Naia and her father volunteer, but her dad gets injured by a rampant swamp beast barely a day’s journey out of the village. If he doesn’t show up for trial, then someone from his family must defend him instead. Before you can say “princess looking for adventure,” a soldier from the distant Vapra tribe says that her brother, Gurjin, left his post at the Castle of the Crystal and now the Skesis are branding him a traitor. The Gelfling girl Naia lives in the Sog Swamp, and she’s the daughter of the tribal leader. A website explaining every possible facet of the Crystal’s world of Thra. Now, over thirty years later, the Jim Henson Company searched the globe for a writer that could write a new chapter into the Dark Crystal’s mythos and maybe just make it a little bit richer. Any artist that sticks to the same path long enough digs himself into a rut. Henson had to convince other people to see the same vision, and that isn’t easy. It is a scary, strange movie and I imagine to anyone that saw it way back in ’82 probably wondered what they were looking at, but that’s the price of being a visionary filmmaker. I grew up on the Dark Crystal, and I love it to this day (I love Labyrinth more, but that’s beside the point), and yet I can see why some people are hesitant around it. This one had its own philosophy and mysticism, but no familiar landmarks or historical set pieces, or even normal humans in it. In 1982, Jim Henson broke his own mold of a “maker of children’s TV shows” by making a fantasy film, and not just any fantasy film.
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