New Line made available at Cannes the full production notes for The Golden Compass and we’re pleased to bring them to you. They open with a message from the film’s writer and director, Chris Weitz, who says that he was “absolutely stunned by the imagination, daring and intelligence of the books.” The notes go on to detail the movie’s design philosophy, inspirations and colour palate (among other things).
Whilst it’s written for an audience coming to His Dark Materials for the first time, there’s much interesting information to be had in the text. There’s some words too from Philip Pullman, who says, “I’ve done my part. I handed it over to Chris and his team to make the film. I couldn’t have people to trust my story to who were more trustworthy, and I know my story is in good hands.”
YAY!FIRST COMMENT!!!
*screams*
so much to read, have to read it all, too sleepy. ahhh!
This is what obsession does to you people. Not pretty.
I have to say, everybody interviewed seems to have given lots of thought into both the story and their characters. I am especially surprised at Dakota Blue’s clear, concise and intelligent responses. She very well might be a prodigy, or just an extremely well read young girl.
yeah, i was impressed that that they got everything right!
Woooah, that’s really interesting! ^^ But I was suprised to notice they still say Adam Godley is doing Pantalaimon’s voice. o_O
yeah everone seems so into their characters! dakota will make an amazing lyra- she completely understands the character!
dakota will make an amazing lyra – she totally understands the character!!!
crud i didn’t relise the comment had already bin putup
too much to read for 5 minuets, iv’e got to go!!! see u next week xxxx
dakota will be good for the part, that’s why they chose her for it!!!
“The color at the beginning is rich, golden, warm tones,†Braham describes. “We’re in a parallel world where the night and even the moon is golden, as opposed to a silvery blue moon. That is the Oxford world.â€ÂÂ
Hey! the rest of my comment didnt come out! anyway…is the above true?
Also, it mentionst that the magisterium is a government body. I was always under the impression that the magisterium was its only seperate entity similar to religion. (well, officially seperate like religion in our world)
there seems to be a lot of talk about how the book isnt anti-religion but just anti-power. To me, these books were always anti-organised religion. This seems to me to be a bit of a cop out
Religion is power. Contrary to what the right-wingers believe, religion has been shooting itself in the foot and has been called into question one time too many but unfortunately what those movies focus on is the question of faith. His Dark Material questions the hold the power of religion has over people hence it is anti power in all its forms. If the movie is set as anti-power, it covers everything in one fell swoop especially when you consider what the church was up to in the book.
To continue with my post above………
Making the movie anti-religion will not induce any kind of discussion because frankly, Passion of the Christ, Da Vinci Code were made or written to shake the foundations of religion and apart from the furore caused, nothing much happened perhaps it might in the US but over here in the UK, nothing much will happen. Religious fanaticism can be found amongst select groups of people or communities all around the world but when you focus on the POWER that religion has on people, the harsh governance of those appointed into power in religions, then the punch will be delivered squarely and that is not a cop-out.
I was in Oxford the weekend of the filming and that is the first time we have seen anything of Roger, why is this? When you read Philip Pullmans books the stories are based around Lyra travelling into another world to find her best friend Roger. We would have thought that he had a main character role in this film but you dont see any publicity about him, are they trying to keep his identity quiet.
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