The Never Ending Story

[timepiececlock]

ok, I just turned on the SciFi channel, and The Never Ending Story was on, right in the middle.

And I remember thinking a few months ago (and anniesj and I had a rather inconclusive discussion about this) on the scene where his horse dies in the swamp and the boy is screaming "ATREYU! ATRYEU! ATREEEEEEYYYUUUUUU!!!!"

But we couldn't remember the boy's name.

Only, I turned on now to the scene where the boy is talking to the brownie-sized old scientist, about to go into the Sphinx oracle, and they call the BOY "Atreyu."

So if that's the boy's name, in what scene and who was someone screaming his name? And what was the horse's name? And WHY do I have this memory of the boy screaming out that name when his horse dies, if it's not the horse's name at all?

Comments

[surfal666.livejournal.com]

It's the boy (Bastian) reading the book who is yelling out "Atreyu" because when the horse sinks into the swamp, Atreyu despairs as well and begins to sink.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok! That makes sense. thanks. I hate it when little onconsequential things like this just keep bugging you until you get an answer, ya know.

[crossouttheeyes.livejournal.com]

The horse's name is Artex. I think that's how you spell it, but I'm not 100% sure.

Book-pimpin'!

[octopedingenue]

Atreyu is the boy warrior, his horse is Artax, and the boy Bastian Balthazar Bux is calling out Atreyu's name because he's gotten lost in the story and is terrified Atreyu will sink into the Swamps of Sadness.

And the horse comes back. *g*

I really really like the movie (Falkor rocks so hard and looks gorgeous), but "The Neverending Story" book kicks the movie's ass. I read it first when I was seven years old and I truly, honestly want to be reading it again when I die. (And I want everybody else to read it before THEY die! And then I want them to buy me chocolate! Mwahahaha!) The first movie cuts off only halfway through the book, and the rest of the book was squished into a WEAK sequel "Neverending Story II". The story is--well, a billion stories shooting off from one, which is the point, really. It's a little like a non-technological Matrix: the power of stories within stories within stories, worlds within worlds, belief making things real...

"Bastian Balthazar Bux's passion was books.

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger - If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless - If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next."

*happy shudder* Gaaaaah! Now I want to reeeeeeead it again, and I just came back to college and left the book at home in Texas...

The book "Momo" by the same author is harder to find but worth looking for--a strange little girl, time-space continuum, a mysterious tortoise, menacing Men in Gray...


But that's another story and shall be told another time. ^_~