BrAinPaiNt;2079957 said:
I never read those as a youth but rather enjoyed the first movie. I can see how it would appeal to you. Some of the symbolisms are quite obvious but still a good movie IMO.
I look forward to the next one coming out on dvd.
An interesting thing to tie those books/movies together. JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis were in a club together or should I say they belonged to the same club, the Inklings. I think at one time Tolkien said he wished that Lewis would not have mixed the greek mythology characters in with his story with the other beasts but don't remember much about them beyond that.
It's interesting, Lewis clearly intended his Chronicles to be a Christian allegory, whereas Tolkien flatly rejected any attempts to allegorize (not sure if that's really a word
: ) his work -- be it religious or political.
Irregardless, I think the Chronicles work well on whatever level you want to read them... be it as a blatant Christian allegory, or a simple morality tale independent of specific religion, or even as just a good old fable where good triumphs over evil.
I'm not surprised by Tolkien's criticism of Lewis, if you can call it that. The Chronicles do contain kind of a strange mixture of characters that are clear Christian parallels, little fuzzy animals that are purely whimsical, and characters like satyrs and dryads and even Bacchus and Silenus that are straight out of Greek mythological tradition. The interactions between them can be a little jarring at times.
