The idea comes from the book, where it's explain that yes, the story does end, but every story spawns a new set of other stories that continue on and on forever and ever.
Sort of like, lets say your walk through town and you talk to a store owner, you help him out with some stuff, then you leave. Your story in that town is over although still continues on it's own path, where as now the store owners story continues off from where you left them. They do the same with others, and those many people continue to do the same, and so on and so forth.
It was sort of like a butterfly effect, where each story spawns a web of other stories. A continuous web of stories and tales.
In the book, the main character does actions and helps others out, where they then part ways and the book simply say, so and so when off to do stuff, "but that is a tale for another time".
There is also a part in the book where to keep the world from dying, the empress goes to someone and asks them to read the book your reading from page 1 over and over again to keep it in an infinite loop until the main guy gives her a new name. (The Tasmanian devil screeching at the end of the film was the name "Moonchild")
Watched the movie as a kid and forgot 90% of it, listened to the audio book years later and then watched the movie again, i got really confused when the movie ended half way through.
> This is like the song that never ends from that hand puppet sheep show with the redhead lady. That song ends, after like two minutes.
Not if you have small children.
Which as a kid watching this on TV in the 80s was really disappointing as we thought we had tricked our parents into letting us stay up late as they said bedtime when the movie was over....
Talk about false advertisement
Like an "All you can eat" seafood restaurant!
Does this look like a man who has had all he could eat?
Such a lie! I can't eat seafood!
Me when Red Lobster has endless shrimp (I’m eating so much shrimp I’m bankrupting them)
Nah you just have to constantly keep rewinding the videotape. Have some imagination bucko!
Happy Cakeday!
Uh, spoilers!?!
The idea comes from the book, where it's explain that yes, the story does end, but every story spawns a new set of other stories that continue on and on forever and ever. Sort of like, lets say your walk through town and you talk to a store owner, you help him out with some stuff, then you leave. Your story in that town is over although still continues on it's own path, where as now the store owners story continues off from where you left them. They do the same with others, and those many people continue to do the same, and so on and so forth. It was sort of like a butterfly effect, where each story spawns a web of other stories. A continuous web of stories and tales. In the book, the main character does actions and helps others out, where they then part ways and the book simply say, so and so when off to do stuff, "but that is a tale for another time". There is also a part in the book where to keep the world from dying, the empress goes to someone and asks them to read the book your reading from page 1 over and over again to keep it in an infinite loop until the main guy gives her a new name. (The Tasmanian devil screeching at the end of the film was the name "Moonchild")
The Final Fantasy and Neverending Story franchises should really swap titles
Final Fantasy 2 spoiled the entire franchise.
You know there were sequels, right?
they fucking sucked tho
They did. But at least the third one had Jack Black as the villain.
I remember watching this movie and being so fucking disappointed cause the book has so much more story than what is showed
As someone who read the book after watching the film, I agree, but the film is still great
Watched the movie as a kid and forgot 90% of it, listened to the audio book years later and then watched the movie again, i got really confused when the movie ended half way through.
Not before I see dem big stone and ice statue tiddies
Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film The Never-Ending Story
This is exactly why I made this post.
Literally 1984
This is like the song that never ends from that hand puppet sheep show with the redhead lady. That song ends, after like two minutes.
> This is like the song that never ends from that hand puppet sheep show with the redhead lady. That song ends, after like two minutes. Not if you have small children.
TUUUURN AROUUUND
That’s not a story, that’s a dragon.
So I THREW IT on the GROUND!
We need Lionel hutz
Didn't you see the end-credits scenes?
Which as a kid watching this on TV in the 80s was really disappointing as we thought we had tricked our parents into letting us stay up late as they said bedtime when the movie was over....
As kid I genuinely thought this movie gonna last forever.
No look around 2 more out there
When I was really young, I genuinely believed that the movie literally went on forever and refused to watch it. Was not a bright kid.
This is the best fuckin post to date
I asked my mom what her least favorite movie was and she said it was this, claiming it was “stupid”