Bastion/Atreyu

well i could make a verry annoying point about why this is so...

Maybe Bastion is simbolicaly talking to himself and going on adventures with his alter-ego/himself/whatever so he then he is knowing himself better.Get it? ;) pretty annoying eh?


"Talk sense to a fool...and he calls you foolish" -- Euripides

or how about this? it IS a MOVIE based on a BOOK. it IS NOT REAL. the laws of physics DO NOT APPLY.

Dear me! What is that unpleasant aroma? I fear the sewer may have backed up during the night.

Its a fantasy world of bastians creation, atreyu is merely everything that bastian wished he could be and so was created. the fact that bastian enters the world doesn't mean atreyu dissapears.

and now for the best part, if you've ever read the original book, the whole story of the second film is what happens in the latter half of the book. it wasn't an original story for the film.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Simply put, the book this was based from had the two in the same place at the same time so the movie had it as well. The first movie was the first half of the book...thus them being the same person. At the end of movie one, all of Fantasia is reborn of Bastion's dreams and wishes, is such, he created even more things including a seperate Atreyu. The second half of the book has Bastion in Fantasia and Atreyu accompanying him until their fight. What was cut out of the book was HOW Bastion had to get his memories back but... they ran out of time and gave a substandard part 3 that wasn't from the novel at all.

And judging from your comment, you didn't read THE BOOK THAT THESE ARE BASED ON. If you did you would have realized that the two characters do appear together, in the second half, as this sequel faithfully represents. "Neverending Story II" is a beautifully filmed children's movie, and is in some ways better than the first, primarily because it is less corny/sentimental, and possesses an intelligent sense of humour that the first one missed.