The Golden Compass movie

In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.

Northern Lights is the first novel in the His Dark Materials series, written by British novelist Philip Pullman and published in 1995.The superficial resemblance of protagonist Lyra Belacquas alethiometer (depicted on the books cover) to a large compass caused the North American publishers of Northern Lights to retitle the book The Golden Compass. In fact, The Golden Compasses was an early proposal for the name of the trilogy (instead of His Dark Materials), taken from Miltons Paradise Lost, where it refers to the drawing instrument, rather than the navigation instrument.Northern Lights won the Carnegie Medal for childrens fiction in the UK in 1995, and in 2007 it was selected by judges of the Carnegie Medal as one of the ten most important childrens novels of the past 70 years.Plot summaryThe story begins when Lyra Belacqua?an orphaned, eleven year old girl residing at Jordan College?secretly enters the Retiring Room, despite resistance from her dæmon?an animal-formed, shape-shifting manifestation of her soul. Inside the room her uncle, Lord Asriel, tells the resident scholars of the mysterious invisible particles called Dust. Shortly afterwards Lord Asriel leaves to head north, and Lyra continues with her normal life.However, before long her friend Roger is kidnapped by "the Gobblers", who are the subject of a childrens myth.

Lyra vows to rescue him, and finds her chance when a visiting scholar, Mrs Coulter, offers to take Lyra away from Jordan College to become her apprentice. Lyra assents, but before she leaves is entrusted with a priceless object by the Master of the College: an alethiometer. Resembling a golden compass, it is a device able to reveal the answer to any question asked by the user. Though unable to use it, she takes it with her to Mrs Coulters flat; however, before long Lyra discovers Mrs Coulters rosy exterior is just a façade concealing her cold heart, and decides to flee when Mrs Coulters dæmon searches Lyras room for the alethiometer.After fleeing the flat she is rescued by the gyptians, a group of canal-boat-dwelling gypsy-people, who reveal that "Uncle" Asriel and Mrs Coulter are none other than Lyras father and mother. She also learns that many children like Roger have been disappearing from among the Gyptians, and that the Gyptians are planning an expedition to the north to rescue the missing children. During her time with the gyptians, Lyra inexplicably learns how to operate the alethiometer without tutorship.Lyra joins the expedition to the north, and on the journey discovers that the children kidnapped by ?the Gobblers? are having their dæmons cut away from them in experiments.

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The Golden Compass Cast

• Adam Godley
• Ben Walker
• Bill Hurst
• Charlie Rowe
• Clare Higgins
• Dakota Blue Richards
• Daniel Craig
• Eric Bana popular
• Eva Green
• Hattie Morahan
• Jack Shepherd
• James Rawlings
• Jason Watkins
• Jim Carter
• John Bett
• John Franklyn-Robbins
• John Hurt
• Magda Szubanski
• Nonso Anozie
• Paul Antony-Barber
• Simon McBurney
• Tom Courtenay