New Line Brings the First Book of His Dark Materials to the Screen
Tom Price | 12/02/07
Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) lives in Jordan College, a fictional college of the University of Oxford in a universe parallel to our own. Yet it is a world that contains witches and armored ice bears, and in which every human is linked to a "dæmon." This dæmon takes the form of an animal which expresses a characteristic of the human's conscience or soul; this expression changes during childhood but becomes fixed in adulthood.
The Golden Compass introduces a world of discovery with aeronauts, nomadic sailors, and an adventurous child whose penchant for storytelling and deceit earns her the nickname Silvertongue. But as questions arise about whether Lyra is a child foretold in ancient prophecy, Lyra must judge for herself, with the help of her dæmon, Pantalaimon or "Pan," which of the adults around her are good, virtuous, and trustworthy. As a worldwide "Magisterium" seeks to control all religious thought in a universe that never experienced a Reformation, the stakes go beyond the frame of her own world.
Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) lives in Jordan College, a fictional college of the University of Oxford in a universe parallel to our own. Yet it is a world that contains witches and armored ice bears, and in which every human is linked to a "dæmon." This dæmon takes the form of an animal which expresses a characteristic of the human's conscience or soul; this expression changes during childhood but becomes fixed in adulthood.
The Golden Compass introduces a world of discovery with aeronauts, nomadic sailors, and an adventurous child whose penchant for storytelling and deceit earns her the nickname Silvertongue. But as questions arise about whether Lyra is a child foretold in ancient prophecy, Lyra must judge for herself, with the help of her dæmon, Pantalaimon or "Pan," which of the adults around her are good, virtuous, and trustworthy. As a worldwide "Magisterium" seeks to control all religious thought in a universe that never experienced a Reformation, the stakes go beyond the frame of her own world.
Greg Wright | 12/02/07 | Blogs |
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