[Blackwolf]

Well, Mortals, unless you feel like dodging snowballs, which I don't, I guess you all know by now that Disney/Walden's Narnia thing opens this Friday. Basically, everybody's going on and on and on over whether or not this is a kid-sized Passion of the Christ. PLEASE! It's an action-adventure/sci-fi/philosophy movie with overtones of Medieval-Renaisance fantasy/World War II/end-of-the-world concepts.

So why is ol' Blackwolf saying this about the Narnia movie? I saw Bill Melendez' 1979 animated version of this story, and I still have yet to figure it out. The concept of a lion dying for another's sins continues to --- dare I say it! --- freak me out, and I wonder if, frankly, the film will succeed as it was intended to succeed: namely, in terms of one treating it as a major motion picture, which was the filmmakers' intent in the first place.

Figuring out Narnia requires an in-depth journey, not only of the film itself, let alone the original books, but also of Narnia.com --- and, needless to say, there be but one Mage capable of making the journey. So...... I guess I pick .... well, me! (Heh-heh!) When I've had a proper peek at the site, I'll let you all know if the journey was worth making you see the film.

Master Blackwolf

This post has been edited by Blackwolf: 04 December 2005 - 12:24 PM

[J m HofMarN]

For my part I shall wait to see this film until I have allies. I would not dare such a thing alone.

[barend]

centaurs fighting...

I'm There!!!!


it looks a little squeeqy clean, none of the grit LOTR gave us... but it should be good. (i hope it is)

i loved the 6 books as a kid and also watches the 1979 LWatW cartoon series.

i just hope they do them all...

but the fact that they are starting on book 2 suggests this a complete 1 off...

why make a succesful book series into a succesful hexlogy when we can have MORE remakes of succesful cult movies of the 70s and sequels to movies no one watched? RIGHT HOLLYWOOD?

[jariten]

but the fact that they are starting on book 2 suggests this a complete 1 off...

unless it tanks, I doubt it. They'll want to focus on the books that feature the Pensieves for the films.

I doubt Santa Claus will make it into this one though, somehow.

[civilian_number_two]

i just hope they do them all...

but the fact that they are starting on book 2 suggests this a complete 1 off...

Nonsense. They;re just going to do them in the order they were written. "The Magician's Nephew" is a better book if you've already read the others.

Haven't we covered this point like ten times already?

This post has been edited by civilian_number_two: 06 December 2005 - 11:51 AM

[barend]

you and i had this conversation... once.

i'm just saying it is unlikley that they will make all six films. i especially can't see them making the magicians nephew, somewhere in the middle of it all saying 'oh yeah BTW this is earlier'


(personally i preffered reading TMN first, i'm a cronologicalnazi when it comes to books, that's why i read the Sil.,UT, hobbit, LOTR in that order)

[jariten]

I never really understood the point of The Magicians Nephew. I'm not sure what it added to the story except to tighten the whole thing up slightly if you read them in sequence from TMN to The Last Battle. Other than that, I can only imagine that he was enamoured with Jadis and was regretting killing her off. Theres continuity errors and allsorts. Although being a SW saga fan, I hardly have the right to complain about that...

[barend]

the important thing is it turned no characters later into liars...

[Heccubus]

Well, Mortals, unless you feel like dodging snowballs, which I don't, I guess you all know by now that Disney/Walden's Narnia thing opens this Friday. Basically, everybody's going on and on and on over whether or not this is a kid-sized Passion of the Christ. PLEASE! It's an action-adventure/sci-fi/philosophy movie with overtones of Medieval-Renaisance fantasy/World War II/end-of-the-world concepts.

A recently published letter from Lewis himself states pretty bluntly that it is a Christian story. The lion (whatever its name is, I haven't read the book in something like ten years) is Christ, according to the letter.
So there you go. Can't say I had much desire to see it either way.

This post has been edited by Heccubus: 07 December 2005 - 03:25 PM

[Despondent]

Sure I feel like a nitwit for not knowing the story; thanks for ruining it for me, Master Blackwolf.

[Mirithorn]

But a recent radio show stated that he didn't INTEND it to be a Christian story, and he doesn't want it to be viewed as one, so I guess you're supposed to ignore that.

[Mirithorn]

Sorry, am hyped up on caffeine and accidentally hit the "submit post" button twice.

This post has been edited by Mirithorn: 07 December 2005 - 04:20 PM

[Heccubus]

Well who knows? I guess it would depend on how old the statement where he said he didn't want it to be viewed that way is. He may've tried to stifle the religious themes initially. Wouldn't be the first (or last, see: Creed) time someone tried to stifle underlying religious themes in their work.

[Wayne]

I feel like theres no target audience for this movie. I might see it when it comes out on video, but not before then.

[barend]

even as a kid, and i was raised christian for the first 7 years, i never liked the Aslan/christ parallel... but it only bears any significance in like one scene...

the story is a good yarn, and i'll wager worthy of a cinematic viewing...



if you see only one movie this year, the oscars won't make much sense when you view them on TV.

This post has been edited by barend: 07 December 2005 - 07:09 PM