Narnia trailer
May 9th 2005Wallabyeyes & heart
Saw the Narnia trailer yesterday (download from AOL). It’s hard to tell in a few seconds, of course, but it did look pretty good. (At least they didn’t make Aslan female, or give one of the four siblings an inexplicably diverse skin color, for the sake of being “correct”.) I heard someone complaining that the CGI Aslan wasn’t quite as fantastically detailed as some of the stuff in the Lord of the Rings movies, but he looked okay in the trailer. (Of course, the CGI in the original books is either absolute rubbish — there’s hardly any pictures at all! — or utterly brilliant, if the reader’s actually got an imagination left instead of needing to see everything rendered for them by someone else.)
I saw the story on Slashdot first, and one of the early comments left me rather dumbfounded — can’t find it now, but something along the lines of “I liked the Narnia books, until I found out that the whole story is really all about Christianity”. (Similar to “Anybody else get a little creeped out by the possibility that alot of what CS Lewis was doing with his fantasy writings was really Christian propaganda?”) Might’ve been just poor choice of words there, but it seems difficult to imagine that sort of reaction. How much do you have to hate the very idea to be “a little creeped out” that an author’s written a book intended to express the idea in a different (perhaps more accessible, because fresher) way?
Or as someone replied on Slashdot: “That’s like complaining that The Fountainhead seems to promote individualism, or 1984 seems down on totalitarianism, or that Mein Kampf seems a touch racist.”
