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i_love_honor

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Dec 10, 2005 01:42

Whoa. I saw the new Harry Potter tonight with Rob and Melissa. Damn. What a dark film. That's the darkest and most disturbing family fantasy film that I've ever seen. I don't know how people could ever really say that Empire Strikes Back or Episode III (or the LOTR movies) or Batman Bagins are too dark ( Read more... )

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darien_sun December 10 2005, 16:15:52 UTC

Go see Narnia. AWESOME movie.

i_love_honor December 28 2005, 21:42:32 UTC

I saw it on Sunday and I thought it was good. I, as a matter of fact, liked it better than the LOTR films. I thought it would be full of Christian Fundamentalist overtones (my father told me that he heard that) but I was pleasantly surprised to see that it wasn't.

darien_sun December 28 2005, 21:55:08 UTC

Well... Lewis was a devote Christian and the books were written with Aslan as an allegory for Jesus. Since then Xtians have imposed a LOT more allegory onto the story than I think was originally intended.

So first of all while it is Christian allegory, it is by no means Fundamentalist, and in all honesty the vast majority of the Christian-ness of it all can really be interpreted as mystic/mythologyical/general religious-ness, since so much of the Christian elements that Lewis pulls on are common to many mythologies (death and rebirth).

Pretty much everything except the part in I think the 4th book where Aslan says, 'btw I'm jebus, OMG!!1!'.