Comments on: The Golden Compass http://www.tedtedted.com/2007/12/09/the-golden-compass/ The dad. The entertainer. The cube rat. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:54:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Peter Hogness http://www.tedtedted.com/2007/12/09/the-golden-compass/#comment-11718 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:40:25 +0000 http://www.tedtedted.com/2007/12/09/the-golden-compass/#comment-11718 Yeah, I didn't mean earlier comment as an unqualified rave. But since I would have been kept very happy just by the armored bears, everything else was a pleasant bonus. Had heard how much the anti-organized-religion theme got bowdlerized, so I was pleased to find that the film still maintained some sense of "which side are you on" (besides that of the talking armored bears, of course).... Yeah, I didn’t mean earlier comment as an unqualified rave. But since I would have been kept very happy just by the armored bears, everything else was a pleasant bonus. Had heard how much the anti-organized-religion theme got bowdlerized, so I was pleased to find that the film still maintained some sense of “which side are you on” (besides that of the talking armored bears, of course)….

]]> by: ted http://www.tedtedted.com/2007/12/09/the-golden-compass/#comment-11464 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:01:49 +0000 http://www.tedtedted.com/2007/12/09/the-golden-compass/#comment-11464 Hm. The Coulter thing went right past me. I need to watch more TV. What excited me the most about these books was their explicit opposition to the treacly, manipulative Narnia series. It took a lot of guts to try that "Republic of Heaven" idea in what was essentially a children's story, and I thought Pullman really made it work. I just wish the filmmakers had gone with that, instead of taking the Clintonian route of hiding the good stuff so deep one forgets where to find it. Hm. The Coulter thing went right past me. I need to watch more TV.
What excited me the most about these books was their explicit opposition to the treacly, manipulative Narnia series. It took a lot of guts to try that “Republic of Heaven” idea in what was essentially a children’s story, and I thought Pullman really made it work. I just wish the filmmakers had gone with that, instead of taking the Clintonian route of hiding the good stuff so deep one forgets where to find it.

]]> by: Peter Hogness http://www.tedtedted.com/2007/12/09/the-golden-compass/#comment-11457 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:05:54 +0000 http://www.tedtedted.com/2007/12/09/the-golden-compass/#comment-11457 Many good things in this movie, and not just the armored bears and the steampunk visuals. The fight for free thought rests on an alliance of the University and the Rabble (aka Salt of the Earth). And it can't be a coincidence that the evil and venomous leggy blonde defender of power & privilege is named Coulter.... Many good things in this movie, and not just the armored bears and the steampunk visuals. The fight for free thought rests on an alliance of the University and the Rabble (aka Salt of the Earth).

And it can’t be a coincidence that the evil and venomous leggy blonde defender of power & privilege is named Coulter….

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