Where can you find a girl that nurses a unicorn, a dragon that speaks like a stereotyped Chinese and an evil guy named [just in case you missed that he was evil] Coeur de Noir or Blackheart? It's all in the early draft of Legend, that overstuffed 1984 fantasy train wreck in which Tim Curry is the best thing and, shuddersomely enough, Tom Cruise without pants is NOT the worst.
The Loremistress has so obligingly given me a link to my favorite draft script of all time, that of 1984's Legend.
http://www.hundland.com/scripts/LegendOf
Enjoy!
The Rampant Bicyclist"
I don't even know where to begin with this one. Besides being 400 hours long, it's also a slag heap of cliches that are so overworn that they turn into stereotypes. And the sexual politics are PUTRID. Lili, the princess, is seen as a good character only when she is a pure, innocent virgin. The appearance of her sexuality [in a fascinating transformation and rape scene with the Baron, a precursor to Darkness] coincides with her turn toward evil. The revulsion towards women as active, sexual, desiring individuals just emanates from the page.
Go read it!
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Thanks! That was interesting. I kinda liked the begining. So is she giving birth to a demon or was it all a dream…..
that was ummmm .. I’m really glas they changed it. And the whole nurseing the unicorn is a wee bit icky.