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amishgirl281:
About the allegory thing, it can be found anywhere as long as there is a battle between the forces of good, and the forces of evil. Now, I am a Christian and I understand that C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia as his witness and such, but that doesn't mean anything honeslty. If you don't want to see the allegory, then don't. If you don't want to get anything out of it, then don't. Just please, don't knock the book or say 'I won't see it, it's just Christian crap' just because you don't want to see the allegory. Heck, I did a paper for school on the Christian Allegory that can be found in Harry Potter! Seriously, if you look hard enough, it is in almost every story with a good against evil type plot.

Now onto the movie :)

I loved it. The scene on the stone table made me cry as it always does (I'm a big fan of the old movies with Angelica Houston as the White Witch). I was amazed by the White Witch's preformance. She was exactly what I always immagined her to be, just as beautiful, powerful, and deadly. Also, it may just have been my over active and perverted immagination, but did anyone else get a Mr. Tumnus/Lucy romance vibe? Yes, I know, he's over 100 and she's a little girl, but it just seemed to me that by the end...there was something else besides friendship.

Chesire Cat:
God has like 50% of the world become so jaded that their sense of suspended disbelief has faded.  You people are insufferable.

Its a movie, its not required to broaden your mind and change your life.  If you sit back, relax, and just watch, you'll find movies alot more entertaining, esp epic fantasies.

Bearer:
I saw the movie, and I must say that, christian refrences aside, it was amazing.  It had a great director (or at least he was good in this film), the opening credits and battle scenes were done verry well, and over all, the graphical style of the animals fit.  They were a tad cartooney which fell into place with the setting quite well.  I enjoyed the books as a kid, and I enjoyed the movie.  btw, it was the best book to movie translation i've sen in a while, if not the best.  That all being said, the uncanny ammount of christian refrences will turn people off to the movie, but if you don't mind it that much, I highly recomend seeing it.

KharBevNor:
I think the film laid the christian references on a bit thick myself. Especially compared to other screen and stage adapations (ie the BBC version, the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage version, the liscensced stage version): the script, as well as the use of lighting and music,  rather hammered home Aslan's divinity as well as certain other points. I'll have to check, for example, but I don't think that that fantastically Christ-like "It is finished" is in the original. There was even some sort of attempt to change the theology into perhaps a more modern or protestant form: I didn't catch any references to the Emperor Over the Sea (God), and they removed the distinction between the Deep Magic From the Dawn of Time (The Old Testament) and the Deeper Magic From Before the Dawn of Time (The New Testament). I thought it was a decent film. It suffered a bit from lackluster child acting, trying too hard to be Lord of the Rings, and trying to take itself a bit too seriously, which made the retro fifties childrens book aspects stick out too much. Still, a good film. I take it as definite proof that it is now entirely possible to make very good secondary world fantasy films, and that Lord of the Rings was not a fluke. I hope to see a new surge of such films in the future: it's now not beyond the bounds of possibility for films to be made of the more popular fantasy novels such as The Sword of Shannara and Edding's Belgariad series. There are two things my heart really yearns for though: First, decent Discworld films. Second, I sincerely hope Jackson can secure the rights to The Hobbit. The Hobbit is the best childrens book ever: though Tolkien and Lewis were both contemporaries, friends, academics and devout Catholics (indeed, it was Tolkien converted Lewis to Catholicism) only one of them was a genius. And his name wasn't Clive.

Vlishgnath:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---Second, I sincerely hope Jackson can secure the rights to The Hobbit.
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"New Line have the rights to produce a film of The Hobbit, but it has to be distributed by MGM. If you remember, about six or eight months ago, MGM was bought by Sony, which was frustrating, because it looked like Time Warner [New Line's parent corporation] was going to be the buyer -- and then all the rights would've been in the family. But now Sony and New Line will have to talk to each other. I keep asking about it, just out of interest, but they haven't sat down yet. Hopefully someday the phone will ring -- "Hey, let's do The Hobbit" -- which I'd be perfectly happy to do."

-Peter Jackson

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