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Звездная пыль. Нэйл Гейман
 Звёздная
пыль (англ. Stardust) — первое самостоятельное произведение
британского писателя Нейла Геймана.
«Звездная пыль» имеет отличный от других
новел Геймана стиль написания, поскольку следует традициям
авторов фэнтези, живших до Дж. Р. Р. Толкина, таких как
Эдвард Дансени и Хоуп Миррлис.
Повесть о юноше Тристране Терне из деревни Застенье,
отправившемся в Волшебную Страну за звездой для
легкомысленной красавицы Виктории Форестер, а вместо этого
нашедшем свою Мечту — самая настоящая сказка, с эльфами и
гоблинами, призраками и единорогами, злодеями в черном и
многочисленными ведьмами.
В 2007 в прокат вышел фильм, основанный на книге.
Stardust (1998) is the first solo
prose novel by Neil Gaiman. It is usually published as a
novel with illustrations by Charles Vess.
Stardust has a different tone and style
from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously
written in the tradition of pre-Tolkien English fantasy,
following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany
and Hope Mirrlees. It is concerned with the adventures of a
young man from the village of Wall, which borders the
magical land of Faerie.
In 2007, a film based on the book was released to generally
positive reviews. Gaiman has also occasionally made
references to writing a sequel, or at least another book
concerning the village of Wall.
The story begins in late April 1839, as John William Draper
had just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was
serializing Oliver Twist. The majority of the book takes
place seventeen years later, starting around October 1856.
 Characters
- Tristran Thorn: The book's main character (renamed "Tristan" in the movie
adaptation), a half-Faerie creature raised by his father and stepmother.
Tristran foolishly promises to retrieve a fallen star for his sweetheart,
Victoria (see below), and so unexpectedly finds the beautiful Yvaine.
- Yvaine: A fallen star, which Tristran vows to find and bring to Victoria
Forester. In Faerie, stars are living creatures. Yvaine appears to be immortal,
but not invulnerable. She is pursued by the Lilim and the surviving sons of
Stormhold, who want her for their own reasons. When Tristran realizes his love
for her and abandons his courtship of Victoria Forester, Yvaine marries him
despite their inability to interbreed.
- Dunstan Thorn: Tristran's father. Main character in the beginning of the book.
He visited the Wall Market to find a gift for his sweetheart Daisy, and ended up
fathering Tristran by Madame Semele's abused slave girl, Lady Una. Prior to this,
he had bought a crystal snowdrop from this girl, and later gives the flower to
Tristran.
- Victoria Forester: A resident of Wall described as "the most beautiful girl
for a hundred miles around". She is the daughter of Bridget Comfrey and Tommy
Forester. Although very beautiful, she is somewhat proud and dimwitted. She
ultimately marries a man called Monday and thereby unwittingly frees Tristran's
mother, Lady Una, from slavery.
- The Lord of Stormhold: The eighty-first Lord of Stormhold is an old man who
rules Stormhold until his death. At the beginning of Stardust, he has four dead
sons (Secundus, Quartus, Quintus, and Sextus) and three living ones (Primus,
Tertius, and Septimus), in addition to his long-lost daughter Una. The dead sons
appear as ghostly observers, while the living sons constantly plot to kill each
other in order to succeed their father as Lord of Stormhold.
- Lord Septimus: The youngest and most ruthless of the Lords of Stormhold. He
is, by nature, a skilled assassin and has succeeded in murdering the majority of
his family.
- Lady Una: A cat-eared faerie girl of great beauty who works as a slave for
Madame Semele until released by an improbable occurrence that fulfills the
conditions of her debt. Lady Una suffers constant abuse at the hands of Madame
Semele, being beaten and called a "slattern". When not toiling for the
witch-woman, she is kept in the form of a multicoloured bird chained by a silver
thread to a Gypsy wagon. She is later revealed to be the Lady Una, the daughter
of the Lord of Stormhold, and Tristran's birth mother.
- Madame Semele/Ditchwater Sal: A witch, and a member of the Sisterhood to which
the Lilim belong. The witch-queen knew Semele as Ditchwater Sal when she was "a
young chit of a thing". On their first encounter, Semele drugs the witch-queen's
food with a magical substance that causes her to speak only the truth, thus
forcing her to blurt out the truth of the fallen star. Semele plots to find the
star first and restore her own youth, but the witch-queen curses her so that she
will never perceive the star in any way.
- The Lilim: Three old women of great power. The eldest of the three is called "the
witch-queen", though they are also called by this title collectively. They are
never named, as they lost their names long ago, but the eldest adopts the alias
"Morwanneg" at one point. The Lilim were once the beautiful queens of a magical
kingdom of witches; when it was lost beneath the sea, centuries of age caught up
with them. They seek the fallen star because by consuming her heart, they will
be granted centuries of youth and beauty. Using magic counteracts the effect;
therefore with each spell cast by the witch-queen, she grows older and uglier.
Stardust is a 2007 fantasy film from
Paramount Pictures, directed by Matthew Vaughn. The film is
based on Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name and stars an
ensemble cast including Charlie Cox, Ben Barnes, Michelle
Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller, Mark Strong, Rupert
Everett, Ricky Gervais, David Walliams, Nathaniel Parker,
Peter O'Toole, David Kelly, Robert De Niro, Mark Heap and
Henry Cavill. Narration is by Ian McKellen.
In 2008, it won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic
Presentation, Long Form.
Plot
The English village of Wall lies near a stone wall that is
the border with the magical kingdom of Stormhold. A guard is
constantly posted at a break in the wall, to prevent anyone
from crossing. At the beginning of the story, Dunstan Thorne
goes over the wall and into the Wall Market. There, he meets
a slave girl who offers him a snowdrop in exchange for a
kiss. Nine months later, the Wall Guard delivers a baby to
Dunstan, saying his name is Tristan.
18 years later, in the capital of Stormhold, the king is on
his deathbed. He throws a ruby into the sky, decreeing that
the first of his fratricidal sons to recover it will be the
new king. The gem collides with a star, and they fall
together and land elsewhere in Stormhold. The king's
remaining two sons, Primus and Septimus independently search
for the gem.
In Wall, Tristan Thorne sees the star fall behind the wall,
and vows to retrieve it for the object of his infatuation,
Victoria, in return for her hand in marriage. His father
reveals to him that his mother is from the other side of the
wall, and gives him a Babylon candle that she had left for
him, which instantly transports the user to any desired
location. Tristan lights it and is transported to the fallen
star, a beautiful woman named Yvaine. He promptly chains her
in order to take her home to Victoria.
Three witches in Stormhold learn of the fallen star and
resolve to find her, intending to eat her heart in order to
recover their youth and replenish their magical power. One
of the witches, Lamia, sets a trap for Yvaine, magically
conjuring an inn in the countryside.
Yvaine is weary and unaccustomed to daytime travel, so
Tristan chains her to a tree and promises to return with
food. In his absence, a unicorn frees Yvaine, then
unwittingly takes her to Lamia's inn. Tristan discovers
Yvaine gone and lies down to rest. The stars whisper to
Tristan, warning of Yvaine's danger and begging him to save
her, instructing him to get on a passing stagecoach, which
happens to be Primus's.
Tristan and Primus arrive at the inn, interrupting Lamia's
attempt to kill Yvaine. Lamia kills Primus, but Tristan and
Yvaine escape using the Babylon candle. Because they are
each thinking of their respective homes, the candle takes
Tristan and Yvaine into the storm clouds, between the earth
and the stars, where they are captured by pirates in a
flying ship. They befriend the kind-hearted Captain
Shakespeare, who teaches Tristan how to fence and fight, and
gives him a haircut which lengthens his hair.
Septimus arrives at the site of the inn and discovers that
he is the last surviving son of the king, only needing to
find the stone to accept the throne. He learns that it is in
the possession of the fallen star and that the heart of a
star grants immortality.
After leaving Captain Shakespeare's ship, Tristan and Yvaine
make their way to a village near the wall, where they spend
the night at an inn. Come morning, Tristan leaves Yvaine
sleeping and goes to Wall, bringing with him a lock of her
hair, to tell Victoria that he won't marry her, having
fallen in love with Yvaine. When the lock turns to stardust,
he realizes that Yvaine will die if she crosses the wall,
and he rushes back to save her.
Yvaine wakes up to find Tristan gone, and she starts walking
toward the wall, believing that he abandoned her to go back
to Victoria. Tristan's mother, Una, notices Yvaine walking
to her doom, so she takes the caravan of her enslaver to the
wall to stop her. Lamia arrives and, after killing Una's
enslaver, captures both her and Yvaine, taking them to the
witches' castle.
Septimus and Tristan both pursue Lamia and meet at the
castle, agreeing to work together for the time being.
Barging into the witches' castle, Septimus recognizes Una as
his sister, daughter of the king. Una and Tristan meet for
the first time, and she informs him that she is his mother.
Septimus and Tristan fight the witches, but Lamia kills
Septimus using a voodoo doll, then uses it to make his
corpse fight Tristan. Tristan disposes of the corpse. Lamia
then disarms Tristan in a swordfight and is about to finish
him off, when she breaks down over the loss of her two
sisters. Lamia seemingly frees Yvaine but instead reveals
her feigned defeat to be a ruse meant to bolster Yvaine's
broken heart. As the witch-queen bears down on them, Yvaine
realises that Tristan's return has left her heartbroken no
more. She tells him to close his eyes and hold her tight. As
they embrace, her love for Tristan allows her to shine once
again, vaporising Lamia in a blinding flash of pure
starlight.
Tristan retrieves the jewel that Yvaine was wearing. Una
explains that Tristan is the last male heir of Stormhold.
Tristan becomes the new king with Yvaine as his queen. Later,
after eighty years of ruling Stormhold, they both use a
Babylon candle to ascend to the sky, where Tristan also
becomes a star. Since Yvaine "gave her heart" to Tristan,
the two will live forever in the sky.
 Cast
- Ian McKellen as The Narrator.
- Claire Danes as Yvaine, the star sought by Tristan, the witches, and the
princes of Stormhold. She glows more brightly as she falls in love with Tristan.
- Charlie Cox as Tristan Thorne, the protagonist. He vows to find a fallen star
to bring to Victoria, but finds a young woman (Yvaine) with whom he winds up
falling in love.
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Lamia, the witch-queen who attempts to cut out and steal
Yvaine's heart to gain immortality as well as regain her beauty.
- Robert De Niro as Captain Shakespeare of the Caspartine, a famous pirate with
a reputation for being cruel, though in reality he is kind-hearted and rather
effeminate.
- Sienna Miller as Victoria Forester, Tristan's crush for whom he first obtains
the star.
- Ben Barnes as Young Dunstan Thorne.
- Ricky Gervais as Ferdy the Fence, a frequent client of Shakespeare.
- Peter O'Toole as the King of Stormhold.
- Jason Flemyng as Primus, the firstborn son of the king.
- Rupert Everett as Prince Secundus, killed early in the film, subsequently
reappearing as a ghost.
- Mark Heap as Prince Tertius, dies of poisoning early in the film, subsequently
reappearing as a ghost.
- Julian Rhind-Tutt as the ghost of Prince Quartus, slain prior to the opening
of the film.
- Adam Buxton as the ghost of Prince Quintus, slain prior to the opening of the
film.
- David Walliams as the ghost of Prince Sextus, slain prior to the opening of
the film.
- Mark Strong as Septimus, the youngest of the seven Stormhold princes
- Nathaniel Parker as Dunstan Thorne, Tristan's father.
- Kate Magowan as Princess Una, Tristan's mother and captive of the witch
Ditchwater Sal.
- Joanna Scanlan as Mormo, one of the witches.
- Sarah Alexander as Empusa, the youngest of the witches.
- Melanie Hill as Ditchwater Sal, the witch who kept Una as a slave.
- David Kelly as the wall guard.
- Mark Williams as the human form of Billy, a goat.
- Henry Cavill as Humphrey, Victoria's boyfriend.
- Jake Curran as Bernard, a country boy whom Lamia turns into a woman, played by
Olivia Grant, and a goat.
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