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Andrew LaSane<\/strong>\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>present 11 Magical Facts About Willow<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 3. IT WAS CRITICIZED FOR BEING A COPY OF STAR WARS<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n Later in her review, Maslin continued to point of the similarities between the two films: \u201cWhen the sorcerer tells Willow to follow his heart, he becomes the Obi-Wan Kenobi of a film that also has its Darth Vader, R2-D2, C-3P0 and Princess Leia stand-ins. Much energy has gone into the creation of their names, some of which (General Kael) have recognizable sources and others (Burglekutt, Cherlindrea, Airk) have only tongue-twisting in mind. Not even the names have anything like Star Wars<\/em>-level staying power.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 6. THE DEATH DOGS WERE REAL DOGS IN COSTUME.<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n 10. JOHN CUSACK AUDITIONED FOR THE PART OF MADMARTIGAN.<\/span><\/strong> Andrew LaSane\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 11 Magical Facts About Willow.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 3. IT WAS CRITICIZED FOR BEING A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14687,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685\/revisions\/14687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n<\/span>Having thought of the two worlds simultaneously, George Lucas may have cribbed some of his own work and other well-known stories a little too much for Willow<\/em>, and some critics noticed.\u201cWithout anything like [Star Wars<\/em>\u2019] eager, enthusiastic tone, and indeed with an understandable weariness, Willow<\/em> recapitulates images from Snow White<\/em>, The Wizard of Oz<\/em>,Gulliver’s Travels<\/em>, Mad Max<\/em>, Peter Pan, Star Wars<\/em> itself, the Hobbit<\/em> saga, Japanese monster films of the 1950s, the Bible and a million fairy tales,” wrote<\/span><\/a> Janet Maslin of The New York Times<\/em>. “<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>One tiny figure combines the best attributes of Tinkerbell, the Good Witch Glinda and the White Rock Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>The big bad in the film, Bavmorda, has demon dogs that terrorize Willow\u2019s village. The dogs are more boar-like than canine, but they were portrayed by\u00a0Rottweilers. The prop team outfitted the dogs with rubber masks and used animatronic heads for close-up scenes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n<\/span>Val Kilmer famously played the role of the reluctant hero two years after played Iceman in Top Gun<\/em> (1986), but he was not the only big name to audition for the role. Davis revealed in a commentary track that he once read with John Cusack, who in 1987 had already starred inSixteen Candles<\/em> (1984), Stand by Me<\/em> (1986), and Hot Pursuit<\/em> (1987).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"