The Chronicles of Narnia

Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:08 am

Yes. I know.
But in reading order, The Magicians Nephew comes first.
And that is the way it is with me.
None of this "it destroys the mystery if you know where the lamp came from" nonsence.
Give me the creation of Narnia, the people that sacraficed themselves to stop the white witch, Diggory and. The girl... :roll:

Give me Aslan and the Golden fruit.

Heck, give me cool glades filled with puddles.

Website · Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:21 am

Setekh wrote:Yes. I know.
But in reading order, The Magicians Nephew comes first.
And that is the way it is with me.
None of this "it destroys the mystery if you know where the lamp came from" nonsence.
Give me the creation of Narnia, the people that sacraficed themselves to stop the white witch, Diggory and. The girl...
Give me Aslan and the Golden fruit.

Heck, give me cool glades filled with puddles.

You've said it all.

Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:38 am

I saw it on Sunday, and oh my goodness I loved it. I'm already planning to go see it again with some friends at school

Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:17 pm

I loved the movie, it was great, and all that jazz.

But I'm FURIOUS at whomever designed wardrobe/props.

They didn't just "borrow" from Frank Frazetta's work. They downright STOLE it. I almost chucked my popcorn at the flipping screen when I saw the polar-bear led chariot the Witch was riding. "Silver Warrior" anyone?

IT'S A DIRECT, SHAMELESS RIP-OFF OF FRANK FRAZETTA'S WORK!

They did the same thing in Lord of the Rings: might as well have put his name on, the way they robbed his design to use on the Wraiths (especially the boots).

I don't know why I'm so shocked. This happens all the time with fantasy movies. I guess it just peeves me off especially because my dad is friends with him and I recognize when he's being ripped off. And those obnoxious pukes can't use the excuse that they've "never heard of him". College courses are taught on this guy, and anybody in the fantasy art business knows who he is.

Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:53 pm

Fiddelysquat wrote:IT'S A DIRECT, SHAMELESS RIP-OFF OF FRANK FRAZETTA'S WORK!

Who?

It wouldn't surprise me if there are people in the world who can think of the same, or similar ideas.
Just think of the light bulb. Who invented that? That's always up for debate

Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:41 pm

Fiddelysquat wrote:-stuff-

Now. I'm not sure whether you're joking or not...

So i wont even point it out.

Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:34 am

StarryEyed502 wrote:
Fiddelysquat wrote:IT'S A DIRECT, SHAMELESS RIP-OFF OF FRANK FRAZETTA'S WORK!

Who?

It wouldn't surprise me if there are people in the world who can think of the same, or similar ideas.

I had the same general reaction to Fidds' statement =/

Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:38 am

Christopher wrote:
StarryEyed502 wrote:
Fiddelysquat wrote:IT'S A DIRECT, SHAMELESS RIP-OFF OF FRANK FRAZETTA'S WORK!

Who?

It wouldn't surprise me if there are people in the world who can think of the same, or similar ideas.

I had the same general reaction to Fidds' statement =/

Are you KIDDING ME????
You don't know who Frank Frazetta is??? Death Dealer?? Fire and Ice?? He also did alot of Conan art too!
Those don't ring any sort of bells at all??

Just wow...

And your dad really knows him? Spiffy... I'd so bug him to draw me something

Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:52 am

Setekh wrote:Yes. I know.
But in reading order, The Magicians Nephew comes first.

But it's not the first book. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is. The Magician's Nephew is a prequel. Just as The Horse and His Boy is... well... I don't really know if there is a literary term for it, but it's a "this story takes place before the last chapter of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".

Anyway, just saw it and it was just amazing. I can't even begin to describe how awesome I thought it was.

It stuck very close to the book, which was exciting to see.

They didn't cut out parts that really stick out (unlike in other book-to-movies, like Harry Potter. Though to be fair, the Narnia books are just a BIT shorter than Potter books).
The only things I actually noticed were that the Witch didn't catch the little Christmas Party as she did in the book (it was replaced by the part with the fox, I'm guessing).
Also, Tumnus has a long tail, not a short one, but that's obviously not a big deal (they also cut out lots of lines from the scene where Lucy meets Tumnus, but I only noticed because in 7th grade I had to adapt that chapter into a play for drama class).
Oh! And the eager little lion at the end that was all gun-ho for the battle!

Though, did the ice-burg, river crossing scene actually happen in the book? I can't seem to remember, but it seemed like an "added for effect" scene (though it was pretty cool). Same with Edmund meeting Tumnus in the jail (which was awesome too).

Overall, my friend and I were anticipating 3 movies this year (Fantastic 4, Harry Potter, and this) and by far this was the best of the three.

Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:33 pm

i saw it yesterday..it was good but the 'heros' were to panzy!

Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:46 am

Uchiha-Itachi wrote:i saw it yesterday..it was good but the 'heros' were to panzy!

Well, you have to remember that when C.S. Lewis wrote the books, he wrote it as an allegory- it's basically Jesus' walk on Earth, but as fantasy. (If you don't believe me, read some of his other work. I'm sure you'll quickly believe that was his intention.) The same is true of that whole series, as well as a trilogy written by C.S. Lewis' best friend. (You might have heard of him- his trilogy was called "The Lord of the Rings".

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Please don't argue over this- I don't want a comment on the author's intention to become reason for a lock.

Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:13 am

Tested wrote:Please don't argue over this- I don't want a comment on the author's intention to become reason for a lock.

... If you don't want people to argue about it... don't post stuff like that. You can't tell if these stories were in any way based on Jesus.

I don't want the topic locked either, but I believe you are trying to push your view upon people. I don't want this topic locked either, but please don't post things like this.
I'm going to leave this here. Please don't reply to me. If you want a debate, post a Topic in the debating board.

Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:47 am

What the heck? It's a commonly known thing that C.S. Lewis incorporated Christians stories into the Chronicles of Narnia. He even said so. It's not a debate. He also wrote a lot of other religious works. Quite a Christian philosopher, he was.

Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:32 pm

Yup he went so far as to say it wasn't really an allegory because it was meant to be exactly the story of Jesus in a form that children could read and appreciate which would help their understanding of the "real" story. Still sounds like an allegory to me but then I'm not C.S. Lewis

It was also written in a way though that it would appeal to people of many or no religions, the tale of sacrifice and rising again being as old as the dawn of time so to speak.

My younger brothers went to see the film recently and I was actually suprised that they both enjoyed it as much as I did, I thought my 12 year old brother might be too "cool" to like it but he loved it just the same. And they both, like me, want their own Mr. Beaver =D

Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:04 am

Trick wrote:Yup he went so far as to say it wasn't really an allegory because it was meant to be exactly the story of Jesus in a form that children could read and appreciate which would help their understanding of the "real" story.

I never said any such thing-

I wrote:Well, you have to remember that when C.S. Lewis wrote the books, he wrote it as an allegory