Narnia

This entry will contain Spoilers for anyone who hasn't read the book.

Yesterday Jeff and I went to see the new movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in Olean. All in all I thought it was a great movie, and a very faithful adaptation of the book. The theater was packed, I was glad we got there 15 minutes early, otherwise we wouldn't have had an aisle seat. As it was we were a little farther back than I usually like to be, but since the other option was 4 rows from the front, I'd rather be closer to the exit. Especially since the audience was primarily kids. They were pretty good during the movie, it's the adults that brought them that got on my nerves. The guy in front of Jeff must have gotten up at least 3 times, and so did this rather large older lady sitting on the inside of our row.

Go to the bathroom before the movie, people, it's not that long.

I felt the scene of Aslan (wonderfully voiced by Liam Neeson) being sacrificed on the Stone Table was well done, it was very sad and the White Witch, played by Tilda Swinton, was just as scary as she should be. There were torches and chanting, the only teeny tiny point that was a little off with me is that the Stone Table was always described as round, and in the movie it was square. And I'm only being picky here because so many other things in the movie were exactly as CS Lewis described them, like the crimson and gold tents that Aslan and the army were staying in.

The only main difference from CS Lewis's original story was instead of focusing first on the Table cracking and Aslan's resurrection, they focused on the battle between Aslan's forces led by Peter and the White Witch's army. Plus the kids seemed more reluctant in the movie than they had in the book to fulfill the prophecy. But I think that made it more realistic for people seeing the story for the first time. The movie I think does well to start of showing England during the World War II, it sets up the Pevensies family relationship very well. I think when the book was originally written it wasn't as necessary to go into detail as to how they ended up at Professor Kirke's house in the first place.

Again, I thought the movie was wonderful, I hope they do more with the series, my eyes were leaking pretty much from the time Aslan knights Peter right up until the end.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!