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His dark materials

C.S. Lewis' "dark materials"??
I'd say that was in "A Grief Observed" and "The Great Divorce".
(apologies if I've bungled those titles...long time since I've read them.)

[MarineMomJ]

Let's not forget "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis.

Fabulous read!!

[mozrock]

This is a putrid article

And I personally can't wait to see the movie(s)! Loved these books as a kid!

[j_k_l]

"Lewis has also been charged with racism as a result of his portrait of the Calormenes in The Horse and His Boy. Calormene, a desert country far to the south of Narnia, strongly suggests the Near East: its people are dark-skinned, wear turbans and carry scimitars. Their diet is heavy on oil, rice, onions and garlic. They are cruel to animals and worship a four-armed god with a vulture's head called Tash who demands human sacrifice. Like Tash, the rulers of Calormene are autocratic, corrupt, treacherous and brutal. Slavery is common, and women cannot read or write or choose whom they will marry."

Anyone watch the news lately?

[Chi-townChief]

I thought the first book was pretty good but declined from there. And Lewis' "Space Trilogy", Perelandra, I could never get into despite the great title of the third Book, "That Hideous Strength."

[AnAmericanMother]

Other critics, with whom I have considerable sympathy, have seen the Chronicles of Narnia as anti-feminist. Pullman, for instance, has called the books "monumentally disparaging of girls and women". In Narnia, girls almost always come second to boys. They have fewer adventures, and none, like Shasta (The Horse and His Boy) or Caspian (Prince Caspian) has a book named after her. There is no such thing as a good and strong supernatural female figure in Narnia: the principal representation of virtuous supernatural power is male, while the principal representation of evil power is the White Witch.

Obviously hasn't read the books. The Star's Daughter is a good and strong supernatural female. Also, how about Aravis Tarkheena for "having adventures"? Or Polly? Or Jill in The Last Battle?

Just another reviewer blowing smoke about books without having read them.

[domenad]

When I saw the preview, I got wood.

God forbid (pardon the pun) a filmmaker were to espouse his Christian views in a film. Put some rags on their heads and change Aslan to Allahslan and you would hear no complaints.

[absolootezer0]

The latest children's favourite to be given the Hollywood treatment, CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia has been dismissed as sexist, racist, Christian propaganda.

GOOD! if msm doesn't like, i'm sure i'll love it!

[Psycho_Bunny]

English She-Twit With A Pen Alert

[ikka]

Recently, the immensely gifted and equally popular British writer Philip Pullman, author of the trilogy His Dark Materials who has described himself as both an agnostic and an atheist, has condemned the Narnia books as religious propaganda.

This appears later in the article.

Note: Pullman can in no way be said to be as gifted as CS Lewis. Nor can he be said to be "equally popular" in comparison to an author that has been selling books for the last 50 years.

[zerosix]

"Sexist, racist Christian propaganda"?

That review makes this a "must see" movie in my book.

[Always Right]

The latest children's favourite to be given the Hollywood treatment, CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia has been dismissed as sexist, racist, Christian propaganda.

Sounds like a must-see movie to me.

[frogjerk]

I just finished rereading "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" just yesterday. All these people against it are on crak with all of the BS they are spouting. They are trying to demonize a Christian allegory because they hate God.

If they don't like it, then they should put forth valid criticism, not bogus PC garbage talking points of the left.

[ClearCase_guy]

Others here have pointed out that "His Dark Materials" is likely to be a reference to Philip Pullman's "Golden Compass" trilogy.

But that begs the question of where Pullman got the phrase. The answer is Milton's "Paradise Lost". The "his" refers to Satan who is seen by some (including, I believe Pullman) as the hero of "Paradise Lost".

[Rippin]

The Narnia Chronicles are all based on Medieval literature. You have to know the Medieval texts to understand. The author doesn't know that medieval Arabian stories (Like Shaharazad) had demons in them too, of which Tash is an example.

Even the stone table is as much rooted in norse mythology as in the Cross of Christ.

Liberals are just too stupid to deal with.

[ARridgerunner]

LOL! I can only imagine what "The Guardian" would say about poor Orual and Psyche.

Lewis treated the feminine very tenderly, I think.

[scory]

This film will get the same treatment from the liberal critics as did The Passion of the Christ. And with the same result at the box office.

We had a Showtime free weekend in my area this past weekend so I watched some of the films I would never pay money to see. The garbage that is being put out by the film industry defies description. And the liberal critics love it.

[krazyrep]

Simplest thing to say to people who object:

If you don't like it, don't go see it and don't read the books. Just lay off the hate speech, okay?

[The_Reader_David]

To me (as an Orthodox Christian) the one really problematic thing about Lewis (besides some generically Western heresies) is his Platonism. Origen went off the deep end trying to wed Christianity and Platonism, and from time to time Lewis totters on the edge of the same abyss.

That being said, I am looking forward to the screen TLTWTW, and (heh! heh!) hoping for faithful screen adaptations of the other six (I'll forgive them if they roll Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader into one film, and even if they skip The Horse and His Boy, provided it's told in brief with faithful renditions of the action, at the point where the minstrel tells the story in The Silver Chair.)

I'll especially relish secular left's reaction to The Silver Chair, which at its core is a critique of secularism, and The Last Battle, which looks prophetic in view of the secularists affection for Islamism (for those who haven't read it, the Narnian Antichrist, the Antiaslan if you will, is a fake put up by Narnian secularists and the Calormenes--thinly veiled Muslims.)

[CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN]

Does it surprise anyone that the closer we get to the release date of this film, the more anti-Christian vermin come out of their holes to gripe? Looks like we're in for another Passion of the Christ type smear campaign.