this is spencer with artax.
many don't know this, but spencer played atreyu in film classic, "the neverending story." he was very good. one day you should ask spencer to tell you some behind the scenes stories. hollywood's insane.
this is spencer and artax off the set coming up with good ideas and goofing off.
director, wolfgang petersen's, original script had atreyu being taken by the sadness and had artax as the lead role, but changes were made throughout the filming process. in this scene wolfgang told spencer to put his face on artax's. even though they're such good friends, spencer admits it was still uncomfortable showing such affection onscreen.
maybe the most iconic scene of the film...and it almost didn't happen! artax would not get in the swamp. as goes the old saying "you can lead a horse to water..." spencer thinks artax knew atreyu was originally supposed to go and was protesting the new storyline. also, wolfgang wanted atreyu to frantically repeat the "s" word here. spencer's refusal to use such strong language led to the improvisation of these lines: "ARTAX...YOU'RE SINKING...C'MON...TURN AROUND...YOU HAVE TO...NOW...C'MON... ARTAAAAAAAX. fight against the sadness, artax. artax, please...you're letting the sadness of the swamps get to you. you have to try. you have to care. for me. you're my friend. i love you. ARTAX! STUPID HORSE! YOU'VE GOTTA MOVE OR YOU'LL DIIIE! move...please. i won't give up. don't quit. ARTAAAAAX! [inexplicable birdlike sound of pain and sadness]"
spencer was nominated for zero awards by the academy, but this scene causes me to beg to differ. it did land him a tv role as jamie in 1986's, "casebusters."
life can be funny. when old friends leave us, we sometimes wake up to new friends. and...
...new friends can fly!
but we will never forget our old friends.
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I chose to remain anonymous to publish this comment because I am a little bit embarassed of what I did today. After reading this post and realizing that I remembered very little of Spencer's performance in The Neverending Story, I watched the whole thing on youtube. All of it. That alone would be a little weird, but I didn't stop there. I watched all of the Neverending story II. I must say that 1 was a lot better than 2. Not only did they replace Spencer with the much inferior Kenny Morrison, but the change of directors took the films in a direction I couldn't wrap my head around. Wolfgang Peterson had such a better grasp of the mysticism of fantasia than George T. Miller. At least they brought in Jack Black for #3.
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