tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post8777597665863742334..comments2024-03-25T07:54:22.672+00:00Comments on Pop Classics: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (BBC, 1988)Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00203399623895589924noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post-1120442811394755482012-12-09T20:48:50.006+00:002012-12-09T20:48:50.006+00:00Great post, Juliette!Great post, Juliette!William Kendallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00331324250821836822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post-60168352841634201702012-12-04T20:14:54.786+00:002012-12-04T20:14:54.786+00:00Racist? When so many modern films typecast middlee...Racist? When so many modern films typecast middleeastern types as the villain? It's sadly quite modern! :s<br />Plus all they'd need to do is reduce the level of caricature when representing the Calormenes... I think it would be ok!<br /><br />Horse and His Boy is also one of my favourites (3rd after LWW and Dawntreader)! I wish he had written more like that... stories in the world of Narnia without the Children of Adam and Eve so we could see more of the world...<br /><br />I was just really upset with the third film for mixing in the White Witch!!! Plus that random girl. And the situation on the Seven Isles. And the sea monster chasing them with the storm and the witch... I always thought Dawntreader was plenty scary enough, no need to add to it!CrazyCrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512240982215608638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post-81156523979137905522012-12-04T20:05:36.965+00:002012-12-04T20:05:36.965+00:00I liked the recent films too, even Dawn Treader, t...I liked the recent films too, even Dawn Treader, though it's by far the weakest (and I want to throw that random little girl overboard). I would love to see an adaptation of The Horse and His Boy which is my equal-favourite of the books with LWW, but apparently it's too racist. The narrative *is* a bit racist, but considering how much they changed Dawn Treader, I would have thought they could just alter it to fit that!Juliettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00203399623895589924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post-47368905467479953372012-12-04T20:00:15.775+00:002012-12-04T20:00:15.775+00:00Great post Juliette! I think I caught them on VHS ...Great post Juliette! I think I caught them on VHS some time in the '90s when I went looking for them after having learnt my favourite books had been filmed! By the time I saw them I was old enough that I wasn't too impressed by the technical aspects though... But as I don't remember them clearly I can't say much more than that.<br /><br />Personally I really enjoyed the first two of the recent films, although I was appalled at what they did to Dawntreader!!! But am still sad they probably won't film Silver Chair and Last Battle... I'd hoped they'd at least do the main five. *sigh* At least they didn't completely ruin it à la "Sign Seeker"! (ugh!!!)CrazyCrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512240982215608638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post-8594518035097849382012-12-03T22:48:33.794+00:002012-12-03T22:48:33.794+00:00On the faun versus satyr thing, I'm just guess...On the faun versus satyr thing, I'm just guessing, but it's probably a matter of reception. The trend was still toward Latinate identifications even if the subject was clearly Greek. It's not so odd that the Pevensey children might have seen a picture or been read a (highly bowdlerized) story involving fauns, though it applies more strongly to Lewis' generation I would think. All that baroque and pre-pre-Raphaelite art with its bucolic and Arcadian themes would undoubtedly have included a fair number of fauns chasing through the underbrush. Children would naturally ask and parents would have to come up with some explanation.<br /><br />I think my first reaction to a man with goat legs (well, after the whole questioning my sanity thing) would be faun unless he was incredibly drunk and or sporting a massive erection. Actually, now that I think about it, my first reaction would probably be Torgo...DemetriosXnoreply@blogger.com