Stardust

[icepixie]

I went to see Stardust today. It was excellent, although of course not quite as good as the book (but what is?). The book was rather obviously more adult than the film--particularly Tristran's and Ivaine's bickering--but whatever. First of all, even though I've read the book twice, I have absolutely no memory of the lighting-catcher ship and its flamboyant captain. Was this in the book? Perhaps I should read it again. (Oh, darn.)

I also don't remember Ivaine shining the witch-queen to death against all laws of physics and logic, but that's okay.

Preeeeeetty pretty scenery. Although I expected the market to be more colorful, but whatever. It was still largely a really pretty movie. And the ghosts cracked me up. All in all, I'd say it was an excellent adaptation, far better than most I've seen. Yay!

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[nickless.livejournal.com]

Cool - I want to see it, but was waiting for someone to comment about it.

I've read the book twice, I have absolutely no memory of the lightning-catcher ship and its flamboyant captain. Was this in the book?

The ship is there - when they escape from the witch-chick, they wind up on a cloud, and the ship "rescues" them. However, the captain is decidedly NOT flamboyant, at least not the way I remember him!

Preeeeeetty pretty scenery.

I read something about that - it was the Scottish Highlands and Iceland, primarily. Which dude, totally explains it. I can't find the site that talked all about it, though. *pout*

[elflore.livejournal.com]

The Captain in the book was a very different, quiet, married man called Captain Alberic, and the lightning ship sequence was just a couple of pages. When they adapted the film, they decided to use the flying ship sequence to move the characters and plot along in different ways, and so they renamed the Captain to acknowledge he wasn't the same.

I loved the adaptation, though. Gaiman was actually a producer on the film, the director and screenwriter are friends of his, and he was in on the process the whole time, making suggestions and checking things over. He and Charles Vess both loved how the film turned out...so I've got no problem loving the book and film in different ways. *g*

(Especially the ending. I'm enough of a sap, part of me does love the film ending possibly more than the beautiful-bittersweet of the books. Though that actually has less to do with the flying-to-the-sky bit and more to do with the fact that they got to have a family in the film....)