This is actually one of my favourite fantasy film of all time. But I could have done without that crappy "Bastian getting revenge" finale.
Even as a kid, I found it cringe-inducing. And bastian looks utterly creepy during the entire scene.
If they ever do a remake (Not that I want one)...I hope they at least do away with any cheesy scenes like that one. I would be grateful.
Agreed. That eye-for-an-eye scene didn't do this beautifully wondrous story justice.
It would have been enough if the three bullies just saw him flying through the street with the dragon.
And the old bookseller should have been there too, looking out of the window smiling.
I agree that the ending was awful, and so was the entire Bastian character & frame story.
I made a thread about that too.
This film definitely needs a remake that isn't ruined by a Bastian-like wuss character and idiotic frame story as is the original.
But then the remake would probably be ruined by CGI instead.
Any child who has been bullied will identify with Bastian's 'revenge'. All Bastian did was put the kids in the same bin HE had been forced into. Poetic justice and all that.
Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.
All Bastian did was put the kids in the same bin HE had been forced into. Poetic justice and all that.
I don't think the voiceover narration claims that. The final line of the movie is:
Bastian made many other wishes and had many other amazing adventures before finally returning to the ordinary world . . . But that's another story.
"If I had done the whole book, I wouldn't have had a film, because it was much too much. The big mistake on Dune was that they tried to do the whole thing in one film, and it's so confusing that it's not a real story anymore. It's so complex that you don't understand what's happening. That would have been exactly the mistake with Neverending Story because there's so much happening in that book. There's a natural break. That moment when Bastian flies into his own Fantasia is exactly the middle of the book. In the second part, we follow Bastian's adventures in his creation of Fantasia.
I won't do the sequel, but the producer [Bernd Eichinger] was thinking about it. I'm not sure they want to do it. The Neverending Story was very expensive for a German production - 60 million Deutschmarks - and the second part is much more difficult to visualize. There is no real world in the second half - it all takes place in Bastian's Fantasia, with hundreds of creatures. It would be very, very expensive."
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A ton of people in the streets just see a dragon fly around, that would be significant, to say the least.
Very good. But brick not hit back!share
"I assumed that only the kids could see it since they're the ones with imagination."
What about adults that still have imagination? How about teens?
Also, so adults would NOT see the dragon - but they'd see a kid flying in the air in a sitting position and maneuvering about very fast? Sure, that's not weird at all, just flying kid on a not-dragon.
Might be actually less traumatizing to see the dragon at that point, if the alternative is just seeing a flying kid.
Pansy. I wish he had a fire breathing dragon. Then get some real revenge against the punks.
shareIf you've ever been bullied, you'd understand why he wanted to scare the crap out of them. But Bastians face was weird
shareIt's a populist moment. It gives the audience what they want. But bullying the bullies defeats the message of the movie.
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