Eriathwen wrote:
Now about Silver Chair, I'm not happy at all about it. I believe Gresham should have chosen a Christian to make these films period. I just don't feel that all of the Christian elements in these books will be brought to the screen, in Prince Caspian and VDT the storylines were messed up and I feel Silver Chair may go down the same route. Tryng to make it a cinematic blockbuster! Adding in lots more violence then needed!!! All that is going to drown out the true spirit of Lewis's writing. Also all the old cast is going to be replaced, to me that is plenty awkward, the actors are going to be much too old to play characters only 6 months after VDT. I'm really not trying to be the pessimist but I'm just afraid all the Christian elements are going to be stripped to a bare minimum and it doesn't please me at all.
As for the a Christian having to make it for the elements to be there...I don't agree with that. Take a look at what PJ's done before. Now look at Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson isn't a Catholic, but he got Lord of the Rings. He GOT it. I'm not in favor of saying that the director /has/ to be a Christan, but I do say that they have to GET the spirit of Narnia, something that the directors so far seem to have missed majorly. Look at the BBC versions, I doubt they had a Christian director but they understood the spirit. The special effects were....lacking, but the heart was there.
That said to me the Silver Chair is one of the books that is the most rich in symbolism and I don't see that coming out very well. >.<
I kinda gave up on the movie series after VDT. I said that they could do whatever they wanted to Prince Caspian as long as they got Dawn Treader right......and it was a major flop. It was terrible as a movie and terrible as an adaptation.