Through the Wardrobe, etc.
Dec. 22nd, 2005 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talkingsoupYou know, you have to look really hard to find the Christian allegory in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Everyone's politicized the movie, but really--a world inside a wardrobe, fauns, winter, witches, lions...and women who have a role as something other than the temptress, the demoness or the originator of sin? I'm not seeing much of a connection. Come on, people. I mean, obviously C. S. Lewis intended some references (the whole dying for someone else thing) but I really don't think it's "the Bible in a fantasy setting." I haven't read the Bible to be sure, but still--and I went into this movie looking for references, seeing as that's all anyone can talk about these days. Christianity, not-Christianity, Christian reference, Xtian this and that and both sides pissy-pissy about everything!
Anyway, all that aside, I just think it's a nice movie. Excellent acting, excellent cinematography and CGI, good plot and timing, great score, and one of the best book-to-movie adaptations I've ever seen--honestly. I read the book on the plane over here (in preperation for seeing the movie) and the movie really does follow the book almost to a fault. And everything they added actually works. All around a very good movie. One thing I will say is that it was rather violent for a kid's movie (when the two armies hit each other I actually winced), though apparently when you're in Narnia you don't bleed. *shrug*
I went alone. Liz has been busy/sick the past few days, and I was bored out of my skull. Other than the movie, nothing much happened today. I picked up Ben early from school and we watched, Fight Club then his gaming computer arrived (Dell XPS) and we're still figuring out how he's going to get Internet without a phone jack in his room.
Did some thinking for Mot today, but no writing. Narnia kicked me into army mode--there's a whole slew of wars going on in the Mot trilogy, and I realized how little I know about modern warfare. Not only that--modern warfare plus mystical beasts like dragons and Demons, and magic going on. It's not like I can base this off ancient warfare either--for one thing there's guns, for another the whole big army charges another big army thing just don't fly anymore. This'll require some thought.
Anyway, all that aside, I just think it's a nice movie. Excellent acting, excellent cinematography and CGI, good plot and timing, great score, and one of the best book-to-movie adaptations I've ever seen--honestly. I read the book on the plane over here (in preperation for seeing the movie) and the movie really does follow the book almost to a fault. And everything they added actually works. All around a very good movie. One thing I will say is that it was rather violent for a kid's movie (when the two armies hit each other I actually winced), though apparently when you're in Narnia you don't bleed. *shrug*
I went alone. Liz has been busy/sick the past few days, and I was bored out of my skull. Other than the movie, nothing much happened today. I picked up Ben early from school and we watched, Fight Club then his gaming computer arrived (Dell XPS) and we're still figuring out how he's going to get Internet without a phone jack in his room.
Did some thinking for Mot today, but no writing. Narnia kicked me into army mode--there's a whole slew of wars going on in the Mot trilogy, and I realized how little I know about modern warfare. Not only that--modern warfare plus mystical beasts like dragons and Demons, and magic going on. It's not like I can base this off ancient warfare either--for one thing there's guns, for another the whole big army charges another big army thing just don't fly anymore. This'll require some thought.
