The Republic of Heaven

Hey guys, as you know, TGC had a lot of footage cut and half of the movie re-edited because of it. Thankfully, some of this footage has started to pour out of the internet tubes. I thought it would be good to post all of that here in one thread.

If you know of any scenes I've missed post below and I'll edit this post.

The Original End Sequence Storyboard (pre Weitz)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvcZr_CHOj0

Lyra and Roger Meet Asriel in the North
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mfJeLVowL8

Various Scenes, notably Lyra's Fall from Scoresby's Ship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Ra0U2GlTo

More Various Scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah7XfzhLLK4

Asriel Cutting Roger's daemon Away (at 2min 10sec)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6MDIEQjMg

Asriel's Device Opening the Gateway to Will's World (at 2min 30sec)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj61Q5KP ... re=related

Image of Asriel and Coulter's embrace in the North
http://www.hisdarkmaterials.org/photogr ... l.jpg.html

Courtesy of Namster...
Asriel walks towards the bridge to the stars + Asriel and Stelmaria enter the bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XxlfETqf00

Asriel, just as he enters the other world...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11HKd3dSUU

Courtesy of Midnighttosix...
Various cuts of the original Bolvangar, Asriel's house, and airship/Svalbard scenes, includes dialogue...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5r1L_MtCpLg

You know, one of the reasons I miss the ending the most is because they cut Dakota's fiercest line delivery. "I'm not yours! I'll never be yours!"

Bugger. I need to stop obsessing about this.

ETA: Snaps for the title of the thread, though.

Dear New Line,
I will never forgive you for this!


Seriously... even just little things like Lyra being taken to Bolvangar by the Tarters (as was obviously intended) rather than to Svalbard would have made a huge difference, and a far more satisfying movie.
New Line were working on some seriously misguided logic when they decided to take the scissors to the movie... and cut it and rearrange it almost beyond recognition (by which I mean change it heaps from what Weitz clearly intended)

HOW could they pick the crappy ending they did over this one???
It ties everything up, and sets the stage for the next movie. As it is, you have basically no clue what it is that Lord Asriel is doing....ugh, i could go on, it's already been said.
New line, you suck.

And yeah, nice thread title lol

Just added this...

Image of Asriel and Coulter's embrace in the North
http://www.hisdarkmaterials.org/photogr ... l.jpg.html

This is great Mr. Deflok! Thanks a lot! Remember everyone... the ending is all going to be there in Subtle Knife!

I'd really like to see the director's cut with the original story arrangement... JUST to see how it would've been (even without the ending.) I mean we have the alternative version if we want to see that... why not make the original version too! I really, really hope so!!!!

Mr.Deflok, did you get the footage of Lyra falling from the balloon... I didn't see it. I'd also have liked to see them put that beginning scene with that cat, just to connect the cat that Will saw to the one Lyra saw... I thought that would've been cool continuity.

EDIT: Wow, I'm blind... never mind, I see Lyra falling clip. Sheesh, I'm so stupid.

EDIT 2: I refuse to watch the Asriel footage... I want to be surprised. At least I don't want to see it now. Hope this footage is NOT taken down from youtube by New Line.

daemon_light wrote:I refuse to watch the Asriel footage... I want to be surprised. At least I don't want to see it now. Hope this footage is taken down from youtube by New Line.

But that footage is in the official teaser, the official trailer, and the official extended trailer. It benefits New Line to keep those trailers on YouTube.

More:

TV Spot - World
Asriel walks towards the bridge to the stars + Asriel and Stelmaria enter the bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XxlfETqf00

TV Spot - 5
Asriel, just as he enters the other world...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11HKd3dSUU

namster wrote:

daemon_light wrote:I refuse to watch the Asriel footage... I want to be surprised. At least I don't want to see it now. Hope this footage is taken down from youtube by New Line.

But that footage is in the official teaser, the official trailer, and the official extended trailer. It benefits New Line to keep those trailers on YouTube.

More:

TV Spot - World
Asriel walks towards the bridge to the stars + Asriel and Stelmaria enter the bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XxlfETqf00

TV Spot - 5
Asriel, just as he enters the other world...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11HKd3dSUU

HOLY CRAP! I didn't mean what I wrote.... I MEANT to write "I hope New Line DOESN'T take the footage down from youtube." Oh my God! I can't believe I forgot the "not."

Not all the footage were in the trailers is it... wait, so all this "extra" footage is just pieced together "cut" footage that were in all the trailers?

Sorry about my mess up... I better edit it.

For those of you craving additional tidbits of the ending, I would draw your attention to the Golden Compass hardcover story book.

namster wrote:

daemon_light wrote:I refuse to watch the Asriel footage... I want to be surprised. At least I don't want to see it now. Hope this footage is taken down from youtube by New Line.

But that footage is in the official teaser, the official trailer, and the official extended trailer. It benefits New Line to keep those trailers on YouTube.

More:

TV Spot - World
Asriel walks towards the bridge to the stars + Asriel and Stelmaria enter the bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XxlfETqf00

TV Spot - 5
Asriel, just as he enters the other world...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11HKd3dSUU

Wonderful! Thanks, I've edited my first post to contain those too

I wonder why the changed the ending?
Kudos to the topic title, it's great!

Here's some excellent footage taken from the game of the original Bolvangar, Asriel's house, and airship/Svalbard scenes:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5r1L_MtCpLg

Oh wow, thanks muchly! It's fantastic quality footage, if completely out of order. MrDeflok, going to add this one in as well?

Just updated it. Wow, that was a good one Midnight, cheers!

For those wanting some further details of how the film was originally made with Bolvangar/Svalbard in the correct order, and with the ending, and other interesting plot details, etc. an essential bit of fan memorabilia is the little "The Golden Compass: The story of the movie" book.

This book summarizes the film (i.e. before the editing) and is lavishly illustrated with images.

The other companion books are similarly opulent and well worth buying too!

Am I the only one that was disappointed when we didn't see Grumman's severed head in that tube thingo? Hahaha that would have been awesome. i can just see all the disgusted scholars and lyra going "show me! show me!"

Pineapple wrote:Am I the only one that was disappointed when we didn't see Grumman's severed head in that tube thingo? Hahaha that would have been awesome. i can just see all the disgusted scholars and lyra going "show me! show me!"

Didn't miss it. But I love Asriel's line in the book when Lyra asks him to show her the head: "Don't be disgusting."

Go him!

Yeah but in removing the bit with Grumman's head and lord Boreal entirely they've effectively shot themselves in the foot for the sequels.

namster wrote:

Pineapple wrote:Am I the only one that was disappointed when we didn't see Grumman's severed head in that tube thingo? Hahaha that would have been awesome. i can just see all the disgusted scholars and lyra going "show me! show me!"

Didn't miss it. But I love Asriel's line in the book when Lyra asks him to show her the head: "Don't be disgusting."

Go him!

I also loved the line (although this was in Subtle Knife) when Lyra woke up after having a dream about the vaccuum and the Grumman head and then asked the alethiometer what the dream meant, but all it said was, "It was a dream about a head."
I don't know why, but I laughed out loud when I read that... tee hee.

daemon_light wrote:

namster wrote:

Pineapple wrote:Am I the only one that was disappointed when we didn't see Grumman's severed head in that tube thingo? Hahaha that would have been awesome. i can just see all the disgusted scholars and lyra going "show me! show me!"

Didn't miss it. But I love Asriel's line in the book when Lyra asks him to show her the head: "Don't be disgusting."

Go him!

I also loved the line (although this was in Subtle Knife) when Lyra woke up after having a dream about the vaccuum and the Grumman head and then asked the alethiometer what the dream meant, but all it said was, "It was a dream about a head."
I don't know why, but I laughed out loud when I read that... tee hee.

Yeah rebel Alethiometer