I'm currently beating myself up, because I avoided this vid though I saw the original post and then recs all over, because this song is probably my favorite song ever...And there was that little fear in me...but that was so damn perfect.
Although I later found out they'd already filmed the ending, but for some unknown reason decided to keep it until the start of The Subtle Knife. It makes a lot of sense to me, actually. They wanted that movie to have a happy ending. Not that I personally like that they did that. ;)
What I can't believe is that Philip Pullman actually let them get away with it. Deleting that ending pretty much pulled the whole backbone out of the first book/movie.
That was my reaction, WHAT THE FUCK, because you can't leave out the ENDING. Phillip Pullman defends it along the happy ending lines and getting more people to watch it but for me it's a total sellout because there's no way you can prove it would have had an effect. And the ending was my favorite that made the book a *whole* and all connect back on each other and now they just castrated it. Grr argh. And people who haven't read the books are like, where's Asriel/Daniel Craig? And of course he's in the ending! I could rant about it all day but basically I'm just pacified by knowing since they shot the ending, I'll see it someday either in the movie theaters or on DVD.
Phillip Pullman defends it along the happy ending lines and getting more people to watch it but for me it's a total sellout because there's no way you can prove it would have had an effect. That's such a crock. How can he, of all people, believe that? It's clear that the book, if not the whole trilogy, is hurtling toward a - if not "unhappy", then at least something with true gravity - ending, and suddenly it cuts itself out and pretends it's fucking Mary Poppins. "Castrate" is such a good word to use.
I haven't read the book. Only see the trailer of the movie and thought it was like Narnia. I don't think I see the movie but I hate when they change movies from books that much. Is like, 'how dare they?!' Grrr!
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I'm currently beating myself up, because I avoided this vid though I saw the original post and then recs all over, because this song is probably my favorite song ever...And there was that little fear in me...but that was so damn perfect.
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It makes a lot of sense to me, actually. They wanted that movie to have a happy ending. Not that I personally like that they did that. ;)
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That's such a crock. How can he, of all people, believe that? It's clear that the book, if not the whole trilogy, is hurtling toward a - if not "unhappy", then at least something with true gravity - ending, and suddenly it cuts itself out and pretends it's fucking Mary Poppins. "Castrate" is such a good word to use.
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