hJc: A translucent, dusty gold powder

I'm on the edge of my seat for the Golden Compass movie, but afraid to hope for too much after what happened to Narnia (which I never did actually see). On the one hand, I only discovered the His Dark Materials trilogy as an adult, rather than imprinting on it as a child; but on the other, it is explicitly anti-religion, or at least anti-theist, and that's going to be hard to respect and preserve in a major motion picture.

(And I understand the RPS urge.)

(Reply to this) (Thread)

It's not only anti-religion and anti-theist, it's also pro-sex in a way that isn't Hollywood - it exactly reverses the Christian position that it's good to be an innocent.

Safer just not to hope, I agree. OTOH, I'm happier that it's only covering the first book in the series - I was somehow under the impression that they were going to try to squeeze all three into one film.

And I understand the RPS urge.

And then I could turn it into a script! And then I could convince Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi to play themselves in a play about themselves meeting years after they were at Cambridge! And then I could book it into the Lyceum and book seats for every night. I probably need more caffeine.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

I think I'd heard him talk about his crush on Derek Jacobi before, but I hadn't heard that it was mutual.

It would be beautiful RPS, but I seem to recall that McKellen is in a committed relationship.


I didn't make it all the way through the first HDM book.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

I think I'd heard him talk about his crush on Derek Jacobi before, but I hadn't heard that it was mutual.

Mmmm... Isn't it sweet?


It would be beautiful RPS, but I seem to recall that McKellen is in a committed relationship.

No, McKellen is single - at least, so he always says in interviews. Derek Jacobi is married to Richard Clifford, who is also an actor, though not of Jacobi's (or McKellen's!) calibre: the only thing I can think of you might have seen him in is a Blake's 7 episode, "Terminal", where he played a red-shirt character who was killed by Links.


I didn't make it all the way through the first HDM book.

I thought the first was brilliant: was less keen on the second: and enchanted by the third.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Ah, if it's not one, it's the other.

*check IMDb*

I must've seen Richard Clifford in several other titles, but I don't remember him.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

they were in love with each other

I think you just made my heart stop with melancholy joy.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

*wails in decades-too-late sympathy* I know.

(Reply to this) (Parent)