Comments on: Meet your dæmon http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/ (so you don't have to) Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:21:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jo http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/comment-page-1/#comment-7347 Jo Mon, 14 May 2007 11:19:17 +0000 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/#comment-7347 I agree, Alex. Even as the ins and outs of the story faded from my memory (does this happen to anyone else when you have read something quickly?) I felt chilled by thoughts of the malevolent Church for a long time after reading the books. Nevertheless - the point the books make about the Church is underlined by its exclusion from the films. People picking up the books for the first time after seeing the film will be in for a shock (not unlike my own with Little Women). What did you all think of the website? Is Oxford as you imagined it? Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter? I agree, Alex. Even as the ins and outs of the story faded from my memory (does this happen to anyone else when you have read something quickly?) I felt chilled by thoughts of the malevolent Church for a long time after reading the books. Nevertheless – the point the books make about the Church is underlined by its exclusion from the films.

People picking up the books for the first time after seeing the film will be in for a shock (not unlike my own with Little Women).

What did you all think of the website? Is Oxford as you imagined it? Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter?

]]> By: Alex http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/comment-page-1/#comment-6710 Alex Sun, 06 May 2007 22:16:11 +0000 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/#comment-6710 I am really pissed off that apparently they are taking references to the Church type thing out of the film. a) I don't know how the film will work without it. b) this is surely the point. I actually wrote one of my best undergrad essays on the metaphysics of Pullman's universe. I am really pissed off that apparently they are taking references to the Church type thing out of the film. a) I don’t know how the film will work without it. b) this is surely the point.

I actually wrote one of my best undergrad essays on the metaphysics of Pullman’s universe.

]]> By: Anna http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/comment-page-1/#comment-6705 Anna Sun, 06 May 2007 21:49:58 +0000 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/#comment-6705 I too love the books! Must dig them out and re-read them. I think it will be difficult to achieve their full potential and explore the depth of the novels in a film. The last book especially. I mean, it's great but it is also downright weird. It might come across as a bit tacky or sci-fi on-screen. Oh yeah, and my daemon is a fox! I too love the books! Must dig them out and re-read them. I think it will be difficult to achieve their full potential and explore the depth of the novels in a film. The last book especially. I mean, it’s great but it is also downright weird. It might come across as a bit tacky or sci-fi on-screen.

Oh yeah, and my daemon is a fox!

]]> By: Rushda http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/comment-page-1/#comment-6681 Rushda Sun, 06 May 2007 16:30:01 +0000 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/#comment-6681 I loved the books too, they're incredible and I can't wait for the film. My daemon is appaently a bird... I loved the books too, they’re incredible and I can’t wait for the film. My daemon is appaently a bird…

]]> By: Alex http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/comment-page-1/#comment-6671 Alex Sun, 06 May 2007 14:54:31 +0000 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/#comment-6671 I'm a mouse, apparently. I’m a mouse, apparently.

]]> By: Alex http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/comment-page-1/#comment-6669 Alex Sun, 06 May 2007 14:48:42 +0000 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/05/06/meet-your-daemon/#comment-6669 I bloody love those books. I bloody love those books.

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