The Golden Compass

Originally posted by Crimson Phoenix
Have you read the books? The whole theme of this trilogy is how organised religion can be corrupt and be used to opress a society for their own needs. The anit-religios tones arent really as aparent in the 1st book, but it reaks of anti-religiousness in the 3rd book. Thats i why i said, that if they downplay the religious aspects, they basically cant make the 3rd movie.

Yeah, but i gathered the over all message was There is a greater power, which in effect the story promotes spirituality, so...

I think this movie looks kind of terrible.

Originally posted by InnerRise
Wish I had knew about the books and read them before now.

Hopefully I can hurry and find this and read it before the movie comes out.

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

Same here. I tried to do that when LOTR came out but sadly when reading books my attention span is of a squirrel!

Originally posted by Crimson Phoenix
I think it'll only happen for this one. The book's title changed when it went to america. Aperently, the original title for the trilogy was the Golden Compasses, and thats how he sent it to the publishers at the states, but then he changed it to his dark materials later. But the publishers from america thought the golden compass was the title of the first book, so it stuck.

The Golden Compass also, as a title, fits better thematically with the titles of the remaining two books (The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass), and also with the overall title of the trilogy (the three items named being the 'dark materials' that could save or destroy the world).

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
Yeah, but i gathered the over all message was There is a greater power, which in effect the story promotes spirituality, so...

The overall message is, more or less, that there is a greater power but it should not be there because it is evil and corrupt, and that there should be no greater power than free will.

Pullman's a nutter to be honest, think's he's William Blake and reckons that that's a good thing. The trilogy itself read like a breeze, but enjoyable for what it was, specifically Azriel's character and the armoured bears.

Armoured bears are fun.