What I do like...

[glenatron]

We watched The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe on Saturday night. Two points:

• Considering that he was riding as a unicorn with neither bit nor bridle (which is, of course, how one is supposed to ride a unicorn) it seemed to both of us that Peter ought to keep off it's goddamn mouth! Laziest paintshopping-out of a bridle ever.


• As an agnostic who has recently watched The Golden Compass I couldn't help but feel they could have watered down the religious alegory somewhat. It could be offensive to some.

Comments

[gemmabowles.livejournal.com]

thats what i thought. the golden compass had all this 'oh my god its so religious' about it, and i couldnt see it. in the lion the witch and the wardrobe, it couldnt have been more obvious.

[skiesfirepaved.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha, I didn't notice that in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe! I'm going to have to watch it again now, lol.

You mean they've watered down the religious aspects in Northern Lights (Golden Compass my ARSE *stomps around ranting*), or The Lion, The Witch...? I certainly agree with the Philip Pullman film, anyway. Nicole Kidman was quoted as saying she was a Catholic, and didn't think it was anti-religion at all - clearly, she has not read the actual books. :|

[skiesfirepaved.livejournal.com]

There's lots of religious references (mainly towards the Catholic Church) in the original books, which was probably what was getting on peoples' tits. People being Christians I mean. :P Philip Pullman is quite anti-organised religion, and the Catholic Church is certainly not portrayed in a good light in the His Dark Materials triology. Plus, two of the main characters are gay angels. Genius. :P

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I mean that as an agnostic I felt that if they were going to water down the Golden Compass to appease some god botherers who aren't going to watch it anyways they should bloomin well water down narnia to appease me. ;D

[skiesfirepaved.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! Good point. :P

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

In the battle at the end you can totally see the unicorn mithering at a non-existent bit.

[rhyssafireheart.livejournal.com]

Heh, I haven't seen either movie yet (I'm lazy about going to the show, and the husband wouldn't be interested in "my kind of movies"), but now I'm going to be looking for the unicorn parts now when I get The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe DVD eventually.

I still need to get the His Dark Materials books to read. I've completely overlooked them for years and now that a movie's come out, I feel like I'd be bandwagonning to pick them up. Still, I'm interested in seeing what the whole religious hoopla is about since I completely missed any sort of Christian allegory in the Narnia books until I read them again in college (and then I only noticed because a roommate said something). And this is coming from someone who spent 12 years in the Catholic school system, albeit in America. Yes, I'm a bit clueless sometimes.

EDIT - sorry about the apparent double-posting. I messed up some HTML code and silly LJ doesn't allow edits, so I had to delete and try again.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

You must get the Pullman books, they are absolutely brilliant.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

...and now they are a film spin-off you should be able to find copies in second-hand bookshops and charity shops all over the place.