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Jun. 13th, 2008 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinsyDear Disney,
Do you hear that? It's the sound of C. S. Lewis spinning in his grave.
And it's ALL YOUR FAULT!
No love,
Trinity
Do you hear that? It's the sound of C. S. Lewis spinning in his grave.
And it's ALL YOUR FAULT!
No love,
Trinity
I see that the Narnia films have gone the way of Harry Potter. They lure you in with the first one being pretty accurate, and then it's all downhill. So many things wrong. SO MANY. People flying around on griffins, WTF? Caspian being all kickass when he ran away, WTF? Random Telmarine accent, WTF?
SUSAN KISSING CASPIAN!!!
That's not 'WTF', frankly. It's NOT OKAY! SO NOT OKAY! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why poor C. S. Lewis is spinning so very, very quickly in his coffin. Seriously, did you read the books at all? Okay, obviously not, because if you had you would know that Lewis was extremely sentimental about the innocence and naivety of children; some would say to a fault. But you know what, that doesn't really matter because it's his universe and you should have respected that. Were Lewis alive today, he would be so pissed that you had Susan kiss Caspian and then acted like that was okay. Don't you know that one of the reasons Lewis didn't let Susan back into Narnia was because she was too into sex? Seriously. Read The Last Battle. It's in there. And that makes Susan kissing Caspian quite literally NOT OKAY.
Other issues:
1. Literally EVERYONE was out of character, from Aslan to Reepicheep, Caspian to Miraz, and Peter to Lucy. I honestly can't think of one character who was in character ever. Even freaking Miraz, and seriously guys, how hard is it to get a fairly two-dimensional tyrant in character? You SUCK at adapting a book to a script.
2. When did Peter become such an ass? A wimpy ass, at that. Peter is the High King, and he rocks. He doesn't get in fights in train stations, and he doesn't go around being an ass about being High King. That said, could Edmund have been more kickass at the train station? *hearts Edmund*
3. On the subject of asses, when did Caspian become such an ass? And please show me the part in the book where Peter and Caspian are asses to each other! Do the words "[Caspian] was liking Peter very much" and "'I haven't come to take your place, you know, but to put you in it'" mean nothing to you? Obviously.
4. Give Edmund more lines please! Edmund, I see, is the Ron of the Narnia films. That is, they took all his lines and gave them to everyone else. At least they let him be kickass, unlike poor movie!Ron, where they took both his lines and his kickass-ness and gave them to Hermione, making her a Mary-Sue and him a wimp, which is so not cool, OMG! Wow, tangent, sorry. Seriously, though, Edmund rocked, and was probably the most in character of anyone, and could have been entirely in character if they'd ever let him speak! Why is this boy not getting more attention from his siblings? Why is he getting no thanks and no hugs? Peter, stop being such an ass, Susan, stop being so hormonal, and Lucy, stop being so ... out of character! Give Edmund love, plzkthnx!
There's loads more that I hated, but it's late and I have to be up early tomorrow, so I'll wrap this up for now. But this isn't over, Disney! My mom said it's a good movie "if you think about it as a different story". I told her if I wanted to see a different story, I would go to a different movie. And in the words of C. S. Lewis himself, "[You] are far too easily pleased."
**I apologize for any misspellings/typos. This computer doesn't have spell check, and I'm too tired to go over it tonight. I will edit it in the next few days, though.
SUSAN KISSING CASPIAN!!!
That's not 'WTF', frankly. It's NOT OKAY! SO NOT OKAY! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why poor C. S. Lewis is spinning so very, very quickly in his coffin. Seriously, did you read the books at all? Okay, obviously not, because if you had you would know that Lewis was extremely sentimental about the innocence and naivety of children; some would say to a fault. But you know what, that doesn't really matter because it's his universe and you should have respected that. Were Lewis alive today, he would be so pissed that you had Susan kiss Caspian and then acted like that was okay. Don't you know that one of the reasons Lewis didn't let Susan back into Narnia was because she was too into sex? Seriously. Read The Last Battle. It's in there. And that makes Susan kissing Caspian quite literally NOT OKAY.
Other issues:
1. Literally EVERYONE was out of character, from Aslan to Reepicheep, Caspian to Miraz, and Peter to Lucy. I honestly can't think of one character who was in character ever. Even freaking Miraz, and seriously guys, how hard is it to get a fairly two-dimensional tyrant in character? You SUCK at adapting a book to a script.
2. When did Peter become such an ass? A wimpy ass, at that. Peter is the High King, and he rocks. He doesn't get in fights in train stations, and he doesn't go around being an ass about being High King. That said, could Edmund have been more kickass at the train station? *hearts Edmund*
3. On the subject of asses, when did Caspian become such an ass? And please show me the part in the book where Peter and Caspian are asses to each other! Do the words "[Caspian] was liking Peter very much" and "'I haven't come to take your place, you know, but to put you in it'" mean nothing to you? Obviously.
4. Give Edmund more lines please! Edmund, I see, is the Ron of the Narnia films. That is, they took all his lines and gave them to everyone else. At least they let him be kickass, unlike poor movie!Ron, where they took both his lines and his kickass-ness and gave them to Hermione, making her a Mary-Sue and him a wimp, which is so not cool, OMG! Wow, tangent, sorry. Seriously, though, Edmund rocked, and was probably the most in character of anyone, and could have been entirely in character if they'd ever let him speak! Why is this boy not getting more attention from his siblings? Why is he getting no thanks and no hugs? Peter, stop being such an ass, Susan, stop being so hormonal, and Lucy, stop being so ... out of character! Give Edmund love, plzkthnx!
There's loads more that I hated, but it's late and I have to be up early tomorrow, so I'll wrap this up for now. But this isn't over, Disney! My mom said it's a good movie "if you think about it as a different story". I told her if I wanted to see a different story, I would go to a different movie. And in the words of C. S. Lewis himself, "[You] are far too easily pleased."
**I apologize for any misspellings/typos. This computer doesn't have spell check, and I'm too tired to go over it tonight. I will edit it in the next few days, though.
