Posted on 12/06/2007 4:02:42 AM PST by jimbo123
He was just a kid, not a teenager. He betrayed his brother and sister for candy, according to the movie.
I didn’t get around to that one. It would be okay as long they spoke English and didn’t use made up nouns.
Wikipedia isn't good for much, but it is good for a few things:
Methuselah's Children (1941)
Time Enough for Love (1973)
The Number of the Beast (1980)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)
Oscar Gordon in Glory Road was essentially just Lazarus Long reinvented. Their attitudes and actions were more or less interchangeable.
Agreed, I had a devil of time with that. Because she's so inconsistent, I just stopped reading her.
I'm loving David Weber much more.
1. It's not, as a matter of fact, a folk song. 1873. Words by Brewster Higley, music by Daniel Kelley.
2. It's not typical of "folk music", which is what 'music of the people' is supposed to be. It is an absolutely typical 19th century music hall style song, with "all join in the chorus".
So while McCaffrey is pretending to be such a good musician (and indeed the entire premise of the children's books is based on music) she can't even get her basic facts straight.
There are so MANY alternatives that would be a true folk song AND a good choice, I hardly know where to begin. But a good place for McCaffrey to start looking would have been Francis James Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Almost ANYTHING out of that book, or the book by John Jacob Niles that traced the Child ballads that migrated to the Southern mountains and were preserved there by the mountainy folk (I refuse to call them Appalachians or Appalachia), would have been a perfectly valid and reasonable choice. And there are even a couple of ballads that feature a dragon . . . .
My favorite part of the article was how they named Nicole Kidman’s character that is the evil enemy in this flick, Ms. Coulter. The writer even joked how Ann Coulter would get a kick out of that. I believe there was a TV series that had a Ms. Coulter as a whacked out militant religious person that was killing people who disagreed with her. Ann really drives the Hollyweirdos nuts and they play right into her hands by giving her massive free publicity.
Between books, TV series, and movies the secularist-athiest content providers are getting green lighted on everything. Most of it will probably not be very profitable, but I am sure they will keep cranking this stuff out. Meanwhile, any semblance of a traditional movie (think the 40’s and 50’s) that a family could enjoy will never see the light of day. Much like network news, the ability to shape the opinion of the masses is more important to the decision makers in Hollywood, than running a good business.
You can see from the very first scene in the book that something is wrong with Edmund - his attitude, his interactions with his siblings, and so forth. And after he is healed at the end of the book, Peter notices that Edmund looked like himself again, not just as he was before the White Witch got hold of him, but as he had been before he went to 'that horrid boarding school where everything began to go wrong.' (not an exact quote but close).
Lewis himself had had experience with a horrible boarding school with an insane and sadistic headmaster (who was committed after the school was shut down), so he understood how to set up the situation -- Edmund was badly affected by a hostile school where he was picked on (Lewis in an essay called it "the dark night of the flesh"), and that in turn led him to cut himself off from his brother and sisters and play the hardened cynic, which made him ripe pickings for the Witch.
Oh, btw, in the books the White Witch is ‘six feet tall and dazzlingly beautiful’. I guess it’s hard to cast somebody who can be both extremely beautiful and convincingly wicked at the same time.
I read the books 40 years ago and did not re-read them before viewing the movie, so I don’t remember all the little details.
I did not enjoy Narnia as much as I enjoy LOTR, since after reading & viewing Narnia once, have no desire to read/view it again, but I can watch/read LOTR over and over.
They were just about the first books I ever received for my very own - I got the first hardcover set around 1959, when I was four. We were in the Bahamas at the time, and Santa smuggled them all the way from Atlanta GA!
Of course, I was in the first wave of LOTR fans, and I read them over and over too!
If the Narnia books are too pediatric for you, have you tried Lewis's Space Trilogy? Pretty good, especially the last one, That Hideous Strength.
“I guess it’s hard to cast somebody who can be both extremely beautiful and convincingly wicked at the same time.”
They did it once - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle - Rebecca De Mornay
Throw in Stephen King for "Misery" and inflicting upon the reader the breaking typewriter print.
And that other book, what was it, "S"?
I do hate the names in Dragonriders books, though.
A good SF book having to do with music, in a way, was Songmaster by Orson Scott Card.
Haven’t read it, but when I’ve run across Card he seems not bad. Does he do political commentary as well, or is that somebody with a similar name?
Everyone has missed the point of this movie. It has nothing to do with religion. It is an allegory about the Second Amendment, supporting our right to arm bears.
Was Coulter a character in the books for real or were they slamming A. Coulter...the reviewer seems to make they tie in!
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