Making of Neverending Story - subtitled 1

Press "cc" for english subtitles. Made by german TV SWR in 1984. (SWR Dokumentation "Eine Welt für Fantasien" von 1984).
Here are the main issues Michael Ende didn't like about the movie - compared with the novelization (according to "Das Phantasien-Lexikon" ISBN 978-3-522-20050-9):
- Bastian returns home just after he arrived in Fantasia, without any difficulty to find back into daily grind.
- Bastian brings a stone from Fantasia into reality.
- "Do what you dream!" on Auryn instead of "Do what you want!"
- Fantasia is all of a sudden completely back.
- The "Naming of things" is left out.
- Flashbacks and memories of Bastian are left out
- Bastians problems in life and background destiny is left out
- the character of Bastian's dad is totally different
- the three magic doors are bungled

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[ranftj]

Here are the main issues Michael Ende didn't like about the movie - compared with the novelization (according to "Das Phantasien-Lexikon" ISBN 978-3-522-20050-9):

- Bastian returns home just after he arrived in Fantasia, without any difficulty to find back into daily grind.

- Bastian brings a stone from Fantasia into reality.

- "Do what you dream!" on Auryn instead of "Do what you want!"

- Fantasia is all of a sudden completely back.

- The "Naming of things" is left out.

[ranftj]

- Flashbacks and memories of Bastian are left out

- Bastians problems in life and background destiny is left out

- the character of Bastian's dad is totally different

- the three magic doors are bungled

[SyntheticPeaches]

Der Typ ist ein freak. So wie er geworden ist der Film, ist er PERFEKT!

[sectvideo]

I fucking love the film, AND the book. 2nd and 3rd movies were absolutely pointless and offensive.

[VitoPossilipo]

Cool, wie er den Film fertig macht! Auch wenn ich nicht ganz die Ähnlichkeit des Elfenbeinturms mit einem Nachtclub sehe.

[MsSchwarzerrabe]

der schönste film der Welt

[MsSchwarzerrabe]

blödsinn

[MsSchwarzerrabe]

jo is klar

[SuperJuliusC]

The whole point is: It isn`t impossible to picturize this book - Although picturizing "the nothing" should be quite "interesting".

But this movie failed to tell the story of a growing up child like Bastian - Bastian is at the beginning this kid who has still enough fantasy to great a whole new "world" but in the end he is just a miserable "grown up" who has destroyed his "dream" by mundane things like civil war, etc..

[90sJunkie1]

Looking at the rockbiter at normal sizes is the goofiest thing I've ever seen.

[enerjon777]

@cclose27 Thank you sir.

[cclose27]

Press the "CC" button on the bottrom right corner of the youtube video for translations!

[EGLchan]

1:43 Pfffhh! Wait 'til you see the sequels. xD 

[Tormentorio]

oh, by the way, thank you so much for adding subtitles. :]

[Tormentorio]

I saw this movie when i was like 4 or 5... actually i think it was the very first movie i saw on a VHS tape, at some forgotten friend's house lol (1985\86 i think). This movie was really important for me because of the scenaries.

I will read the book in the near future.

And obviously one movie "can be" a interpretation of one book. That's why there are movie scripts in the first place. If it was meant to be only about the book, so it should add "this movie was based on {this book}, right ?

[keijimuto]

@JadenMalik

Heutzutage hätte Hollywood natürlich diesen Film magischer denn je verwirklicht, wo sicher auch ein Michael Ende beeindruckt gewesen wäre.

Damals in den 80er Jahren wars leider nicht möglich.

Ich fand ihn dennoch als Kind sehr schön!

[hideandseek733]

@Colt2571 Exactly what I said too.

[Micha35]

Natürlich hat Michael Ende damit Recht dass zumindest die Essenz der Geschichte im Film hätte rübergebracht werden sollen.

Wolfgang Petersen aber auch die Produzenten mussten einen Film produzieren, der auch in Amiland erfolgreich ist um die Kosten wieder reinzuholen.

Das könnte man nun auch wieder diskutieren, wenn man nur noch Filme produziert dass sie in den USA erfolgreich sind. Was soll das?

Michael Ende war ja in die Produktion involviert und dann hätte er NEIN sagen sollen:

[SirBillySollox]

@JayLuke01

er, the cc button ;-)

[JayLuke01]

@ranftj

there's none ?

[NotThat3]

The book author doesn't know what he's talking about. I have never read the book, but I have seen the movie when I was a small child, and many times since then. The movie immersed me into it's story like few other movies ever did. It's simply brilliant, and well designed.

[Colt2571]

yawn, the writer bitching about how they "butchered" his precious book...im sure he was happy to take the money though, fucking hypocrite.

[userac78]

@jeboshifru umm i think it really gets complicated. i dont think he likes the Nothing nor the destruction of Fantastica. but even if the movie has some misrepresentation, it still spawned thousands and thousands of dreams so the creation of many fantasians. you can say that fantasian that became misrepresentation is really a hero for making so many humans dream on fantasia.

[jeboshifru]

@userac78 : precisely so. And Ende likes Nothing, and favorites lies? He favorites destruction of phantasia?