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To: Barb4Bush
You seem to have a great deal of knowledge about and respect for C.S. Lewis. What did you think of the movie "Shadowlands"?

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 . . .

204 posted on 06/28/2005 1:14:49 PM PDT by Dunstan McShane
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To: Dunstan McShane

I did like the movie but knowing next to nothing about C.S. Lewis; I was curious to know what someone who did know about him thought of it.


243 posted on 06/29/2005 5:41:17 AM PDT by Barb4Bush
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