The trailer looks promising. Caspian was a big disappointment. Hopefully, this next installment will be better.
Disney is infested with secular leftscum. They Just. Don’t. Get. It.
20th Century is almost as bad, but not quite. They’re willing to feed the red meat to the Christian core of this nation (along with a ton of bilge, too).
Frankly, they aren’t much better, just better enough and good enough business people to understand how to do this.
Conclusion: I have some hope this won’t suck.
It's always interesting to see how folks respond when a film fails. If it's released in the summer or Christmas, they say, "It failed because there was too much competition!" If released when there's little competition, they say, "They should have released it when the kids were out of school and able to see it!"
I think the first movie was just a better mix of the story and themes and the action, while the second I actually bailed on because it was just not as interesting. I can't even recall if the second was a good adaptation of the book.
I did like the score to the second one better than that of the first, tho'.
I've read about the investor behind these and I wish him luck. Good to see people with a desire to make different films getting into the financing side of the biz.
Prince Caspian failed because they stripped it of its heart. The heart of the book was faith. The heart of the movie was adventure. Not a bad premise for a regular movie... deadly for a Christian movie needing a Christian audience.
Quite frankly I was disappointed in LWW, not because it deviated from the book to be more cinematic (to be expected) but because the deviations were either pointless (the scene on the ice) or not used to good effect (King Peter should have been the one to come up with the idea of aerial bombardment—it would have tied in the war scene at the opening, which was necessary, since the movie audience unlike Lewis’s original audience for the book didn’t have a sense of the conditions in wartime Britain that led to children being sent to the countrysides, with Peter’s development from school boy to king).
I haven’t seen Caspian, but I figured it would be a let down in box office terms no matter how well it was done: I mean the Narnian analog of the Gospel sold to a largely protestant audience like hotcakes, the Narnian analog of the Battle of Milvian Bridge and the Edict of Milan, overlaid with a watered down version of the opening plot to Hamlet, not so much.
I have a feeling they’ll ruin Dawn Treader unless someone beats them over the head to stick to the book. It will be just an adventure tale if the book isn’t followed very closely to preserve Lewis’s subtle points about sacramental theology. (And quite frankly, as an adventure tale, Prince Caspian was a better book.) And it would be nice of the critique of “progressive” education and parenting was left in. Any bets it won’t be?
Cheers!
Prince Caspian deviated too strongly from the book. Every Christian I know who went to see it expressed disappointment to me about it.
They need to understand this book is a Christian classic and taking the Christianity out of it won’t fly.
Voyage of the Dawn Treader has in it one of the strongest fantasy allegorys of the salvation experience, of a “faith not works” depiction. I have been dreading what Disney would do to that scene, where Eustace finds he cannot take his filthy skin off and Aslan must do it for him.
To me, that's a very strong Christian message.