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Northern Lights/ The Golden Compass - The Film

 
  

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ONLY NICE THINGS
14:26 / 10.12.07
I don't want to steal anyone's "what on Earth are you talking about" fire, but I'm a bit confused by Ziparrow, above - much more so than by DD.

But on the bear - hoom. I'd imsagine that you'd go for the most visually striking major elements for the ad campaign even if there wer not the dominant element of the film in terms of screen time - so, Tiilda Swinton got more play in the posters for Lion, Witch, Wardrobe than the beavers, even though the beavers probably got more lines, and more than Peter even though Peter is a more important character. When the children were portrayed in the posters, they were generally portrayed in armour, even though they spend most of the film not in armour, again for marketing reasons.

Iorek Byrnison is a big part of the book, at least - is he a more minor character in the film? Would one be disappointed, having paid the money to see a film involving a huge armoured bear, with the film that one ultimately watches?

HvL:

Hmmm. I'm really not seeing Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel. Not sure who i *would* cast for him, however, except possibly Christopher Lee about 30 years ago

I just heard on Kermode that Jason Isaacs was originally lined up to play Asriel. I can see that working very well...
 
 
Spaniel
14:41 / 10.12.07
Pigs tells me that Iorek gets very little screentime in the film.
 
 
Seth
15:43 / 10.12.07
Singling out Iorek for getting very little screentime seems a little unfair. No one really gets a chance to be in it for more than a few minutes. As I say, fans better hope that there's an extended cut.
 
 
Hydra vs Leviathan
00:25 / 12.12.07
Coincidence or viral ad?
 
 
sleazenation
17:24 / 13.01.08
Finally saw this.

II had low expectations based on the trailers I'd seen, but was pleasantly surprised. Child star Dakota didn't stand out like a sore thumb as i feared she would, and none of the leads really felt as if they were too far outside of those in the book. Fader Corum was a fair bit younger than I imagined. But yeah - I enjoyed it and was swept up in the narrative. Never bored.
 
 
Seth
21:59 / 13.01.08
Child star Dakota didn't stand out like a sore thumb as i feared she would

Disgusting ageism. I notice that in the Space Cowboys thread you didn't refer to The Pale Rider as *elderly icon Clint Eastwood* or The Only Man Who Will Ever Do Screen Justice to Two-Face as *geriatric legend Tommy Lee Jones.* What's up with the hatred and singling out of children, sleaze? What's up with that?

Barbelith hasn't been the same since Flyboy scrambled his password at Christmas.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
00:59 / 17.07.08
Just watched this and was very disappointed. But heed this!, my fair Barbelith: I honestly think if I had read the books, then I would have been much more engaged. I wanted to care, I wanted to know, I wanted to be. But watching it now, it left me cold.

Until, of course, the kick-ass armoured polar bears appeared.
 
  

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