The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

[poliphilo]

The first movie in the Narnia cycle is a whole lot better than the second.

But there are still problems

1. The Bad guy is so much cooler than the Good guy. Tilda Swinton v a pompous CGI lion: no contest.

2. Child actors. The little girl playing Lucy is a delight. The others not so much.

3. Violence for its own sake. I'll bet Lewis dismisses the climactic battle in a page. Here it goes on and on and on. 

Back to Aslan. If fictional characters who embody virtue are almost always boring- and they are- then our conception of virtue must be wrong.  

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

The battle in LWW was definitely filmed with an eye to the defence of Minas Tirith (I suspect they even reused some of the same props) - was there perhaps an orc or two in the Queen's army?

Of course, in the book Aslan isn't CGI, and doesn't have Tilda Swinton to deal with.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They certainly looked like orcs.

I vaguely remember the BBC dramatisation in which Aslan was played by a hearthrug. Is there any way of serving up a virtuous talking lion that doesn't suck?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I suspect that's what books are for!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You know what- you could be right!