hooo.

[kaigou]

Kifed this link from Tiercel, who had it posted awhile back but I'd never followed it...damn, I should've. You want Narnia? You want Disney doing Narnia? Here's your response, babe.

Cripes, they're doing a live-action version of Charlotte's Web...with Julia Roberts as Charlotte? Yegawdz.

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[petenshi.livejournal.com]

I'm rather scared they ruined it as well. The books themselves were so controversial when they were written (did he or did he not intend it to be a Christian allegory...)that the movie could go either way.

I'm anxious to see it though.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I actually liked LWaW better than some of the other childhood works, like L'Engle, who could do a fabulously scientific (or pseudo-scientific, or science fantasy, I suppose) story...but she always had to shoehorn xtianity into every bleedin' story. The story would start, and soon I got used to looking for the frickin' moral by chapter two, and I was only in fourth grade!

Lewis, as much as he wanted the allegory in there, got away from it sometimes (or it got away from him), and the fantastical could show up and just consume the story. I enjoyed that a great deal more than someone who could so strictly hold to the xtian influence, like L'Engle. Her books just haven't stood the test of time for me, not like Lewis, or Cooper, or Kipling.

[petenshi.livejournal.com]

I've actually only read LWaW as well. I'm not sure how much he hammers on the allegory in the later (earlier?) books. But if they tried to turn Cooper's books into a movie I think I'd cry. I loved that series as a kid, it was just so out there and yet so real at the same time.

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

>_o I remember being really ticked off when Lewis started working the 'Son of Adam' and 'Daughter of Eve' angle for the kids in Narnia. Can't remember specifically how much that shows up though.