Pullman attacks Narnia film plans

BBC News ^ | 10.16.2005

[DoctorRansom]

Author Philip Pullman has attacked plans to turn The Chronicles of Narnia into a movie series, calling CS Lewis' books "racist" and "misogynistic".

The first film in the series - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - is due to be released in December.

His Dark Materials author Pullman said the 1950s stories were "reactionary".

"If the Disney corporation wants to market this film as a great Christian story, they'll just have to tell lies about it," he told The Observer.

[. . .]

But Pullman said the Narnia books contained "a peevish blend of racist, misogynistic and reactionary prejudice" and "not a trace" of Christian charity.

"It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue," he added.

"The highest virtue - we have on the authority of the New Testament itself - is love, and yet you find not a trace of that in the books."

[DoctorRansom]

Hey,

Mr. Godless Trilobite, moral-core-lacking, merely-evolved-pond-muck-minded Asinine Atheist, sir,

You don't expect me to tell you what does and does not characterize true Atheism. Similarly, you can just let the real Christians determine what does or does not constitute Christian virtues or Biblical love in a story.

Savvy?

Dr. Ransom
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Gleefully integrating church and state

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Author Philip Pullman has attacked plans to turn The Chronicles of Narnia into a movie series, calling CS Lewis' books "racist" and "misogynistic".

He called them racist and mysogynistic because he didn't want to say what really offended him, namely, that they are Christian.

[luckystarmom]

I guess I'm wrong. I always thought that Aslan, the Lion laying down his life for the young boy (Edward, Edmund??) was a great act of love.

Hmmmmm. I must be mistaken.

[DoctorRansom]

Tadalup, tadalup, tadalup. ... Let's have a "Narnia: AWAKE" update ping. Welcome back.

Dr. Ransom
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Speaking only for those with ears to hear

[Argus]

Pullman's just jealous because the Narnia movies are going to out-gross the ones being developed from his Satanic children's book franchise by a factor of ten.

[DoctorRansom]

'Tis indeed Edmund!

But again, Atheists make themselves even more foolish than they already are (Psalm 14:1) when they attempt to tell Christians what is and isn't true Christianity. Liberal churchians and trilobites at the National Center for Science Education do this all the time: "Your religion is just too precious to be tainted with government assistance or public exposure in the court houses; you must keep it alive and sacred only in private!"

Shut UP! You run your religion, I'll let the Creator run mine, thank you.

"Go back to the Abyss!"

Dr. Ransom
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Independent-sighted, yet Right-minded

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

But films such as Pulp Fiction and Sin City are.... "A MASTERPIECE!" "10 OUT OF 10!" "TWO THUMBS WAY UP!" "STYLISH AND TERRIFICLY VIOLENT!"

[DoctorRansom]

Jealous and trying to make headlines.

Harry Potter fans, you ain't seen nothing yet. All the HP fans will show up to see LWW along with all the Christians who were nervous about J.K. Rowling's worldview. That's a much larger audience than HP's and much larger than any viewers for this other jackass, what's-his-name ... I really hate even to give him the slightest bit more publicity.

Dr. Ransom
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Independent-sighted, yet Right-minded

[Mr. Lucky]

Didn't someone famous, oh, I don't know maybe a rock star or a movie actor or maybe a writer of Satanic books for children, once say:

Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

[wideawake]

(1) Pullman's His Dark Materials series was pushed by the media as a "hot new thing" but it never was. The books are terrible, kids don't like them and it didn't sell as a result.

(2) He admits that he wrote his books against Christianity and the West, that his agenda in writing was specifically to undermine traditional morality and metaphysics.

(3) Pullman will do anything he can to generate controversy and thus, potentially, sales.

(4) The Chronicles of Narnia are not racist or hateful in any way, of course. The forces of evil are portrayed in The Last Battle as being vaguely Arabic - but this looks much like uncanny foresight, not racism.

[chesley]

I re-read all the Narnia books just recently, in preparation for the movie. I have to admit, the racist and misogynistic aspects went completely over my head.

Would someone bother to point one of them out to me??

[Xenalyte]

Pulp Fiction was an astonishing movie. I adore it.

[DoctorRansom]

"... NO REDEEMING VALUE WHATSOEVER! BLOODLETTING! GORE! MORE! MOCKERIES! COMMUNISM! ALL CHRISTIAN CHARACTERS REPEAT BIBLE VERSES WHILE THEY TRY TO KILL GAYS AND MOLEST SOULFUL-EYED LITTLE PUPPIES! YEAIGGHH!"

Dr. Ransom
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[ConservativeDude]

The only way there could be love for these morons is if one of the characters was a cross-dresser or other perv....

[Captain Rhino]

It nice to know that the "Chronicles of Narnia" (in both print and movie form) will still be having a positive influence on people around the world long after Mr. Pullman has become food for the worms.

[ark_girl]

Hold in mind, there were groups that claimed "The Passion of the Christ" was racist. That was movie that lays out what Christians believe...no more...no less.

There are just some folks who hate Christianity at it's core. They don't understand what we believe and they don't care to. Just the way it is.

[DoctorRansom]

I have to like Pullman for this reason only: In a media world in which Christians far too often rip off of secular trends and titles in an effort to "sell" Christianity (i.e. "Harry Potter" clones), Pullman carnivorously and shamelessly rips off of Narnia in an effort to sell his Atheism.

Doesn't he know it's supposed to be vice-versa? Seems to be a graduate of the Al Franken school of Hilariously Uncreative and Narcissistic Self-Promotion.

Meaning, of course, that our discussion of the fabricated "controversy" only gives this Godless intellectual gigolo exactly what he wants. But, but, it's fun.

Dr. Ransom
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[chesley]

Thanks, I knew that. It was a rhetorical question, but I appreciate your replying.

[wideawake]

In The Last Battle the Calormenes and their demon-god Tash seem vaguely Arabic/Muslim.

This is supposed to be proof of racism.

Why?

Apparently because a lot of Calormenes are fanatical adherents of an anti-Aslanist cult and they invade non-Calormene lands and force the people to submit to their desert religion.

Nothing like Arabs and Muslims in real life or anything.

[Lady Heron]

Having read 2 of Pullmans disgusting kids books (thank goodness I did before I allowed my children to), which I quickly threw in the trash....There is no question of where Pullman is coming from.

Where Pullman seeks darkness Lewis seeks light!