Did we mention that Lord Asriel wants to kill God? Home Article ''The Golden Compass'' controversy. Save FB Tweet More. Fans of the Philip Pullman novel were. The Golden Compass. All three of them. They are comprehensively a narrative about killing God. Pullman is answering and providing an alternative to C. Pullman described the classic C. The Magisterium, representing church authority, fears human freedom and seeks to repress human sexuality, he wrote.
Pullman writes about John Calvin assuming the papacy and moving the headquarters to Geneva, thus combining the Catholic and Reformation traditions into one. In the story, the Magisterium uses the biblical narrative of the fall and the doctrine of original sin to repress humanity and will stop at nothing to protect its own interests and to preserve its power, Mohler noted. The entire premise of the trilogy is that Lyra is the child foretold by prophecy who will reverse the curse of the fall and free humanity from the lie of original sin, Mohler wrote.
This came despite Harry Potter being successful with lengthier running times. But faith was another issue altogether…. According to Vulture , the faults of the film do not lie with Weitz. He apparently turned in a more faithful draft than Stoppard, whose script was apparently less about Lyra and more about meetings according to a Philip Pullman interview with The Atlantic, which is well worth a read. Actor Tom Courtenay confirmed that his role was drastically reduced in post-production, with the studio editing the full-length version down, removing its original ending and staging reshoots to exposit information now lost.
Ultimately, there were problems as a result of religious pressure and the studio being unwilling to risk wrath wrath that would probably have descended on them at any rate , but this was far from unsalvageable. What really killed the film off it seems was the drive to get it under two hours, and the ensuing studio-imposed reworking of the movie. In short, it feels more like a bullet point list of things half remembered from the book than an actual film.
And we come back full circle a little here. Worlds where Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy was turned into a series of blockbuster movies, each better than the last. And worlds like ours, where the series crapped the bed after a single bloated, confused outing that was mired in meddling and flaccid compromise, and succeeded only in enraging everybody that it was supposed to pander to. The film in this world is The Golden Compass, and it's rubbish.
A bear punches another bear's jaw off in it, and it's still rubbish. That's quite a feat. But what could have possibly gone wrong with an adaptation of a children's book about a plot to murder God, set in a world full of too many characters with hard-to-pronounce names that was overly concerned about explaining dust, and was released at a time when the public's tolerance for too-long, CGI-heavy fantasy adaptations was at an all-time low?
The Golden Compass is being repeated on TV today, so this is the perfect time for a closer inspection. The main reason cited for the failure of The Golden Compass was its treatment of religion. The book made it perfectly clear that Philip Pullman had a specific problem with the Catholic church, but the film diluted his fury down to a general disenchantment with all dogmatic belief systems.
By trying not to offend anybody, the film managed to alienate everyone.
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