• Friday, August 10, 2007

• Country:

  USA

• Language:

  English

• Runtime:

  130 min

2007

A young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), the beautiful but cold object of his desire, by going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star. His journey takes him to a mysterious and forbidden land beyond the walls of his village.

On his odyssey, Tristan finds the star, which has transformed into a striking girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes). However, Tristan is not the only one seeking the star. A king's (Peter O'Toole) four living sons - not to mention the ghosts of their three dead brothers - all need the star as they vie for the throne. Tristan must also overcome the evil witch, Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer), who needs the star to make her young again.

As Tristan battles to survive these threats, encountering a pirate named Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro) and a shady trader named Ferdy the Fence (Ricky Gervais) along the way, his quest changes. He must now win the heart of the star for himself as he discovers the meaning of true love.

Goofs

• Continuity: Whenever Lamia appears to her sisters in the mirror, she is always the exact same physically as she is when she calls them. In the middle of the movie she appears in the mirror as a young woman exactly as she was when she first set off. However, when she travels to the mirror, she is old. In all other instances of her contacting the sisters, the mirror shows her as aging or old.
• Continuity: When Tristan and Yvaine are taken captive by the pirates, the Snowbud Tristan was wearing is missing. A few scenes later, we see Tristan's clothes being thrown out of the flying boat. However, somehow this flower shows back up on Tristan's new clothing later in the film.
• Revealing mistakes: When Lamia was laughing and there was a close up shot of her mouth. All her teeth were dirty but the back few teeth on each side were stark white
• Revealing mistakes: Near the beginning of the movie, there is a wide, rotating shot from above of Tristan and Yvaine walking on a road. Near the end of the shot, you can clearly see grass being blown by the wind from the helicopter that shot this shot.
• Continuity: When Victoria goes to the shop where Tristan works, as she is walking in her hair bow is to the left. In the next shot her bow is centered. Then it goes back to being on the left side again.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the montage where Yvaine and Tristan are learning different talents, there is a piano being played. The audio plays major thirds, but the picture shows whole tones being played on the keys.
• Continuity: During the scene in which Tristan and Victoria are drinking champagne at their picnic, the glass of champagne switches back and forth from Victoria's left to right hand when the camera angle changes.
• Continuity: When Septimus is holding the sword to Bernard's face: The sword goes from in front of Bernard's ear to behind his ear every time the camera angle changes.
• Continuity: When Tristan and Victoria are sipping champagne, Victoria's glass changes from empty to full to empty and just as Tristan asks her if she wants a refill, it's half full again.

Taglines

• This summer a star falls. The chase begins.

Trivias

• Layke Anderson and Alex Pettyfer auditioned for the role of Tristan Thorn.
• The character of the talking, red-leaf tree was based on author Neil Gaiman's friend Tori Amos.
• Actors Charlie Cox (Tristran) and Sienna Miller (Victoria) reunite to play lovers in this film, following their portrayal of siblings in Casanova (2005).
• Miramax originally had the option on ‘Stardust’, but after it expired, Neil Gaiman felt uncomfortable giving up the rights to the film to just anyone. After turning down numerous directors and young actresses who wanted it as a starring vehicle, Gaiman finally gave Stardust's option for free to Matthew Vaughn. This was largely due to the fact that Gaiman trusted Vaughn both as a friend and as someone "who stuck to his word," something Gaiman considered a rarity in Hollywood.
• All princes wear clothing with a pattern spelling out their number in Roman numerals, composed by smaller Arabic numerals. Furthermore, Septimus wears a vest with the numeral 7 on each button.
• The lead character's name was shortened from the book's Tristran, with a "r" between the "t" and "n", to Tristan because Tristran was hard to pronounce quickly. However there is one time it is said as "TristRan" instead of "Tristan". This is during the scene when Tristan remarks that Yvaine sometimes glows, when he suggests jokingly that the thing that Stars do best is to annoy boys called "TristRan Thorn".
• Much of Ferdy's dialogue was ad-libbed by Ricky Gervais (for example, telling Lamia he can get her a two-faced dog as a guard dog that can watch front and back entrances at the same time.)
• Whenever Primus is seen travelling on his quest for the stone, he is alone ("primus" is Latin for "first"). Whenever Septimus is seen on his quest, he is accompanied by six servants, making a total of seven in his group ("septimus" is Latin for "seventh").

Awards

1. Saturn Award
   Event: Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Best Supporting Actress
   Recipient(s): Michelle Pfeiffer
2. Saturn Award
   Event: Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Best Costume
   Recipient(s): Sammy Sheldon
3. Empire Award
   Event: Empire Awards, UK
   Result: Won
   Category: Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
   Recipient(s):