Posted on 11/10/2004 10:10:41 PM PST by LadyDoc
IT was a friendship that thrived on a complex fantasy world, created in an English pub, that produced some of the most memorable literary characters ever written. Now a new film by a Scottish-based director will celebrate the real-life fellowship of two literary giants, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis.
CS Lewis: The Man Who Created Narnia aims to ride a wave of interest in Lewis that is anticipated to accompany the rel ease in 2005 of up to seven films based on his Narnia novels. .....
Norman Stone’s 54-minute drama, which starts shooting in Oxford this week, is a more modest affair. The film, being made for the Hallmark Channel will follow Lewis’s life from his troubled childhood to his fantasy workshops with Tolkien in an Oxford pub, where he dreamed up his Chronicles Of Narnia. ....
The film will also feature Lewis’s meetings with Tolkien and their much-derided fellow fantasy enthusiasts at the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford.....
The screenplay has been written with the assistance of Douglas Gresham, Lewis’s step son. Stone has also asked for the guidance of Lady Jill Freud, who was one of four children who spent time as a second world war evacuee living in Lewis’s house in Head ington, just outside Oxford. The Chron icles are thought to have been partly written for and inspired by these children, who feature as Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter.....
Oh yeah, it would be tough for you. I was thinking of my Mama when the movie was over. You'll definitely a full box of tissues for this one.
I hope you like it, I sure do.
Debra Winger left a lot to be desired. She kept going in and out of her 'New York Jewish' accent and it was distracting, but other times she was all right.
And since there was little actual Christianity the fierce friendly swordplay we've come to expect from the inklings was not possible.
Take away the Incarnation and Vicarious Suffering and Resurrection of the Body and there are no swords and nothing to fight or play about. So the screenwriters had no material, other than two nice people falling in love, her dying, and he trying to figure out how to go on. That's poignant, but it is a common story. It was not Jack and Joy's story, which was aparently too scandalous in its cruciform particulars to keep in the script.
True. Have either of you seen the BBC version? I've had a rough time getting a hold of it, haven't yet succeeded.
Dan
No, sorry.
There was an article in the economist that likened the Internet to old coffee shops called, "The Internet in a Cup."
You can read it here.
A lot of us do have trouble constructing sentences, but the olden days had their share of illiterate folk and there are some very eloquent posters on free republic today.
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