stardust

Released in 2007, Stardust is an a epic tale about a young man's quest to find and retrieve a shooting star for the prettiest girl in his town. What he finds amidst his journey however changes him forever. The star, he discovers, is a beautiful woman with whom he soon falls in love, but as he leads the girl back to the village the couple realizes that they are being followed. Witches and Kings the same yearn to kidnap the star and keep her for themselves. Although the plot of the actual movie is original, the trailer definitely makes a handful of intertextual connections (which in many cases affect the way we think about a production). A few horizontal intertextualities spark familiarities between this movie and movies like Harry Potter, The Lord of The Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia. Allusions to the hit movie Harry Potter are made through the background music, the accented dialogue, and the action packed filming. The Lord of the Rings is alluded to in similar ways: there is the intriguing magical twist, an obvious struggle between good and evil, and the filming, coloration and dialogue is similar as well. Finally a comparison can be drawn between this film and the Chronicles of Narnia. The plots are very much the same: mundane characters being drawn to a magical land where they are forced to overcome evil for a greater good. These intertextualities draw characteristics of other movies to inform and attract viewers.