Ahh, some more people to discuss yonder book with.
oh, and to answer one question: the movie was pretty good, but I have a slight issue with the way the death of Aslan was handled.
Ahh, some more people to discuss yonder book with.
oh, and to answer one question: the movie was pretty good, but I have a slight issue with the way the death of Aslan was handled.
I've read the book when I was 12 and liked it very much. But now when I'm a bit older, some things there seem ridiculous. I think to put Biblical motives into a children's book like that is not a right thing. And one more thing: in one of the book( I guess the last one) Lewis writes about Susan who already doesn'y believe in Narnia- this is a horrible age when you are already not a child, but not a grown up yet. Susane was arounf 17-18 at the time(maye 16). Lewis was teaching students of that age- if you think that it's sucha horrible age- why are you teaching?!
I have read the book about three times. I had found it in a book store and it looked interesting to me. I know you shouldnt judge a book by its cover but the cover reminded me of a movie and plus i remember my mom telling me of the story when i was little and so i bought it. Then after about a mounth after i read it i remembered my thought of the cover looking like a movie then i found a website on the back and went to it. Then what do you know it was becoming a movie. They had just started shooting it and i had to wait about one year and four mounths to see the movie! But i was thrilled!! During that period i read the book about two more times. It realy is a great book!!
Oh and during the time i was waiting i bought and read all seven other books and read them too. They are all great!!
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why is that? i liked it better in the movie than in the book because you could actually see all those horrid creatures and their barbaric rituals (not that i normally mind barbaric rituals all that much)... but if I had children, I'd never allow them to watch it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stanislaw
what i liked about the film was that you actually got to see what happened in the battle... again, I'm not normally too fond of lengthy battle scenes, but in the book it wasn't narrated in any detail at all, so it was a bit of an anticlimax.. i mean you should think the final battle with the witch would be a major event...
but maybe Lewis spared us the gory details because it was a book for little kids... :confused:
Why???Quote:
Originally Posted by Boris239
I think Lewis' point about Susan is that her priorities are in the wrong place. She so much wants to be grown up, that she would deny truth. Granted, we know that this is fiction, but within the context of the story, Susan would deny what actually happened. Again with the Biblical parallels, she is like the Pharasees that saw Jesus' miracles and would make excuses not to believe them. (see Matthew 9:32-34 for an example).Quote:
Originally Posted by Boris239
Shea, I understand that Lewis wants to show that Susan's priorities aren't right. I don't like that he makes the statement about the whole age group.
I didn't like the tone of Aslans 'sacrafice', in the book it is clear that he sacrafices himself, and that his rise from the dead is a sort of triumph over death, where as in the movie, it seems to be more of a trick, like Aslan knows he will come back from the dead, so he did this just to trick the witch queen into a false hope.Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Uhm, why not...other books have witchcraft motives, secular motives, and even themes regarding sexual orientation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boris239
So, what is wrong with an author putting biblical themes in his works?
yeah, you've got a point there, although i didn't really feel that way when i saw the film.. but now that you've mentioned it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stanislaw
what i liked about the movie was that the witch was much more scary than in the book and there was more pomp and circumstance, e.g. when she comes to the camp to parley in her chariot rather than just walking there...
i'm reading "Prince Caspian" now.. it's so much better than this one... before I got started on Caspian I didn't realize there was anything wrong with The Lion, The Witch etc... but Caspian is much more detailed and there are lots of funny creatures, plus his style seams to be a little more elaborate and witty...
there's this one dwarf who's always exlaiming things like "soups and celeries!". he's so funny :)
This was one of the things that struck me as interesting in the book. When Father Christmas gives them their gifts Lucy asks him why the girls are not fighting:Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
This was written after the WWII, during which women worked as nurses or in other supplementary roles but I would expect in a book which is, seemingly, written for children, these things wouldn't be an issue. Disappointing but, as Sleepy pointed out, we have to keep the time it was written in mind.Quote:
“Why, sir?” said Lucy. “I think - I don’t know but I think I could be brave enough.”
“That is not the point,” he said. “But battles are ugly when women fight...
I haven't seen the movie so won't be able to comment on the differences but it was my impression while reading the book that Aslan knew he would come back to life because he explains to the girls how it all worked out.
There is nothing wrong in putting biblical motives into a book in general. In fact I like a lot of books like that. I was saying it only about childeren's booksQuote:
Originally Posted by Stanislaw
again, why?Quote:
Originally Posted by Boris239
I remember reading in a book, I think it was somewhere in "Letters to an American Lady", which is a series of letters written by CS Lewis to an undisclosed American woman over the course of many years, that a young girl in a private school in America, was expelled for possessing a copy of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.I never felt that the book was subversive.
I like the ol, huestes jokes...the owl says... here is huestes...and the king...Useless??? :D (I think that was from the silver chair)Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
A really good one is the Voyage of the Dawn treader (sp.) it is a cool one...If you like the chronicles of narnia, I would also suggest another series of books by him: The cosmic trilogy, the first two books in the trilogy are pretty cool, but the last is a tad weird. :thumbs_up
Do you also abject to Harry Potter, or the Star Wars novels for kids? I mean, its a book. If there is no motive, then the book would be boring, like a mcleans magazine or the like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boris239