Froud had suggested to Henson the idea of a labyrinth as a setting for the film, partly because he recognised it as symbolic of Sarah's mind due to its resemblance to a brain.

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I’ve spent so much time watching and screen capturing the ballroom scene, just trying to study those enough to get a semi-clear mental image of them. Louis Post-Dispatch's Joe Pollack wrote that Sarah's rescue of Ludo, "a shaggy behemoth", is a retelling of the fable " The Lion and the Mouse". The bottom of the bodice has 1/8″ piping with the lace over cellophane, and, though not visible, that had to have had some of the muslin lining it.According to Eric Diaz of Nerdist, "Henson’s attempt at a modern Alice in Wonderland story particularly resonated with thousands of young girls who saw themselves in [Sarah]", [160] and the rarity of girls placed in the centre of heroic adventure fantasies is one reason why "so many girls of a certain age treat Labyrinth like it's their Star Wars.

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The dress Sarah wears in her ballroom dream adorns a miniature doll on her music box, which also plays the same tune as in her dream. It looks like some of the beads that were used to make the necklace mixed with other little bits and bobs. What makes this uncomfortable isn’t the fact that Labyrinth is in part a story about adolescent female sexual awakening, but that its vision of that awakening was dreamt up by grown men and shows an underage girl drawn to a man of their age. Describing the character as "an attractively self-possessed child-woman on a purposeful journey", Michael Walsh of The Province wrote, "Sarah is a contemporary teen with a timeless appeal.When filming the live-action Cinderella movie, Lily James stood too close to a heater and burned the train of the wedding gown, and they had to scramble to make a new one! Describing Sarah as "a curiously eccentric and seriously snooty teenager", Joe Baltake of The Philadelphia Inquirer believed the film's lessons about "maturity, responsibility and the real world" are undermined by the final scene in which Sarah is reunited with her friends from the Labyrinth, "illustrating that Sarah is addicted to her make-believe world more than ever". Connelly moved to England in February 1985 in advance of Labyrinth's rehearsals, [19] and spent seven months between March and September 1985 making the film at Thorn-EMI Elstree Studios in London. Dancing with Jareth, the 15-year-old is described as feeling like “the loveliest woman at the ball” and finding “the touch of his hands on her body thrilling. Writing for The Times, Geoff Brown described her as a "bland, brattish young heroine" who "invites indifference, not sympathy".

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With the world of the Labyrinth in a deteriorating state and Jareth's powers weakening, he uses the last of his magic to jog Sarah's memories of him and the Labyrinth and attempts to entice her to create a new world with him from their shared dreams. Jareth’s costumes were designed to reference “a leather boy”, the armour of a German knight, Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, and male ballet dancers. IGN's Kayleigh Donaldson agreed with this assessment, and wrote, "The aesthetics of the film hypnotize but it’s Sarah’s victory over Jareth that we love so much. The pinkish cellophane is topped with a fabric I haven’t seen since the 80’s, and haven’t been able to track down yet.

Heather Roche of the Times Colonist wrote that the character's "perseverance in solving the labyrinth is inspiring, and sends a great message to any viewers. This gives the effect of the sleeves being ready to fall off of Sarah, yet are supported enough to still puff hugely. The Wider Worlds of Jim Henson: Essays on His Work and Legacy Beyond The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. At first I saw it only on the right side, but upon closer looking for quire a while, I was able to make out the extension on the other side.