Slina
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Oo, I've gotten to see it twice so far (this past Tuesday, and again today), and I loved it both times! It was fun seeing all the 'booky' details they slipped in, such as the dead blue-bottle in the wardrobe room, and I thought the overall acting was all fantastic. The CGI for the most part was very impressive, though there was the occasional scene where it didn't quite work for some reason. But overall, I loved it!
I thought Aslan was reasonably well done, and I really did like Liam Neeson as the voice. I think any voicing problems were less because of him and more because the script just didn't give him a lot of powerful lines. The White Witch had plenty of great parts, though, and wasn't Tumnus just perfect at getting that double-agenda thing down when he met Lucy? And Lucy and Edmund were among the best actors I thought! Skandar had everything down beautifully that the part of Edmund needed, and Georgie as Lucy was just amazing.
I thought it was overall faithful to the book. Yes, there were parts where they could have been closer while still making a good movie, and a few minor character changes here and there, but overall, Adamson really did a good job adapting the book to the screen.
The Christian themes are also there just as much as they were in the book. This wasn't so much because Adamson was trying to keep those themes, but rather just because he wanted to stay faithful to the book. His view on Christian themes and such was that he wanted the readers who'd seen the themes in the book to also see them in the movie, and the readers who hadn't noticed them in the book to still be able to miss them in the movie; and that really is an important key to properly adapting a book.
I thought Aslan was reasonably well done, and I really did like Liam Neeson as the voice. I think any voicing problems were less because of him and more because the script just didn't give him a lot of powerful lines. The White Witch had plenty of great parts, though, and wasn't Tumnus just perfect at getting that double-agenda thing down when he met Lucy? And Lucy and Edmund were among the best actors I thought! Skandar had everything down beautifully that the part of Edmund needed, and Georgie as Lucy was just amazing.
I thought it was overall faithful to the book. Yes, there were parts where they could have been closer while still making a good movie, and a few minor character changes here and there, but overall, Adamson really did a good job adapting the book to the screen.
The Christian themes are also there just as much as they were in the book. This wasn't so much because Adamson was trying to keep those themes, but rather just because he wanted to stay faithful to the book. His view on Christian themes and such was that he wanted the readers who'd seen the themes in the book to also see them in the movie, and the readers who hadn't noticed them in the book to still be able to miss them in the movie; and that really is an important key to properly adapting a book.
One part that was funny about that whole process, though, was Aslan's line toward the end 'It is finished,' spoken just after killing the White Witch. That has some pretty obvious Christian connotations, but in an interview, Adamson said that he hadn't intended that meaning in that line at all. He'd meant it as something from Aslan to show that He was sad about the war and having to kill the White Witch and all that, which you can see in the way the scene is portrayed. But of course, a lot of viewers took it in an entirely different light since it matched so perfectly what Jesus Christ said from the cross.
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I want to see it so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!
