05.22.07

Golden Compass

Posted in Movies, Books at 5:57 pm by Joe Blubaugh

Yahoo! has a full page up, including a theatrical trailer for The Golden Compass.  It’s funny to see Eva Green and Daniel Craig in another movie together so soon.  This book was so, so good, but I find myself worrying just what they’ll cut out.  It’s likely that the subtleties of adolescent sexual awakening will be largely subsumed by the adventure story, but that’s a shame.  The whole series hinges on sexual awakening, the concept of sin, individualism, and authoritarianism.

If they make it through the series-as-movie run, here’s hoping that they let the small, sweet moments of the books make the large impacts they’re supposed to.

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