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have a bit of fun talking about the book
first okay Artemis Fowl was the first of
what would become a series of eight
books and multiple spin-offs published
in 2001 and written by Irish author a
wind colfur I doubt I pronounced that
right
although wouldn't it be really funny if
an author notorious for always having
his name mispronounced was the first one
I didn't gobble as you can probably tell
from the title of a video I am a
relative late comer to this series these
books are intended for quite a young
audience and hold a very nostalgic place
in many people's hearts I'm going to
pitch the basic setup of the world and
the story for newcomers and those in
need of a refresher I will endeavor to
make it as relatively spoiler free as
possible but obviously it will
inevitably be more spoilery than just
going in blind and reading the books for
yourself so be one so in this early
two-thousands world of coughers fairies
exist but they've been slowly dwindling
of the millenia as humans took over more
and more the planet not the most
original of concepts so far but bear
with me more uniquely in this case most
of the fairies now live in a huge
subterranean city down near the Earth's
core like in the matrix except humans or
the killer robots their technology does
appear to be superior to humans not by
like thousands of years but they do have
a lot of cool tech that we sure as hell
don't have yet incidentally when I say
fairies I'm using it in the same way the
book does ie as a general term for all
fairy tale creatures you know elves
dwarfs goblins trolls all the good stuff
anyway
enter Artemis Fowl the film family is a
very old and formerly very very rich
Irish crime organization after about a
century of prosperity the family had
fallen on hard times very recently when
the current head of the family Artemis
Fowl D first attempted to muscle in on
the Russian mafias territory and
appeared to have gotten himself and a
ship full of the family's resources
blown up either from grief or some other
medical reason his wife had slowly lost
her mind and become a recluse living in
the Attic hallucinating about her lost
love which left only their
twelve-year-old son
miss Feld a second to run the estate and
try to install the family's power
fortunately it turns out Artemis the
younger is a criminal mastermind and
uber genius before the story has even
begun the latter's figured out that the
Fae folk exist and within two chapters
he's managed to get his hands on more
insider information about their ways
than any other human in history
amongst other things he learns that due
to cultural significance to them they
have accumulated massive stockpiles of
the world's precious metals especially
gold and sees this as a way of restoring
his family's lost wealth and getting
back into the crime game not a boy for
big operations apparently his entire
team consists of one manservant slash
bodyguard mr. Butler who to be fair is
usually more than enough for most
situations because he's massive and a
martial arts master and Butler's teenage
sister Juliet who works around the house
as a maid and helps take care of his
sick mother
Optimus devises a cunning plan to kidnap
a fairy and hold them hostage until
their government agrees to pay him a
literal ton of gold by chances victims
an elf girl named Holly short who is the
first female captain in the
reconnaissance division of the lower
elements police or leprechaun for short
Holly had not performed the ritual that
chant is up her magic powers in quite a
long time because she was running
herself ragged trying to keep up with
her superiors expectations of her
commander root who is basically a grumpy
police chief archetype has been holding
her to a super high standard because he
knows that if she slips up even a little
the apparently quite sexist fairy
society will use that as an excuse to
stop women from advancing to the higher
ranks in the future Artemis figures out
where she's going to be and uses her
temporary vulnerability to tranquilize
her and take her prisoner in his
ancestral home in Ireland the main meet
of the episode is a high-stakes game of
cat-and-mouse between our thermos and
the fairy government as they attempt to
rescue their operative with some
political power struggles within the LEP
and Holly's escape attempts mixed in for
extra space so the first thing that you
should notice here is that Artemis is
indisputably the bad guy I think that's
very important to explaining why these
books are so special there are very few
authors who had trust in a young
audience to understand the nuance of a
protagonist who is clearly in the wrong
Artemis is no Robin Hood he's not taking
from obviously evil people and giving it
away he kidnapped someone who had done
him no harm and used threats against her
life to take what didn't belong to him
and
not because he was destitute he was
living in a [ __ ] multi-million euro
mansion he wanted it because it stung
his pride that his family wasn't as
filthy rich and powerful as they used to
be there's a moment at the end where
Artemis gets some humiliating
comeuppance and is thoroughly humbled
and there was no real doubt that he
deserved it but all that said the story
lets you know that it is still okay to
root for him because while he is the bad
guy he is not a bad person he's
complicated he's genuinely conflicted on
his actions he's never cruel for the
sake of it or enjoy seeing people suffer
he cares a great deal for the people
around him and well there's quite a few
other things but I can't say for big
spoiler reasons but though Ladd has some
good at him trust me - spoiler which I
don't mind reveal Ian because you'd know
it if you glanced at the back of any of
the later books not shockingly in the
future he and Holly are forced to team
up multiple times either because their
goals aligned or against some greater
evil it's the best kind of redemption
arc the type that isn't afraid to firmly
establish that this [ __ ] needs
some serious redeeming while
simultaneously avoiding making us hate
him I just
I appreciate the respect that coalfish
owed his readers by allowing his
protagonist to be an antagonist for his
entire debut book fortunately the less
morally ambiguous protagonist Holly and
the late joining third main character
moats the kleptomaniac dwarf are also
interesting people to get to know so no
matter what parts of the book you're
reading you won't be bored ok attempts
to get an after most foul movie
adaptation in the works apparently date
back quite away so you can imagine how
excited fans were when they discovered
that Disney had finally greenlit the
project to be directed by Kenneth
Branagh originally planned for cinema
release the covered 19 pandemic is
inclined Disney to instead premiere the
movie on their streaming service Disney
Plus on June 12 2020 however as soon as
the first trailer drops fan reactions
ranged from bad to a silly heartbroken
if you've not seen it there's the thing
go and watch it now and keep everything
I just described about the plot and the
characters in mind I will wait here and
I don't know polish my sword for bit
while I wait for you to get back
[Music]
it wasn't an innuendo right what the
[ __ ] was that I don't want to go over
everything that seems utterly utterly
messed up in that trailer because one I
don't have all day to as horrifying as
it looks it is still just a trailer
there is a chance that some of it might
be super misleading and three I am
playing to rush out a review of the
movie when it comes out next month so I
need to save some stuff about however
some highlights this does appear to be
an adaptation of the first book I say
that's probably because Colfer confirmed
it and partly because there's some small
but recognizable elements like artemus
decoding the fairy book mult sticking
his fingers up the goblins nose and the
troll getting unleashed of course those
are the only things that I can see that
are recognisably loyal to the book more
worryingly Ultima seems like a sweet
innocent lad who has no idea that his
father was a criminal all that the fairy
world exists I couldn't see any evidence
of a kidnapping plot so you know the
entire plot of the book the first shot
they used to establish Holly's her
shaking hands of Artemis and declaring
their friendship Holly shorts initial
arc is trying to make it as the first
female high ranking LEP officer but Dame
Judi Dench is playing a gender flipped
commander roots so she's not and both
ausmus feldy first and opal Cabaye two
characters who do not feature in the
relevant book appear to play large roles
in the story referring back to coffers
video which by the way I highly
recommend people watch because the last
three questions in his QA are very
revealing anyway from what I can deduce
it seems like Sir Kenneth Brannan got it
into his head that film Artemis is going
to need to be accessible before he can
be a cold calculating criminal due to
this I'm gues seeing this film is going
to sequel bait with him turning to the
dark side right at the end after being
quite nice for most of the runtime if
that's true
it just seems unnecessarily complicated
to me in order to make the redemption
hold the same weight they'll have to do
another story right up to this one of
him being an ass for an entire film and
then get back to his original arc I also
highly disagree with the Brannan's
assumption that Altemus needs to be good
before he can be bad for him to be
likable do you know why because that's
the books 25 million copies sold it
worked
isn't that one of the biggest advantages
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be popular because it already is it's
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