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* WhatDoYouMean,It'sForKids?: The movie has dark themes, mild language, and some blood. Sounds of flesh ripping can be heard when Fortuna and Rukh die, the animated tree has large breasts, the harpy has three breasts with very visible nipples, and the unicorn is completely nude with only her hair covering where her nipples would be. While the film would've gotten at least a PG-13 rating today (or just a PG rating back then), it was only rated G.

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The movie has dark themes, mild language, and some blood. Sounds of flesh ripping can be heard when Fortuna and Rukh die, the animated tree has large breasts, the harpy has three breasts with very visible nipples, and the unicorn is completely nude with only her hair covering where her nipples would be. While the film would've gotten at least a PG-13 rating today (or just a PG rating back then), it was only rated G.
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* WhatDoYouMean, It'sForKids: The movie has dark themes, mild language, and some blood. Sounds of flesh ripping can be heard when Fortuna and Rukh die, the animated tree has large breasts, the harpy has three breasts with very visible nipples, and the unicorn is completely nude with only her hair covering where her nipples would be. While the film would've gotten at least a PG-13 rating today (or just a PG rating back then), it was only rated G.

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* WhatDoYouMean, It'sForKids: WhatDoYouMean,It'sForKids?: The movie has dark themes, mild language, and some blood. Sounds of flesh ripping can be heard when Fortuna and Rukh die, the animated tree has large breasts, the harpy has three breasts with very visible nipples, and the unicorn is completely nude with only her hair covering where her nipples would be. While the film would've gotten at least a PG-13 rating today (or just a PG rating back then), it was only rated G.
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* WhatDoYouMean,It'sForKids: The movie has dark themes, mild language, and some blood. Sounds of flesh ripping can be heard when Fortuna and Rukh die, the animated tree has large breasts, the harpy has three breasts with very visible nipples, and the unicorn is completely nude with only her hair covering where her nipples would be. While the film would've gotten at least a PG-13 rating today (or just a PG rating back then), it was only rated G.

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* WhatDoYouMean,It'sForKids: WhatDoYouMean, It'sForKids: The movie has dark themes, mild language, and some blood. Sounds of flesh ripping can be heard when Fortuna and Rukh die, the animated tree has large breasts, the harpy has three breasts with very visible nipples, and the unicorn is completely nude with only her hair covering where her nipples would be. While the film would've gotten at least a PG-13 rating today (or just a PG rating back then), it was only rated G.
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Added "What do you mean, it's not for kids" because that movie crossed the line on that regard.

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*WhatDoYouMean,It'sForKids: The movie has dark themes, mild language, and some blood. Sounds of flesh ripping can be heard when Fortuna and Rukh die, the animated tree has large breasts, the harpy has three breasts with very visible nipples, and the unicorn is completely nude with only her hair covering where her nipples would be. While the film would've gotten at least a PG-13 rating today (or just a PG rating back then), it was only rated G.
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* SpeakingUpForAnother: When the Unicorn, as Lady Amalthea, makes disparaging remarks about Schmendrick being "the King's poor clown", Molly takes umbrage on Schmendrick's behalf.
--> '''Molly:''' He plays the fool for Haggard, trying to divert him from wondering what you are. You do wrong to mock him.
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[[caption-width-right:237:Of all unicorns, she is the only one who knows what regret is -- [[CursedWithAwesome and love]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:237:Of [[caption-width-right:350:Of all unicorns, she is the only one who knows what regret is -- [[CursedWithAwesome and love]].]]
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That's more or less what unicorns look like in medieval art.


* MixAndMatchCritters: The unicorn. She has split hooves, legs too thin for her body, a lion's tail, and a spiraling horn. The film also gives her strangely elongated ears, eyes like a human's, a mane that is the texture of human hair if not finer, and a muzzle so narrow that her eyes are basically at the front of her head.

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* MixAndMatchCritters: The unicorn.unicorn, reflecting their depiction in medieval artwork. She has split hooves, legs too thin for her body, a lion's tail, and a spiraling horn. The film also gives her strangely elongated ears, eyes like a human's, a mane that is the texture of human hair if not finer, and a muzzle so narrow that her eyes are basically at the front of her head.
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[[VideoGame/EternityTheLastUnicorn Unrelated to the fantasy RPG game]].
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* MixAndMatchCritters: The unicorn. She has split hooves, legs too thin for her body, a lion's tail, and a spiraling horn. The film also gives her strangely elongated ears, eyes like a human's, a mane that is the texture of human hair if not finer, and a muzzle so narrow that her eyes are basically at the front of her head.
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* StumblingInTheNewForm: After Schmendrick turns the unicorn into a human being, she rises, takes a couple of unsteady steps before leaning against a tree for support. She tries to walk again a moment later, only to fall to her hands and knees.

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--->'''Haggard:''' I ''know'' you! I nearly knew you as soon as I saw you on the road, coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe; even your way of standing perfectly still -- they were all my spies! It's implied that animals can clearly see the Unicorn for who she is, too.

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--->'''Haggard:''' I ''know'' you! I nearly knew you as soon as I saw you on the road, coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe; even your way of standing perfectly still -- they were all my spies! spies!
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It's implied that animals can clearly see the Unicorn for who she is, too.
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* GloriousDeath: Mommy Fortuna is frequently warned that the harpy Celeaneo will kill her, or as the Unicorn puts it, "Your death sits in that cage, old woman, and she hears you." Mommy Fortuna, however, is already well aware. "Oh, she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that I held her. So there's my immortality, eh?" Later, when Mommy Fortuna is killed, Schmendrick regrets how it happened, but the Unicorn points out that it was the death that Mommy Fortuna wanted. "She chose her death long ago. It was the fate she wanted."
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-->'''Haggard:''' I ''know'' you! I nearly knew you as soon as I saw you on the road, coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe; even your way of standing perfectly still -- they were all my spies! It's implied that animals can clearly see the Unicorn for who she is, too.

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-->'''Haggard:''' --->'''Haggard:''' I ''know'' you! I nearly knew you as soon as I saw you on the road, coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe; even your way of standing perfectly still -- they were all my spies! It's implied that animals can clearly see the Unicorn for who she is, too.
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''The Last Unicorn'' is an animated [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film of the Book]], based on [[Literature/TheLastUnicorn the novel]] by Creator/PeterSBeagle, and animated by Creator/{{Topcraft}} for Creator/RankinBassProductions. It was produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass.

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''The Last Unicorn'' is an animated [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film of the Book]], based on [[Literature/TheLastUnicorn the novel]] by Creator/PeterSBeagle, and animated by Creator/{{Topcraft}} for Creator/RankinBassProductions. It was produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass.
Bass, seeing release on November 19, 1982, distributed by Jenson Farley Films.

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* VillainousBadlandHeroicArcadia: The Unicorn's forest is rich with greenery explicitly due to her presence inside. Haggard's Castle and its town are instead situated at the edge of a rocky, treeless precipice bordering the sea.



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-->'''Haggard:''' I ''know'' you! I nearly knew you as soon as I saw you on the road, coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe; even your way of standing perfectly still -- they were all my spies!
** It's implied animals can clearly see the Unicorn for who she is, too.
* YouCanTalk: Molly is only mildly surprised when the cat speaks ("Oh! You ''can'' talk!"), in more of a "why are you speaking ''now''" rather than "Oh my God! A talking cat!" This is probably due to the general MediumAwareness in the film. Neither she nor Schmendrick are particularly surprised or creeped out by the talking skeleton, but in that case it's probably because [[ItMakesSenseInContext the cat warned them about it earlier]].
** To be fair, even if you remove the MediumAwareness, this is a world of wizards, unicorns, and demonic creatures (the Harpy and the Red Bull). A talking cat is just par for the course.

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-->'''Haggard:''' I ''know'' you! I nearly knew you as soon as I saw you on the road, coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe; even your way of standing perfectly still -- they were all my spies!
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spies! It's implied that animals can clearly see the Unicorn for who she is, too.
* YouCanTalk: Molly is only mildly surprised when the cat speaks ("Oh! You ''can'' talk!"), in more of a "why are you speaking ''now''" rather than "Oh my God! A talking cat!" This is probably due to the general MediumAwareness in the film. Neither she nor Schmendrick are particularly surprised or creeped out by the talking skeleton, but in that case it's probably because [[ItMakesSenseInContext the cat warned them about it earlier]].
** To be fair, even if you remove the MediumAwareness,
earlier]]. Of course, this is a world of wizards, unicorns, and demonic creatures (the Harpy and the Red Bull). A talking cat is just par for the course.
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* SeriousWorkComedicScene: This is about a unicorn who leaves her forest, setting out to find the rest of her kind, pursuing vague rumors of a Red Bull, a nightmarish beast that was reputed to have driven all the others from the ends of the Earth. Before the film is over, she is turned human, confronts the Bull, and the terrible King Haggard, and falls in love, only to lose that love when she becomes a Unicorn again. But lest anyone think the film is entirely grim:
** Schmendrick the Magician accidentally brings a tree to life trying to free himself from ropes, and finds himself nearly crushed to death by bark covered MarshmallowHell.
** After Molly Grue joins the group, and Schmendrick tries to forbid it, she has to inform him that they're going the wrong way.
** After Prince Lir has cut himself peeling potatoes for the third time, Molly Grue suggests he cut away from himself, not towards.
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* MarshmallowHell: When Schmendrick accidentally converts the tree he's tied to into a sapient entity, he finds himself in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCvEL41kIQg this.]]

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* MarshmallowHell: When Schmendrick accidentally converts the tree he's tied to into a sapient entity, he finds himself in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCvEL41kIQg dailymotion.com/video/x2yeak6 this.]]
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* The pirate cat survived the collapse of the castle. In the goodbye scene afterward, you can just glimpse the cat on the back of Molly's horse.

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* ** The pirate cat survived the collapse of the castle. In the goodbye scene afterward, you can just glimpse the cat on the back of Molly's horse.
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* The pirate cat survived the collapse of the castle. In the goodbye scene afterward, you can just glimpse the cat on the back of Molly's horse.
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''The Last Unicorn'' is an animated [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film of the Book]], based on [[Literature/TheLastUnicorn the novel]] by Creator/PeterSBeagle, and animated by Creator/Topcraft for Creator/RankinBassProductions. It was produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass.

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''The Last Unicorn'' is an animated [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film of the Book]], based on [[Literature/TheLastUnicorn the novel]] by Creator/PeterSBeagle, and animated by Creator/Topcraft Creator/{{Topcraft}} for Creator/RankinBassProductions. It was produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass.
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''The Last Unicorn'' is an animated [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film of the Book]], based on [[Literature/TheLastUnicorn the novel]] by Creator/PeterSBeagle, and animated by Creator/RankinBassProductions. It was produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass.

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''The Last Unicorn'' is an animated [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film of the Book]], based on [[Literature/TheLastUnicorn the novel]] by Creator/PeterSBeagle, and animated by Creator/Topcraft for Creator/RankinBassProductions. It was produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass.
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* DramaPanes: Haggard approaches Amalthea as she stands at the window of his castle. She shouts, "Don't!" He says, surprisingly reassuringly, "I will not touch you." then asks "What are you looking at?" She replies, "The sea." [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Haggard nods and says softly, "Ah yes. The sea is always good."]]

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* WildWilderness

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* WildWildernessWhoDares: Molly asks of this to the unicorn arriving too late.
-->'''Molly:''' How dare you, how '''dare''' you come to me now, when I am this?!


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** Made strange by the fact that the soup cauldron is surrounded by plates of tacos.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Mommy Fortuna, upon seeing the harpy flying loose, knows that it will kill her and uses her last words to remind the harpy that not only was she kept captive by a mortal, she required the assistance of others to escape.

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An animated [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film of the Book]], based on [[Literature/TheLastUnicorn the novel]] by Creator/PeterSBeagle, and animated by Creator/RankinBassProductions.

In a certain lilac wood, the leaves and snow never fall. This eternal springtime is watched over, and caused by, its magical resident--a unicorn. Having never left her forest, the unicorn is surprised to overhear two hunters speaking about the disappearance of the unicorns. In fact, they believe her to be the very last.

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An ''The Last Unicorn'' is an animated [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film of the Book]], based on [[Literature/TheLastUnicorn the novel]] by Creator/PeterSBeagle, and animated by Creator/RankinBassProductions.

Creator/RankinBassProductions. It was produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass.

In a certain lilac wood, the leaves and snow never fall. This eternal springtime is watched over, and caused by, its magical resident--a unicorn.unicorn (Creator/MiaFarrow). Having never left her forest, the unicorn is surprised to overhear two hunters speaking about the disappearance of the unicorns. In fact, they believe her to be the very last.



Their quest takes them to the barren lands of the embittered King Haggard, master of the Red Bull, and his naive foster son Prince Lír. It is here that the unicorn, superior and aloof to all mortals, is [[HumanityEnsues transformed into a mere human]], taking the name "Lady Amalthea," forced to see and suffer human weakness and emotion firsthand.

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Their quest takes them to the barren lands of the embittered King Haggard, Haggard (Creator/ChristopherLee), master of the Red Bull, and his naive foster son Prince Lír.Lír (Creator/JeffBridges). It is here that the unicorn, superior and aloof to all mortals, is [[HumanityEnsues transformed into a mere human]], taking the name "Lady Amalthea," forced to see and suffer human weakness and emotion firsthand.



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* AndStarring: The opening cast roll ends "with Creator/PaulFrees and Creator/ReneAuberjonois."

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* NotSoDifferent:
** Mommy Fortuna and Haggard, it turns out.
** Celaeno invokes this on the Unicorn, calling them "sisters". The Unicorn doesn't disagree.

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** Mommy Fortuna and Haggard, it turns out.
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NotSoDifferentRemark: Celaeno invokes comments on this on to the Unicorn, calling them "sisters". The Unicorn doesn't disagree.

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