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The Golden Compass
What: Little girl has magic compass, goes north with an ARMORED POLAR BEAR to save many children.
Directed by: Chris Weitz
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards
Recommended and Related Media
His Dark Materials By Philip Pullman
The trilogy bearing The Golden Compass (the first book) on which this movie was based. It’s pretty good! It had a lot more going on that was basically not present in the movie. Worth a look.
Read it with your ears iTunes | Amazon (1, 2, 3)
Read it with your eyes iTunes | Amazon
PBS Spacetime
They have videos on dark matter and the multiverse! And many other topics.
Show Notes
Production
Issues before, issues during, issues in the final cut. So many issues! How the movie lost much of the depth of the book.
Scifi vs Fantasy
Sciencey veneer over a big pile of fantasy. Maybe steampunk?
Dark Matter
Recognizing that dark matter makes no sense as an explanation for dust. Considering the public conception of dark matter way back when the book was written. Discovery and modern evidence. Bullet cluster. Baryonic matter. Dark energy or the cosmological constant.
The Mind-Body Problem
Familiars and daemons and souls. Dualism. Consciousness uploading. Metaknowledge.
Polar Bears
Polar bear evolution. Shrinking habitat. Hollow hairs and skin color and other adaptations. Blubber and keeping cool.
Parallel Universes
Svalbard! Aurora. The many-worlds interpretation.
Goodbyes
YESSSSSS, THAT IS ALL.
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