furbaby wrote:if only... wrote: What makes you think Malone is Irish?
1. Her name.
2. The fact that she has been a nun.
She may not be Irish by birth, but very likely her parents were Irish; and it is much more common for Irish girls to enter a convent then it is for English girls.
Re Lord Boreal. I guessed from the short glimpse of the character with the snake dæmon that he might be intended to fill the role of Lord Boreal. The actor (Edward de Souza, is it?) looks the part to me. He is one of those actors whose name is not very well-known, but has a long CV of solid supporting roles. I recognised him at once , but couldn't put a name to him. He'd do for me, although I'd agree Brian Cox would be a good pick if we were starting from scratch.
How can being a nun instantly make you irish?
So she might have had irish ancestry, and she might have LIVED in ireland for a while, but i failed to see, at any point in the books, any trace of an irish ancestry, nationality, or any TRACE of Ireland at all.
You have to remember that a film is supposed to stand alone... apart from the book. It can't just assume the audience knows everything already, even thought half of them do anyway. A film needs to make coherent sense... and I disagree with you. First, the zeppelin scene had some of the greatest dialogue in the whole movie. I don't know why you hate it. Second, I think that the film needed more explination, and was one of the movie's downfall, (due largly in part to the last minute editing of the second half). It needed to be 2 and half hours, and it would have been a better movie for both the book readers and the non.
more explanation? sam, grow up-they had that stupid introduction scene (nl's trademark after Fellowship of the Ring, methinks) which was largely unneeded because most of that could have been explained at the Roping, which should have been at the Zaal in the Fens anyway, not on the
Nooderlicht, then at the beginning, explaining the sort of things that happen in Lyra's universe as normal conversation, then they had the stupid thing in the zeppelin. I think it would have been impossible to put any more explanation in than they managed. it ended up being stupid, and treating the readers like idiots, and the non-idiots, while i think everyone has enough common sense-maybe not to avoid a Darwin Award-but to work things out for themselves. Such as the magesterium is the church, and the church is bad, that dæmons will feel pain if their human gets hurt...
The only things they needed to explain was touching another dæmon is just wrong, maybe that this is another universe, and the history of the alethiometer which could have been achieved at the Roping, with a little from the Master of Jordan.
Locations went bad too-I always pictured the Retiring Room as a dimly lit room, no windows, although their photograms and projector were good. The wardrobe shouldn't have had windows, and-damn, ive set myself off again...