He takes Lyra’s friend, Roger, and plans to sever him from his daemon to create the energy needed. She finds out that in order to accomplish his task he has to have a huge amount of energy. The book ends with Lyra finding out that Lord Asriel is her father and that he is doing experiments to travel to another world using “dust” in the Northern Lights. The movie producers obviously felt that the movie needed to have a happier ending, in case a sequel was not made (which it wasn’t). The most obvious difference that I see between the book and the movie is the ending. Though I understand that changes must be made in order to make a book into a workable movie script, it seemed that some of the things changed just made the story seem more implausible. I watched the movie after I finished the book, and was surprised by some of the changes that were made in the book. I have just finished reading “The Golden Compass,” by Phillip Pullman. Fair warning, it contains some pretty serious spoilers. Major thanks to Christina for contributing such a thoughtful, well-written comparison. In order to fulfill the requirements of the book/movie comparison BARC task, Christina has written her thoughts on the film “ The Golden Compass” and the book of the same name by Phillip Pullman on which the movie was based. This week, we have a guest post from Christina W., a library patron and BARC participant.
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