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"M a r k T wh@the000000000000000000002" |
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24 Dec 2005 04:00:44 PM |
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Re: Narnia Reviews |
"Kanga Mom" wrote:
So we've now watched The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Overall: Fantastic.
C S Lewis may not have been as happy about it according his letter ......
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The Kilns,
Headington Quarry,
Oxford
18 Dec. 1959
Dear Sieveking
(Why do you 'Dr' me? Had we not dropped the honorifics?) As things worked
out, I wasn't free to hear a single instalment of our serial [The Magician's
Nephew] except the first. What I did hear, I approved. I shd. be glad for
the series to be given abroad. But I am absolutely opposed - adamant isn't
in it! - to a TV version. Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of
narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
At least, with photography. Cartoons (if only Disney did not combine so much
vulgarity with his genius!) wld. be another matter. A human, pantomime,
Aslan wld. be to me blasphemy.
All the best,
yours
C. S. Lewis
[Letter to BBC producer Lance Sieveking (1896-1972), who has written at the
top: 'The Magician's Nephew' and, after the address, the phone number
"62963".]
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Offspring the Third: She neither speaks nor writes, but we think she
liked it.
Hmmm ... the ol' problem of not knowing the difference between evaluation
and assessment.
They: Hey, are you copying what we're saying to tell other people?
Maybe they should know what their mother calls people in "Trew Kristyun" luv
.......See previous posts.
So ... as a learning experience, what did the kids LEARN?
Anyone introduce them to the concept of reading film?
I recommend Jan M Peters' "Pictorial Signs and The Language of Film"
(Rodopi; Amsterdam: 1981). I quote from the blurb:
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.... tries to disentangle the complicated nature of a picture as a sign
process and to define the various ways in which a message may be formulated
in pictorial signs. ... sets out to delineate the main codes that are
normally apoplied in such a picture-sequence like a feature film. These
abstract codes (of the narrative, the mise en scene, the camera action, etc)
in turn constitute the basic material for the 'concrete' code that is unique
for each individual film.
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| User: "Michael S. Morris" |
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| Title: Re: Narnia Reviews |
25 Dec 2005 03:11:05 PM |
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Sunday, the 25th of December, 2005
Mark Tindall quotes the C.S. Lewis letter nixing
a T.V. version of Narnia.
I don't know. We just saw it Christmas Eve^2, and I
think it was pretty faithful to Lewis's vision, if not
always to Lewis's plot. That is, I think I well understand
Lewis's objection to what would happen to Narnia if it
had been translated to television in 1959, but I think
that has been obviated by the advances in the technology.
Aslan, for example, was quite good---a real lion would have
looked too mundane, and anything possible in 1959 in the
way of special effects would have made him look goofy.
I think Lewis quite clearly asserts that a cartoon version
of Narnia might be possible, and, thus, I'd like to imagine
that visually at least, he'd be pleased.
Mike Morris
(msmorris@netdirect.net)
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