Film Reaction - Neverending Story

The NeverEnding Story directed by Wolfgang Persen and written by Wolfgang Petersen and Herman Weigel, released on July 20, 1984. The NeverEnding Story is a fantasy, adventure, drama, and family which portrays a young boy named Bastion played by Barret Oliver who has a difficult life with school bullies. Bastion went and escape into a bookshop when the bullies were tormenting him where an old bookshop owner introduce Bastion an ancient story-book to him on which he was warned it was dangerous. Bastion wanting the story-book secretly “borrows” the book and begins to read it in the school attic where he is taken into the fantasy world of Fantasia. In the world of Fantasia they characters who lived there are Atreyu played by Noah Hathaway, Carl Conrad Coreander played by Thomas Hill, Deep Roy as Teeny Weeny, Tilo Prucnker as Night Nob, Alan Oppenheimer as the Rockbiter/Falkor/G’mok/Narrator, Sydney Bromley as Engywook, Patricia Hayes as Urgl and Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress/Southern Oracle. Bastion enters the pages of the story-book where he saves the fantasy world of Fantasia from destruction of “The Nothing” and learns to face his problems outside and inside the story.
The NeverEnding Story is a fantasy and mythical land where the planet is called Fantasia. The essential story is never ending because once you enter the world of Fantasia and the book the person reading it will experience the emotional and physical aspects of the story and the characters and this will repeat itself once a new person picks it up and reads the book, thus it is called The NeverEnding Story. The significance of the title The NeverEnding Story, the person who reads the story will experience and be in the story like Bastian who has been with Atreyu’s adventures and emotional feelings as well. This connects to the film because we as the audience are also connected to the film because we are also part of the NeverEnding Story we experience the story of Bastion and the world of...