What’s that, YouTube? You saw me looking for footage from The Neverending Story and want to tell me you have it up free and legal with ads and I can share it with my readers? Nice you finally did something right!
If I didn’t make it clear, The Neverending Story is my favorite movie. It’s not a good adaptation, which is why I don’t balk at a more faithful adaptation given statements I’ve made on this very website over the years, but it speaks to everything I love about stories and the movie version of Bastian is basically me as a kid. Well, not completely. My mom passed away well into my adulthood, my dad has always been caring and as attentive as possible, and my bullies used psychological torture instead of shoving me in a dumpster, but escaping into stories (though I’m more of a sci-fi superhero guy than a fantasy guy) is totally how I dealt with those and why I want to be a storyteller now, balking at how kids entertainment has lost so much steam from when I was a kid in a wake of storytellers who don’t care about kids.
The story has a great soundtrack whether your part of reality had the orchestral or the synth scores, the acting shows that kids can act, and I do like how the world of Fantasia is depicted. For those who celebrate it for being “dark”, that’s not what makes it such a good movie. Instead the story is dark because it needs to be. Yes, it didn’t happen as often in kids stories in entertainment, and points for trusting in their audience, but I once saw someone praise the movie for how dark it is, saying it like five times in one sentence. It was weird.
But enough of me talking. Time to watch this movie, and then I have a bonus couple of videos from the BW archives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhMSGYHoeOU
The two bonus videos come from ConnectiCon 2014. First up is from my series covering convention panels, BW Panelling. Noah Hathaway (Atreyu) and Alan Oppenheimer (Falcor) discuss working on the movie. I may have chosen the wrong image for the thumbnail.
The second bonus comes from the same convention, but the press junket. BW At The Press Junket brings you more Hathaway (sadly, Oppenheimer didn’t do one), who talks about what he’s done after this movie, and of course I had to discuss his time on the original Battlestar Galactica because I was going to be the only one who did. 😀
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