Posted on 11/03/2005 10:28:48 PM PST by TheMadLurker
If you have a sense of humor, and can poke fun at yourself:
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/fear4republic/
I found myself very involved, very drawn in to the story.
I'll draw this corollary, "The Chronicles of Narnia" is a story which brings you into it, opening your eyes, changing your worldview, and affecting your attitude for the rest of your life.
That would be a significant thing, and in this case, a good thing.
I think it helps us to perceive the truth that each of us has worlds inside, and most would be very rewarding to explore.
Or, in other words, yes, I liked it.
I'll be back a bit later. I need to cook something, lol.
If you enjoyed the movie, or were touched/inspired by it ... please read the books. C. S. Lewis wrote a series of seven or so children's books. Each, in its own way, is a wonderful experience.
My remarkable mother read the books to us as they were published; I later read them to myself; and, yet later, read them to my own daughter. With each reading the message becomes more profound.
Read the books ... and read all of them. You will never regret the time spent reading them and will only regret that they have not been part of your life forever. Anyone who loves these books will also love George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie.
These books are a gift. Give them to yourself for Christmas and then read them again and again. I still do after all those years.
i see very few movies. KP and Alice preview all of them for me. the basic requirement is that the good guys win and get to go home. does Narnia qualify? i have to be a bit careful - the old Mickey Mouse cartoons (Steamboat Willie vintage) give me horrendous nightmares - i don't do surrealism well at all (when i go to bed, the bureau and nighttable do not need to be up and dancing around, thank you very much) - anyway, i'm very careful what i watch and try to stay away from obvious pathology.
It shows you what a wicked sense of humor C.S. Lewis had, especially with respect to moddish trends overtaking Christianity.
That they are! I need to get the set.
The movie was excellent, by the way.
Costco has a boxed set for $24.99, which is less than $4 a book.
Yes, absolutely.
i have to be a bit careful - the old Mickey Mouse cartoons (Steamboat Willie vintage) give me horrendous nightmares - i don't do surrealism well at all
You might not like the talking wolves and some of the other monsters then.
screw it: I'm making some Boston Brown Bread.
if ever a night called for it, tonight is it.
*brrr*
considering how much I have read, I am actually quite amazed I have never read the Narnia books.
Indeed, the only CSLewis I have read have been Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity - both owned and loaned to me by KODT
you wanna go see it?
I have read them, and I'd like to see how closely the movie resembles the books. I've read the Bible a few times and waited for a year to see the Passion. Mel Gibson did a superb job.
http://www.decentfilms.com/sections/reviews/2641
Review for your perusal. From this, it looks like the divergence from the text will ruin it for me. I'll have Der Prinz take the kids.
Thanks. I'll check it out.
CS Lewis was born in Northern Ireland!
George MacDonald BooksCentury-old Literature that transcends time, culture and history...
Stimulating higher, nobler & purer thinking.ISBN 1881084140.......$28.00.....The Princess and The Goblin
(Colour Plate Illustrations by Helen Stratton)ISBN 1881084159.......$28.00.....The Princess and Curdie (Colour Plate Illustrations by Helen Stratton)
These aren’t the objections of a purist unwilling to accept departures from the text. The problem is not the filmmakers’ depatures from the letter of the book, but their insensitivity to its spirit, not to mention the sometimes slapdash quality of their storytelling even on its own terms. I don’t mind early scenes establishing Lucy’s apprehension regarding the unseen Professor at whose country estate the children are staying. Yet, having established that dramatic tension, shouldn’t the film have somewhere to go with it? Didn’t anyone notice that it makes no sense to introduce the Professor by having Lucy actually cling to him for comfort during a quarrel with her siblings?All these missteps add up to the difference between what could easily have been one of the greatest family films of all time, and what is, instead, merely a good one. Though the film misses greatness, even in this diminished form Lewis’s story is still well worth seeing, and the film adds enough to the experience to keep things fresh.
I think I'll still see it. Thanks so much for the link.
Yes. You're in good company. :-)
I am surely!
I tend to agree. At the very least, the film gives a good visual plane upon which to base a subsequent reading of the books.
It may be that some of the limitations of the screen adaptation can thus be ameliorated. With a good visual image, reading the text would be more dramatic.
I find it interesting that some of the criticism is the departure from Lewis' overt comparisons to Christianity. I wonder to what extent he made that similarity deliberate.
In my own science fiction writing, I have had characters go through experiences that some may think I deliberately lifted from Christian teaching, but it is not so.
My characters find their own way into, and through, adventures. In this regard, their destiny is directed by their innate determination.
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