Reply #5: Ah the Chronicles of Narnia

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What beautiful allegory. Or better yet, allegory of allegory.

I think it'll be a delightful story and it will include whatever we want to read into it. C.S.Lewis would desire no less I imagine.

While I am sure the money/media chain might make one suspect of any book that is so chosen...let's be realistic. The Chronicles of Narnia is a literary classic that has rivaled Tolkien's Lord of The Rings, Narnia has been produced at least twice before...pre LoTR...and now with the Peter Jackson's special effects success, it was an obvious choice to make as a movie blockbuster. And it's a book (first book anyway) that I'd have kids read right next to Moby Dick and His Man Friday...the choice of this book does not have to be some subtle Christian plot...and frankly if it's that subtle I don't have much fear that it will have any significant effect. Kids seeing a Lion Resurrected aren't all going to run out and become Neocons. In fact, I almost wonder if seeing the western Christian story told in such an obvious fantasy way might have the reverse of intended effect and demonstrate that such things are indeed fantasy...hmmm...maybe we have a grand social experiment in the works here after all...

The subtext of the novels was always there...should have always been evident to anyone who read them...and shouldn't really suprise or upset anyone. This was a sensible choice for anyone to make...if I were a studio I would have made it. I just wouldn't donate any of the profits to Bushco :P

Didn't Tolkien and Lewis used to sit drinking ale in the Eagle and Child pub and argue about such stuff?