[
from trailer]
Lee Scoresby:
Are you gonna join in the turkey shoot?
Iorek Byrnison:
Yes. I have a contract with the child.
[
Lyra grins]
[
from trailer]
Lyra Belacqua:
[
upon receiving the alethiometer] What is this?
Master:
It's an alethiometer. It tells the truth. You are meant to have it. You keep the alethiometer to yourself, it's of the utmost importance to yourself, to all of us, and perhaps to all creation.
[
from trailer]
Lord Asriel:
I propose to discover a world much like our own in a parallel universe.
Fra Pavel:
That is heresy!
Lord Asriel:
That is the truth.
[
from trailer]
Fra Pavel:
Are you familiar with the Prophecy of the Witches?
Marisa Coulter:
You think she is that child? She must be found.
[
from trailer]
Serafina Pekkala:
War is coming Lyra.
[
from trailer]
Lyra Belacqua:
I need to go north! To fight!
[
from trailer]
Iorek Byrnison:
I will serve you in your campaign until you have a victory.
[
from trailer]
Marisa Coulter:
Come with me, Lyra!
Lyra Belacqua:
I'm not yours! I'll never be yours!
Ragnar Sturlusson:
Is that all?
[
hits Iorek]
Ragnar Sturlusson:
Is that all? IS THAT AAAALL?
[
Iorek swings at him and breaks his lower jaw off, then bites him in the throat, killing him]
Iorek Byrnison:
Yes, that is all.
Pantalaimon:
The north?
[
changes from Ferret to Ermine]
Pantalaimon:
It's cold up there!
[
having been captured and dragged away]
Lord Asriel:
Look, we can settle this like gentlemen!
Iorek Byrnison:
[
to Lyra] Do you wish to ride me?
Lyra Belacqua:
If you value your life, come no further!
[
first lines]
Serafina Pekkala:
There are many universes and many Earths parallel to each other. Worlds like yours, where people's souls live inside their bodies, and worlds like mine, where they walk beside us, as animal spirits we call daemons.
Stelmaria:
Are we going to see the child?
Lord Asriel:
I should think so.
Serafina Pekkala:
So many worlds. But connecting them all is Dust. Dust was here before the witches of the air, the Gyptians of the water, and the bears of the ice. In my world, scholars invented an alethiometer - a golden compass - and it showed them all that was hidden. But the ruling power, fearing any truth but their own, destroyed these devices and forbade the very mention of Dust. One compass remains, however, and only one who can read it.
[
last lines]
Lyra Belacqua:
We'll set things right. We will. You, and me, and Iorek, and Serafina Pekkala, and Mr. Scoresby. And my father. We'll set it right, Pan. Just let them try to stop us.
Farder Coram:
It's an alethiometer. It’s a truth measure - a golden compass. It enables you to see what others wish to hide.... You can ask any sort of question you can imagine. Once you've got your question framed...
Lyra Belacqua:
Can I try?
John Faa:
[
chuckles]
Farder Coram:
One thing I do know, Lyra, you mustn’t grasp at the answer. Hold the question in your mind, but lightly, like it was something alive.
Lyra Belacqua:
Are you gettin' scared, Pan?
Pantalaimon:
Scared? A little.
Lyra Belacqua:
It's all bigger and scarier than we ever thought.
Pantalaimon:
Maybe we shouldn't be doing this.
Lyra Belacqua:
But we've got to though, ain't we - go on I mean.
Magisterial Emissary:
Scholars still refuse to hand over the last alethiometer and now they've given Asriel all the funds he needs. If he succeeds in proving the existence of these other worlds, it will contradict centuries of teaching. There will always be free thinkers and heretics, unless we deal with the root of the problem. That is why Mrs. Coulter's work is so important.
[
to The First High Councilor]
Magisterial Emissary:
What progress has she made?
First High Councilor:
The doctors at Bolvanger are close to perfecting the inoculation against the effects of Dust.
Magisterial Emissary:
I am relieved to hear that. If we can protect our children from the corrupting influence of Dust before their Daemons settle, then we will nurture a generation at peace with itself; one that will never question our authority again. We owe it to the young, do we not?
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