FairyTalesYou are on the archive wiki. The new wiki is here. I've been mostly blasé about the glut of sci-fi/fantasy movies that have been hitting the big screen lately - and I include comic book movies in this. Lord of the rings was good - "Oh good." Punisher was bad - "Oh good." I really didn't care. When I came down to it, they weren't my stories, my fables. Sure, I read comic. Sure, I had read the rings. But I either didn't take them seriously at the time (the comics), or I thought they were crap (LotR?). Whether I still think the same things today is neither here nor there: if the damn shrinks think someone's mother not giving them a cookie at age 5 can lead to problems in later life, then books I read while very young can also have a pronounced effect. Anyway, to the meat of it. Finally there is a movie which I'm actually worried about - not excited, worried. The movie, by the by (and it really doesn't matter), is The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Horrible fact is that if they do it well, I'll be happy...probably not extraordinarily happy, but good. If it's bad then it's a disaster. The reason, as far as a relatively brief self-critical brood can tell, is that the whole Narnia saga is my fairy tale - a tale that lived in my head. Now it's going to be shared thing...other people get to experience my fairy tale, but probably not how I imagined it. Eh. PS. The counter example of this is the Guide. I assumed it was going to awful, so never really had a chance to build up anticipation. Comment: Uh... (by SynKronos? on 2005-08-10 19:07:44)You do know this is the second version of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, yeah? Comment: Re: Uh... (by AndieMoore? on 2005-08-10 21:20:24)Third, I think. Unless the BBC didn't do it, and just started after that. There's an old animated movie too. In any case...I'm allowed my panic. Comment: The Funny Thing About Lions... (by NotInCLAW? on 2005-08-10 21:46:06)Dude, I'm going to see that movie just to see whether the pump up the religious aspect as heavily as I'm expecting. As y'all know, the whole Narnia series was a collection of christian allegories, which is why I was so amused that some undamentalist whackjob tried to ban CS Lewis as part of the fantasy-books-are-evil Harry Potter backlash. So what odds for the religious message being made a bunch more blatant in the current political climate? Or am I just being an annoying conspiracy theorist? "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons are real. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." - GK Chesterton. Comment: Glee! (by LothrielPixie? on 2005-08-11 11:14:08)I loved the Narnia series - think I started reading them when I was in bed for a few days with some infection or the like while in Std. 3. I made my Mum fetch the whole series from the library after I'd read The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe. They're the first (and only) series of books that I've finished, only to pick up the first one and read them again. However, I'm looking forward to the movie with the same thrill that a new Harry Potter movie gives me! Joy, joy! (So movies in October then?) |