…his niece Lyra leaping from roof to roof like a wild animal. Note that there is a brief shot of Pantalaimon (voiced by Kit Connor), Lyra’s dæmon, changing shape (at 0:06) from either an ermine or a ferret into his beautiful pine marten form.
She cries out for her missing friend, Roger (Lewin Lloyd), as she looks for him in the places where they used to play.
But Lyra does not stay home at Jordan for long. There are beautiful landscape views of the frozen north, and you can see a group of Gyptians traveling mostly on foot.
This trailer has done a really fantastic job of setting the tone for Lyra’s world as distinctly “other.” Although it is parallel to our own, their technology and culture are distinctly different. The steampunk vehicle that the Gyptians are traveling on is a perfect example.
As Mrs. Coulter smugly walks through some kind of hangar, potentially at Bolvangar, there is a clever trick in the voiceover here, putting two lines by offscreen women back to back as if they might be spoken by a single character. However, the line “The child is destined to be important” is almost certainly spoken by the witch-queen Serafina Pekkala (Ruta Gedmintas) while the next line is laid over the subsequent shots and revealed to be Mrs. Coulter as she threatens the Master of Jordan College (Clarke Peters).
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