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Post by Jockolantern on May 21, 2008 13:52:26 GMT -8
...the scene with the white witch) weren't in the book at all. Sorcery and Sudden Vengeance is in the book; in the film, however, the scene is extended slightly by actually having the spirit of the White Witch summoned (which never really happens in the book; Lewis just intimates that chaos breaks out in the room, represented visually in the film by the moment where Peter comes in and the fight breaks out), so as to tempt Caspian. It never does come to full-blown temptation of the Prince in the book, but I liked much better what they did in the film, giving him a good character arc moment.
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Post by Yavar Moradi on May 21, 2008 14:12:38 GMT -8
I agree with Jocko (and Jens and Clark actually, because those were also my favorite moments in the film).
Actually both of those are hinted at in the book. As Jocko said, they merely carry the White Witch resurrection further, setting up some cool temptation. The attack on the castle was an idea of Reepicheep's in the novel, and though there is no explicit rendering, the novel alludes to a lot of continuous battle going on where Caspian's forces are drastically reduced. The biggest change in the film from the book is that the film has the Pevensies showing up a lot sooner.
Yavar
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Post by Jens Dietrich on May 21, 2008 19:04:11 GMT -8
I didn't hate this movie, actually. Unlike the first Narnia, Adamsen did the best he could with the source material, and I do certainly enjoy how dark and wistful it is. Eddie Izzard is fantastic, and I also enjoyed Adam Sandler as King Leonidas. The stuff they added/changed was great. It's just that Lewis' message is so banal (God won't squash your enemies unless you really, really believe in him) and his mythology so shaky and full of holes, I'm having a hard time endorsing the thing overall.
It's almost the exact opposite of what happened with Pullman's The Golden Compass, a book I absolutely adore but a movie that does nothing but shit on its legacy. If only it had been adapted and visualized as well as Lewis' gobbledygook was, and it could have been one of my favorite movies of all time.
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