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Coloring Games . You won't have to worry about coloring outside the lines in these cool coloring games! In fact, with more colors than a box of crayons, you can create any image exactly the way you want! We give you the blank black and white image, and you fill in the vibrant colors and turn those empty slates into vivid, vivacious, brilliant masterpieces!
The Last Unicorn (film)
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The Last Unicorn is a 1982 American animated fantasy film directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and featuring the voices of Alan Arkin. Jeff Bridges. and Mia Farrow as the Unicorn. The film was produced by Rankin/Bass for ITC Entertainment. and animated by Topcraft. Based on the novel The Last Unicorn written by Peter S. Beagle. who also wrote the film's screenplay, the film is about a unicorn who, upon learning that she is the last unicorn in the world, goes on a quest to find out what has happened to the others of her kind.
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Plot [ edit ]
In an enchanted forest, a unicorn learns she is the last of her kind; a butterfly reveals that a demonic animal called the Red Bull herded her kind to the ends of the earth. Venturing into unfamiliar territory beyond the safety of her home, the Unicorn journeys to find them and bring them back.
The Unicorn is captured by the witch Mommy Fortuna, and is put on display in the witch's Midnight Carnival. She makes friends with Schmendrick, an incompetent magician under the services of Mommy Fortuna. While most of the attractions are normal animals with a spell of illusion placed on them (like a Manticore being a toothless lion, a Satyr being a crippled chimpanzee, and the "Midgard Serpent " being a mere snake ), Fortuna has also captured the immortal harpy Celaeno as well. With the help of Schmendrick, the Unicorn escapes, and in the process frees Celaeno, who kills Fortuna and her henchman Ruhk. The Unicorn and the wizard later gain a second traveling companion, Molly Grue, the careworn lover of bandit leader Captain Cully.
When the Unicorn nears the seaside castle of King Haggard, supposed keeper of the Red Bull, she encounters the animal, which turns out to be a monstrous fire elemental. At the last moment before her capture, Schmendrick's unpredictable magic transforms her into a human woman with white knee-length hair. In this guise the Red Bull is uninterested in her and departs. The Unicorn suffers tremendous shock at the feeling of mortality in her body. While Molly wraps the Unicorn's human form in a blanket, Schmendrick states that the magic chose the form and not he and promises that he will return her to normal after the quest is complete.
Schmendrick, Molly Grue and the now-human Unicorn proceed to King Haggard's castle. Haggard is at first unwelcoming, and Schmendrick introduces the Unicorn as his niece, Lady Amalthea. Schmendrick requests that the three of them stay there as members of Haggard's court, only to be told that the only occupants of the castle are Haggard, his adopted son Prince Lir and four ancient men-at-arms. Haggard consents to lodging the trio, replacing his more competent on-call wizard, Mabruk, with Schmendrick, and setting Molly Grue to work in his scullery .
Amalthea begins to forget her identity and her reasons for coming to the castle, and falls in love with Prince Lir. Caught in her newfound emotions, she struggles with thoughts of abandoning her quest for the sake of mortal love. Haggard confronts Amalthea in private conversation, hinting at the location of the unicorns, yet from the waning magic in her eyes, he has doubts regarding his previous suspicions that she is more than she seems. Molly learns the location of the Red Bull's lair from a talking cat.
Molly, Schmendrick and Amalthea are joined by Lir as they enter the bull's den. Schmendrick reveals Amalthea's true identity to Lir after explaining what they are looking for. Lir is unmoved and says that he loves her anyway. This makes Amalthea want to abandon the quest and marry Lir, but Lir dissuades her. The Red Bull appears, but is no longer deceived by Amalthea's human form and chases after her. As Lir struggles to protect her, Schmendrick turns Amalthea back into the Unicorn, but she is unwilling to leave Lir's side. The Bull drives her toward the ocean, just as he earlier drove all the other unicorns, but she manages to run away and the Red Bull gives chase. Lir tries to defend her, but is killed by the bull. Enraged, the Unicorn turns on the Bull and forces him into the sea. Carried on the white surf of incoming tides, the other unicorns emerge en masse from the water, causing Haggard's castle to collapse into the sea as they rush past, with Haggard falling to his death.
On the beach, the Unicorn magically revives Lir before departing for her forest. Schmendrick assures Lir that he has gained much by winning the love of a unicorn, even if he is now alone. The Unicorn briefly returns to say goodbye to Schmendrick, who laments that he has done her wrong by burdening her with regret and the taint of mortality. She disagrees and thanks him for having helped to restore unicorns to the world; though she is the only unicorn to feel regret, she is also the only unicorn to know love. Schmendrick and Molly watch the Unicorn depart for her home in the woods.
Cast [ edit ]
Mia Farrow as the Unicorn / Lady Amalthea, the titular "last unicorn" who, in her search for the other unicorns, is transformed into a young woman and learns about regret and love.
Alan Arkin as Schmendrick, a magician who accompanies the Unicorn on her quest to find others like her. Beagle commented that he was a bit "disappointed" by the way Alan Arkin approached the character because it seemed "too flat". [ 3 ]
Jeff Bridges as Prince Lir, King Haggard's adopted son who falls in love with Lady Amalthea. Although he is later told by Schmendrick that she is a unicorn, his feelings for her remain.
Tammy Grimes as Molly Grue, the love of Captain Cully who joins Schmendrick and the Unicorn. While explaining that there was no particular reason that he did not write a detailed background for Molly Grue's character, Peter S. Beagle stated that he has "always been grateful" to Grimes because she "brought such vocal life to the character that she covered things I didn't do." [ 3 ]
Robert Klein as The Butterfly, the creature that gives the Unicorn hints as to where to find the other unicorns.
Angela Lansbury as Mommy Fortuna, a witch who uses her illusory magic to run the Midnight Carnival, which showcases mythical creatures that are, in truth, just normal animals. Later, the harpy Celaeno, one of the two real mythical creatures, kills her and her henchman, Ruhk.
Christopher Lee as King Haggard, the ruler of a dreary kingdom who has never been happy, save for when he looks at unicorns. Beagle described Lee as "the last of the great 19th Century actors, and either the most-literate or second-most literate performer I've ever met." [ 4 ] When Lee came in to work, he brought his own copy of the novel wherein he took note of lines that he believed should not be omitted. [ 5 ] Lee, who is fluent in German. also voiced King Haggard in the German dub of the film.
Keenan Wynn as The Harpy Celaeno. a real harpy that was captured by Mommy Fortuna, freed by the Unicorn, and kills Mommy Fortuna and Ruhk out of vengeance for trapping her, the Unicorn and the other animals
Wynn also voices Captain Cully, the leader of a group of bandits.
Paul Frees as Mabruk, King Haggard's court magician who is replaced by Schmendrick.
Rene Auberjonois as the Skull that guards the clock that serves as an entryway into the Red Bull's lair. Beagle praised Auberjonois' performance, saying "he could have played any role in that movie and I would have been happy. He's that talented." [ 4 ]
Brother Theodore as Ruhk, a hunchback who works for Mommy Fortuna. He, along with Mommy Fortuna, is killed by the Harpy Celaeno.
Don Messick as the Cat that gives Molly Grue clues regarding the whereabouts of the Red Bull's lair.
Nellie Bellflower as the Tree that speaks and falls in love with Schmendrick after he accidentally casts the wrong spell on it.
Edward Peck as Jack Jingly, Cully's Men
Jack Lester as Hunter #1, Old Farmer, Cully's Men
Kenneth Jennings as Hunter #2, Cully's Men
Production [ edit ]
Peter S. Beagle stated that there had been interest in creating a film based on the book "early on". Those who expressed interest included Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez. though Beagle had been convinced by one of their partners' wives that they were "not good enough", and former 20th Century Fox animator Les Goldman. At the time, Beagle believed that "animated was the only way to go" with regard to the film, and had never thought of making it into a live-action film. Rankin/Bass had been the last studio that the film's associate producer, Michael Chase Walker, approached, and Beagle was "horrified" when he was informed that they had made a deal with Walker. Beagle stated that he has "…come to feel that the film is actually a good deal more than I had originally credited", and went on to say "There is some lovely design work – the Japanese artists who did the concepts and coloring were very good. And the voice actors do a superb job in bringing my characters to life…" [ 3 ]
While Rankin/Bass provided the film's dialogue and story based on Beagle's work, the animation was done by the studio Topcraft. The studio was later hired by Hayao Miyazaki to work on Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind . and their core members eventually went on to form Studio Ghibli. [ 6 ] According to Beagle, the final film ended up being "remarkably close" to his original script, although one scene at the end involving an encounter with a princess was "animated but eventually cut." [ 3 ]
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Unicorn figurehead
HMS UNICORN . of 46 guns, was built as a sailing frigate for the Royal Navy in Chatham dockyard and she was launched in 1824.
Unicorn is now preserved as a historic ship and visitor attraction in Dundee, Scotland. She is one of the six oldest ships in the world, is Scotland’s only preserved warship and is the most completely original ship in the entire world to have survived from the golden age of sail.
Unicorn is open to the public in her berth in Victoria Dock, Dundee.
The classic sailing frigate was a fast and powerful warship, and was one of the most successful and charismatic ship designs of the age.
UNICORN is a unique survivor from the brief transitional period between the traditional wooden sailing ship andthe revolutionary iron steamship.
Step onboard this historic Warship and travel back in time to the days when Britannia ruled the waves.
Unicorn’s structure is the most original of any of the World’s large historic ships, and it is proposed to preserve the ship out of water and protected from the weather, as if about to be launched. In this guise she could look spectacular with her gilded head-rails and figurehead and her racing-yacht hull on display.
HM Frigate Unicorn – A unique venue for your Event!
• Celebrate in a magical venue: wedding, anniversary, special occasion or birthday party
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The Invisible Pink Unicorn
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The Invisible Pink Unicorn ( IPU ) is the goddess of a parody religion used to satirize theistic beliefs, taking the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink. This makes her a rhetorical illustration used by atheists and other religious skeptics.
(Source: Wikipedia, see link)
Nowadays, the Invisible Pink Unicorn has become a metaphor to depict atheists, for it is some kind of spearhead that is used as an illustration of the problem faced by atheists when asked to disprove the existence of a god by those of a religious persuasion. Due to her invisibility, the existence of the IPU is impossible to disprove, and this is doubly so due to the fact that, according to some, only her believers can see her.
In brief, it’s a key-character to point at Religion’s paradoxical, as well as sometimes nonsensical, facts.
At the same time, it is a parody of religion similar to The Flying Spaghetti Monster .
Pre-internet era: Evolution of skepticism
The concept of using offbeat metaphors to point at religious somewhat oppressive ideas and to justify the right to be skeptic about their claims isn’t new.
In the mid-1950s, Bertrand Russell. British philosopher and mathematician, was one of the first to offer a theory called Russel’s teapot as an example to assert that it isn’t up to scientists to prove an inexistence.
Here is the complete text, entitled Is There a God? . according to wikipedia:
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time
That idea of a celestial teapot. that would be reused in some contemporary works is believed to be the precursor that would be extrapoled in more straightforward parodies of Religions (including the Invisible Pink Unicorn).
Origin
The earliest known reference to an Invisible Pink Unicorn came from a 1990 Usenet group talk, in a channel called alt. atheism.
In it, someone created a topic about Proof of God’s existence (talk archived) to challenge atheist ideas.
While coming to the Christ’s ressurection subject, here’s the response he got:
Do you assert a resurrection? If so, support it with evidence. If you feel it
is the duty of others to refute the claim, and not of yourself to support it,
then how about refuting the existence of invisible pink unicorns?
(Bold added for emphasis)
Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn
According to wikipedia and other articles. during the years 1994 – 1995, a group of college students wrote a manifesto, that is now believed to be lost, on the ISCA Telnet-based BBS containing the main roots of what will further be the IPU religion.
“Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can’t see them.” -- Steve Eley
You can find all the basics concerning IPU’s “Bible” in this 2007 article:
Unicorn Dreaming
The last time I dreamt of unicorns I was teetering at the edge of the precipice of great change. The unicorns that appeared in my meditations and dreams were not the stereotypical white unicorn now depicted commonly in fantasy art, they were sand coloured ponies with black mane and tail emerging out of the desert sand of Central Australia – my holiday destination for 2005. These unicorns were playful and beautiful, they wanted to be known and shared but only now have I been able to speak of them. They invited me to paint them, to create healing cards featuring them and share them in any way I could with others. What followed my unicorn dreaming was a challenging but complete transformation on every level of my being.
When I choose to write a blog post about unicorn dreaming in response to a question posted as a comment on a previous post I realised that yet again I was moving toward that precipice facing a quantum leap to great change. There are never any coincidences of course. The necessary change had already been set in motion by goals I myself had set. Invoking unicorns to write this post was simply another part of that universal energy flowing in to assist the transition of consciousness.
Within myth and legend it is said that unicorns have miraculous healing powers and an inner light so beautiful that it turned the hearts of men towards cruelty and greed to obtain it forcing the unicorn to retreat from the physical plane into the etheric realms. It is also said that only those with an open and pure heart and mind will ever see the unicorn appear physically. Throughout history much has been said about the form of the unicorn. It may appear in the form of a goat, deer, rhinocerous or oryx. It is said to have cloven hooves that may or may not be heart shaped. The horn may be etched with a spiral pattern and appear silver, opalescent or with rainbow hues. However it appears in your dreams is significant to you. If it appears as a deer or a horse, also look at the qualities of these animals as well.
The unicorn appears to us to assist our journey upon the path of truth. If we choose to follow, it will lead us upon a sacred quest deep into our inner world where it guides us beyond the fearful thoughts that we have made to the truth and light buried beneath. Only there may we reach our higher consciousness and connect to the etheric realm where the unicorn resides alongside the fairies and devas. While it guides us upon the path that we all must travel, it also shows us how the path can be unique and personal to us.
The unicorn embodies Divine purity and gentleness but also great power and healing. It can open even the most tightly closed heart. In the Beastaries of the World the unicorn is recorded as having 3 qualities.
* it cannot be captured – although it delights in you trying
* it has a great love of solitude
* it has an indomitable spirit
Unicorn is also said to appear to the mother of a special child, having appeared to the mother of Confucius and is often depicted in Christian art with the mother of Jesus. This special child lies dormant within each of us. When one follow the unicorn and discovers its gifts, one also discovers the gifts within self. The unicorn will accompany us through the challenges of change that we may give birth to the child that is The Light of The World.
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