December 24, 2007
the golden compass
Softporn from the standpoint of steampunk.
The shift from Pullman's book to Weitz's film, in terms of its central conflict, is akin to making a movie of the French Revolution in which the crux is that Marie Antoinette is mean to kids. As much as we understand that children's books especially do put children in harm's way, as a narrative trope this has now become as powerfully counter-political as, say, the writings of Ayn Rand were in their day.
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