1.Why did leslie die offstage in the movie?
In my personal opinion, I think that maybe during that filiming part,it is maybe the actor's school holiday had ended and she is not able to take out time to film as it is also very tiring after the whole school day or she has cca and is not able to film.I also think that maybe if can act out her parents may object as she is too young as maybe the director will ask her to pretend to sleep in a coffin etc. The actor parent's maybe auspicious and think that it is very unlucky. Maybe the director ask her to to act out the part when she fall into the river and if they did not prepare any safety precautions she might really die.
2.Who/What does Dark lord represent?
(i)Leslie(Why)
To Leslie Dark Lord is a fearsome creature which will destroy the Kingdom that she had built with Jess and all the ''magical creatures'' in the kingdom or even kill them.Leslie does not have many friends back in her old school as everyone thinks that she is weird and she fear that Dark lord would take away her only friends from her.
(ii)Jess(Why)
To Jess Dark Lord is someone that will take away his family members and friends and he fear that he might not see them ever again.His parents does not pay much attention to him and thinks his talent in drawing is useless to them as he cannot make money out of drawing.Same as Leslie they both does not have much friends in school and they could only depend on each other.
(iii)yourself(Why)
To me Dark Lord represents lonely alone without any family members or friends and they did not care about me anymore as they drift further and further away from me and disappeared into thin air.A person without family and friends and live in darkness is miserable and scary.
3.Do you prefer the movie or the novel?Why?
I prefer the movie.The movie is different from the novel and you can hear and there is image of all the characters in the movie and leslie is more beautiful in the movie than I can imagine as the author in the novel did not described much about her appearance and Jess is like not very good looking.The movie sound effects and the actions were awesome!
WeiJie(31), 2e7