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The Childlike Empress

I think Oneshot and The Neverending Story have the same spirit: to love fiction as if it were real. And I find that beautiful.

Fuchur/Falkor and Atreju/Atreyu (based on their book descriptions) 🐉(The Neverending Story is one of my favorite children’s books :))

I tried a bit more of a painterly aproach with the background than I normally do. No clue what I was doing but I like how it turned out

Okay so like I just watched The Neverending Story again for the first time in like 10+ years because I was feeling really stressed and a little dysphoric and I needed something to distract myself. First of all, incredible movie, I love it so fucking much. The vibes are just THERE ya know? But the one part that caught my attention was fuckin

LOOK AT THOSE MFS IN THE BACK. LIKE WHAT ARE THEY. WHAT ARE THE DISEMBODIED RUSHMORE HEADS. I WANNA KNOW THEIR STORY. BUT THEY DONT EVEN SPEAK THEYRE JUST SET DRESSING. LIKE ARE THEY ROYALTY OF THE ROCK BITERS??? WHY DO THEY LOOK LIKE THAT???? I WANNA KNOW MORE I WANNA SEE MORE OF THESE FUNKY GUYS!!!!

Honestly the 80s was such a different time because like look at how much fucking effort went into BACKGROUND SET DRESSING for this movie. If this movie were made today, this entire image would be like 99% CGI. But that's all THERE it's REAL and PHYSICAL there are ACTUAL GIANT STONE-LOOKING HEADS ON THAT SET LIKE HOW CAN YOU ACT. HOW CAN YOU PERFORM WITH THOSE THINGS OVER THERE.

Until it ends, there is no end

Roswitha Quadflieg’s capital letters for The Neverending Story. 2/2

Have you actually watched The NeverEnding Story (1984)? I feel like it ties nicely with the whole theme of childhood and nostalgia that you talked about. That's probably why it was referenced so much in s3.

I'll be so honest, I started the movie but I felt bored and never really finished it. However I've read the detailed summary of the book and have seen a lot of others' theories on how it ties into Stranger Things. It's definitely interesting how the first half kind of celebrates that childlike escape into fantasy, but the second half is a cautionary tale about getting lost in it as well. Feels very ST, yeah.

HERE'S AN IDEA

Instead of just remaking the original Neverending Story movie, for the reboot we should make it more like the book

You know

Were Bastian(remember Bastian?) goes mad with power, destabilizes and corrupts the world of Fantastica, before attempting to overthrow the Childlike Empress using the powers she granted him.

Only to then fail miserably, forced to wonder Fantastica in search of a way home, desperate not to lose all memory as he clashes with the world he created now without godlike abilities.

BRING BACK MAD WITH POWER BASTIAN

Thoughts about Neverending Story remake

Having heard they're making a remake to Neverending Story I've had a lot of thoughts about how they should do it. You know, what things need to happen to make it good

I say this as a big fan of the original book

While I know there's a lot you can't bring into an adaptation, especially from a book as wild as this, but I feel we could return to the original description of The Nothing

In the movie, The Nothing is depicted as a black and consuming storm. Or according to some, the storm is only there to represent the invisible Nothing, which is still cheating

In the book The Nothing has no color, has no shape, has no tangible presence, no storm clouds to reveal itself. Those who step into it suffer no pain, only cease. And on page 24, as The Tiny says, "when you look at the place, it's as if you were blind."

Making it not invisible either, as some say, but rather something that not a single character within the story can truly describe

Think how all who see Hyde recognize him as being horribly disturbed, despite there being no physical flaws they can point out

Obviously there's nothing they can really do to create that kind of Nothing on film, especially no amount of bad cgi, so what then should be done? That's what I've been thinking about

The best thing to do is keep The Nothing off camera entirely, always just out of our view. With that all we have to go off of is descriptions through dialogue, which many of the characters talk about in the book. Now The Nothing isn't just black clouds, but the terrifying and lovecraftian doom to Fantastica(oh btw, it's Fantastica, they changed the name in the movie) like it always was to so many of the fantasy worlds residents

And because, as everyone who remembers the drowning horse knows, Neverending Story is supposed to be down. So this works imo

*Eghhh!*

You lose in the welcome addition to my post competition

There is almost no news about the new movie they're making, beyond the studio and productions

So when you say it's "too woke" what exactly are you referring to?

HERE'S AN IDEA

Instead of just remaking the original Neverending Story movie, for the reboot we should make it more like the book

You know

Were Bastian(remember Bastian?) goes mad with power, destabilizes and corrupts the world of Fantastica, before attempting to overthrow the Childlike Empress using the powers she granted him.

Only to then fail miserably, forced to wonder Fantastica in search of a way home, desperate not to lose all memory as he clashes with the world he created now without godlike abilities.

BRING BACK MAD WITH POWER BASTIAN

"I sent you on the Great Quest -- not for the sake of the message you would bring me, but because that was the only way of calling our savior. He took part in everything you did, and he had come a long way with you....[He, the reader,] followed you, because he saw himself through your eyes.... Perhaps he even understands that all the hardship you, Atreyu, took upon yourself was for his sake...."

"[Bastian, the reader,] had always felt this, though he could not have explained why it was so. He had never been willing to believe that life had to be as gray and dull as people claimed. He had heard them saying: 'Life is like that,' but he couldn't agree. He never stopped believing in mysteries and miracles. "

The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende

When C.S. Lewis wrote “but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

The Neverending Story (German: Die unendliche Geschichte) by Michael Ende.

A magnificent book.

Falkor the Luck Dragon

Me core edit but I can’t edit and basically gave up halfway through