I am called Florian Varga, and i live in England near Windsor, i am looking to make money and i foun...
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A fantastically thrilling film, “The Golden Compass” with the prowling and flapping and slithering and fluttering. The animals, most of which are called daemons and are manifestations of the human soul, hover at the side of their people and near the story’s edge, where their coos and barks mix with the surrounding clatter and clangs. Sometimes an animal leaps forward in alarm, its fur raised in alarm, its feathers fluttering in flight.
“The Golden Compass”, a novel that was first published in Britain as “northern Lights” written by Philip Pullman. It became a massive success with some obvious reasons: spooky villains, great storyline, and interesting characters. The main character is Lyra Belacque who embarks on the hero’s journey with her shape-shifting daemon, named Pantalaimon. Pantalaimon is a friendly daemon, yet he is a courageous and determined daemon at the same time.
This film is based around Lyra and her sophisticated daemon finding Lyra’s best friend Roger as he has been kidnapped, as well as children all over the globe. Lyra gets given a special type of compass as a gift which contains magical Dust.
The compass is like Lyra’s guide in this film, it helps her tell the future and she finds it extremely helpful during her exotic journey ahead. On her journey she meets a drunken polar bear named Iorex who is an exile from the other bears. Together they go on the search for Roger.
One of the most spectacular scenes is defiantly the bear fight, Ragnar the king polar bear versus Iorex the exile bear. A fearsome fight with a gruesome ending. The fight is just compelling and makes you wonder who will come out better off. A range of Close ups and some over views shows you the detail the hard workers do to make this high standard film.
One other exciting scene would defiantly have to be the last one, the gyptians versus the bad guys in a frightening fight. Men and woman, Kids and adults all fighting for there story of the greater good. Which side are you cheering for?
On Lyra’s journey she meets a character called Miss Courtier, her daemon taking the form of a monkey and yet has a mind like a thieve. Together they try and search for the missing Lyra aiming for the Golden Compass. Near the end you find a terrible truth about Miss Courtier which makes you want to gasp.
With a film like this, directed for kids, it is hard to completely rate this film but from an older point of view it is actually a great film for a verity of ages. I would defiantly rate it a smashing 4 out of 5 stars.
There are some down sides though. I am sorry to say that the 114 – minute film does not match the 400 – novel. The director of the film is called Chris Weitz and lives in America. This movie will be a big hit with every age person (maybe not infants). Defiantly a worth while watch over Christmas, with your family.
As you know “Northern Lights” was just one book out of the trilogy. So you will have to wait till later to see if there will be a second one. But with a great cliff hanger at the end of the first one I would be awfully surprised if they didn’t make another one. High-5 to you Chris for making a great job at this.
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