Posted on 06/28/2005 11:19:26 AM PDT by JDBrown90
We went last year. It was a very moving experience indeed. Of course we also liked the Osborne Lights and Mickey's Very Merry!
Disney World is only as fun as you are!
It's not so bad. He's really cool, and I think he's getting a little better actually. Maybe he just has a really tough learning curve! =P
Well said. (Stands up to clap hands repeatedly.)
Thank you for your kind and generous assumption.
I was sort of disappointed by it, to be honest. Whoever Anthony Hopkins was playing, it wasn't C. S. Lewis. Hopkins played Lewis as an uptight, rather proper, sheltered, anal retentive Brit type. The actual Lewis was (according to reports--I never met him) a big and loud kind of man with a booming voice (Treebeard in "The Lord of the Rings" is reportedly based on Lewis), who (as one person remarked) reminded you of "nothing so much as a prosperous butcher." Not so natty a dresser as Hopkins, either.
Apart from that, the chonological and historical mistakes, the elimination of one of Joy's children, and the clear implication at the end of the film that Lewis' faith was shattered (it wasn't), it was an okay movie.
Actually, I think it was a remake of an earlier BBC-TV movie version of an earlier play, but I've never seen that one.
Uh--hope I didn't just trash a movie you liked . . .
Did you know that Tolkien was the basis for the main characture in Out of the Silent Planet. It is true!
Tolkien wrote a short story, a ghost story that has Lewis in it. They had a bet and I do believe Lewis won.
Fret not, ye red neck Baptist preachers. My wife Elizabeth, and Mary, my daughter, are in full submission to Christ, our Editor in Chief and to me, their pastor. Ladies, please enjoy this page in the Lord and in the King James Bible. Mail sent by Christian ladies will be answered by the ladies here unless I, Steve, believe the mail is meant only to make trouble. Such mail is deleted, and the ladies never see it.
Weird-oid, uncivil, and snobby, too. Three strikes and you're out, Steve, bless your heart.
A bit more trivia on CS Lewis. His death did not get much headlines here or in Britian. He died on the same day as John F. Kennedy.
I know the story well..
Disney fronting the second coming accurately(according to the story) will not happen..
Even as an allegory.. the temptation to "insert" something into the story will just be overwhelming.. or delete something.. "to make it better" or "for poetic license"..
I wouldn't trust the present Disney with the story of Henny Penny.. or Humpty Dumpty.. actually the Lion King was a rip off of some of this this story.. at least the concept.. of it.. "the LION KING"....
Interesting.
It's time for me to read that trilogy again. I like to read it about every 15 years or so.
Well, you're a very generous young man to give so much care to a handicapped pet. Good for you!
Before you start jumping all over the guy. Could it be possible that men send the women all sorts of porn etc that as a man I would not like a woman I care about to see. Don't be so quick to judge.
The internet is an amazing thing. Everyone can have a page to flog their dead horses on.
Many people will be fooled by this junk.
The theme of creating a heaven on earth fits well with Disney's agenda. C.S. Lewis understood clearly the biblical teaching summarized by the words of Christ: "My kingdom is not of this world." We should expect Disney to seek fortune through a misrepresentation of biblical teaching. Mel Gibson was interested in letting the truth speak for itself. He created The Passion at his own expense and risk. Disney is no Mel Gibson, with or without Eisner at the hellm.
I don't object to his being protective of his wife and daughter. I object to his smart-mouthed name-calling, and I'm frankly stuned at "enjoy this page in the Lord and in the King James Bible."
Except that isn't what he warned against. And also stating that the women will answer mail from women unless HE believes it was sent to cause trouble.
He is censoring their e-mail.
LOL!
To be fair, maybe the error is in the article's author's understanding, not in the film itself, which is not even completed.
Well if he thinks it is sent to make trouble for his family I hope you hits the delete button. Wouldn't you do the same for your family?
Disneyland did the "snow" too, but down by the water in New Orleans Square.
-PJ
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