Big Worlds On Small Screens & “Fantasy Films From the Eighties That Weren’t That Bad”—Rebecca Fisher Discusses “Legend”

~ by Rebecca Fisher

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There’s no denying that Ridley Scott’s Legend is a strange film, and not a hugely successful one either. Despite the title, it’s based more on fairy tales than legends, with a good-versus-evil conflict drawn from Christian duality and its ideas surrounding light and dark, spring and winter, innocence and corruption.

The Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry playing what is possibly the most arresting depiction of satanic magnificence ever seen in a film) wants to increase his pow...