Posted on 10/16/2005 7:34:14 AM PDT by cloud8
And these were the same people who scoffed at people who didn't want their children exposed to Harry Potter witchcraft.
Even as a youngster I recognized the temptation of Diggory.
Disneyfied it might be, but if it is stirring up this much hooha, I'd say it's got to be good. Great.
If Philip Pullman isn't possessed, it's not for lack of trying. What a creep.
Can't wait for the upcoming HP movie next month!
For those who have, how does C.S. Lewis compare to J.R.R. Tolkien? Are the C.S. Lewis books on par with LOTR or are they more for children?
2. Well, if this doesn't get him on that poor loon Michael Newdow's winter-soltice-card list, I don't know what would.
Well when I heard that Disney had made Reepacheep gay in this film I knew they had screwed up. Oh yeah Aslan is the lion of Islam too. ...............just kidding , but with disney all bets are off in my book,hoping for the best, preparing for the worst................
The Narnia books are geared for children but are some great writing anyway. You might try "The book of the dun cow" for some more adult good vs evil type fantasy reading. In it's original form it was part of a collection written by Irish monks in the early 1100s.
> ...if it is stirring up this much hooha, I'd say it's got to be good. Great.
It m-might offend the Moooslims.
I think the movie is made by Walden Media, with Disney as the distributor. Walden has made several good clean family-oriented movies like "Because of Winn-Dixie" and my favorite (but flunked in the distribution) "I am David".
I would love for him to give examples of how he interprets this from the movie.
LOL!
That's in the books. The writer lost his noun-verb agreement partway through the sentence.
"Racism," of course, is in the eye of the beholder, but certainly Lewis is not conciliatory toward his equivalent of the Turks.
> If Philip Pullman isn't possessed, it's not for lack of trying. What a creep.
He's just jealous that Disney isn't making a blockbuster out of His Dark Materials.
It's my job as a parent to teach my children the difference betwen fact and fiction.
That being said, we've read the "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy and all the"Harry Potter" books.
I think (IMHO) that some people live to complain about things. It's all they have in life.
Considered the stuff he writes he has no room to talk.
Philip Pullman is one of the reasons I caution the Potter Hysterics to tone it down.
He actually is everything they accuse Rowlings of being. His books are little more then anti-religious propaganda.
But with all the much ado over nothing that has been stirred up over the Harry Potter books you have a hard time convincing parents of that.
Exellent point! Somehow, children can see Harry Potter despite its depiction of "witchcraft" but C.S.Lewis' children's books are racist and "Islam-like?" Talk about totally lying about literature.
I will say to them the same thing they tell us when we don't like films that glorify sex and violence...Don't see it then.
But, their real fear is that they know that these films will be box office hits and perhaps C.S. Lewis' works will reach more people just as Tolkien's did. People who live in the dark cannot stand the "light"...and they fear the uplifting themes of Narnia will spread.
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