April 9, 2008
STARDUST FUN!
STARDUST: ALTERNATE ENDING
I went and bought Stardust on DVD the other day so my sons could see their Dad with an axe in his head and a good time was had by all, but I couldn’t resist tweaking the ending slightly for my own puerile amusement. No disrespect meant to Danes, Cox, director Matthew Vaughan or anyone else involved, it was just a scene that was begging for some very lame tweakery. Or was it? In fact this is so lame I may remove it fairly soon. (in fact I did remove it but a few people asked me to put it back and I saw that Neil Gaiman linked to the clip from his site so if he’s OK with it, so am I!)
Strange that I would be anxious about offending the creators of a fantasy film when I posted far more disrespectfully tweaked footage of the Pope’s funeral for which I’ve received all kinds of faintly alarming threats, giving the lie to the notion that it’s only Muslim fundamentalists who love grabbing the wrong end of the stick. My priorities need looking at. OK, if that’s everyone offended I’ll be on my way.