The harpy is a immortal magical being. It was only a matter of time before she escape. Fortuna was aware of that, she admitted to the unicorn that she knew the harpy would be the death of her.

That and "Don't look back, and don't run. NEVER run from anything Immortal, it attracts their attention." You can hear it in her voice... SHE wants to run but she knows better.

Fortuna knew this, that was something she’d accepted, and saw that as a form of assuring her own immortality, of sorts. After a few generations, most humans forget past, deceased humans ever existed, and Fortuna knew she’d be forgotten by man; but the Harpy would never forget who had caged her, and would remember her forever on. Twisted but affective.

@@kiddfaith4397 "I held you" Indeed. The frustration at such a memory, of being held helpless by a mortal creature, will likely haunt that harpy forever.

Gives me goosebumps

Indeed, from a certain point of view, she acquired her immortality through this way.

There really are people like this. People who do horrible thing to others just for the sick satisfaction of knowing they'll forever be a core memory for the ones they hurt. The best punishment for those vile people is honestly just forgetting them. Nothing wounds them more than being so insignificant that they're not even worth a partial memory.

@@MistressSuki92 this is pretty much what she did. It's not that she was happy to die, but that she knew her immortality started the second she was killed.

Like the Unicorn said, it was what she wanted

@@MistressSuki92 I choose to forget them but my subconscious does not.

That is scary. Please pray and ask God for protection from these evil spirits. Don't let them have power over you. I wish you the best 🙏

See...why did you have to go and add that last part?

@@ldangerb7962 fuck god 😂

God is one of the things I want to get away from. Why would I ever want to worship a “god” who threatens to torture me if I don’t obey him? He’s evil.

there are so many haunting things like this I remember from these cartoons as a kid.

I get what you're saying, but I think that Fortuna is a good example of why human evil is so much more despicable than creatures like the harpy. The harpy is what it is, it acts according to its design. Fortuna is a human, with free will and agency, and CHOSE to be cruel and spiteful. I don't like the harpy and it's clearly an evil creature, but seeing it locked up made me pity it.

@@louthegiantcookie what a profound observation. I love the way you distinguished between the evil of the harpy as being an immortal creature who just IS, with it's nature predetermined and set in stone vs humanity that has a say in how they act and behave. And how since we have free will that the times we choose to be evil is more vile because it was a choice. But it begs the question, if the Harpy's true nature is that of an evil creature and has no choice in what it's nature is, can we really call it evil? Because for the most part among humanity evil is a choice so is the Harpy truly evil or just primal. Maybe primal is the wrong word because it has an intelligence about it. It spoke to the unicorn and is self aware to know it is magical and plead it's case for freedom. Or do you think the harpy truly is evil and had a choice even while lacking the free will and agency of humanity to be malevolent that is unique to what it is?

@@Passions5555 In my opinion the harpy is evil and is just pissed she was bested by a elderly midget

@@Passions5555 To be evil, you have to know the difference between good and evil and actively choose evil. If the harpy just act according to her nature, is she really evil?

@Éfar Isti that is the question that I am putting forth.

It doesn’t look like a harpy

The unicorn did flinch a little.

Lord if it were me in Schmendricks shoes having to slowly and calmly walk away from a grizzly double murder (or risk being a third casualty if I foolishly ran) I’d stuck to the Unicorn like gorilla glue and I’d be crying rivers and shaking like a leaf caught out in a hurricane with every step.

Well, it IS what it is. Fortuna was greedy and very sure of herself. Her arrogance got her killed and the unicorn even warned her as much.

I think it’s explained that unicorns don’t feel emotions like humans do

Fortuna did it for the same reason people have children: a form of immortality for themselves. Parents imagine they will be remembered by their offspring, but the truth is that everyone is forgotten by the fourth generation or so. What was your great, great grandmother's favorite color? You don't know, and you never will. But Fortuna died knowing that a truly immortal being will remember her literally forever. As the sun burns out, as the stars die, that harpy will still curse her, and thus remember her name.

These days, the closest thing we got to that are cigarettes and politicians.

Yeah I ended up watching this way too young I remember absolutely nothing except for the ocean unicorns, the last unicorn and the bull.

Yep, but it was definitely the skeleton scene that did it for me.

What movie is this? I’m dying to try and figure it out and watch iy

I don't know how much I respect that point of view. It really seems silly to me. All she wanted was someone to remember her with contempt? I like the idea of someone ageless becoming somewhat more removed and whimsical. Anything they do gets erased with time. I wonder if this idea comes as a result of a world where actions were less persistent. Today social media keeps all our little details in crystal clarity to be looked back on.

Andrea Pegasus Never said I endorsed her viewpoint, I was simply quoting it. No hard feelings though, just clarifying.

Soooo fucked up. Love it.

''You must never run,from anything immortal,it attracks their attention''

+Andrea Pegasus She held immortal creatures captive. So that's an accomplishment no witch has ever dreamed of so Fortuna feels a sense of life achievement.

I learned this exact thing at a young age, I don’t even think anyone taught me. Running from a stray animal (ex. a dog) will always be the worst decision. The animal literally can’t chase you if you’re not running, but some peoples flight kicks in and they can’t help it

Yeah i think it also depends on the dog, some will leave you alone if you act thought but others will take it as if you were mocking them and were a threat

Staring a dog in the eyes is a dominance thing in dog body language. If you are maintaining eye contact it could be seen as a challenge.

I was told to just not move at all and avoid eye contact, it saved my life

Education is seen as boring, and memorizing is a long and difficult process that only works with repetition and/or self motivation. Fear will haunt you, and teach you to survive any time you are afraid again. That's why we have fear, after all; to survive when our brain can't think fast enough.

If I’m not mistaken, she cares for all creatures of the forest(?) So that makes sense.

But why did the harpy want to kill the unicorn if she freed her?

@@godfirst3709 I think it was just simply part of her nature. Just like the unicorn was like a protector of life and symbol of pozitive magic the harpy was her complete oposite.

That is why I prefer the lines in this film, she says in this "set me free, we are sisters you and I"

@@eleanorhogan8643 Prefer the book, because the movie makes the Harpy Dishonest and "bad" to simplify the character for the Audience. the Book is essentially the Harpy saying "I am what I am" and the Unicorn responds in kind. Imagine as an Adult watching a Lion hunt and kill a Gazelle and the animal tracker tells you "The Lion does this because it is cruel and evil" and being enough of a simpleton to need that type of an explanation because you cannot fathom animals will do what is in there nature and it is neither good or evil, that term has no place with them.

Darth Fedor She is highly intelligent.

God somewhere be like DA FUQ U RUNNIN FO BITCH

thats a life lesson

Unicorn with the factoids.

When I was young I thought the Harpy could only see movement. I wasn't until many years later did it occur to me it's because people can't see immortals for what they are. Thus if you were to run, it's likely you saw past the magic.

Wow that's amazing but terrifying glad everything was safe for you

Actually wolves tend to leave people alone. There's actually only been 2 recorded wolf attacks in the past 150 years and both of those involved a dog with the person, and the person wasn't even harmed It's wild dogs you have to worry about.

@@Shadowtiger2564 Thank you, I actually am aware of those statistics. I live in a rural area where both coyotes and wolves are very abundant. However, I never said I was attacked, just that staying still thanks to remembering that phrase helped me keep calm.

That was lucky.

@@Shadowtiger2564 that is not even remotely true. Literally hundreds of people have been killed by wolves in recent times. mostly children in developing nations but say in the US two fatalities happened within the last 20 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks

Éfar Isti that what old depictions of unicorns were.

ah, in this case, the modern versions have brought it much closer to the horse. for some reasons.

Éfar Isti that... that is literally how a unicorn used to be depicted

If you would show a 'modern' unicorn to everyone from just a 100 years ago, they would laugh at you and think you were crazy. Honestly I hate the modern version, the only time I like it is when it is from My Little Pony. But otherwise, no. Just no.

Éfar Isti and the cloven hooves, don't forget them! That's my biggest issue with most renditions of unicorns

I will bite the hand that feeds, now feed me.

Well, she's a harpy, so she was going to behave like a harpy.

Like Mr. Dung Eater

Considering the unicorn thought she might be the last of her kind, it makes sense that she might be considering the harpy's deal. She is terribly lonely after all

@@samwiseraleigh7833 Unicorns are use to loneliness, it's their nature after all. She didn't seemed to be bothered by being alone until she learned she might be the last.

I noticed that, too lol.

Well since she was caught it held her inside not by the strength of tbe cage but by the rules of magic

I always assumed the lock was magic.

MrOrmanley It was the magic that allowed the Harpy to be free.

2:02 It's explained here.

She looks more like a giant vulture.

likely making her a grotesque gargoyle creature was a deliberate choice to desexualize the concept, since the movie is very pg.

Harpies got the Christian treatment like everything else in the religions of old or other. If it’s not defined or mentioned in the Bible, then it’s evil.

@@bethnor **the tree tho**

Yeah, now it's just a vulture with boobs. I'll give it to them, if the goal is to scare us, I would be scared of a vulture with boobs.

Using the power of friendship to turn your enemies into stone or banish them is not a nice thing to do, but it is sometimes necessary.

Nice quote Sassy but please return to the LISA franchise, it's both surprising and terry-fying that i see LISA fans in random places

@@captaindevileye3682 i ain't goin back!! you cant make me!!!

I certainly did not expect to see a lisa fan here

Did someone say friendship is magic

BrownRiceBunny1 "It attracts their attention" 0.0 woah.

Never run from anything if you don't want to be chased.

Isn't it "immoral" not "immortal"...

Thanks for the advice.

Fluffy Sheep, Watch the movie if you're confused.

I agree, and I think part of it was that the harpy just... left. The red bull, as powerful and terrifying as it was meant to be, was positioned as an antagonist, a force to be confronted and overcome. The harpy was set up as an evil immortal being of old magic that would absolutely kill the unicorn given the chance, and the only reason she and Schmendrick got away was that she wasn't going to bother looking harder for them and just flew off into the night. Gone, but only for now, and for a little kid, that meant that she was still out there somewhere.

That actually makes perfect sense because there used to be giant birds on Earth and our ancestors were on the menu.

@@Glassgothgirl No actually Humans were never really hunted by birds This is why we are really bad at looking up. I real life where we rarely want to crane our necks, we don't love having cover above us like cats and dogs. But also in the digital world, in games one thing one quickly notice when they start looking. People do not look up

@@Cerebrosum in Tribes 2 you got in the habit of looking up because everyone had jetpacks

I think that is a good theory.

That's literally in the book. Fortuna straight-up says that the harpy will never forget her because she had successfully caged the harpy. And existing in the memory of an immortal creature is a type of immortality itself.

I can see that I suppose

"Free her!" "What? And leave show business?"

She outright says it herself

You might like the harpies drawn by Paperiapina (I'll try linking their art, but yt might not allow it)

​@@GandalfTheTsaaganI'd say just sharing the name is more than enough. We can start our own research from there. Thanks, mate! 👍

I thought Harpies were half woman and half bird. but this one seems to be all bird. Like a giant evil turkey.

The real Celaeno is more beautiful than any woman you have ever seen

those are serious boobies. and yep, this film at 7 shaped my life. I love the America soundtrack, I weep..jeeeez

that makes 2 of us

+Sarah Dunning make that 3 and chances are the numbers will keep growing. Heh I actually showed this to my younger cousin

Ashley Iglesias my 7 year old sister likes this movie, but cant stand movies with less horror than this

Sarah Dunning LOL I showed it to my cousin because she really liked unicorns and to me this was to perfect opportunity to show her what a fantastic movie this was

One of the best classic fantasy stories to ever exist, in my opinion. Mythology is scary, and modern day fantasy doesn't explore that aspect of itself enough.

@@silversamurai0267 Lovecraft is one of the few that does so and even then his themes are starkly different: a vast, distant and apathetic thing that destroys simply because it IS, vs the horrors in myths that actively seek out and destroy.

@@silversamurai0267 It can be scary, but it is damn hard to have something positioned as female without it getting turned into a waifu, or at least into something with tits slapped on (...ok, non horrifying tits).

How could you forget Odo?

@@ChoppaBoy . Oh right. I haven't watched Star Trek in ages, he was the Shapeshifter in Deep Space Nine. No you couldn't forget him if you were either a Trekkie or a fan of the actor.

Actually, the voice of the harpy is Keenan Wynn. Rene Auberjonois voiced the Skull.

_You're telling me that_ CONSTABLE ODO was the voice of that Harpy?! 🤯 May he rest in peace, yo. He was a legend in more ways then one.

Not just that, he voiced Mr. House from Fallout New Vegas too

Vipere neither did I tell you pointed it out to me. Thanks a lot.

I did

I definitely did... D':

I never noticed it when I was a kid. I'm 33 now...even more surprising that this film is rated "G"?!

Three boobs to be precise

a harp with low hanging tits lmao

spooky Lilly same

spooky Lilly yep ;v;

never was my childhood wished i saw it :I

Its was like my favorite show

spooky Lilly This scene always scared me as well.

Very true. I remember watching this as a kid and knowing that despite the Unicorn's good intentions, the Harpy was still dangerous and not to be trusted.

I remember an Aesop's fable; a farmer picked up a snake which was ice cold, and put it under his shirt to warm it up. When the snake could move again, it bit the farmer, poisoning him with deadly venom. When the farmer asked the snake "Why did you bite me after I saved you?" it responded, "It's in my nature, after all I am a snake."

Janet Kazarowski Funny was just going to say the frog and the scorpion.

I love how it shows doing good purely for goodness' sake, not doing good expecting gratitude or a reward. The unicorn knew it was unwise to set the harpy free, but she did it anyway and was ready to handle the consequences of doing what she believed was right.

Darth Karnis yes and as Fortuna pointed out the harpy only escaped bc the unicorn set her free and not by her power something that resonances with the Celaeno

when Celaeno said to the unicorn you are sisters you and me it her saying it out of respect and knowing they are the same race of the possible last

That last line about "Arachne" after Fortuna's carnival fell still haunts me.

@@MonstrousRegiment is Arachne in the book? I don't remember in film

@@AXELcreepMANIA Yes. She wasn't in the film. Mommy Fortuna had two extra beings in the last rings of the carnival. One was herself standing in as Elli, the Norse personification of old age, but another was a simple spider that fell hard for Fortuna's illusions and actually *believed* she was Arachne, spinning galaxies in her webs. The unicorn seemed to feel pity for her, believing what she wasn't, and her calls to the spider that reality was better went unheeded. When Fortuna dies and the Harpy goes free, all the other animals escape of course, but as Schmendrick and the unicorn walk away, the sound of the spider's weeping fades in the distance. It kinda bookends the unicorn's struggle with her brief mortality in a sense, the other side of that coin being that you tasted what you thought was immortality and limitless potential, but it was just a warped dream.

This scared kids

@@robertbreschard3493 All Dogs Go To Heaven / Land Before Time ... TLU = honorary Bluth

Shiranova nowadays theyd censore it...

I was always more confused that she has 3 instead of 2.

Saaaame

i mean, it would look silly with a bra

Bc it was a harpy. A creature, like a cow with udders. And yet, also a mockery of the feminine in a way.

yeah I didn't notice that either, I noticed it this time around

Alan Morris 5to

It literally took me like 15 years to figure out why I have a returning nightmare of a really big monstrous looking eagle in the woods that can somehow find me by having a frenzy on an old lady, until I saw this again. People say they never noticed as a kid how unsettling it is. Well for me this whole movie always got me horrified but at the same time I was so amazed by it. Must have watched it like a hundred times as a kid. Like other movies/series that gave me that same feeling...The Land Before Time, Watership Down, The Animals of Farthing Wood, some intense parts of Fantasia. It was all so damn disturbing but so good as well.

Really TearStreakedPhoenix? That didn't happen with me

In Ancient Greek Polytheism, harpies were believed to be wind spirits sent by Zeus to punish evildoers. So they're naturally supposed to be scary

Really? I watched this and Flight of Dragons hundreds of times as a kid.

And to think, Harpies are known to lie down with men. That is just creepy --- that they are meant to target a whole half of humanity like that. Of course the film creators knew this because no-one does not know it.

@@thegrimmretails3777 Flight of dragons is good...I love rankin bass movies

When I babysat I watched a 4yo girl who would only watch this or the Land Before Time

*she all harpys are female

You're wrong, the harpy was trapped and used as a spectacle and abused for so long, trapped in her hatred she repeated the only kind words she heard in so long. "We are sisters you and I". The unicorn said they were and the harpy blind with rage and hatred attacked any and all who moved including her saviour. She was blinded by the ages of abuse Mommie Fortuna had put her through and could no longer tell friend from foe. Not to mention she was probably starved adding to her abusive situation. All beasts in that carnival were abused including the unicorn upon her short encounter with the witch. Demons are not to blame for everything the witch was human and in her human nature committed evil that would eventually demand feeding. And the harpy fed. And eventually she will return to whence she came and recuperate becoming her old self though predator she would remain. Just because she's a predator does not mean she's a demon. She only did what came to her naturally being starved and abused the way she was. She was entitled to her vengeance and sadly the unicorn and the wizard were in the cross hairs of her burning anger.

In case you didn't know, it actually WAS a man doing the Harpy's Voice. René Auburjonois, better known as the Ancient Vampire Janos Audron from the Legacy of Kain Videogames. Creepy Eh?

+elizabeth ann o'connell oh i remember rene from star trek ds9 as odo lmao

GreenCookieWolf AJ. I remember the show but I wasn't a frequent watcher of it, who was Odo? Was he the Shape Shifter?

Bluedragon094 NOOOOOOOOH THE UNICORNS!!!!!!!

I DON'T THINK SO! .jpg

... Just don't drink it near the sea...

Not for no reason. Because it's true. You never run from anything beyond your understanding or ability to fight. If you run the creature knows you're weaker and easy pickings. If you walk you instill a shred of doubt in most predators of "this thing isn't messing with me because it just doesn't want to waste it's energy. It can probably kill me." And immortal creatures if they do exist just won't see you as worth their time because you put on an air of confidence and will seemingly fight back.

Lily Chun Best voice acting I have ever heard!

Lily Chun ,😑😑😑😑

THATS MIA FARROW? SHE HAD THE DEVILS KID NKW SHES A UNICORN??? AND SHE WAS MARRIED TO FRANK SINATRA CHRIST CRAZIEST LIFE EVA

Enzo greeck mythology 😏😏

Yep, she indeed has

Envious Green Egyptian mythology...

Enzo I never noticed that as a kid...

I feel like they got rid of that in the version I watched.

Its so cute! Never noticed it before

Oof! 💞 right in the cute feels

Semi Perfect Cell. Make that brother. It was a man doing the Harpy's voice, his name is René Auberjonois, he did the voice of Janos Audron in the Legacy of Kain Videogames. Janos was the oldest living Vampire in the games story.

Elizabeth Ann O'Connell Still sisters, all harpies are female so.

Elizabeth Ann O'Connell regardless of voice , harpies are all female for a race of mythical creatures.

The most metal line in the film

@LaBelleDame DuManor I think that was intentional, as the harpy was a mockery and twisting of ideal femininity: a female creature which is not feminine.

Creature of mystery that unicorn

You should try again when you get a chance, It's really worth it!

Same

I was the exact opposite. I saw it a a kid and I fell in love with the movie. I watched it over and over.

If I were you, I would give this movie one more try. Put it on during a day when you're feeling particularly brave, with a friend or family member to watch it with you. I was traumatized by Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban as a child, and while the werewolf's howl still sends shivers down my spine, it's now my favorite movie of the series. I, too, refused to watch it for years. My family and I would always skip it when watching the series. But when I was older, and felt a little braver, I started watching it. And I found that some scary things stop being so scary after a while, and that you start to notice the other things that make the movie great.

Exactly

In the book, Celaeno actually says, "I will kill you if you set me free. Set me free."

@@Godzillakingofkaiju1 I should have known this was based on a book. Thank you ! When did you read it? 😦

@@itz_kale7791 Recently.

@@Godzillakingofkaiju1 Cool ! Thought maybe you were a kid also, when this movie came out.

srbarkerchan Hey, i saw Total Recall in theaters 4 times when i was 8 and noticed the woman in that movie had 3 tits too

srbarkerchan These wer kids movies before they had to be happy go lucky, welcome to the good 'ol days

+douglas “Ansury” wahid that last paraghraph, i was the evil middle child, always trying to get my big brother in trouble

And Tom and Jerry were two household animals brutally attacking each other with dangerous weapons. Your point?

I agree. It wasn't evil the same way a lion eating an antelope is not evil. It is simply her nature.

Honestly though, Fortuna got what she wanted. She knew the harpy would kill her, and it was just a matter of when. However, the memory of the old woman will live on. Caelena will forever remember that a mere mortal once held her prisoner, humiliation that will last for eternity. If anything that just makes Fortuna one of the more admirable antagonists. She’s arrogant and prideful, but she understands exactly what she’s getting into and doesn’t regret it one bit.

This harpy is very strongly based on harpies from Hygini Fabulae, by Gaius Julius Hyginus, his harpies had "heads of birds, wings, human arms with large claws and bellies, breasts and 'parts' of women" so not exactly just Japan being Japan as much as Japan having Greek sources.

American and European media and society used to be filled with sexual stuff with women too only a very short time ago and the west often did way bigger stuff than Japan usually does. I hate people nowadays act like attrative women and sexual stuff with women is a Japan only thing. Nowadays the west does sexual stuff with men all the time but it almost never does it with women anymore. Here in the west now if you focus on hot and sexy girls or do anything sexual with girls everybody is always extremely negative about it but if you do it with guys nobody cares or people even sees it as a good thing. And like the previous comment said this is based on old Greek mythology so its not a Japan thing.

The harpies in ancient Greece mythology were large birds with human heads and breasts.

This was made by Raskin Bass...

I think it works really well. It really helps sell the vibe that it's not quite animal and not quite human

The bird had fuckin HRANNY TITs

have you ever seen watership down? another old violent kids movie its so good tho

pandalover22100 YES YES YES 8D that movie is epic! haven't finished it tho.

pandalover22100 it's based on a novel and that novel is not for kids.

+Lily Pham yeah, the full movie is on KZfaq I can send you the link if you want

pandalover22100 i want one that is HD and isn't cropped

It’s not really female

I watched it all the time apparently and yet when I watched it as an adult it felt like I was watching it for the very first time. So weird. It's like it made its way into some deep part of my mind. Nothing else that I watched this frequently as a kid did that. Little kid me knew there was some deep stuff going on 😂

Naw, just a twisted old woman...

well, he wasn't going to stay and die, he had nothing to do with it after all.

@America It’s a mood I can definitely respect 😆

lmao imagine caring about likes

@@FoxSqueeArt Hey man it do be like that sometimes 😌✌️

When the last eagle soars, Over the last lonely mountain.

Great test. ❤ My ex scoffed that the book must be better than the movie after just 5 minutes, and pulled out his phone several times. He did not pass.

@@rileyjackson1762 a bop and will always be a bop

Who would make a rude remark about the soundtrack? It's both enchanting and melancholy.

🤣🤣🤣

And tell those animators to not cheap out on those saggalicious tiddy physics

@@ohmygodbecky6829 You are EVIL!

I need that movie right now

Mystic Blue Me too :)

Mystic Blue Same! I still have this movie on a DVD.

hate that censorship

The TREE 🤣😭

Update: I finally did get to watch the movie a few months ago, and BOY is it good!