Does anyone know what the name of Bastian's mother is that he yells out at the end of the movie. This has always bugged me because I could never understand what he said. I was watching the movie last night and I still can't make out the name he calls.

Thanks!

I think that the name he calls out is "Mother", actually.

At least, that's what I've always heard.

Moonchild

The Neverending Story Script Page 6 of 6 (http://www.neverendingstory.com/story-script-6.html)

Moonchild

The Neverending Story Script Page 6 of 6 (http://www.neverendingstory.com/story-script-6.html)

Hey thanks, that's been bugging me forever. It's a little disappointing though, I guess I was expecting something amazing. Oh well, thanks again.

It's actually not his mother's name but just a name he came up with. They never tell you what his mother's name was in either of the movies.

Well, I'm glad it's not just "Mother" though.

Glad someone cleared that up for me as well!

If you go to neverendingstory.com it says that the name he calls out is Moon Child

Sorry, Ive watched this movie more times than I care to count and/or admit. In my opinion and my mind, it will always be Mariah! Ma-ri-ahhh!

Its "MOONCHILD", just look up The Neverending story script and it will give you the whole screenplay.

I just watched this movie a few minutes ago and was wondering the same thing... so I went to the script of the movie and his line was definitely "Moonchild". Which kind of confuses me cause he was supposed to change the Empress' name... not yell the same one, but it still is a classic

Actually, "Moonchild," whether he made it up or not, is a beautiful resolution to his psychological dilemma. He is a young boy who has lost his mother, and the movie is really a Jungian journey through grief and loss. (All the archetypes and symbols in the movie are really representations of different parts of his internal world and his self.) His dilemma: How to obey his father's wisdom by "keeping both feet on the ground" while also holding onto his childhood image of Mommy. His solution is to memorialize her in Fantasia - to make her live forever in his imagination by internalizing her and integrating her with his inner child, represented by the Childlike Empress. "Moon" = the great female, "child" = Sebastian. The child carries the name of the mother, and the grief process is resolved.

I have loved this movie since I was a child, and now use it to teach Jungian thought in a psych program.