Show Controversy surrounds release of The Golden Compass Erica Guerdon Contributing Writer the season for winter blockbusters and this season promises to be a abig abig abig big one With movies like Sweeny Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street a Broadway musical spin- spin off starring Johnny Depp and a slew of comedy kids movies including Mr Magic Emporium and Fred Claus Glaus None of these have created the level of controversy that The Golden Compass has The film is based on the novel by Phillip Pullman and is the first of a three- three book series The first book was released in 1997 to critical acclaim When it was announced that The Golden Compass was going to become a a movie the controversy began Parents are arc talking about it and school administrators have actually sent out emails warning parents against the film Now even the Catholic League is up in arms about it We are fighting a deceitful stealth campaign on the part of the films film's producers Our goal is to educate Christians so that they know exactly what the films film's pernicious agenda really is said Catholic League President Bill Donohue The storys story's protagonist Lyra is a young girl who has been raised in the town of Oxford When children start to go missing and Lyras Lyra's friend Roger disappears she decides decide to go on a journey to the north Joined by others she begins the journey to where Roger along with the other children is believed to have been taken The storyline as a whole has a religious view that some argue is anti- anti Christian Many argue that the story storyline line in the book and andin andin andin in the movie include a quest to kill God though the character is only referred to toas toas toas as the authority and does doe not appear until the second book Some have compared it to The Chronicles of Narnia in which a godlike figure Asian is slaughtered by an enemy |