The Golden Compass

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• The series title His Dark Materials comes from a line in Paradise Lost by John Milton (II). This is a favourite literary work of Philip Pullman who has edited editions of it.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): SPOILER: In the Bolvangar scene, when the children are writing letters to their families, the nurse is walking from table to table when she stops to see Billy not writing anything. In the same shot while the nurse says "Billy Costa-", Roger is next to Billy with his head down (39:03), concentrating on writing his letter. But in the next shot when the nurse says "-why didn't you write anything? Your mother must be missing you terribly" (39:04-39:08), Roger is looking up at the nurse. In the next shot after that while Billy replies, Roger's head is down again (39:08-39:14).
• Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Iorek, with Lyra atop of him, is bounding across an arctic plane, the CGI breaks down for a second, for his left hind leg flickers as he runs.
• SPOILER: Pivotal scenes taken from the final chapters of the book were filmed and deleted shortly before the film's release. New Line Cinema has said it hopes to re-insert the scenes in a sequel.