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Music Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, you welcome to Weird House Cinema.

This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick.

And today on Weird House Cinema, we're going to be talking about a childhood classic, I think, for many people roughly our age or between our ages, the 1986 musical fantasy film Labyrinth, starring Jennifer Connolly and David Bowie, directed by Jim Henson.

I was thinking this is actually our second David Bowie film, since we did previously cover Nicholas Rogues, the man who fell to Earth, a very interesting, very good, but mood-wethering film about an alien who comes to our planet on a mission to save his own from catastrophic drought, but gets derailed by our culture's infinite and infinitely absorbing

distractions like television, alcohol, and table tennis. You remember all the ping pong

in the man who fell to Earth? I had kind of forgotten about the ping pong until you mentioned

it. But that's a solid point. Yeah. So while it also stars David Bowie, Labyrinth, I think, is about as different a movie from the man who fell to Earth as one could possibly imagine.

Bowie's film career did have a lot of range.

But thinking about this actually raised a kind of humorous question for me.

Are there any similarities between the two movies? And the more I thought about it, I thought actually they're kind of humorous question for me, are there any similarities between the two movies?

And the more I thought about it, I thought actually there kind of are, especially in the overall

plot structure and the journey of the hero. Both are stories in which the hero or hero or heroin

is transported to an alien world on an originally selfless quest to save their family or a family

member from a terrible fate, but faces obstacles along the way, primarily in the form of

temptations to go off the path into narcissistic self-indulgent pursuits. So in the case of

Labyrinth, the heroine is played by a young Jennifer

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