The Master of Jordan College, Dr Carne, gives her the last alethiometer, a truth reader, to keep a secret from Mrs Coulter. Unknown to Lyra, Marisa is really her mother. Lyra later meets Marisa Coulter, a rich and influential woman who wants to take her on a trip to the North. He wanted to find out about other worlds which would severely destroy the Magisterium's authority. Lyra saves her uncle by warning him about the poison before listening to his presentation, asking for money to send him on a mission to the North to discover more about Dust. Lyra and Pan witness a Magisterium agent poison Asriel's Tokay before a speech about Dust (a topic which has been forbidden to be mentioned) that he was taking in the Retiring Room of the college for the scholars. Lyra is an orphan and her only relative is the explorer Lord Asriel who is her uncle.

The gyptians, water travellers, are being worst hit.Īt Jordan College in Oxford, Lyra Belacqua and her dæmon, an animal form of the soul that accompanies every human, Pantalaimon are living a wild life, climbing the roofs and throwing mud at the gyptian children. There is a crisis in Brytain as a group nicknamed the ' Gobblers' go around and take poor children. In Lyra's world, a world both similar and different to our own, there is a dominant organisation, the Magisterium.

3 Differences between the novel and the film.

Although the film's visual effects (which Weitz has called the film's 'most successful element') won both a BAFTA and an Academy Award, critical reception was mixed and revenue lower than anticipated. The studio ordered significant changes late in post-production, which Weitz later called a 'terrible' experience.

Catholic League due to perceived anti-Catholic themes. With a budget of $180 million, it is one of New Line's biggest-budget projects ever after a series of box office disappointments preceding the release.īefore its release the film received criticism from both secular organisations and fans of His Dark Materials for the dilution of the religious elements from the novels, and also theist organisations - in particular, it was the subject of a boycott campaign by the U.S. The project was announced in February 2002, following the success of other recent adaptations of fantasy epics. The film was released on 5 December, 2007 by New Line Cinema. The Golden Compass is the film adaptation of Northern Lights, the first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. The compass will show the way.' -Official tagline

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