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The Golden Compass

Started by Sean, December 12, 2007, 01:59:52 PM

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John Morrow

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December 18, 2007, 12:44:04 AM
Quote from: SpikeNot sure if it was here or not but I'll repeat: I was baffled by the decision to chop off the last, and brief, chapter and instead replace it with a weirdly truncated alternate end-point.

According to Entertainment Weekly, which said that the book's ending was actually filmed, "[A]fter testing the film, New Line decided that sequence as too bleak.  The movie now ends on a happier, more heroic note."  They aren't even 100% sure that they'll use it for the start of the sequel, if it's made.
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Malleus Arianorum

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December 18, 2007, 01:45:43 AM
Quote from: ThomasIt might be worth considering that in reality the "protests..."
Were there protests? I had hoped that impulse burned out after the Da Vinci Code.
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Malleus Arianorum

#77
December 18, 2007, 01:56:49 AM
Quote from: SpikeIts a rare case of not trusting the author's original understanding of the pace of the story. Or not so rare.
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QuoteThe ending makes every kind of narrative sense. The National Theatre production ended the first part plumb in the middle of The Subtle Knife, and nobody minded that because in the only terms that mattered it worked brilliantly. Every film has to make changes to the story that the original book tells - not to change the outcome, but to make it fit the dimensions and the medium of film. I'm very happy with the work the filmmakers have done, and no-one wants this film to succeed more, or believes in it more firmly, than I do.

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Thomas

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December 18, 2007, 08:20:30 AM
Quote from: Malleus ArianorumWere there protests? I had hoped that impulse burned out after the Da Vinci Code.

As far as I know just people moaning and whining on the internet about it and wasting bandwidth sending out chain e-mails related to it hence the quotes.
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