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[bloodyrosemccoy]

Santa Lucia Day (Sweden)

After all my carrying on about it, I should mention that I saw The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe a few days ago.  I was duly impressed; Disney actually kept to the story, and raised an interesting question for me to ponder idly in my spare time: if the author had a message that the filmmaker disagrees with (I don't know if they did, but this is hypothetical), who should have the final say in how the movie goes?  But it was beautiful overall.  CG has really come a long way in a very short time.

I had just one real issue.  One of the very few changes they made was to the dynamic with Edmund and Mr. Tumnus, so that before he's taken away by the witch to be stoned* Tumnus finds out that Edmund ratted him out.  (Sorry about spoilers.)  Which is fine and good, and I thought all the stuff with Tumnus was phenomenally done ~ especially the scene where he wakes up to find Lucy ~ but they didn't have a scene to balance it, where Edmund maybe makes it up to Tumnus, or at least apologizes.  I'm sure he did, but the way they changed the first bit rather demanded an onscreen atonement, and it never came.

And I proved my ultimate, irredeemable geekhood.  Not just because of the bit when the giant in Aslan's army comes thundering along and a certain familiar voice in the theater was heard squealing, "Rumblebuffin!", but even more so when I saw the queen's henchdwarf and gasped in recognition of the actor.  I checked the credits, and it was Kiran Shah.  And I goddamn knew the name.  From more than one movie.  The fact that not even Aspen, who was brought up on Tolkien the way most people around here are brought up on Jesus, recognized him is testament to my superpowers for retaining pointless behind-the-scenes trivia.**

But as for the rest ~ well done, Disney.  Now let's do Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader next!

*Har.

**Go on, ask me the names of the four Darth Vaders in the original Return of the Jedi ~ the three in the suit and the one doing the voice.  And don't get me started on my opinion of morphing Hayden 'Check Out My Hair' Christensen into the last bit and totally acing out the much more suitable Sebastian Shaw's one good shot, because you'd have to hit me to get me to stop.

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[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they didn't do an atonement scene for the fox either. I guess the scene where Aslan says, "There is no need to talk about the past" is supposed to signify a forgiven and forgotten on everyone's part. I just hope he apologized offscreen.

And about the fox...What did you think of him? Normally I hate it when they add stuff, but for some reason I totally loved that fox! The part where he says "Forgive me, your majesty" and Jadis starts to answer and he's all, "I wasn't talking to you." is just so totally awesome!

I think the only thing that bothered me was that they increased Susan's initial resistance to Narnia, but I guess that was foreshadowing in case they do them all, and after that she was just incredible. That scene at the end when she shoots the dwarf...amazing.

And I was slightly disappointed that they didn't have the other lion running around telling everyone that Aslan said, "Us lions! Did you hear that? He meant him and me! That's what he said! Us lions! That meant him and me!" but I guess the levity didn't work well with the mood of the scene. Probably also why poor Rumblebuffin never got to ask for the hankie.

They definitely need to make Prince Caspian now! But one of my friends who has never read the books liked the movie so much that she's read through Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader already and has The Silver Chair out of the library. More people to share the obsession!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I liked the little fox; he seemed a good addition. That was different though because Edmund tried to save him while he was there.

Yeah, the Susan thing was a little obnoxious, but then her resistance is one of the things I like about her ~ well, not so much resistance as practicality, because while being all moony-eyed is good, you've GOT to have SOME sense.

I also liked that in the end Tumnus' new fancy garb was a scarf. For some reason it struck me funny.

[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

I giggled at that too.

[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I forgot about the fox: Yes he tried to save him, and his motives were pure, but he did so by betraying something the fox was willing to die for, and it was a heartbreaking moment, at least for me. Like here I am, ready to sacrifice my own life for this cause, having chosen to die rather than betray it, and here's someone who care's about me, and oh, look, he's going to betray it for me in a misguided attempt to save me by betraying what I value more than my life, thus taking away my ability even to die for it, and a minute ago I was showing him loyalty.

The disappointed look on the fox's face when Edmund speaks up is just horrible.

[gondolinchick01.livejournal.com]

Holy Aztec gods, that was Kiran? And I didn't even notice? Curse me and my limited geekdom! *pouts*

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hence Amelia jumping up and down going, "It was, it was, it WAS him!!" at the credits. But I was a bit incoherent at that point, I s'pose.

'Twas the accent that tipped me off, actually, though the face is pretty recognizable. Apparently Fon and BK play dwarves in it, too (found that later while looking up Maugrim's voice on imdb), but I didn't spot them.

Kiran is one of those interesting characters who nobody knows, but who is in pretty much every movie from the last 20 years. I always like to find out about the unsung ones.

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[(Anonymous)]

Man, you do use alot of those "Author's notes" now, don't you? There's nothing wrong with that, though. I've just never met anyone like that. Ah, it's boring with out you and Liz around! I don't have work tomorrow (Michaels, god, shoot me) so I might end up seeing it.

Or posting "Lost" fliers on poles for one of my characters :/ Id's been missing for quite some time, now.

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[(Anonymous)]

This is Emily, by the way :D