Petersen's Fantasia is your run of the mill fantasy realm, full of all sorts of cutsie magical creatures. He doesn’t have Ridley Scott’s eye for detail, the technical wizardry of Jim Henson or the wild imagination of Terry Gillian or Guillermo del Toro. Fantasy just doesn't really seem to be Petersen’s forte. Watching this film today it is not hard to see why he's steered clear of the genre since. Even his adaptation of The Iliad, Troy, strips away the Gods from the story, leaving behind a bog standard, rather dull sword and sandal epic. Before he’d previously only done thrillers and gritty war dramas like Das Boot, while his later Hollywood work is a mixture of action and disaster films. It is the only time the director made a pure fantasy film. Along with Enemy Mine, The NeverEnding Story is the film that stands out the most on Petersen’s CV. This was the first English language film for director Wolfgang Petersen. But it was enough to pull me away from building cities and spaceships with my Lego for two hours. Just some pretty cloud effects and an annoyingly catchy pop song. That is how I first came to watch The NeverEnding Story. Looking back, there’s nothing really revolutionary about the film's title sequence. It doesn’t have to be some mind-blowing, David Fincher-style creation, just one eye-catching enough that if you’re flicking through channels you’ll stop and go “Huh, this looks interesting, I might give this a go”. Sometimes all you need is a good title sequence. As the film progresses, the lines between fantasy and reality start to blur and Bastian quickly realises just how unsafe this really is.
The book tells the story of Atreyu, a young warrior from the world of Fantasia summoned by the ruler of the land, the Childlike Empress, to find a way to defeat a force called "The Nothing," that is consuming everything. Indulging in a little bit of harmless shoplifting, Bastian takes the book and hides himself in the school's attic to read it (because a creepy attic is preferable to a maths test). The grumpy bookseller warns him that this is "not safe" and he doesn't mean in a Fanny Hill sort of way. One day, while hiding from some bullies in an old bookstore, he stumbles on a mysterious book called The NeverEnding Story.
Have you ever become so immersed in a book you are reading that you actually begin to imagine yourself in the story? That is exactly what happens to Bastian when he reads the incorrectly named The NeverEnding Story.īased on the novel of the same name written by Michael Ende, The NeverEnding Story is about the unfortunately named Bastian Bux, a quiet young boy who loves to read.
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