2020 really got me making an hour-long video essay about mortality in a 1980s children's movie about unicorns, huh?
00:00 - Intro
05:16 - Making the Unicorn
14:54 - Story Breakdown
24:20 - Memento Mori
37:09 - Deaths and Legacies
47:52 - Outro
i did a super bad job of explaining the whole "on 2s" thing so uhhh no worries if you're confused by how i explained it. anyway, here is a list of the sources i used for this video; next time i think i'll try to add in-video footnotes or something:
- "The Unicorn" by Nancy Hathaway
- "The Anti-Consolation: Boethius and 'The Last Unicorn'" by Alexandra Hennessey Olsen
- "'Two Sides of the Same Magic': The Dialect of Mortality and Immortality in Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn by Geoffrey Reiter
- "Humankind and Reality: Illusion and Self-Deception in Peter S. Beagle's Fiction" by Richard C. West
- "Innocence and Experience and the Imagination in the World of Peter Beagle" by John Pennington
- "Fantasy and Medieval Iconography in The Last Unicorn" by Noelle Taberham
- "Virgin Whore" by Emma Maggie Solberg
- "The Unicorn Tapestries" by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
-The Last Unicorn Book vs Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4Psu5k6_A