Mother's Name
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princess-familiar — 18 years ago(August 14, 2007 10:02 AM)
Is that wheat he yells in the thunderstorm as fantasia is crumbling?!?!?!?!!?
I never understood what the heck he named her, cause the director thought it was smart to drown out Bastian's cry with a bunch of noisy thunder.
Thanks guys, I've been wondering about this question for years!!!
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brandonsc — 17 years ago(April 08, 2008 03:00 PM)
I really hope this is a joke. It's been pointed out over and over and over and over that despite people thinking he yelled "this" or "that" or some people INSISTING that what he yelled was "incomprehensible,"
Bastian most certainly yells "Moon child" in the english version of the first movie.
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Evonne97 — 12 years ago(November 15, 2013 11:11 PM)
No, he does yell Moon Child in part one. That was his mothers name. You can even look on the soundtrack for the movie and see that the music playing during that scene it titled Moon Child, track 13 I think. He never yelled anything that sounded like Martha, lol. Unless you have a version of the movie that's dubbed over with the wrong stuff, you heard wrong.
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Taylor_is_tight — 16 years ago(October 27, 2009 09:56 AM)
Princess-familiar, dear, the point of the director putting the thunder over Bastian's call of his mother's name is to make you use your imagination. In the Neverending Story, Fantasia is being ripped apart because people lack hopes, dreams, and imagination. If just one child could rebuild it, imagine what all the children watching the movie could do. They ALL have a name for the Emperess because it was left with such ambiguity. Now she'll never go nameless again.
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xenolith-2 — 15 years ago(August 23, 2010 07:42 PM)
If you already know from the book that he says Moon Child, then it becomes clear that he yells "Mooooon Chy yuld!" both from the audio and from reading his lips, though my subtitles are silent here. I always thought is was supposed to be ambiguous for the reason you said until I read the book. I doubt this was his mother's name. It's possible that later releases of the movie made the audio clearer. Watch the scene here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqSmg24oXgU
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movienerd1986 — 17 years ago(May 22, 2008 09:51 PM)
I am an extreme NES fan, and I have seen all the movies as well as read the book (twice). Bastian names the Empress "Moon Child" in the book, and I watched the movie once with subtitles on and it confirms that it is also what he calls her in the movie. As for his mother's name, I don't believe the book ever says, and I have only seen the sequels a handful of times so I can't say as for them. I'm going to assume that in the 1st movie his mother's name was "Moon Child" because he says at one point in the movie "my mother had the most wonderful name." Also, when he needs to call out the Empress' new name he says something about "I will do what I dreamed!" which could refer to his fantasy of naming her his mother's name, but that's just my conjecture.
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mega_droogie777 — 16 years ago(June 18, 2009 11:20 AM)
In believe it was in Tales from The Neverending Story where the told her name. It's Laura. I do not think it was mentioned in any of the movies or the book. Any NES fan can contact me.
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jenni_doll_1 — 16 years ago(August 16, 2009 04:31 PM)
I would HIGHLY doubt Bastian's mother's name was Moon Child. I know at a point in the first movie, Bastian is talking about how his mother had a wonderful name when he is thinking about the Empress' new name, but that doesn't guarantee he chose to name the empress after his mother.
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romainsimoni-1 — 15 years ago(April 02, 2011 10:39 PM)
Both the movie and book clearly states that Bastian would like to give the empress his mother's name, but only in the book it also states that the name was something that required creativity (an attribute that the emptiness was slowly taking away) and only those who still possessed it would be able to accomplish, and that the empress needs a different one to keep her empire alive, and each reader would give her a different one that directly reflected his life (the real world) within Fantasia. Bastian choses Moon Child because it (possibly) reflects his life and/or his mother's presence, though it's not explained in the book nor the movie, only implied, and vaguely.
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Gregory-Stewart-William-Cooper — 12 years ago(December 08, 2013 06:21 PM)
I always assumed that Moonchild was his mother's nickname, maybe back in her hippy days or something.
Yeah, in the book it says that Bastian yells out "Moonchild!" - and apparently, in the German release of the film he does too (well, Mondkinde or whatever the German equivalent is) , but for the English release, they chose to dub in lots of extra thunder at that precise moment deliberately to drown out his line and leave it up to the audience's imagination. -
twofacetoo — 10 years ago(January 28, 2016 05:01 AM)
I always thought it was 'Atraya', something similar to 'Atreyu', to be some kind of reference or something. I get that it's Moonchild now, but maybe the writers just didn't care enough to find the script of the first movie?
