USA Today features Narnia, including front-page teaser image!
Posted on 05/04/2005 12:53:00 AM PDT by k2blader
Among many other things, the article mentions that trailers for the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (due out this December) will premiere Saturday night on ABC and during showings of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
AM, please edit or move as necessary. Thank you.
My mom read the Chronicles of Narnia to me when I was a kid, and I've read them to my oldest son. I'd forgotten until I read the books to him how enjoyable they are.
They are wonderful books. Just for simple pleasure I read through the entire series a year or two ago. I may have to refresh my memory again before the first movie comes out. :-)
Ping!
Aw, but you can really enjoy the books if you see the religious connotations in them by C.S.Lewis.
Most definitely. I wonder if C.S. Lewis' original message will be allowed to shine through in the film?
Reading it to my son that became more apparent to me than it was when I was a child.
The trouble with the movie - and they did this with Harry Potter and the Series of Unfortunate Events, too - is that I've got two younger boys who I haven't read the books to yet. Likely as not, they'll see the movie before we get to the books, and I think that spoils it some for them. It's hard to let the older boy see movies of books he's read and still somehow shield the younger kids, particularly when the movies are in the living room on DVD.
Any links to the movie Website??
A Jewish gal told me once that she read these books, and found herself wishing that the universe contained One like Aslan. This was her first step towards becoming a Christian.
Which book is your favorite? I enjoy "A Horse and His Boy" and "The Silver Chair". I've read the series multiple times and the Christian message is beautifully woven into the stories. I'm not sure I want to see a secular version of these books.
I like the first one, The Horse and His Boy, and The Silver Chair.
Here's the official site:
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/narnia/
You have to wait for it to load (I think it requires Flash or somesuch) but it's a very nice one. I expect they'll have a trailer up sometime after Saturday.
Awesome!
Thanks for the ping, Mr. Bladder. ;-) I was aware of this the first day, and got a copy, but it's finals week. *Gags*
Upcoming ping
Not so.
I'm not a Christian, but I have always loved those books.
And YES I studied Christianity and I "get" them..
Narnia Ping!
hands down my favorite author. read 'em to my kids and got hooked. I hope against hope the movie does justice.
I am presently reading the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to my daughter; she loves it when I act out the White Witch (uh oh, a little type casting there?) Yesterday she asked me if we could get some Turkish Delight when I go shopping! Does anyone know what it is?
I really like the pic of Aslan. He's going to be the best part of the film (which I guess is to be expected :-).
Have you ever read any of Lewis' fiction books "for adults"? I'd like to try one but am not sure where to start.
Also check out the awesome new Narnia map, available in hi-rez!
http://www.narniaweb.com/news.asp?id=258&dl=2756730
Don't know why, but I always found the Narnia books slightly less readable than Madeleine L'Engle's, which is to say amazingly unreadable.
Ingredients:
Enjoy! (BTW -- the Turkish word of lion is -- Aslan.)
TURKISH DELIGHT
2 c Sugar
2 tb Cornstarch
1 c Water
1/2 ts Cream of tartar
1 tb Flavoring *
Food coloring **
1/2 c Toasted nuts, chopped ***
Confectioners' sugar
* Flavorings: rose, mastic, strawberry, orange or lemon.
** Food coloring: red, yellow, green or orange (depending on flavoring used)
*** Nuts: almonds or pistachios
Dissolve sugar and cornstarch in water. Add cream of tartar. Boil to 220 degrees F. Cover pot the last 5 minutes. Add flavor and food color. Add nuts.
Pour into oiled shallow pan. When cool, cut into squares and roll each piece in sifted powdered sugar. Store in plastic bag.
Dang it, I like L'Engle. :-)
Thank you, thank you, you guys are awesome!
What fun we will have making Turkish Delight!
Me too. I read "A Wrinkle in Time" about 50 times when I was a kid.
I have and I can recommend "That Hideous Strength."
It's a treatment of totalitarianism that will leave you chuckling -- as only Lewis can. There may be more to it as it's been a while but that much I recall.
Thanks for giving me the chance to plug it.
Really? I did not know that. Interesting. The Calamorenes are kind of Turkish aren't they?
Did she cross over?
Oh come on....A Wrinkle in Time is one of the best books ever!
It just seemed saccharine to me - overly sweet and cloying. Maybe I was at an anti-cloying age when I read it. I'll revisit and letcha know what I think.
FWIW, I don't think it's any more saccharine than "there's no place like home" in the Wizard of Oz.
I'm in my 40's and Narnia and Wrinkle in Time are *still* on my all time favorites list. :)
If I understand your question properly, yes. It's hard to resist the winsomeness of Immanuel, G-d with us, once you grasp the fact that one Man's biography is the lens through which "the universe, life, and everything" is properly understood.
Thank you! I will have to check it out. :-)
Ummm.... the books are easy to find - and inexpensive too. Why not get the first book or two and begin reading with them? Shouldn't take until December to get through at least the first couple.
You owe it to your kids to make a go at it! I would understand if the movie were coming out tomorrow.
You would GET them a lot more if you saw it from the author's viewpoint. Sorry you miss so much.
Sola Deo Gloria.
I am also a Calvinist homeschool father...since you are the same, you no doubt remember the point in the later volume where Jill (I think) tells Aslan that she called on him...but he explains to her that no one calls on him unless he has called her first....Ah, Biblical Christianity. Takes your breathe away.
I think you'll be glad you did.
Great graphic on your freeppage. And the talibanana thing was a hoot.
It's not an issue of finding the books - we've already got them - it's an issue of the kids being too young to follow long books. One is old enough that we'll start reading longer books soon, but the other is still too young.
Not sure how old your younger kids are, but you might try reading the books in short bits to them and see what happens. I read White Fang, the Hobbit, and a few other novels each evening (20 to 30 minutes) to my son when he was only five, and to his younger sisters when they were about the same age. The one on one time spent and the increase in their usable vocabularies made the effort more than worthwhile. Even if they're toddlers you can't expose them to good literature too early.
The kids are three and five. My oldest is nine. Either my wife or I read to them every night, but with the oldest we worked him gradually into longer books, which is what we're now doing to the middle child.
Not that anyone asked my opinion, but I have found that reading to the kids even if you let them play on the floor is really great. And the younger ones pick up more than we realize. I would suggest that any 3 year old is ready for Narnia, maybe not a full chapter a day, but a few pages.
I have a question.
I have seen somewhere that a film marketing firm is working on LWW and doing the grass roots campaign in churches, taking a play from the approach used by The Passion.
Does anyone know the name of that firm??? Please post if you do.
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