Henson also wanted her to be initially spoiled and petulant in order to allow for her character to grow out of these flaws over the course of the film. Specifically, I wanted to make the idea of taking responsibility for one's life - which is one of the neat realizations a teenager experiences - a central thought of the film." Īccording to co-writer Dennis Lee, he and Henson defined two main characteristics for Sarah as being "spunky, feisty, high-spirited" and "very volatile – poised on the brink of womanhood, and capable of trying out very different versions of whom she might be". "We basically wanted to make Labyrinth about the growing-up process of maturity, working with the idea of a young girl right at that point between girl and woman, shedding her childhood thoughts for adult thoughts. We just wanted to even the balance." In order to make the film more commercial, they made Sarah a teenager from contemporary 1980s America. According to Henson, the decision to have the lead character be a girl was made "because so many adventure films feature boys. The protagonist of Labyrinth was, at different stages of its development, going to be a boy, a king whose baby had been put under an enchantment, a princess from a fantasy world, and a young girl from Victorian England. Henson explained that they structured Labyrinth "in a way that the human is really carrying the whole picture" and acts as a "bridge" between the fantastical puppets and the audience. According to Froud, he and Henson decided to have human characters as the lead roles in order to make Labyrinth "more accessible and immediate" than The Dark Crystal, which had featured only puppets. In making Labyrinth, Henson wanted to create a film that combined elements of fairy tales and classical stories in a script that would appeal to a modern audience. Labyrinth started as a collaboration between director Jim Henson and conceptual designer Brian Froud following their previous collaboration, The Dark Crystal (1982).
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