A Director Confronts Some Dark Material

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  Posted By: wedrowan @ 12/12/2007 9:34:14 PM

  When I read the books I could see they would make great movies. What I can not understand is why, other than being a trilogy, they are compared to "Lord of the Rings". Pullman has great creativity but not the quality Tolkien in any way. I've been so amused by the catholic church, assuming that the the savage theocracy in the books refers to them, I don't remember the church in the book being named at all. Perhaps I missed that.

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  Posted By: Ron57 @ 12/06/2007 11:36:57 AM

  Reading some of the other posts I don't recall Donohue being so hard on the "Lord of The Rings".J.R.R. Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic. I think many who criticize the "R.C.C." are upset that it still exists and will for centuries to come. Find the matches? I'll bring the bandaids.

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  Posted By: Ron57 @ 12/06/2007 11:01:28 AM

  Oxford Proffesor Alister McGrath makes brief mention of Pullman's trilogy in his book"The Twilight of Athieism", comparing it to a version of Orwell's "Animal Farm" that ends where the animals run off the humans. I think that you can give a story special effects, and million dollar promotion but it still putting lipstick on a corpse. It will eventualy be forgotten because the athieism that it promotes is intellectualy spent. The children who do read the books will often be put off by the ahiteism in the story.