Daemonology
Apr. 27th, 2007 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
a la Philip Pullman and the "Golden Compass" movie website, via
gregmce:
(I liked the first two books of Pullman's trilogy a great deal, but the third one seemed to miss a left turn from Albuquerque or something; Mrs. Coulter's supernaturally omnipotent powers of seduction were especially doubtful to me. The clips of movie footage I've seen so far have been much more effects-intensive than I'd expected, perhaps because Pullman's focus wasn't so much on the glossy steampunk technological setting as on the sociology of power and the nature of faith/betrayal.)
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(I liked the first two books of Pullman's trilogy a great deal, but the third one seemed to miss a left turn from Albuquerque or something; Mrs. Coulter's supernaturally omnipotent powers of seduction were especially doubtful to me. The clips of movie footage I've seen so far have been much more effects-intensive than I'd expected, perhaps because Pullman's focus wasn't so much on the glossy steampunk technological setting as on the sociology of power and the nature of faith/betrayal.)
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