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05-17-2006, 10:03 PM | #141 |
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I am afraid that Tilda indeed thinks just that way. But you can backtrack to the original interview if you feel it may have been slanted.
My Pullman comment was intended to be disingenuous. He hates Narnia for explicit religious reasons: his own hatred of religion. He thinks Narnia full of Christian nonsense. That obviously would not accord with Tilda, would it? Just the mental picture of that tea chat made me laugh! Speaking of images, how's this strike ya? http://www.narniafans.com/?id=860 Goooooooo, Aslan! For the simpletons like meself, it's pretty obvious who gets beaten by whom and why, and it is NOT a matter of interpretation at all.
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05-18-2006, 12:44 PM | #142 | |
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05-26-2006, 09:53 PM | #143 | ||
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I (finally) saw Narnia. I can't comment about Aslan's voice, however, because I watched the German-dubbed version. (Interestingly, some of my friends informed me that in this version, a few scenes were missing little bits--like the centuar pulling out his swords from left and right and Aslan getting shaved).
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05-28-2006, 03:35 PM | #144 |
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I'm glad they were true to the book.
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06-05-2006, 04:23 PM | #145 |
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Of interest, from narniafans.com ...
Adamson recognized for Services to Film 05 Jun 2006 by Paul Martin New Zealand-born director Andrew Ralph Adamson has been recognised for his services to film. He has been made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Adamson inhabits a different world in the same industry. He now lives in Los Angeles and his last film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, was one of the biggest box office hits of last year, grossing US$428 million ($679 million). The film earned a Golden Globe nomination and an Oscar for make-up. He also directed the animated box-office monsters Shrek and Shrek 2.
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06-07-2006, 04:24 AM | #146 | |
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. Last edited by sun-star : 06-07-2006 at 04:31 AM. |
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06-07-2006, 02:33 PM | #147 |
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Doesn't Lucy fight in The Horse and His Boy? I seem to remember someone saying that she did.
I found it: "Oh what nonsense!" Corin burst out. "of course I'm going to fight. Why, the Queen Lucy's going to be with the archers."
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06-09-2006, 11:10 AM | #148 | |
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06-09-2006, 11:11 AM | #149 |
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What can I say, I'm an Oxford medievalist. The most antiquated kind
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06-09-2006, 02:39 PM | #150 | |
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Should Susan be shown running from the bear in "Prince Caspian" because that's what girls are like? |
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06-10-2006, 06:07 AM | #151 | |
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06-16-2006, 01:41 PM | #152 | |
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06-19-2006, 12:38 PM | #153 |
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Narnia DVD creates history in India
16 Jun 2006 Paul Martin | (Narnia Films) The Chronicles of Narnia has created history in the growing home entertainment sector by becoming the highest selling Disney DVD since its release last month. The Movie acquired the feat by dethroning Lion King by over 30% in sales. Daniel Solnicki, vice president, Buena Vista Home Entertainment International says, “The success of the DVD has been phenomenal in India echoing its success worldwide (as the highest selling DVD of 2006). The growing hardware (DVD / VCD players) penetration and the aggressive marketing efforts by our partner in India are taking the home entertainment business to new heights.” http://www.narniafans.com/
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07-07-2006, 10:14 PM | #154 |
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Belated comment: It is a fact that Lewis did include some gender bias in the Chronicles. He held notions that were common in his time.
[Example: he, through his characters, states more than once that girls are poor at directional tasks ("can't carry a map in there heads" to which Lucy replies "because we have something in them", but doesn't argue the fact that girls are worse at directions than boys). Lewis obviously hadn't met my husband. There are other examples.] That doesn't undermine the books, IMO. I would say that battles are ugly affairs, period, although sometimes necessary. We do of course know that there are differences between women and men, but it doesn't mean that women shouldn't be afforded the same choices and opportunities as men, just as men should be afforded the same as women. All people should have (and technically, they all do have) the ability to choose their own actions. The fact that Movie Susan and Lucy take on a small part of the battle at the end of it does perhaps compromise Lewis' views about women in battle, but the little boy and girl in the audience whose aunt is fighting in Iraq sees nothing amiss. Lewis would probably think they should, though. |
07-10-2006, 12:58 PM | #155 |
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I agree with all that . Though I do think the comment Mercutio quoted misinterprets Lewis' brand of antifeminism. The attitude to women varies through the Chronicles - Jill and Lucy are very different from Susan (and from each other), and are allowed to play different roles.
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07-12-2006, 05:36 PM | #156 |
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Right, and as someone else said, in HHB it is indicated that Lucy fights with the archers. I whole heartedly agree that different books in the series and different passages treat women's issues differently. Bottom line, I think that one shouldn't regard the omission of certain passages as having been done by design and/or a negative thing just because its inclusion would tend to support one's own views. Hope that makes sense.
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07-12-2006, 05:41 PM | #157 |
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well, i tend to agree, but mainly because on the evidence that the whole film was so apallingly shoddily done... it is clearly unclear to base any reading on the basis of it!
just to be clear are we talking about the books or that lamentable pile of pap that was the movie (with its subsequent arrogant tasteless commercial 'novelisiations') here ? True fans of Lewis stand up and be heard, say I! best, BB Last edited by Butterbeer : 07-12-2006 at 05:44 PM. |
07-13-2006, 10:20 AM | #158 |
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I was responding to the quote Mercutio posted above, in which the writer stated that he'd be disappointed to see Movie Lucy and/or Susan fighting in the battle. His point was that if they did, then Hollywood was pandering to modern feminist ideas rather than staying true to Lewis' ideas of women and war.
But as others stated, Lewis apparently didn't have a problem with adult Lucy being an archer in later battles. It just seemed to me that the writer of the above quote was placing too much importance on the matter. |
07-16-2006, 06:34 PM | #159 |
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I have always been an avid Tolkien fan, but the shortfall of Tolkien's books is that they are so dominately male, especially in the department of the characters that are appealing to my tastes. Lewis on the other hand does not have races where all their women have disappeared. Lewis' stories also have much more female representation. It is these aspects of Lewis stories that I find more appealing.
The movie is also a little more watchable for me then the LoTR film because it isn't as dark in tone.
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