Live-action Narnia movie!

[yendi]

According to Chud, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe will be made into a movie, directed by Andrew Adamson (half of the Shrek directing team -- no, I don't know if he was responsible for the touching and funny parts, or the fart jokes).

It could suck, majorly, but it could also be fucking incredible. And it's a film that deserves to get made.

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Y'know, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was always my least favorite Narnia story (not to say that I didn't like it), possibly because I saw the cartoon so many times that by the time I read it, the imagination was sapped out of it.

[yendi]

I like the later ones, too. But they really need to tell this story first for the series to work. Which is why I hope it rocks -- we need the rest of the series to.

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Oh yes. What's your favorite?

I think mine was probably The Horse and His Boy. Or maybe Prince Caspian. But they're all good.

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

awesome! i'm hoping it falls into the "fucking incredible" category myself...

[i'm still a bit disappointed with the animated Redwall series that's on PBS at the moment. Nelvana had such potential as an animation house...]

[yendi]

*perk* There's a Redwall series?

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

yup! it was made in Canada by Nelvana, and it's been airing on PBS for the past few months. there's bonus material, too, that i don't think was aired in Canada -- a bunch of interactive historical stuff for kids [this is educational tv, after all], and commentaries by Brian Jacques, which is nifty!

unfortunately, the animation is really bad -- not Filmations-bad, but cheap-ass Satdy Morning Shite bad. pity... i can only dream what a decent animation house could have done with it.

When I was a kid, I LIVED in those books!

[amenquohi.livejournal.com]

I only hope he can do them justice. My favorite was The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Re: When I was a kid, I LIVED in those books!

[yendi]

*nod* One of the reasons I really want the movie to be good is that I want them to be able to do the entire series -- the later books are my favorites (I'm partial to The Last Battle myself).

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

...and it HAS to be better than the BBC series version. Urgh.

I still enjoy the Narnia series, although it's not quite as easy to ignore the religious overtones of the stories as it used to be when I was a kid. (Lewis does kind of hit you over the head with it).

cheers,
Phil

[yendi]

Very true. When I read them a few years back, I was shocked at how non-subtle they were.

Of course, I first read them in the First Grade, and since I knew nothing of Xtian mythology back then, everything went over my head.

[edie22.livejournal.com]

Ok, Dude. This is another thing Edie Doesn't Get.

I never liked those books.

[yendi]

Maybe you should read them with a slashy eye on the characters. I mean, in the first book, Edmund gets trapped because of his desire for Turkish Delight. You could have a field day with it!

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[edie22.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should read them now? I don't know that I want to slash children's books.

[yendi]

Dude. Have you seen how much Harry Potter stuff is out there?

And your realize that, even though Tom Welling is like 45, Clark is supposed to be 15, right?

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[edie22.livejournal.com]

Don't get all logical on me.

Yes I know how much HP stuff there is out there. Not that I've read any. Nope.

And TW is 25. Not 45. And He's 16. Maybe 17. So nyah.

[yendi]

TW looks 45.

And he started the year in the ninth grade. That means he should have started at 14, and finished at 15 (with a birthday happening during rerun season, so all the slash writers can imagine Lex giving Clark his birthday spankings). Unless he was held back for being slow or something.

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[edie22.livejournal.com]

He didn't know English! and Clark is special.

[melintur.livejournal.com]

Don't forget these kids have adventures while in the (closet) wardrobe. I MEAN, c'mon!

I think it is funny as a child reading that book, I always sided with the White Witch and Edmond. Stupid know-it-all Aslan, I thought it wasn't fair he got to be ressurected and stuff, and thought it was really dumb of him to go off to his sacrifice (knowing he would be 'reborn') -- like it wasn't a sacrifice, y'know? It made me feel Aslan was dishonest and a cheater. This was all before I knew it was allegory, so my dislike of the passion play started before I even knew its religious significance. I just know a bad plot point when I see it.

-=C

[yendi]

You wanted Aslan to stay dead?

That. . . that . . .that means you must be one of those Heathens!

You could burn at the stake! :-)

Seriously, the resurrection bothered me, too. I really do think that it's the weakest book in the series, for all sorts of reasons, but part of it is that it uses allegorical consequences without sufficient setup. Compare that to The Silver Chair or The Last Battle, where things seem a lot more on the up-and-up.

Narnia

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

It's been a long time since I've read the Narnia books. I read them a second time about 8-10 years ago. I -still- didn't like 'The Silver Chair' but I couldn't tell you now why that is so.
I then tried to read the Perelandra series. I got about ten pages in when I had to stop...