[movie] Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

I'm not pumped.

But it looks like it could be good.

 

The movie looks amazing. Hopefully they will stay true to the book. I haven't read the book since I was in elementary school so hopefully I'll be surprised by the ending.

 

I'm a little excited about it. The series was one of my favorites back in Jr High. I'm looking forward to seeing it on the big screen, assuming they don't mess it up.

 

I just hope the English accents aren't too over the top.

 

Why? Is Madonna or Gwyneth Paltrow playing Susan?

 

What the hell is "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" about anyway?

 

Barry Sanders and Hillary Clinton open a fashion boutique.

 

I am definitely looking forward to it. There has been a hole in my life since the yearly releases of Lord of the Ring movies have halted.

 

ROFL!

Me too man. I was kind of upset when I was in the theaters and the final film ended. I was like now what do I have to look forward to in December?

 

LOL!

 

I remember the cartoon . . .and it was broken into segments
this movie could have some VERY Sad parts if i remember correctly

moreso than the Lord of the Rings

Rocket River

 

Me too!!!! Its as if no movie after LOTR can ever match up.

The Narnia series is my favorite of all time. I simply cannot wait for the day it comes out!

 

I recently bought the BBC movies on DVD. Hadn't seen those in ages but they held up well.

 

King Kong owns Aslan

 

I'm not into religious extremist movie plots.

 

And yet, Jar Jar Binks owns them all.

 

CS Lewis = religious extremist?

 

-maybe not an extremist, but with heavy religious overtones-


The Chronicles of Narnia contain many allusions to Christian ideas which are easily accessible to younger readers, however they are not weighty, and can be read for their adventure, colour, and mythological ideas alone. Because of this The Chronicles of Narnia have become favourites with both children and adults, Christians and non-Christians.

Although he did not set out to do so, in the process of writing his fantasy works, Lewis (an adult convert to Christianity) found himself incorporating Christian theological concepts into his stories. As he wrote in Of Other Worlds:

"Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument, then collected information about child psychology and decided what age group I'd write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out 'allegories' to embody them. This is all pure moonshine. I couldn't write in that way. It all began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. At first there wasn't anything Christian about them; that element pushed itself in of its own accord."
Although the books contain allusions to Christian ideas, an allegorical reading is quite confusing and reductionist. Lewis himself kept a strict definition of allegory as seen from one of his early academic publications The Allegory of Love (1936). He maintained that the books were not allegory, and preferred to call the Christian aspects of them "suppositional". This is similar to what we would now call alternative history. As he wrote in a letter:

"If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair represents despair, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like, if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all."

 

Ah, I agree I wouldn't want to go to the theater and have the movie be so full of Christian overtones that halfway through, everyone from the 5th row and down will be engulfed in communion wafers and drenched in holy water.

C'mon... This isn't the Omega Code we're talking about here.

It's about a ****ing evil witch. A couple of talking beavers, a faun, some snobby english kids and a lion who pwn3d some b****es.

Now if they start parting bodies of water and holding crucificions I'll retract my statements.