To Narnia, or not to Narnia?
Dec. 12th, 2005 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnI have a bit of a thing about Disney films. I don't normally take random grudges against multinational corporations, but just from time to time there seems to be a need, and Disney is #1 on my 'world would be better without' list.
I am being tempted to go and see Narnia. The clips look entertaining, the reviews are mostly good (apart from the Guardian one, which seemed to have a rather politicised beef with the book, rather than the film).
My memory is that the allegory is less in-your-face in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" than in the later Narnia books, so my childhood disappointment when I realised Lewis was trying to sneakily Do Me Good should not be too much revived.
But it's *Disney*... Hmmm.
I am being tempted to go and see Narnia. The clips look entertaining, the reviews are mostly good (apart from the Guardian one, which seemed to have a rather politicised beef with the book, rather than the film).
My memory is that the allegory is less in-your-face in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" than in the later Narnia books, so my childhood disappointment when I realised Lewis was trying to sneakily Do Me Good should not be too much revived.
But it's *Disney*... Hmmm.
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Date: 2005-12-12 05:13 pm (UTC)I didn't see the allegory in the 'Lion' first time round. But I was sort of fighting not to see it by 'the Voyage of the Dawn Treader', and then once I'd read the Last Battle I went back and read the Lion again, and was gloomily forced to accept that it was in there after all. Which made me sad.