That Was I Night I Should Have Just Stayed Home & Read Fanfic

[redbrunja]

Narnia: after the worst audience ever, the fenderbender (I wasn't driving), the movie's much more blatant christian imagery, the LoTR rip-off plot cinematography, plus

the crappy Peter Pan ending,

it so wasn't worth the 8 bucks and 2 1/2 hours of my life.

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

And then it sucker punches you in the ending. The thing about the Christian influence is that from a narrative point of view it simply isn’t very satisfying. And it just doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Exactly. It's like, okay, why did Aslan disappear? We never actually got a reason. As my mom said, when she first read the books, they were just a little unsatisfying. Now there's a LOT unsatisfying. And total word about it not making sense.

Frankly, I was just so glad to see Susan DOING something that I didn't care about that. You can really tell that the book was written in the 1940s and the writers really didn't update it that much, you know?

[solace-adrift.livejournal.com]

Apparently JesusAslan’s ego was such that unless someone begged him to help it wasn’t worth saving lives. Or something.

Movies of books tend to be pretty good at doing this really. Because they have so little time compared to a book, they have to distill the main ideas in a simpler form. And once all the trappings of the idea are gone, if it was a stupid one to begin with that stupidity will shine through all the brighter.

I think they tried to update Susan role (I saw an interview to that effect) but with the kind of source material they had, they really didn’t have much to work with.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Apparently JesusAslan’s ego was such that unless someone begged him to help it wasn’t worth saving lives. Or something

That was my call. And apparently it had to be the right someone. Just anyone who needed his help wouldn't do.

I think they tried to update Susan role (I saw an interview to that effect) but with the kind of source material they had, they really didn’t have much to work with.

*nods* I did that actually did alright with her - what really bugged me is that you only really had men, male creatures, and Susan fighting. If they'd shown some of the female centaurs fighting alonside the men, or some female minators, I don't think I would have had the problems I did. That would have been realitively easy to do, and would have changed the tone a lot.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

And didn't they actually *have* female centaurs fighting in the first one? I remember it really caught my eye, because it was such a departure from the "battles are ugly when women fight" attitude in the original text.

[solace-adrift.livejournal.com]

Huh. I didn’t notice that, though that may have been because I watched an online version that’s quality was such that the Centaurs and Minotaurs were really just brown hairy blurs.

I do feel the need to point out though that at a glance you really wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a male or female Minotaur. Or even a lot of the animals either…

{i}That was my call. And apparently it had to be the right someone. Just anyone who needed his help wouldn't do.{/i}

Yeah, apparently Narnians aren’t important enough. It has to be one of the chosen people. You could even say it has be one of the master race…. Oh, and not one of the unbelievers.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Heh, I had to go Googling just now to make sure I wasn't hallucinating -- looks like there was indeed a whole squad of female centaur archers (http://costumes.narniaweb.com/femalecentaurs.asp) in the first one. Easy enough to miss if watching a low-res version, I'm sure!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, apparently Narnians aren’t important enough. It has to be one of the chosen people. You could even say it has be one of the master race…. Oh, and not one of the unbelievers.

That was what the subtext was screaming, yeah.