Conroy420 wrote:What was all that talk about alternate dimension? Ours?
Ours, and many others.
Conroy420 wrote:What was all that talk about alternate dimension? Ours?
Peven wrote:new trailer just put up over at yahoo.
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/thegoldencompass.html
lyra belacqua wrote:Yep, I just cried watching the damn trailer!
I cannot wait to see this movie. It'll have to horrible for me not to love it.
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Man that is SUCH a farking computer bloody CARTOON at the end with that bear running along the snow. Very dissapointing. As is all the animal animation. Man, at the end of the day, it just does NOT look like real animals. It's that simple. Please finish this off properly, don't gimme another Aslan.
Apart from that it looks terrific. There is a hint in this trailer that the film WILL have an identity all of it's own and won't look like another LOTR or Narnia. It already shows a more fantastical setting then LOTR but more character, atmosphere and darkness than Narnia. Also that side angle camera shot of the ship (I miss the Cutty Sark!:cry:) - if there's more of this kind of thing in the film that is - shows a clever, free and uniquely fleeting style of photography and not too much of a standard style that LOTR had a lot of the time.
The actors look like they'll bring great class to it. I love the way that Eva Green's Witch just flies with such grace and has such a smooth even poetic movement. I dunno jack about Craig's character but from this trailer alone it looks like a commanding presence. Guess I'll have to read the book to find out what he's REALLY meant to be like to judge completely on his casting. I've heard nothing but great things about Dakota already. Heard she really cries her heart out on a farewell scene with a major blue screened character from someone that worked on the film.
I also love the way that the trailer doesn't bombard you with too many fast clips (I counted about only 68 of them once the beginning titles ended). Good as it shows there's still more to be seen and that the movie doesn't appear to go for the rapid cut cut cut edit style of films these days and will hopefully maintain an epic style, if the film obeys the trailer's delivery anyway.
Let's cross our fingers and hope the story's themes are successfully and clearly told in the movie's narrative and that Mori's fears that no one will understand these themes are not realised.
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:GET THOSE FARKING CARTOON ANIMALS TO LOOK BLOODY REAL, WILL YAAA!!!!!!??????
Peven wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:i used to have that poster, framed and everything.
until you traded it for some crack
DennisMM wrote:Cheat, Doc -- save it, open it in your preferred viewer and blow it way up!
Doc Holliday wrote:..and damn your signature KCBC. Its horribly addictive - I just told myself "OK - see if you can find Professor Frink".
That's 20 minutes of my life I'm never getting back
Peven wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:i used to have that poster, framed and everything.
until you traded it for some crack
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:Peven wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:i used to have that poster, framed and everything.
until you traded it for some crack
which I then traded for your crack-whore moms.
don't get into crack-snaps with someone from Oakland, cuntry boy...
Chris Weitz wrote:Dear fans of His Dark Materials,
For the past three years I (and a gigantic cast and crew of fans of the books) have been working to adapt The Golden Compass (aka Northern Lights). As you can imagine, the process can be both exhausting and exhilarating, and full of both challenges and surprises. Sometimes you discover reasons to modify the chronology or narrative path of the books in a way that serves the movie and the trilogy better.
I have decided, along with Scholastic and New Line and, most importantly, Philip Pullman, to shift the concluding three chapters of Book I of His Dark Materials to the beginning of the second film of our trilogy, The Subtle Knife.
To me, this provides the most promising conclusion to the first film and the best possible beginning to the second.
It has always been my main concern to portray Lyra's world and her adventures with integrity. Throughout this process I have been in close contact with Philip Pullman; and I would not be doing this without his approval. As Philip has said, His Dark Materials is not three stories but one story - the story of Lyra. And where we pause to take a breath in the telling of it is a matter of choice and taste. But I hope that when fans see the film they will find their fears put to rest and their hopes fulfilled. For the film to be judged on its own merits is all that I can ask for.
Many thanks for your time. I believe you will find The Golden Compass a fit tribute to His Dark Materials when it comes out in December; and in the meanwhile promise to work diligently on burnishing its details and providing a solid footing for the launch of The Subtle Knife.
Very Best
Chris Weitz
Tyrone_Shoelaces wrote:I do like the introduction to it all at the start. I think Weitz pulled it off. I can't wait to see it.
Maui wrote:I think the trailer looks incredible.
I haven't read the books though.
tapehead wrote:The more I see the more it seems we're going to have quite a few elements from 'The Subtle Knife' appearing in the first film...
Peven wrote:i haven't read the books, Tape. come on, its your job to get me up to speed on this shit, didn't someone tell you????
tapehead wrote:Those little dragonfly-riding spies have turned up a bit early too...
Pullman has not been shy in the past about verbalizing his beliefs -- or, some might say, nonbeliefs -- and his intentions in writing the "Dark Materials" novels.
The novelist has said they are in response to C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia," the popular children's fantasy series of which "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is the first book, written by Lewis to teach Christian ideals to kids.
"I loathe the 'Narnia' books," Pullman has said in previous press interviews. "I hate them with a deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling away." He has called the series "one of the most ugly and poisonous things" he's ever read.
so sorry wrote:From the article Fawst posted (no spoliers)Pullman has not been shy in the past about verbalizing his beliefs -- or, some might say, nonbeliefs -- and his intentions in writing the "Dark Materials" novels.
The novelist has said they are in response to C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia," the popular children's fantasy series of which "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is the first book, written by Lewis to teach Christian ideals to kids.
"I loathe the 'Narnia' books," Pullman has said in previous press interviews. "I hate them with a deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling away." He has called the series "one of the most ugly and poisonous things" he's ever read.
So he thinks that Narnia is poison, so he writes the opposite and that's supposed to be better?
Interesting logic.
PS despite incurring the wrath of our own Lyra, Fawst, save you time and read something else.... boring.as.hell.
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