Following the author of The Last Unicorn on Facebook is the only thing that makes being on that site worthwhile.
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#all i know about the last unicorn is that alex hirsch hates this film#because the unicorn is a spoiled little bitch that never thanks the wizard for doing anything to help her
???????????????????????? is this true? because....she very much does thank him at the end of the movie
it’s in the gravity falls directors commentaries, and I trust his take
thank him while he’s busting his ass for you and you sit there complaining goddamnit
Well you shouldn't, you should watch it for yourself before disparaging it because she literally does thank the wizard in the end.
The ONLY reason the wizard is traveling with the unicorn in the first place is because they escaped a witch together, and she asked what he wanted as a thank you for saving her and he requested to travel with her. She says she wishes he had asked for something else, but she lets him go with her. She literally thanks him the way he asked to be thanked.
And when the red bull is chasing her down, he turns her into a human (in the book, she was HORRIFIED to find out another wizard had done this to another unicorn, and he did it to her later anyway). She doesn't want to be human. She didn't ask him to turn her into a human. She doesn't LIKE being a human, because it fundamentally changes who she is and she begins to lose her sense of self entirely because of it. All against her will. All of it without asking. And he acts the entire time as if he's really outdone himself on how awesome he is for doing it.
And STILL at the end, when she has returned to being a unicorn, she thanks him AGAIN for saving her, and tells him that she's still not who she was before, but she thanks him for that, too.
So whatever Alex Hirsch was watching wasn't the same movie as what was on the screen, if he's saying Amalthea didn't thank Schmendrick. And even if she hadn't, she's not human. Her people don't do anything the same as humans, including gratitude. It would show a real lack of understanding to judge an immortal, unfeeling creature by human standards, during the worst time of her very, very long life.
