The NeverEnding Story Quiz!

[650lb Sumo]

(1) What year did The NeverEnding Story come out?
(2) What four unpleasant events or situations in the protagonist's life occur, or are referenced at the start of the film? (Four Marks)
(3) What is the protagonist's name (IRL)?
(4) What is his avatar's name (in the other world)?
(5) What is the other world called?

(6) The protagonist encounters a large, frightening and evil wolf. What is it called?
(7) Which existential threat, which the wolf is helping, does it become the protagonist's quest to defeat? (Four Marks)
(8) What is the protagonist's horse's name?
(9) What happens to it?
(10) Who and what becomes the protagonist's new steed? (Two Marks)

(11) Who rules the other realm?
(12) What surprising role does it turn out that this individual played in the plot as a whole, and why? (Two Marks)

Spoiler

(1) 1984
(2) His mother has recently died, he's been doing badly at school and daydreaming, and is upbraided by his father for this, he gets thrown in a skip by his school bullies, and the bookshop keeper tells him to get lost and is rude at first. Before changing his mind.
(3) Bastian Balthazar Bux ('Bastian' is enough for the mark.)
(4) Atreyu
(5) Fantasia

(6) Gmork (reminiscent of Fenrir)
(7) Fantasia is sustained by human positivity and imagination (IRL). As humans become apathetic, cynical, cease to imagine and scorn those who do, Fantasia weakens. The Manipulators have created/unleashed an abstract, destructive force called the Nothing, which is annihilating Fantasia and driving its inhabitants to despair. Their plan is to replace it with a world of darkness and falsehood, allowing them to mentally break and thereafter control humans.
(8) Artax
(9) It gives in to despair and sinks into the Swamps of Sadness. Note sentient beings feel despair in the Swamps of Sadness even without the Nothing encroaching.
(10) Falkor the Luck Dragon (you can have half a mark for 'flying dog'), who saves him from the same fate as his horse.

(11) The Childlike Empress. She looks like a young girl but is actually old.
(12) The Childlike Empress is immortal, as long as children keep giving her new names. It has been a long time since she last got a new name and she is becoming weak. Note this is linked to the general neglect of Fantasia by humans. As she weakens, the Nothing is able to encroach further. Were she to die Fantasia would be destroyed. It turns out that there are different recursive realities within realities

and some of the characters in one layer are aware of other layers, and some of them interact with them, in both directions. The Childlike Empress sent Atreyu to bring Bastian into Fantasia, to give her a new name.

A masterpiece of a children's film, surprisingly deep and dark for the genre. The pass mark is 10/20. How did you do?

 

[Fishmonger]

bout tree fiddy


maybe, 4 if you count "bastian" and not his full name

 

[Thrawn33]

18/20

Have shit memory for release years.

Mixed up one of the unpleasant situations with the God awful sequel.

Didn't have many movies on VHS for a bit growing up, but we had this one, so between me and my two brothers, someone always wanted to watch it.

 

[Brom Bones]

(1) What year did The NeverEnding Story come out?
(2) What four unpleasant events or situations in the protagonist's life occur, or are referenced at the start of the film? (Four Marks)
(3) What is the protagonist's name (IRL)?
(4) What is his avatar's name (in the other world)?
(5) What is the other world called?

(6) The protagonist encounters a large, frightening and evil wolf. What is it called?
(7) Which existential threat, which the wolf is helping, does it become the protagonist's quest to defeat? (Four Marks)
(8) What is the protagonist's horse's name?
(9) What happens to it?
(10) Who and what becomes the protagonist's new steed? (Two Marks)

(11) Who rules the other realm?
(12) What surprising role does it turn out that this individual played in the plot as a whole, and why? (Two Marks)

Spoiler

(1) 1984
(2) His mother has recently died, he's been doing badly at school and daydreaming, and is upbraided by his father for this, he gets thrown in a skip by his school bullies, and the bookshop keeper tells him to get lost and is rude at first. Before changing his mind.
(3) Bastian Balthazar Bux ('Bastian' is enough for the mark.)
(4) Atreyu
(5) Fantasia

(6) Gmork (reminiscent of Fenrir)
(7) Fantasia is sustained by human positivity and imagination (IRL). As humans become apathetic, cynical, cease to imagine and scorn those who do, Fantasia weakens. The Manipulators have created/unleashed an abstract, destructive force called the Nothing, which is annihilating Fantasia and driving its inhabitants to despair. Their plan is to replace it with a world of darkness and falsehood, allowing them to mentally break and thereafter control humans.
(8) Artax
(9) It gives in to despair and sinks into the Swamps of Sadness. Note sentient beings feel despair in the Swamps of Sadness even without the Nothing encroaching.
(10) Falkor the Luck Dragon (you can have half a mark for 'flying dog'), who saves him from the same fate as his horse.

(11) The Childlike Empress. She looks like a young girl but is actually old.
(12) The Childlike Empress is immortal, as long as children keep giving her new names. It has been a long time since she last got a new name and she is becoming weak. Note this is linked to the general neglect of Fantasia by humans. As she weakens, the Nothing is able to encroach further. Were she to die Fantasia would be destroyed. It turns out that there are different recursive realities within realities

and some of the characters in one layer are aware of other layers, and some of them interact with them, in both directions. The Childlike Empress sent Atreyu to bring Bastian into Fantasia, to give her a new name.

A masterpiece of a children's film, surprisingly deep and dark for the genre. The pass mark is 10/20. How did you do?

I don't give two fucks or a shit about any of that. ALL I care bout is the flying dog!!!

 

[650lb Sumo]

bout tree fiddy


maybe, 4 if you count "bastian" and not his full name

Yes, I thought that the fact that there was only one mark for that question, would imply clearly enough that that's good enough. However obviously I was wrong, and have added an explanatory note to the answers.

 

[Dream Evil]

Definitely a lot of freaky imagery in that movie.

I always wondered what would happen if instead of walking dead center between those statues, you cheated toward one them. Would they still hit you?

 

[Fishmonger]

Definitely a lot of freaky imagery in that movie.

I always wondered what would happen if instead of walking dead center between those statues, you cheated toward one them. Would they still hit you?

yeah, some movies from that period of history are psychedelic imagery that is more unsettling than not unsettling in my humble opinion

 

[Tone C]

11/20 which was must better than I expected.

 

[The_Renaissance]

Such a fucking awesome film.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

I thought "Atreyu" was the most badass name.

Still do

 

[Meatspin]

I remember fuck all about this other than I liked it as a kid

 

[Spounman]

I liked both, there were 2 movies, right?

 

[Fedorgasm]

That scene where Artax the horse gives up and sinks into the swamp of sadness.

I never realized it was a metaphor for losing a loved one to depression until I grew up. I experienced it when I felt like I was losing someone to depression and I felt the exact same way Atreyu did--Screaming "why won't you fight?" And trying to pull them out of it while they just stood there, sinking.


In hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have taken Grandma to the swamp.

 

[Thrawn33]

I liked both, there were 2 movies, right?

I prefer to think there was only one...but yes...there was a sequel

 

[Thrawn33]

That scene where Artax the horse gives up and sinks into the swamp of sadness.

I never realized it was a metaphor for losing a loved one to depression until I grew up. I experienced it when I felt like I was losing someone to depression and I felt the exact same way Atreyu did--Screaming "why won't you fight?" And trying to pull them out of it while they just stood there, sinking.


In hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have taken Grandma to the swamp.

Oh shit, and Atreyu nearly sinking because of his own "sadness" then being Luck..y enough to be Drag...on'd out of it.....

Then finding his own way...

Confronting his true self...

Damnnnnn

 

[650lb Sumo]

I liked both, there were 2 movies, right?

I prefer to think there was only one...but yes...there was a sequel

1 - The NeverEnding Story (1984)
2 - The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)
3 - The NeverEnding Story III (1994)

Also:

'The Neverending Story' — the beloved fantasy novel from late German author Michael Ende that was famously adapted into the cult 1984 film — is being revived for the big screen once more, with a new joint-venture partnership between Michael Ende Productions and prestige tastemakers See-Saw Films bringing the world of Fantastica back to cinemas over multiple live-action films.

 

[Thrawn33]

1 - The NeverEnding Story (1984)
2 - The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)
3 - The NeverEnding Story III (1994)

Also:

'The Neverending Story' — the beloved fantasy novel from late German author Michael Ende that was famously adapted into the cult 1984 film — is being revived for the big screen once more, with a new joint-venture partnership between Michael Ende Productions and prestige tastemakers See-Saw Films bringing the world of Fantastica back to cinemas over multiple live-action films.

There was a third? Wtf how did I miss that?

Just saw the year released, was doing stupid teenager stuff....

 

[650lb Sumo]

There was a third? Wtf how did I miss that?

Just saw the year released, was doing stupid teenager stuff....

RT Public Ratings:

1 - 81%
2 - 40%
3 - 25%

 

[Spam On Rye]

Sweet new profile pic. Great film with amazing symbolism that holds up well in today's nihilistic world. Never understood what Gmork said until I watched with subtitles when I got older and the shit blew my mind.

 

[badascan]

10.5/20

One of the all time greats... The follow up films no so much...Jack Black is in one iirc...