The Dark Crystal
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The Dark Crystal is a 1982 British fantasy film directed by puppeteers Jim Henson and Frank Oz, creators of The Muppet Show. Although still marketed as a family film, it was notably darker than previous material created by them.
The Dark Crystal was produced by Gary Kurtz, whose list of credits include American Graffiti, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Return to Oz and Slipstream.
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- Jen: The prophecy didn't say anything about this!
- Kira: Prophets don't know everything!
- Jen: Wings!? I don’t have wings.
- Kira: Of course not. You’re a boy.
- Historian: Hold her to you, for she is part of you, as we all are part of each other.
- Aughra: What was sundered and undone shall be whole - the two made one.
- Jen: [reading the prophecy] When single shines the triple sun/What was sundered and undone/Shall be whole, the two made one/By gelfing hand or else by none.
- Aughra: End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good. Sometimes bad.
- Aughra: Mouldy mildew, mother of mouthmuck, dangle and strangle and death.
- Aughra: Another Great Conjunction comping up! Anything could happen! Whole WORLD might burn up!
[snorts]
- Aughra: End of Aughra! Hm!
- Aughra: Ya look like Gelfing...
[sniffs]
- Aughra: SMELL like Gelfing...
[sniffs]
- Aughra: maybe you are Gelfing!
- Aughra: Where is he? Around here?
- Jen: He's dead.
- Aughra: Could be anywhere, then.
- Jen: Where is this Aughra? How does she look like? How will I find her? "Follow the Greatest Sun for a day to the home of Aughra" ... hmph. Some directions!
- General: Chamberlin! I challenge!
- Chamberlin: Trial by stone!
- General: Trial by stone!
- Jen: Are you a Gelfing? Like me?
- Kira: [surprised] Yes!
- Jen: I thought I was the only one.
- Kira: I thought I was.
