So, this Aslan doesn't fly?
Dec. 17th, 2005 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crienseltSaw The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe the other night and am totally in love. I'd been looking forward to the movie but hadn't really been "following" it as I'm want to do with other things, and so it was nice to go in not knowing what to expect. Anyway,
I'm such a sap. I was totally crying during the beginning of it when London was being bombed, and Edmund wanted to go back and get his father's picture. Train station scene got me too!
The kids were all great, and Liam Neeson voicing Aslan makes me happy. (I love his voice so. It's right up there with Morgan Freeman.) And the beavers were cute and Mr. Tumnus was perfect, as was the Witch. At first, I wasn't sure I liked her as well as the BBC witch--she's so dramatic--but she definately grew on me as the film went on. She was more evil where as the BBC witch is just more spazy. ("ASlan?!?" Classic.) I'm not sure some of the kids in the audience got who Father Christmas was, but, hey, their horizons' probably need expanding anyway.
The special effects were amazing. All the creatures looked so natural, and Aslan's eyes! I don't know how to describe it, but when he died, it was like they actually managed to look exactly like sad, dying, lion eyes. (Tear.) Now, I've seen the BBC version more recently than I've read the book, and so I don't know if Aslan flies in the books, but this Aslan apparently doesn't. It would have been hysterical if he did, though. (And, yeah, I'm too lazy to go look it up. In my defense, I've got this box set thing that has them packed in really tightly. It's a pain to get them out. ...What?)
Also, I was happy Susan got to kill something, as horrible as that sounds. But I've never understood the point of giving her a bow if she wasn't going to use it. And CS Lewis always did have a kinda sexist thing going on, so yay for movie-Susan's equality!
Oh, and I'm not sure I like the theme-song. I was expecting something more along the lines of the Lord of the Rings songs, and I dunno. This one didn't feel very powerful. But maybe it was b/c it was background music, and I wasn't really paying attention to the music itself.
And I'm a little upset they cut the proffesor's repition of the "Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia." As a kid, that was the line where it totally clicked with me that he'd been there himself. (So, I'm a little slow...)
And thank God, they didn't make it overtly religious. I was afraid they might, but the religion was just like it was in the actual book. It's there if you want to see it, and not needed to if one just wants to enjoy the story at face value. As an aside, if I read one more review where they say Edmund is Judas, I am going to freak. Edmund isn't Judas. He's humanity. He wants to be king of Narnia, which is what Aslan is. Humanity's original sin, if I understood Sophmore religion class correctly, was wanting be as God, which, shockingly, is what God is. Aslan=God. Aslan dies for Edmund's sin. Jesus dies for humanity's sin. Aslan=Jesus. He's not freaking Judas! Grr.
So, yeah, I do hope they'll make the other movies including the Magician's Nephew (my favorite of the series) and A Horse and His Boy. I could do without the Last Battle. I don't like that one. (I just can't get past the whole thing w/ Susan.) At any rate, props to everyone involved with the production of this wonderful adaptation! :)
I'm such a sap. I was totally crying during the beginning of it when London was being bombed, and Edmund wanted to go back and get his father's picture. Train station scene got me too!
The kids were all great, and Liam Neeson voicing Aslan makes me happy. (I love his voice so. It's right up there with Morgan Freeman.) And the beavers were cute and Mr. Tumnus was perfect, as was the Witch. At first, I wasn't sure I liked her as well as the BBC witch--she's so dramatic--but she definately grew on me as the film went on. She was more evil where as the BBC witch is just more spazy. ("ASlan?!?" Classic.) I'm not sure some of the kids in the audience got who Father Christmas was, but, hey, their horizons' probably need expanding anyway.
The special effects were amazing. All the creatures looked so natural, and Aslan's eyes! I don't know how to describe it, but when he died, it was like they actually managed to look exactly like sad, dying, lion eyes. (Tear.) Now, I've seen the BBC version more recently than I've read the book, and so I don't know if Aslan flies in the books, but this Aslan apparently doesn't. It would have been hysterical if he did, though. (And, yeah, I'm too lazy to go look it up. In my defense, I've got this box set thing that has them packed in really tightly. It's a pain to get them out. ...What?)
Also, I was happy Susan got to kill something, as horrible as that sounds. But I've never understood the point of giving her a bow if she wasn't going to use it. And CS Lewis always did have a kinda sexist thing going on, so yay for movie-Susan's equality!
Oh, and I'm not sure I like the theme-song. I was expecting something more along the lines of the Lord of the Rings songs, and I dunno. This one didn't feel very powerful. But maybe it was b/c it was background music, and I wasn't really paying attention to the music itself.
And I'm a little upset they cut the proffesor's repition of the "Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia." As a kid, that was the line where it totally clicked with me that he'd been there himself. (So, I'm a little slow...)
And thank God, they didn't make it overtly religious. I was afraid they might, but the religion was just like it was in the actual book. It's there if you want to see it, and not needed to if one just wants to enjoy the story at face value. As an aside, if I read one more review where they say Edmund is Judas, I am going to freak. Edmund isn't Judas. He's humanity. He wants to be king of Narnia, which is what Aslan is. Humanity's original sin, if I understood Sophmore religion class correctly, was wanting be as God, which, shockingly, is what God is. Aslan=God. Aslan dies for Edmund's sin. Jesus dies for humanity's sin. Aslan=Jesus. He's not freaking Judas! Grr.
So, yeah, I do hope they'll make the other movies including the Magician's Nephew (my favorite of the series) and A Horse and His Boy. I could do without the Last Battle. I don't like that one. (I just can't get past the whole thing w/ Susan.) At any rate, props to everyone involved with the production of this wonderful adaptation! :)
