Bastion/Atreyu
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
tobesmc — 17 years ago(October 11, 2008 02:50 PM)
Okay, everyone knows how terrible this movie is but I would like to point out that Bastion IS Atreyu. And Atreyu IS Bastion. You can't have Bastion just jump into Fantasia and have them both there together helping to fight evil.
Anyone with any trace of a brain would have picked this up. Apparently the director of this piece of crap is either really stupid or didn't even see the original film.
Now, I know people are going to say "What about that sequence at the end of the movie when Bastion talks to the empress and then flys around on Falcor and sees Atreyu and waves at him!" Well, Atreyu disappears before Bastion can enter Fantasia, and later, when Bastion is riding Falcor and waves at him, Atreyu is riding on his horse. They mirror eachother.
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MindFever — 17 years ago(December 26, 2008 09:35 PM)
well i could make a verry annoying point about why this is so
Maybe Bastion is simbolicaly talking to himself and going on adventures with his alter-ego/himself/whatever so he then he is knowing himself better.Get it?
pretty annoying eh?
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OliverPage547 — 16 years ago(April 23, 2009 03:44 PM)
Its a fantasy world of bastians creation, atreyu is merely everything that bastian wished he could be and so was created. the fact that bastian enters the world doesn't mean atreyu dissapears.
and now for the best part, if you've ever read the original book, the whole story of the second film is what happens in the latter half of the book. it wasn't an original story for the film.
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xandra_vega — 16 years ago(December 04, 2009 09:46 AM)
Simply put, the book this was based from had the two in the same place at the same time so the movie had it as well. The first movie was the first half of the bookthus them being the same person. At the end of movie one, all of Fantasia is reborn of Bastion's dreams and wishes, is such, he created even more things including a seperate Atreyu. The second half of the book has Bastion in Fantasia and Atreyu accompanying him until their fight. What was cut out of the book was HOW Bastion had to get his memories back but they ran out of time and gave a substandard part 3 that wasn't from the novel at all.
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Falconeer — 15 years ago(April 13, 2010 03:02 PM)
And judging from your comment, you didn't read THE BOOK THAT THESE ARE BASED ON. If you did you would have realized that the two characters do appear together, in the second half, as this sequel faithfully represents. "Neverending Story II" is a beautifully filmed children's movie, and is in some ways better than the first, primarily because it is less corny/sentimental, and possesses an intelligent sense of humour that the first one missed.
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McFly_2015 — 15 years ago(May 07, 2010 10:55 PM)
then why isnt Atreyu in the third film?
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jodi437 — 15 years ago(August 16, 2010 01:52 PM)
Where did it ever Say that Bastian/Atryu are the same person? Bastian maybe feels like he's Atreyu and part of him becomes him when he's reading the book, but they are 2 seperate characters. They appear together in the 2nd flim and at the end of the first film when Bastian waves at him.
I kinda wondered why Atreuy wasn't in the 3rd flim too when I saw it but it really was garbage anyway, so didn't really care.