I'm pretty darn excited. The project is afoot.
See the Narnia trailer here. You'll have several URL's presented as options. By reading carefully, you'll probably be able to tell which files are bigger and better for high speed. Look for higher numbers. If you see 56, that's a 56k modem size. If you see 300, all the better.
I'm cautiously excited. I've been a huge Narnia fan for more than 30 years. Right now, I'm reading The Magician's Nephew to my 5 year old, and he is riveted. reading it aloud makes me aware, though, how beautiful Lewis' language is, and I wonder if they'll ever transfer that to the screen. Also, despite Hollywood's self-proclaimed respect for the Christian allegory underlying Lewis' work, I really wonder if that jaded, anti-religious community can properly express those ideas.
ReplyDeleteTlaloc, I had to chuckle when I read that Narnia didn't do it for you. I've read some of your postings here in the past, and it would only make sense that Narnia wouldn't do it for you. I didn't really enjoy it myself for many years, then I rediscovered it after my life had undergone some pretty radical changes. Perhaps you'll have the same experience down the road. Best wishes.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Jack. You have to discover the values of innocence and redemption to enjoy Narnia. I typically find that "progressive" types find innocence to be a hindrance rather than something beautiful. Narnia won't mean much to such a person.
ReplyDeleteTlaloc writes: " In a child innocence is wonderful. In an adult it's abominable." Why? Is Tlaloc conflating innocence with ignorance? Or that all adults must be cynical and jaded. I think a certain wonderment is a great gift for adults. It's hard to maintain in our all-squalor, all-the-time culture, but to look at things with freshness, joy and faith is anything but abominable.
ReplyDeleteInnocent means free of guilt, not ignorant.—STK
ReplyDeleteHaving read all seven volumes of Narnia aloud to my daughter, I agree with bookworm that Lewis was a masterful children's writer. His stories might not be to one's taste, but I find no flaw in any detail of Narnia--from pacing to imagery to his handling of the didactic side of his stories. It all seems to me perfectly apt to Lewis's aims (which I for my own part largely approve of).
ReplyDeleteI don't think Narnia is about innocence, any more than the Bible from Genesis 3:6 on is about innocence. The children in Narnia are all "Sons of Adam" and "Daughters of Eve". The problem with liberals today is that they don't take sin and guilt seriously as metaphysical, non-psychological categories. All apparently moral failings arise out of defects in the material substrate of reality. Is my characterization of "liberals today" any less fair than tlaloc's characterization of "conservatives today"?
Chuck
Innocence means freedom from guilt. The definition has been expanded over the years to include other connotations, as happens with words. The point, however, is that to refer to someone's innocence is by no means necessarily to define them as foolish or any other bad thing. Quite the contrary, if the word is being used in its main form. Bookworm was correct to take issue with Tlaloc's statment that "In adults, [innocence is] abominable."—STK
ReplyDeleteMy only motive in stepping in to this discussion with a very brief statement was to help tlaloc understand what Hunter had meant when he used the word innocence. I mistakenly thought that my intentions in doing so should been quite evident, and I am therefore very sorry if any reader took my comments as hostile in intent. Any misunderstanding in this matter is of course entirely my fault, as I obviously failed to make my explanation of Hunter's meaning explicitly clear. I shall try hard to learn to communicate more effectively.—STK
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