Sylwadau ar: O, gwmpas

Gan: Aran

Aran — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:55:11 +0000

Ia, cytuno’n llwyr – wnes i amau o’r cychwyn y byddai’r llyfr yn rhy hir i’w ffitio’n daclus mewn un ffilm… wel, heb wneud be’ wnaethon nhw…

Gan: nicdafis

nicdafis — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:21:03 +0000

Anodd dadlau gyda unrhywbeth yna, a dw i'n falch gweld taw nid dim ond finne oedd yn gweld y problemau. Os dw i'n cofio'n iawn, wedodd Mark Kermode mwy neu lai'r un peth hefyd, ond doedd e ddim yn siwr am Nicole, ac yn hoff iawn o'r ferch ifanc, Dakota Enw Anarferol. Roedd hi'n dda, ac ei hacen hi oedd un o'r pethau gorau yn y mŵfi.

Gan: sanddef

sanddef — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:42:10 +0000

Gyda llaw, dyma adolygiad Mr Du o'r un ffilm.

Gan: sanddef

sanddef — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:21:03 +0000

Fe nes i ei gwylio ar alluc.org, a chafodd innau fy siomi gan strwythur y stori. Does gen i ddim bwriad prynu’r DvD fel canlyniad.

Gan: nicdafis

nicdafis — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:41:01 +0000

Pullman:

In other words, these were compasses to draw a circle with, not a compass to find your way with. I liked the phrase, and the trilogy became temporarily, during the publication process, The Goldem Compasses. And we finally settled on Northern Lights for the title of the first book.

Meanwhile, in the US, it was being read by the editors at Alfred A. Knopf. Someone decided (mistakenly, but firmly) that the title referred to Lyra’s alethiometer, which could be regarded as a sort of golden compass, but of the direction-finding and not circle-drawing sort. So the same someone or another someone decided to refer to the first book, for their own internal discussing-a-forthcoming-book purposes, as THe GOLDEN COMPASS.

Meanwhile, back in the UK, I had found the much better phrase, HIS DARK MATERIALS, for the title of the trilogy. I quote the passage from which it comes at the very beginning of the first book. Better, because it’s more atmospheric, and there’s the uncanny resemblance to ‘dark matter’, which figures largely in the story. So out went THE GOLDEN COMPASSES, and in came HIS DARK MATERIALS.

Meanwhile, back in the USA, the publishers had become so attached to THE GOLDEN COMPASS that nothing I could say could persuade them to call the book NORTHERN LIGHTS. Their obduracy in this matter was accompanied by such generosity in the matter of royalty advances, flattery, promises of publicity, etc, that I thought it would be churlish to deny them this small pleasure.

So that’s it. The fact that all three titles refer to an artifact is no more than a coincidence, though it does make a nice pattern. Before I’d finished the third one, the artist Eric Rohmann, who drew the wonderful covers the books had in their first Knopf editions, asked what the third book would be called, and before I could tell him, volunteered THE SOPHISTICATED MONKEY-WRENCH.

Gan: asuka

asuka — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:48:18 +0000

hym! ac aeth “compasses” yn “compass” drwy ryw gamgymeriad wedyn? on’d yw realiti’n gymhleth!