/scenes-we-love-the-bachelor-and-the-bobby-soxer/ |publisher=moviefone |access-date=March 3, 2012 |date=May 7, 2009 |archive-date=August 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803123606/http://blog.moviefone.com/2009/05/07/scenes-we-love-the-bachelor-and-the-bobby-soxer/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

''Labyrinth''{{'}}s "Escher scene" features an elaborate staircase set inspired by the art of Dutch artist [[M. C. Escher]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Henson|first=Jim|date=June 26, 1985|title=6/26/1985 – '(filming Labyrinth-) Escher;|url=https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/2013/06/6261985/|work=Jim Henson's Red Book|access-date=June 11, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816003628/https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/2013/06/6261985/|archive-date=August 16, 2014}}</ref> A print of Escher's lithograph [[Relativity (M. C. Escher)|''Relativity'']] is shown on Sarah's bedroom wall in the film.<ref>{{cite web |first=Joe |last=Robberson |date=20 January 2016 |title=20 Things You Never Knew About 'Labyrinth' |website=Zimbio |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Beyond+the+Box+Office/articles/lK_HPuuPNL0/20+Things+Never+Knew+Labyrinth |access-date=July 1, 2020 |archive-date=July 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704093248/http://www.zimbio.com/Beyond+the+Box+Office/articles/lK_HPuuPNL0/20+Things+Never+Knew+Labyrinth |url-status=live}}</ref>