Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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In which I take a deep dive into the oddball film that meant the world to me and apparently nothing to so many others.

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I've been working on this for a very long time, a video essay exploring my favourite book series and what became of its adaptation, so it's only fitting the end result is so outrageously long and rambling. Sit back and enjoy my explanation of the source material, analysis of the film, and general emotional trauma at what became of it.

I'm pretty proud of this one. Let's just hope Content ID lets me keep it.

0:00 Intro
2:49 Part I: A History of the Future
10:53 Part II: Heart, Humour and Hell on Earth
17:29 Part III: The Road to Adaptation
23:52 Part IV: Some Scars Never Heal
24:54 Part IV.1: Hester and the Scar
28:30 Part IV.2: The Tone
31:02 Part IV.3: The Pacing
34:31 Part IV.4: The Visuals
36:00 Part IV.5: The Music
37:56 Part IV.6: Theme
41:26 Part IV.7: Shrike
43:08 Part IV.8: MEDUSA
46:05 Part V: The Aftermath
53:59 Credits

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Turns out the credits were too long to fit in YouTube's description, so I've moved them here: pastebin.com/m6uX0UsB