They are all fantasy literature, and why the "Golden Compass" is such a result, it is inevitable that people are quite contemplating. Judging from a certain kind of information conveyed by the audience, it seems that "Golden Compass" makes the audience a little strenuous in understanding, and the jerky and difficult to understand becomes a label of the film. Is it really so? It doesn't seem to be the case. At least I still understand a certain symbolic meaning conveyed in the movie, but why does it produce such an effect? In fact, it is more or less helpful to understand the reasons for the other three films adapted from fantasy literature.
Tolkien and Louis, the authors of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Chronicles of Narnia", belong to the same era. The works are more classical, but the audiences for the two works seem to be different. If you say "The Lord of the Rings" It belongs to adult fantasy, so "The Chronicles of Narnia" is biased towards children's literature. As early classic fantasy literary works, the two works have readers of different ages, and the mass base accumulated over many years has made an inestimable contribution to the film's box office. Philip, the author of the "Dark Matter" series, and Rowling, the author of "Harry Potter", are both still alive. There are more modern elements in their works, but they are age-related. This kind of thinking, and "Harry Potter" is more suitable for children's needs and full of a lot of fun. After comparing horizontally and vertically, it can be found that "Dark Matter" lacks fans of multiple ages like the previous two classic works, and the slightly modern and mature style is obviously not as popular as "Harry Potter" by contemporary young fans. , These all determine the limited audience of the film "Golden Compass".
Although the protagonist in the film "Golden Compass" is a little girl, you will find that it is full of metaphors in the development of the whole story, as if it is a critique of a certain authoritarian ideology as in "1984", in the world of the film The human race has a small pet that accompanies it like a shadow, as if the soul is to the body. As the villain of the movie, the ruling power seems to project the authoritarian regime in the real world, and it contains a huge conspiracy to control the thinking of children, so that the authoritarian rule can continue to develop smoothly. In the film, the children are taken away, and then the body is separated from the pet by a real family operation to achieve the purpose of control. A child who loses his pet is like losing his soul and inevitably loses independent thinking ability, so in the end it seems like a brainwashing to become a fool under the control of the ruler. Such allusions point to us or a certain period of history in the past. In fact, you can't expect those children to fully understand these metaphors, so the "Golden Compass" looks jerky when it comes to watching it.
In fact, "The Lord of the Rings", "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Harry Potter" did not use too big stars, and the pay of Nicole and Craig in "Golden Compass" really made the cost of the film high. In fact, the protagonist is the little girl. This kind of investment in a fantasy children's literature really didn't use the money on the blade. Adults feel that this film is not grand enough, and children feel that this film is too difficult to understand, and "Golden Compass" is misunderstood in its positioning.
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