Mirrormask

MirrorMask is a 2005 film about a fifteen-year-old girl drawn into a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms who must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home. Directed by Dave McKean. Written by Neil Gaiman. Enter A World Where Dreams Are Real.taglines Valentine I'm a very important man. I've got a tower. We often confuse what we wish for with what is. NOOOO, I DON'T WANNA BE A WAITER!!! Look! An idiot! My mum always said: "It's a dog-eat-dog world, son. You get them before they get you. Eat your greens. Please don't do that. Stop embarrassing me in front of the neighbors. I think it would be best if you just leave home and never come back!" She wasn't even really my mum. She bought me from a man... We just have to try the key in every single lock we pass, and when we find the one the key opens, we'll know that 10,000 bloody years have passed!! We'll do things that rich people do. We'll bathe in... fish. And eat our weight in chocolate buttons! I shall slip unnoticed throught the darkness, like a dark, unnoticed, slippy thing. Other Librarian: [reading] "In the beginning, she found herself in a new and empty space. And all was white, and the corners were a bit flaky and the carpet was a bit manky, but it was a good space. And she sat in the centre and saw a clean white sheet of void. She held the Charm to her face, and reflected in the Charm was a city of lost horizons, and tall and towering stories. And just as it had been reflected in the Charm, so it appeared in the void. And when there was no more room, she turned it over and continued on the other side. And so the void was filled from corner to corner on both sides. A city of front and back. A city of light and shadow. Then she rested on her bed and dreamed of her creation and the lives that inhabited it. And in the days that followed, there were other voids and other lights and other shadows. The Charm she placed beneath the sign of the Queen, to show the city that she knew it would never be finished, because the city was her life and her dream, and it would live forever." Mrs. Bagwell: I remember I said to him: 'Mr Bagwell, how can a mask know what you need?' And he said: 'Cynthia, remember I don't know what I'm talking about.' Dialogue Joanne: All those kids in there want to run away and join the circus! Helena: Great, they can have MY life! I want to run away and join real life! Citizen: The charm. Prime Minister: No, that's actually a chicken. Citizen: The charm! Prime Minister: I understand this must be quite painful for you, but really it is a chicken. Chicken: I keep trying to tell him, he just doesn't listen! (Helena offers to find the charm) Prime Minister: My dear, it will be like looking for a needle - no, something smaller than a needle - in a haystack, when you don't even know if you're in the right field! I'm sorry, but all in all, it is completely, utterly, unarguably, quintessentually hopeless. (The flower held by the sleeping Queen suddenly blooms) Helena: What does that mean? Prime Minister: It means... that it's maybe not quintessentually hopeless. Sphinx: Hungry. Valentine: Is this a riddle thing? Sphinx: Hungry! (Helena gives it her cake; the sphinx just bats at it) Sphinx: Still hungry. [The Gryphon has been unable to answer Helena's riddle: "What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?"] Helena: It's a herring. Gryphon: But a herring isn't green. Helena: You can paint it green. Gryphon: But a herring doesn't hang on a wall. Helena: You can nail it to a wall. Gryphon: [through clenched teeth] But a herring doesn't WHISTLE!! Helena: Oh come on, I just put that in to stop it from being too obvious. Taglines Enter A World Where Dreams Are Real. An extraordinary dream quest to rescue a world out of balance. Cast Stephanie Leonidas - Helena Campbell / The Princess Jason Barry - Valentine Rob Brydon - Morris Campbell / the White Queen's majordomo Gina McKee - Joanne Campbell / The Queen of Shadows / The Queen of Light Stephen Fry - Librarian (voice) Robert Llewellyn - Gryphon (voice) External links 0366780 MirrorMask mirrormask MirrorMask 307729 MirrorMask Official site Category:2005 films Category:Adventure films Category:2000s American films Category:Circus films Category:Fantasy films