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Dec. 8th, 2007 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sexy_romulanThe Golden Compass was pretty awesome, quite faithful to the book in letter and spirit, despite the careful footwork around the whole question of the church. I have to say that the wingnuts who are up in arms about this movie are making themselves look really, REALLY bad by pointing out that they're the ones the Magisterium is supposed to represent. Way to go, guys...most of the target audience probably wouldn't have put that together without your help. And the fact that a film about shrugging off the shackles of would-be mind-controlling authority has to censor itself in order to tiptoe around certain authorities really only underscores the point.
I was particularly impressed with the way they captured the spookiness of the North, the foreignness of Lyra's world, and particularly the sinisterness of the Magisterium. In the book the General Oblation Board is a bunch of zealots in the ranks of a fairly standard world-power type of organization, but in the movie they're much more monolithic, and much scarier. There's so much communicated about them in the opening scenes - unspoken politics are flying in furtive or pointed glances. And Nicole Kidman is, as predicted, letter-perfect as Mrs. Coulter.
TOTALLY looking forward to the next one.
And now, for latkes!
I was particularly impressed with the way they captured the spookiness of the North, the foreignness of Lyra's world, and particularly the sinisterness of the Magisterium. In the book the General Oblation Board is a bunch of zealots in the ranks of a fairly standard world-power type of organization, but in the movie they're much more monolithic, and much scarier. There's so much communicated about them in the opening scenes - unspoken politics are flying in furtive or pointed glances. And Nicole Kidman is, as predicted, letter-perfect as Mrs. Coulter.
TOTALLY looking forward to the next one.
And now, for latkes!
