Selasa, 27 November 2007

The Dark Trilogy is the New Hit *Phillip Pullman

Sudah beberapa pekan ini noticed ada berita terkait film 'The Golden Compass', tapi agak cuek.

Baru ngeh ketika baca 'Dakota Blue, the New Harry Potter'. Wah, apa maksudnya? gadis usia 13 tahun yang akan mungkin mendiktekan bayaran jutaan pound jika film perdananya sukses.

Oh no. Oh YES. Film termaksud (The Golden Compass) ternyata 'The Northern Light-Phillip Pullman yang berubah judul sesuai dengan judulnya di Amerika.

Mrs Coultier dimainkan Nicole Kidman, sedang Lord Asriel oleh Daniel Craig (Is it the right spelling?) Katanya, yang memerankan James Bond tea.

It will be nice to see how they adopt the good book into movie.

Lord of the Ring movies are better than books, although on some principles I disagree wholeheartedly with the movies. For examples, the appearance of Mordor's soldiers which are very much middle eastern-ish. Shame on the director!

Or too much weight put on the relationship between Eowyn and Aragorn. The movies are  sexier than the books. I hate the notion that good movie should include this thing.

Smart director will able to make good movie without this. Very few can be brainier. Innit?

Question is, who will be Will?

Foto is taken from here

10 komentar:

Rahmadiyanti R mengatakan...

jadi...? golden compass bagusan buku ato pelemnya, tante?
ogut belum baca bukunya en blm nonton pelemnya :D
padahal ada tuh bukunya.

maimon herawati mengatakan...

yaaa, nggak tau. kan blon keluar felemnya. tunggu aje ye:-))
bukunya kasihin ke kita aja deh, daripada nganggur.

Rahmadiyanti R mengatakan...

oo, gitu toh, sori telmi, hihi. ogut pikir udah keluar di uk.
buku? punya annida :D

maimon herawati mengatakan...

yaaa :-))
Asyik juga ya, sekarang kantor ada pustaka.
Kalo dulu cuman bapak-bapak di bawah aja yang punya :-)

Rahmadiyanti R mengatakan...

pan sbnrnye itu milik bersama, tapi krn bapak2 menguasai downstairs jadinye kite kagak enak kalo mo lama2 di perpus.
tapi skrg perpus udah punya ruang ndiri, cuman kecilll dan belum keurus :( (lulusna jip kagak sempet ngurus hehe)
akhirnya redaksi naro buku di ruang masing2 deh

maimon herawati mengatakan...

Ooo, kirain dulu itu daerah 'terlarang' buat kita.

Asyik banget ya. KEcil mah nggak masalah, Jeng. Yang penting koleksinya.

Hayo yah, ilmunya....dibagi2

Rahmadiyanti R mengatakan...

weleh, jadi dikau selama itu ngira 'daerah terlarang'. aku mah suka cuek tuh kalo nyari buku, pernah juga kejebak pas lagi asik nyari buku, pas bapak2 mo solat hehe.
ilmu apa? ilmu geblek? kekeke

maimon herawati mengatakan...

yah, kita lamaan di bawah aja udah diusir2. paling, yg aman ruang abang mabrur doang yang bisa ditamui agak lama.

Lia Lutfi mengatakan...

Roman Catholics boycott Philip Pullman film. Daily Telegraph, p7, 27 November 2007. An archdiocese spokesman said the film had "anti-religious themes" and feared the film would prompt parents to buy the books, unaware that the third in the series, The Amber Spyglass, climaxes in an epic battle to "destroy God".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/27/wcatholics127.xml

maimon herawati mengatakan...

*Warning!! Spoiler!"
he he, no surprise there.
Emang Phillip Pullman 'destroyed' Metatron. Tapi dikatakan dia, Metatron, ini God's deputy yang growing more powerful than the God. God itself was not really bothered about human anymore, left the job to Metatron to deal with them.

Bahkan, lebih tragis lagi, ada gay angel :-(

ck ck ck

Nanti Metatron dan Lord Asriel (ujungnya ditolong Mrs Coultier) duel sama Metatron dan tiga2nya jatuh ke dalam bottomless abys.

Jadi, god's deputy dead.
God itself should be still there, bilssfully unaware of the battle.

ada-ada aja ya.