Comments on: Voyage of the Dawn Treader No Longer Shooting in Mexico

By: queen ShaiRa

queen ShaiRa — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:17:23 +0000

uh mm. watching PC without reading the book, i say it’s GREAT! love it! but duh. when you had had read every book and that you almost memorize all Narnia’s history you’ll surely be sick. they change too many pieces of the story. so what? what’s the verdict?

as a real narnia Fan
i’ll agree with Prince Caspifan
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By: queen ShaiRa

queen ShaiRa — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:13:21 +0000

I Agree! Queen Su kissing Prince Caspian?
eeew.
+ they have so many deleted scenes.
entirely disgusting!

By: queen ShaiRa

queen ShaiRa — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:10:50 +0000

ahmp. yaah.
i love the TLTWATW because they followed what CS Lewis wrote on the book unlike the movie PC. So Im looking forward seeing TVOTDT better! [i've read the 7 books]
its pretty hard to breath knowing that all you’ve read are being spoiled by neophyte narnians.
haha :]

iLove Narnia

For Narnia And for Aslan!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:44:02 +0000

Fan, I completely agree. The first movie was almost completely true to the book, which resulted in a much better movie. Honestly, Prince Caspian strayed so far from the book it made me sick. I didn’t even buy the movie on DVD. There was only one part I liked about the movie that wasn’t in the book, which was when Peter fell into the witches temptation and Edmund snapped him out of it. But besides that, straying from the book will cause the series to lose their fans.

By: Prince Caspifan

Prince Caspifan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:32:23 +0000

I have to ask a question, because it has come up twice now and I wanted to clarify it. When people describe being “politically correct” and “Hollywood” as being antithetical to Christianity or real values it sounds like a political talking point and I really feel that it is not true to history, this film, or Hollywood. I think Hollywood has a long tradition of embracing values and even Judeo-Christian values (with films like “The Ten Commandments” and even the animated “Prince of Egypt” both of which are fantastic). At the same time, those films took artistic liberties (in both cases with scripture).

I just feel that the filmmakers’ changes to the material were done for innocent and artistic reasons and I really think that Hollywood is a far more diverse group of individuals and motives than the cliche. I certainly think Hollywood and its artists have produced a lot of groundbreaking work that has helped us to examine our prejudices and asked us to aspire to be better.

By: Fan

Fan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:22:01 +0000

The first movie was much better than the first because it followed the book. Books are almost always better than the movie if you read them first because the give you the freedom to invent your own ideas of the characters and scenes. Once you’ve read the book and made those ideas firm in your brain it is hard to see a movie that strays so far from it, like Prince Caspian.

From many of the movies that have come out, it’s easy to see how being “politically correct” seems to be much more important to hollywood than showing real values like those in Christianity.

By: Prince Caspifan

Prince Caspifan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:36:00 +0000

Tom, I disagree greatly with some of the things in your reply. First off, let make sure I state that I enjoyed the first film more than the second, unlike my friend who borrowed the DVD.

I think that stating that the film had “little” to do with C.S. Lewis’ book is overstating things a bit. I think even Douglas Gresham would disagree with that sentiment. That certain aspects of the story were changed doesn’t mean that the book was violated or disregarded. The book does the best job of being the book anyway.

I have to add that the accusation that the changes were made as a result of concerns by the filmmaker or studio about the film being too “Christian” are unfounded. There is no evidence that Political Correctness has anything to do with the artistic decisions made in this film. Otherwise they would have avoided what many moviegoers took as a giant water Jesus attacking at the end of the film. Obscuring the Christian meaning in the Narnia books is impossible and Prince Caspian didn’t want for moments that were Christian in nature.

I think that it is possible (and I am not pointing fingers here) that some fans of Lewis and Narnia want the Christian origins of the Narnia tales to be more obvious than they already are in these films, as opposed to the elements of Greek mythology. As a secular fan who does not share Lewis’ beliefs (though I admire and respect him greatly), I find the books and both films enjoyable because they are well told.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:15:50 +0000

This will be cool if it’s true, I live on the Gold Coast and we have amazing beaches, bush, rain forests, scrub etc and it’s a perfect place for them to shoot with that tank at movie world, I say Ben should come out here a month before, get a tan and he’ll be good!

By: Paul Martin

Paul Martin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:02:27 +0000

I couldn’t disagree with you any more than I already do, Tom. I found Prince Caspian to be true to the spirit of the book. Sure, there were some differences, but I found the differences to be refreshing additions to a story that I found was not fulfilling as a book. I felt it was more of a lead-in to Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and that the movie was actually an improvement of the story in nearly every way.

I felt that Caspian captured the direction that the characters were headed, and the emotions that they were going through, very well.

When it comes to faith vs. skepticism, I think the movie does it just as well as the book, if not better in my own mind. High King Peter is a character that I feel was the outlet for that, along with Caspian. Remember, Peter decided that they have “waited for Aslan long enough.” That was his failure. Lucy, on the other hand, is ever faithful, and even warns Peter not to give up his faith in Aslan. The most telling moment of the film, and one of the scenes that I consider to be the heart of that search, is when Peter and Lucy are sitting together at the Stone Table, looking at the mural of Aslan. It is in the conversation that they have, that Peter realizes his failure and, I think, finally grows up a little more.

I could go on, but I’d go on for about 20 paragraphs.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:24:46 +0000

Better than the first one? Wow. Couldn’t disagree more. The first one at least resembled LWW. Caspian had little at all to do with Lewis’ Prince Caspian. One of the things that makes the book so great – and is almost non-existent in the movie – is the bringing to life the struggle that exists between faith and skepticism. The child-like faith of Caspian coupled with the heroic faith of Cornelius and unquestioned loyalty of Trumpkin, make excellent opponents for the antagonistic Narnian and Caloremen skeptics. In the book the Kings and Queens of Narnia were treated with reverence. The movie destroyed both of these key plots.

The budget is not the issue. The issue is this, they must cease setting aside the overtly Christian themes in favor of more PC (politically correct) ones. If they do not, Narnia fans will witness another disappointing PC (Prince Caspian) type movie, which could spell the end of the series.