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Name: Belle H.
Interests: I am a proud obsesser of C.S. Lewis and his amazing work! (obviously). Besides being a Narnia freak, I'll read lots of other books I can get my hands on! I also love to write and will do it for hours if I'm not stopped! I love dancing for God passionately! I will dance until I drop from total exhaustion! Other than that, there's not much interesting about me. [=
Expertise: Arguing with people and obsessing over two certain cute guys. (;
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Member Since:
7/17/2005
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| I can hardly believe I started this fansite for Narnia about a year ago! Wow! That was before anyone really knew what Narnia was, now everyone's a fan! That's pretty cool.
Anyways, Prince Caspian is set for a summer 2008 release. (Old news, I know, but I just found out) I TOLD the people on Narniaweb, right after LWW came out, that Prince Caspian was going to be a summer movie. But of course they said "Nooooo, Christmas movie." Yeah.
But I was right.
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| Okay I didn't hate the movie that much. I was in a bad mood when I wrote that. Anyways..Narnia won an oscar!! For makeup, but oh well.
Prince Caspian still comes closer! And remember to believe in the deeper magic even though its not in the movie!
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| Fine. I'm going to be honest
with myself, and you guys, what I've been denying since December
9. I watched the DVD of Narnia today, and I realize that I hated
the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. That's right. I
loathed it.
After I first saw it, I wasn't exactly sure why. But now I think
I know. It didn't remind me of the book at all. Not one
bit, not even a little. It wasn't Narnia.
The music was modern. I mean, it was pleasant to listen to and
not at all badly written, but it fell horribly short in speaking the
magic of Narnia. This is a land full of enchantments, of the
dancing fauns, singing sea-people, tree-people, mermaids, mer-men, the
dryads in the night, the cool woods and dewey slopes, flowers, the
great castle of Cair Paravel shining on the eastern sea like a bright
morning star, and mostly Aslan, the Great Lion, the King of the whole
wood, the son of the emperor-over-the sea. Why don't you
know? Aslan is a Lion. THE lion!
The music did nothing at all to speak any of this.
I was really hoping for a deep impact soundtrack. You know,
mystical, enchanting. Enough to make you cry alone. The
music didn't remind me of Narnia. It was just..music, and that
was it. Very...shallow.
The adaptation was bad. I
mean, I know its pathetic of me to get mad at all changes, but I just
can't help it. It was nothing from the Narnia I knew.
- The Beginning wasn't even in the book, they
spent too much time in England at the beginning and not enough in
Narnia, where the, uh BOOK started. The fabrication was totally
pointless!
- The trip to the professors house was supposed to be cheerful,
they were all excited about the wonderful days of summer ahead of
them. But, thanks to Lucy crying, goodbye. The children
didn't even get along. Peter was too mean to Edmund
- Lucy and Mr. Tumnus's chemistry was not the one you got from the
book. It was too modern, and they were dumb to make it into a
creepy thing that so many thought. The shaking hands thing, was
funny, but I missed the "Goodness gracious me!"
- Lucy's character was not the sweet and innocent little Lucy we
knew. She stole too much time from Susan, and was too loud, just
her voice, for the Lucy I knew. Georgie was a great actor, but
she just wasn't the right Lucy.
- Peter's character changes. Enough said. "But, I can't lead an army!" Peter! You're supposed to be the high king! Hello strange coward. I don't know you.
- Not enough Aslan. Thank you, Liam Neeson for your brilliant contribution of two lines. It was stunning, really.
- Goodbye "By Jove!" and "By gum!" and "Great Scott!" That
made this story so incredibly charming. Hello modern teenagers.
- Goodbye, beavers house and meal, talk. Goodbye,
transformation into spring. Goodbye serious old Narnian "he
beaver" goodbye, hiding place for beavers in bad times. Hello
strange comic relief. Hello impossible tunnels underneath a
river. Hello annoying action. Hello Mr Fox. Might I
ask where the hell you came from? One last final farewell to the
party of christmas celebrators that Jadis turned into stone.
- Thank you for riding a talking horse, Edmund. I mean, the
rules of Narnia from the dawn suddenly don't apply. It's the
audience laughing that matters.
- Hello, fabricated battle. I don't remember reading about
you. I just remember statues, and Giant rumblebuffin, and a romp
with a Lion and two girls. But all I see is a mock-lord of the
rings battle. Goodbye, last three chapters of my favorite
book. May somebody pick up the book and read about you.
I guess thats it. It wasn't
Narnia at all. It was hollywood. The whole movie was so
un-Lewis. Each contradiction of the little details that Lewis
wrote took away from the Narnia feel. The Narnia spirit.
Hello Adamson. I'm sorry to break it to you, buddy, but you'll
never be as great of a storyteller as C.S. Lewis. You'll never
even come remotely close.
So do yourself, and all of us, a favor and don't ruin his work by
mixing yours with it, because the result is hideous. Seriously.
THIS MOVIE WAS NOT NARNIA! IT WAS SOME STRANGE COMBINATION OF
NARNIA CHARACTERS AND HOLLYWOOD, CHEAP PETER JACKSON COPY!
TRASH! Do yourself a favor and pick up the book today!
PS: I'll watch the movie again and again ONLY cause I love the two boys<333333333333
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But, I dunno, my grades are good in school so what else is there, really?
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