MOVIE REVIEW: StardustStar light, star bright
First star I see tonight.
First star I see tonight.
Wish I may, wish I might,
Get a fallen star and take her for a ride!
OK innuendos aside, the line actually do sum up the main adrenaline rush and main plot of the story. A fallen star name Yvaine in a shape of a really pretty and shapely Claire Danes, (whom i best know her for her role as Juliet alongside Leonardo DiCaprio) causes chaos in fantastical proportions as she became the most wanted creature in the magical realm of Stormhold - chased by an evil witch and squabbling princes, and Tristan (sorry to say, a bastard child of an enslaved princess) from the human English village of Wall.
Surge of Fantasy
After the great phenomenon that is The Lord of the Rings 
trilogy, in which its final instalment won 10 Oscars no kidding (a first for a fantasy-genre in Best Picture), many producers seems set to take over the Great Throne of the Fantasy Universe by finding his own Ring of Power. Some were successful while others were mere posers. But Stardust is definitely a great jump at another print-to-screen attempt. The author Neil Gaiman is a respected fantasy writer joining the legions of Tolkien-inspired literary works.
trilogy, in which its final instalment won 10 Oscars no kidding (a first for a fantasy-genre in Best Picture), many producers seems set to take over the Great Throne of the Fantasy Universe by finding his own Ring of Power. Some were successful while others were mere posers. But Stardust is definitely a great jump at another print-to-screen attempt. The author Neil Gaiman is a respected fantasy writer joining the legions of Tolkien-inspired literary works.Fantastical Humour
What actually draws me the most is the great laugh we have watching Stardust, from the saggy-ness of Michelle Pfeiffer as an old witch or the closet gay pirate in the form of Robert De Niro. They definitely cash in with the big names to add the appeal of the movie, and hell they rock big time! Newcomer Charlie Cox (Tristan) is also a new kind of hero in the making, first seen in 2005's Casanova, a comedy film starring Heath Ledger where interestingly we saw Charile Cox being the brother to Sienna Miller, who now plays his love interest Victoria. This is truly a clever way to portray another fantasy genre film, by banking on the comic relief it dwarfs Gimli-Legolas jokes about how many Orcs they manage slaugther.
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Fallen Star Taking Human Form
The idea that a fallen star taking a human form is not new to the fantasy world, at least not to me. Being a fan of the entire The Chronicles of Narnia series since a very young age (thus explains the love for fantasy genre and the likes), I was exposed to the idea from the fifth book in its reading order, The Voyage of Dawn Treader, where the main characters met two fallen stars in their journey to the end of the world. One was the magician Coriakin from the Island of Voices but the other more famous one is Ramandu (picture below), of whom his daughter was to marry Narnia's King Caspian (the same Prince Caspian film which is now under production)..
The Intriuging Appeal of StarsThe stars in the story were however kinda of punished, hence being sent down, but when ask why that was so by Caspian, the unforgettable line i always remember was:
"My son, it is not for you, a Son of Adam, to know the faults a star can commit".
And when mentioned that, "In our world, a star is a huge ball of flaming gas", Ramandu answered:
"Even in your world my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."
It makes one think doesn't it. It is this kind of literary work which convince me fantasy-genre is a more thoughtful piece of literature.
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On a last note, Tristan fell in love with the Fallen Star and vice versa. You see, more often than not, what we're finding for is right infront of our eyes, but we're very much too blind to see. Yesh wise words by The Keongomaniac.
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