Kidman Says Religious Content of 'The Golden Compass' Has Been "Watered Down"

Oh, goodness, no, the trilogy isn't anti-Catholic at all. It's only advocating
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the death of God and the end of religion.

I like Nicole just fine as an actress, but she should think before she speaks!

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Reminds me of Evelyn Waugh's comment about Hollywood making a movie out of one's book: they take what is unique and special, throw that out and film everything else.

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Um, how is the end of the trilogy supposed to work? You know, the part where, I don't know, they EFFING KILL GOD????

Watered down? It's the whole point of the trilogy, to water down the core ideas is idiotic.

I hate that this movie is being made, because the books are so fantastic (though, oddly, none of Pullman's other efforts are even remotely as good.)

I hate that this movie is being made, because the story arc won't work without the centeral anti-theistic theme.

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Gina,

Don't you think advocating the death of God, to be also anti-catholic, if only by proxy? Saying it's not anti-catholic, is like saying a square isn't a rectangle.

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I don't know, 'The Ruby in the Smoke' and the Sally Lockhart series could make interesting movies...the BBC has already done at least one tv movie with Billie Piper, but they could still up the ante with a better version for the big screen.

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Eugene,

I have a friend I'd like you to get to know. His name is Sarcasm. I don't think you two have met.

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Oh, and Gina.

She was talking about the FILM adaptation not the amazing books. Funny that thing you said about thinking before you speak.

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"I think it's safe to say that Kidman's priorities and choices are completely off-the-wall these days..."

With all due respect, do you really think she signed on to "The Invasion" knowing it would be released with "unfinished scenes, bizarre flashbacks to action scenes that hadn't happened yet, action-scenes staged with total incompetence, a completely stupid political subtext and an ending that's money-back terrible"? Sometimes movies turn out like crap. Kind of a testament to how hard it is to make good movies. There's a lot that can go wrong between the moment she signs her contract and the moment the film hits theaters, and to suggest that somehow Nicole Kidman chose this film knowing it would be handled so poorly is to misunderstand how films are made.

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Kidman is talking about The Golden Compass which, if I'm not mistaken, is the first book in the series. Last time I checked, not all gods were Catholic, too.

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I know she was talking about the films, Joseph -- the films that I believe Philip Pullman himself said would be true to the books and NOT have their anti-religious content watered down. So I think perhaps Ms. Kidman misheard or misunderstood something.

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Talk about ruining the movie. Why is the end just anti-catholic anyway? its anti a lot of religions. but its an interesting perspective.

They're stupid to water down the ending. How will they end the series??

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From the article:

"In Pullman's book, he describes an organisation that snatches children to surgically remove their souls, in a reference widely considered to be a controversial description of the Catholic Church.

In the film script, the organisation is referred to only as a fictional place known as "the Magisterium"."

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what the "church" in Lyra's world is called in the book?

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Be fair. Kidman did not write, direct or edit The Invasion, didn´t she?

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you geniuness out there before you squabble on the topic. the source of all sources of these dumb comment came from us magazine a very much tabloid with truth of all it only makes people mesmerized by their own imagination and the last to laugh is them because they gain and the sdyney herald was also inflicted by this desease and spreading with no truth of all. How easily for all of us to be captivi ted by this comment with no truth of all.

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I think this movie is just stupid. Get to the real issue. Funny how athiests don't believe in god, but yet they are always trying to think of ways to prove he doesn't exsist, or doing something stupid like creating movies where "God" is destroyed, why would you have to destroy him if he doesn't exsist?? Supid foolishness, time wasted,get a life and move on. Spend your miserable life here on earth alone and we will see you in the end.. or maybe not. If christians made a movie about athiests being killed or another movie bashing religions, there would be a riot. I hope the movie plummits and hits rock bottom and is pulled from the theaters, and everyone involved ruins they're careers. I have nothing left to say.

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The Princess Pimp (Nicole), unfortunately needs to realize that her take on the movie is overshadowed by a paycheck.

The movie like the Da Vinci Code are all attempts by the floundering movie industry to turn a buck by shocking the sensibilities. Inverting metaphors, blashpheming God, romanticizing heresies, and mocking objective truths is lickened to what Al Capone did with the Volstead-Act.

No wonder Pullman, Ronny Howard, & Princess Pimp are starting to look more and more like Hollywood con-artists.

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The Princess Pimp (Nicole), unfortunately needs to realize that her take on the movie is overshadowed by a paycheck.

The movie like the Da Vinci Code are all attempts by the floundering movie industry to turn a buck by shocking the sensibilities. Inverting metaphors, blashpheming God, romanticizing heresies, and mocking objective truths is lickened to what Al Capone did with the Volstead-Act.

No wonder Pullman, Ronny Howard, & Princess Pimp are starting to look more and more like Hollywood con-artists.

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The Princess Pimp (Nicole), unfortunately needs to realize that her take on the movie is overshadowed by a paycheck.

The movie like the Da Vinci Code are all attempts by the floundering movie industry to turn a buck by shocking the sensibilities. Inverting metaphors, blashpheming God, romanticizing heresies, and mocking objective truths is lickened to what Al Capone did with the Volstead-Act.

No wonder Pullman, Ronny Howard, & Princess Pimp are starting to look more and more like Hollywood con-artists.

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Credo in unum Deum,
Patrem omnipoténtem,
factórem cæli et terræ,
visibílium ómnium et invisibílium.
Et in unum Dóminum Iesum Christum,
Fílium Dei Unigénitum,
et ex Patre natum ante ómnia sæcula.
Deum de Deo, lumen de lúmine, Deum verum de Deo vero,
génitum, non factum, consubstantiálem Patri:
per quem ómnia facta sunt.
Qui propter nos hómines et propter nostram salútem
descéndit de cælis.
Et incarnátus est de Spíritu Sancto
ex María Vírgine, et homo factus est.
Crucifíxus étiam pro nobis sub Póntio Piláto;
passus, et sepúltus est,
et resurréxit tértia die, secúndum Scriptúras,
et ascéndit in cælum, sedet ad déxteram Patris.
Et íterum ventúrus est cum glória,
iudicáre vivos et mórtuos,
cuius regni non erit finis.
Et in Spíritum Sanctum, Dóminum et vivificántem:
qui ex Patre Filióque procédit.
Qui cum Patre et Fílio simul adorátur et conglorificátur:
qui locútus est per prophétas.
Et unam, sanctam, cathólicam et apostólicam Ecclésiam.
Confíteor unum baptísma in remissiónem peccatorum.
Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum,
et vitam ventúri sæculi. Amen.

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GET THE KIDS HOOKED. BUY THE BOOKS. WATCH THE WHOLE TRILOGY 'TIL THE END. GOD DIES.

NICOLE MAKES EVEN MORE MONEY. CYNICAL. YOU BET...........

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