Posted on 12/27/2005 11:28:47 AM PST by Bob J
Nitpick away if it makes you feel better.
"The Producers" co-stars Matthew Broderick (heterosexual) and Nathan Lane (homosexual). About half the cast is homosexual but the homosexuality is used to make fun of Adolf Hitler. This is consistent with Mel Brooks' intent to use ridicule to make Hitler someone who should never be admired or emulated. Similar to Chaplin's efforts to mock Hitler. There are some very funny heterosexual roles in the movie played by Uma Thurman and Will Ferrell. This is not a movie about homosexuality. In fact, it would undoubtedly have been considered an anti-homosexual movie (with protests) but for the fact that there are homosexuals poking fun at themselves.
I loved LOTR and Potter and have always been a Sci-Fi/Fantasy fan. Narnia (movie) pales in comparison but that may be because it was targeted to younger audience.
me and my wife are just silly about beavers, and the still shots i saw looked very lifelike. i normally wouldn't go for a "fantasy" type flick, but we were thinking about it just for the beavers. lol.
I chatted once with a believer from a Jewish background who read the Narnia stories, found herself wishing that the universe could contain someone like Aslan ... and the rest is history. I also recommend the John Candy film Delerious as a terrific meditation on how the author of a story can insert himself into the story, and the implications of that insertion. Candy shows all the ways to do incarnation wrong -- with an ostentatious display that warps the characters of the characters, forcing them to act out of character.
That's interesting, since most people think TLTW&TW is the best. That's probably the one they read first. Wonder if it has to do with which book of the series is read first?
>Mr. Thomas the goatman,
Mr. Tomnas (as pronounced in the movie) was half fawn, half man. Not goat.
Maybe you should respond to the question asked rather than the one you want to answer.
You are so wrong.
Narnia was awesome.
Now that I think about it, the beavers were my favorite characters.
Homos offend me, but jokes about homos don't. Should I guess which is offered by Hollywood?
I don't think so. I just bought the complete Cronicles of Narnia in one book and it stated quite clearly that he wanted the stories in chronological order with "The Magician's Nephew first", "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe second", etc...
And the director's name is -- Adamson.
That is why it is not making any money. It has only made 130 million and it cost 215 million to make. It will tank and end up costing the companies that made it go in the red.
Probably because it was good.
You are wrong. The movie was great. Except for the scene with the kids and the beavers in the tree which didn't need to be in it and the ice breaking part which didn't need to be there either.
You mean ALL of his books are bound into one? Wow....my daughter is planning to re-buy the series in the bound-together edition. I hope it was REAL expensive.
I am a big Narnia fan. LWW was my least favorite of the 7 books. Lewis pointed out in the books that the "air in Narnia" makes people from earth stronger than they would be here, which helps to explain how Peter and Edmund could have held their own for a while. (I wish Adamson would have used that in movie.) Also, in the book, battle was much smaller and shorter so it did not seem so unlikely that the brothers could have survived it.
I think the books work much better, because of Lewis's talent with words and characterization. To me, the movie is excellent right up to the point where they meet Aslan and then it sort of goes hollywood.
My favorite book of the 7 is the Horse and His Boy. It focuses almost entirely on Narnian characters. The English kids are just background.
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