cybertrixx | (no subject)

So I just looked at the website for the new His Dark Materials movie. And, just for a moment, in the midst of this stressful busy day, all concern and care seemed to fade away and I was 11 again. Sitting in my grandmother's bed with a faint headache, a mug of sweet tea by my side, and a crisp brand new copy of "Northern Lights" clutched eagerly in hand. Within five minutes, the tea, headache and everything else had been forgotten, and off I ventured on a journey that took five years and ensnared me utterly until the moment of its completion (and even then, for several months afterwards). Spurning all contact with the rest of the world, I read and read and laughed and cried and rejected all attempts to get me to eat or drink until I had finished reading. The Bolvangar facility...*shudder*...so horrible, so interminably *wrong* that it actually made me sick (though that could have course just been the result of having not eaten anything all day and having an extremely unpleasant feverish headache.)

I'm hoping...no...praying...that it's good. The cast seems perfect (oh wow...Ms. Coulter!). The atmosphere and flavour seems just about right. CGI is at a point -see LOTR- where it *can* deliver believable nonhuman creatures. And yet...I'm absolutely terrified.

I remember a conversation I had with my mum when The Subtle Knife was released, when we both confessed we almost hoped nobody would ever make a movie of the books - *because* we'd then have to entertain the prospect of it being awful. Here's hoping our fears are proved wrong! Fingers will be well and truly crossed...

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Definitely with you on this. It should be the most awesome thing ever, but somehow I almost can't believe it could possibly be good *enough*. I held my breath for nearly two chapters when I read the book the first time (the bit in Bolvangar when she got caught and then the fire alarm and the explosions and the attack and the snowfight and the rescue and all that...) and I'm not sure a movie can be that dramatic. On the other hand, the stage show really was as good as it should have been, and that was in two shows rather than three and with very limited effects (though of course sometimes that can be good), so maybe they can do it. Must now go look at the cast.

The cast, I think, is what really sold me. Nicole Kidman as Ms. Coulter? Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel? Perfect. Absolutely perfect...