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The Golden Compass: A Film Study Guide for Catholics
By Sr. Rose Pacatte, FSP
November 25, 2007
New Line Cinema’s latest contribution to the fantasy film genre is director/writer
Chris Weitz’s (About a Boy) The Golden Compass, based on the 1995 award-winning
book of the same title by Phillip Pullman. New Line was the studio behind director Peter
Jackson’s interpretation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings, and it
may have another hit trilogy on its hands, beginning with The Golden Compass.
The Golden Compass is Book I of Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy; Part II is
The Subtle Knife (1997) and Part III The Amber Spyglass (2000.) Over 15 million copies
of the books have been sold worldwide. As author Pullman notes, he has borrowed from
every book he has ever read to create this best-selling and controversial trilogy and these
include the fantasy writings and mythic imagination of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein.
The Golden Compass is a very exciting film about a young girl, Lyra and her
animal-shaped spirit companion, Pan, voiced by Freddie Highmore (…