A few things struck me about the film (in no particular order), about biblical connections.
Lucy the youngest and purest is the first through the wardrobe into Narnia.
Its about having the faith of a child.
Aslan's death and resurection.
Aslan's death was to save Edmund (forgiveness of sins).
Giving in to the temptation of gluttony. The more Edmund ate the more he wanted.
Edmund was also tempted by the witch by power - to become a prince.
Aslan was mocked before death.
Lucy and Susan followed and mourned Aslan's death.
The table broke (like the curtain in the temple) in two.
I'm sure that there will be stacks of people over analysing the film. I though that it was an excellent passing on of the message of Christ. I don't think C.S.Lewis ever meant it to be a very exact copy of scripture. I think it was meant to be a children's story that showed off Jesus.
Other things that struck me.
I didn't see any blood.
Death was only inferred (I guess it is a Disney film)
Some of the demonic creatures were v v similar to Lord of the Rings.
I always remember the professor saying profound things but he doesn't in the film.
The thawing of everything just happened I remember it from the books and animated version as a very long slow process. With the witch's sleigh getting slower and slower.
I remember the witch as being terrified of Aslan but in the film she wasn't.
Other interesting things (I think are accurate).
Isn't it the same director as the Shrek movies?
The same producer as Rain Man?
Didn't J.R.R.Tolkein lead C.S.Lewis to the Lord?
Thats it the novelty of wireless is wearing off and I'm v tired - goodnight.
Lucy the youngest and purest is the first through the wardrobe into Narnia.
Its about having the faith of a child.
Aslan's death and resurection.
Aslan's death was to save Edmund (forgiveness of sins).
Giving in to the temptation of gluttony. The more Edmund ate the more he wanted.
Edmund was also tempted by the witch by power - to become a prince.
Aslan was mocked before death.
Lucy and Susan followed and mourned Aslan's death.
The table broke (like the curtain in the temple) in two.
I'm sure that there will be stacks of people over analysing the film. I though that it was an excellent passing on of the message of Christ. I don't think C.S.Lewis ever meant it to be a very exact copy of scripture. I think it was meant to be a children's story that showed off Jesus.
Other things that struck me.
I didn't see any blood.
Death was only inferred (I guess it is a Disney film)
Some of the demonic creatures were v v similar to Lord of the Rings.
I always remember the professor saying profound things but he doesn't in the film.
The thawing of everything just happened I remember it from the books and animated version as a very long slow process. With the witch's sleigh getting slower and slower.
I remember the witch as being terrified of Aslan but in the film she wasn't.
Other interesting things (I think are accurate).
Isn't it the same director as the Shrek movies?
The same producer as Rain Man?
Didn't J.R.R.Tolkein lead C.S.Lewis to the Lord?
Thats it the novelty of wireless is wearing off and I'm v tired - goodnight.
posted by Tchad @ 11:01 PM
3 Comments:
At 11:57 AM,
susieb said…
I'm not sure that the witch was terrified of Aslan, from reading the book again a few weeks ago. If you read the magician's nephew she eats the fruit from the forbidden tree giving her long life, but at a price. She thinks that she has outitten Aslan. As in the bible, she thinks that killing him is the vicotry. The film said it slightly differently, but she did not knoe (rather than interpretted it wrongly as the film said) of the deeper magic. AS in the bible, the resurrection of Aslan is the greaterstm joke on the white witch - she doesn't expect it and thinks, again, that she has won. I think CS Lewis has done a fantastic job of putting the bible in these books, particularly eden into The Magician's nephew, the death and resurrection of christ into the Lion the witch and the wardrobe and Revelation, or parts of it, into the Last Battle, which contains so much of the bible it's amazing. I particularly loved the line in it, where they are discussing the fact that the stable contains more in it than they'd thought, when Lucy says that in their (and our) world there was also a stable that contained something in it that was far greater than what was outside the stable. I love the narnia series and the fact that it shows us time and time again the grace and forgiveness that Christ offers. And I love the fact that when in Aslan's country Lucy is the most joyous and happy because she was the most faithful throughout. CS Lewis rocks.
At 11:59 AM,
susieb said…
apologies for all the typos in there by the way!! Hopefully it mostly makes sense!
At 11:29 PM,
Tchad said…
Like it :-)
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