{"id":1455,"date":"2007-11-08T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T11:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/11\/the-golden-compass-a-more-mode.html"},"modified":"2007-11-08T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T11:05:38","slug":"the-golden-compass-a-more-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/11\/the-golden-compass-a-more-mode.html","title":{"rendered":"‘The Golden Compass’: A More Moderate Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GC_00042.jpg\"Just as I reluctantly entered the fray<\/a> over “The Da Vinci Code<\/a>” movie debate, I am not interested in giving more free ink to the film adaptation of Philip Pullman\u2019s “The Golden Compass.” I am not going to call for a boycott, and I am not going to ramble about conspiracy theories or agendas. However, given fellow blogger Donna\u2019s numerous and effusive posts<\/a> in support of Pullman, I feel some responsibility to point to other Christian responses that are neither fundamentalist, Bible-thumping rantings nor uninformed, unscholarly musings (not that I think Donna falls into either of those categories, but she seems to think most critics do<\/em> fit into these two groups).
\nIf you are interested in reading well-thought-out arguments by critics who know the fantasy genre much better than I do yet still do not support the notion of Pullman’s very tolerant, magnanimous literary intentions, I suggest you read fantasy author Jeffrey Overstreet’s anaylsis, in which he describes in detail his respect for Pullman’s writing while pointing out that with Pullman’s anti-religion bias<\/A>, he still never has the courage to deal with the true nature of Christ himself.<\/p>\n


\nYou could also check out critic Peter Chattaway’s take on the movie, where he discusses how there have been complaints that movie has been dumbed down<\/A> so that it wouldn’t be so anti-religious–and that<\/em> has inflamed the secularist group Pullman belongs to.
\nBoth posts are excellent for the way they address–without hyperbole–the underlying problem with all of the media spin around this movie: Maybe the “Compass” is great literature for its genre, but great literature throughout history is always written from a specific world view, and Pullman definitely has one. So he should take responsibility for that instead of cleverly evading the issue in the hopes of bigger box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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