Currently Reading Popcorn in the Pages - Episode 8: Stardust
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Stardust by Neil Gaiman
1:29 - Previews
Book Name and release date. Sales info and awards.
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Illustrated Version illustrated by Charles Vess
HP Illustrated Editions by JK Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay
Movie name and release date. Box office and awards.
7:26 - The Cutting Room
Pivotal Book scenes and how they translated to the screen
Turning the goats and chariot into the inn
The killings of the brothers
The ending that isn't
The climax that IS
Changes from Book to Movie
Story timeline
The Power of Stormhold stone
Witch hair
Yvain's leg
TrisTRAN
Yvain's hatred of Tristran
Tristran's "heritage" reveal
Yvain's attempt to cross the wall
Left out of the adaptation
Charmed, the small hairy man
Unicorn fight with the lion
Nursery rhymes
Another Missing Sister
Una's freedom
Added to the movie
Gay pirates!
Alberic → Shakespeare
Tristran's haircut
Climax scene in the Witches' home
Casting and alternates
TrisTRAN: Charlie Cox → Ben Barnes, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Radcliffe, Shia LaBeouf, Toby Maguire, Hayden Christianson
Yvain: Claire Daines → Sarah Michelle Gellar, Hayden Panetierre, Reese Witherspoon, Brittany Snow
Lamia: Michelle Pfieffer → Tilda Swinton, Nicole Kidman, Emma Thompson
Captain Shakespeare: Robert Deniro → Burt Reynolds, Al Pacino
Narrator: Ian McKlellan → Patrick Stewart
Problematic elements
Neil Gaiman's sexual assault charges
The Graveyard Book movie on hold
Good Omens series on hold
Lack of racial diversity as well
Women as property
Women's inability to lead
35:50 - Award Season
Worst and best parts of the adaptation.
Gay pirates
A feeling of "rushing"
The romance
The pirates - HA
Worst and best actors.
Primus
Victoria
Michelle Pfeiffer
Charlie Cox
Worst and best book characters.
Tristan
The Unicorn
Yvain
48:00 - Book/Flick Energy
Book scored on a 5 star scale.
Series scored on a 10 point scale.
51:31 - A Leftover Popcorn Kernel
Where would you travel with a Babylon Candle?
How would you want to die if your ghost was captured at the moment of death?
54:53 - End Credits
I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
I Remember You is rentable through many outlets
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