Thanks for this article, this is the only one so far that has comprehensively expressed what I feel and why about this awful, corrupt film. But I think that you don't go far enough. I think that this film was sought after by or put into the hands of Cunningham IN ORDER that it be stripped of it's paganism and PreChristianity and converted into a puppet movie for right-wing Christians. As an Irish reader who encountered these books during my own Celtic childhood in the 1970's, it repulses me that a text so rich and lyrical should be co-opted and destroyed by some conservative activist. I have lost all hope for His Dark Materials. Walden is a shallow, right-wing, corporatist company and it's films are shiny, hollow drek. This is not a question of poor film-making or ignorance; this is vandalism and censorship.