The Last Unicorns

The Novel “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle is a timeless classic story about love and loss. The story has a mesmerizing hold on the reader, drawing you in on its beautifully simplistic storyline. A unicorn learns that she is the last of her kind and sets out to find out what happened to the others. Along the way she meets a few friends that aid her on her quest. It turns out that all the unicorns have been captured by an evil king and his Red Bull, so they set out to save the Unicorns from this dreadful fate. The easy flow and Beagles enchanted writing style brings the magic in the story alive. This can also be said about the movie made after the novel also titled “The Last Unicorn.” The movie is rare among other movies derived from novels
"We steal from the poor because they can't fight back — most of them — and the rich take from us because they could wipe us out in a day. We don't rob the fat, greedy Mayor on the highway; we pay him tribute every month to leave us alone."
Beagle was trying to be humorous, and in some cases it is comical but it still takes from the story more than it gives. Another thing is that there didn’t seem to be a lot going on in the world. The world created by Beagle seems to be populated by very little and only have a few hundred people tops. It seems that the characters and people are only created when they have a purpose or role. The writing of Beagle grabs the reader and keeps them interested, which is why these things are not easily noticeable in his novel but in the movie they became apparent quite easily. There are also some minor changes in the script of the movie that are different than the novel. Such thing include some scene like when Schmendrick was invited to dinner by the mayor of the town he was visiting; where Cullys’ outlaws came in and took him. This was different in the movie; the whole scene was cut out and shortened. In the movie the outlaws were traveling through the forest and saw Schmendrick and grabbed him up to bring to Cully. This