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. ^_~
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Date: 2003-01-20 10:09 pm (UTC)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. ^_~