Narnia Vs LOR
As most of you may or may not know, the Chronicles of Narnia are coming to theaters next weekend. Something that immidately called my attention to this film however is the resemblance to LOR that this movie has. It seems to me that this movie is going to be so good that it might do just what LOR did at the Oscars, if not do even better. I cant wait to go see this movie, its going to be great. Anyone else looking foreward to this film?
I plan to see the movie - if I ever find the time. At the moment I am still planning to go and see the new Harry Potter sometimes. Personally I will not even start to compare Narnia with LOTR, especially not while I haven't seen even one bit of the movie. Just the scope and the kind of story feel too different from each other. Both are great Fantasy stories. How well each ataption to the movie genre worked will have to be shown. With LOTR it worked rather well, with Narnia I'll be curious to know. (Trying to hold back my general scepticism of what Hollywood usually does with great stories and books)
So I think the baseline is, yes, I am looking forward to this film. It might even win some Ocars, it might be great, or just another movie. We will only know once we've seen it. But it's on my wishlist for seeing it at the theater.
I have been a Narnia fan since a couple years after becoming a LOTR book fan, and I never thought about their similarities before. I don't really think there are any direct similarities, because LOTR wasn't Christian allegory, and Narnia is; Naria is about children who live another life when they go into Narnia, and...hm. There really aren't direct similarities.
However, that being said, I saw an ad for the movie, and I will say that it looked very much like the makers of it tried (and possibly succeeded) with going for the same kind of *look* that Peter Jackson went for in his LOTR movies. If this is the kind of similarity you are speaking about, yes, I agree, it is there. I'm sure partly this is because LOTR did so well and paved new avenues in what can be done cinematically with battles and such. The commercial I saw looked quite impressive indeed, much like the battle of the Pelenor.
I agreed with it and believed it in the books--children as the heroes. But I won't necessarily believe that on the screen. That will depend upon how well Disney pulls the project together.
But it's on my wishlist for seeing it at the theater.
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