narnia! narnia! the king! the king!

[lotesse]

So. This whole Prince Caspian movie thing.



We don't get a midnight showing, so I won't be able to see it until tomorrow at four. I'm nervous, but hopeful for the most part. I have this weird, driving need to see Narnia onscreen, and I sort of don't care about anything but the treasure chamber at Cair Paravel. I don't think, from what I've seen, that this movie is going to give me my Caspian - the golden, bright, True Believer boy-king, the Seafarer, the adventurer. And I do wish that someone would. The BBC did Caspian himself correctly, but none of the others were at all good, and I'm greedy for the whole, perfect thing. This Caspian seems a bit more Hamlet-y, more angry and more bitter. Less like Lucy. More like Aravis? or LWW-era Edmund, before he's healed by Lu's cordial. Or Prince Rillian.

But I'm still excited about this movie, maybe because I've been reading Narnia long enough and it's down deep enough in my heart that I rather like the idea of beginning to find other Narnias alongside my own.

We've all been angsting over the Susan/Caspian, and with good reason. The semiotics are a mess. Walden Media made a stupid, stupid choice. But while Lewis was a twit about Susan - though I think that it's a mistake to read her as eternally banned from heaven for her lipstick - I like her. I've self-identified with Lucy since I was little, but as I've grown up I've fallen more and more in love with Susan.I know now that, if I somehow got to Narnia, I would be like her. I love her better for how hard she has to struggle. I like Susan, and I have no problem with her getting it on with handsome Princes. Lewis was a sexist fool, but I don't see that I have to take that out on Susan by denying her all access to sex.

I'm jealous on behalf of Lucy, because I always want all things for her, but I'm willing to cede space for Susan and Peter.

This moie might just succeed where Lewis has always failed me: I've never really been interested in Peter, though I have no reason at all to dislike him. I like him well enough, it's just that Lucy tends to dominate me. But I think the movie's being very smart in setting up Caspian as counterpointed against Peter, Peter as Caspian's obstacle. This is going to be slashy as all anything, and I'm okay with that. I've never worked with Peter, I'd love to have a way into him. I suppose that Peter's the White Knight, or the Philosopher King. And that could be an awful lot of fun, especially paired with this Dark Avenger-type Caspian.

Supernatural finale in two hours, Narnia in twenty-two. It's going to be a good weekend!

Comments

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

I cannot wait until the movie opens. For the most part I've avoided spoilers. I'm strangely unannoyed by them "upping" Caspian's age so much. My (main) annoyance is seeing all the battle scenes in the previews, making it look like a huge epic movie. There aren't many huge battles in this one, and they hold a tournament, for god's sake! I'm hoping they just played-up those scenes in the previews to hook viewers because truthfully? Griffins flying archers over castles just don't do it for me. And I hope they do a great job with the scene near the end where Aslan runs through town and it's all one big party.

[lotesse]

Yeah, I have deep philosophical rage over that. It's one of the things that I dearly love about Lewis - I think he knew that it was sort of inappropriate for him to write about war, because he'd never experienced it firsthand. I love that in Narnia the battles happen, but they're never the focus of the narrative. Bah. Stupid Hollywood.

But yeah, I'm still pretty psyched!

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

There's a few showings here throughout the day, the first convenient one being after 9. I keep telling myself, "No, you can't go, you have to finish getting ready for graduation tomorrow!"

[lotesse]

Oh, graduation pish! Who cares about major life events when there's Narnia to be had!

... on second thought, go tomorrow. :) and congrats on your graduation, dearie.

[rinnuninnu.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm a friend of slashfairy and she pointed me to your direction, because I'm looking for Narnia slash and/or rps. So if you can help me, I really appreciate it, thank you.:)

[lotesse]

Hey. I've written some, but it's nearly all about the girls! Try narniabynight, or the Narnia links at Yuletide - there's been some wonderful stuff written over there.

[rinnuninnu.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the help, I'll check those out.:)

[lotesse]

yeah, n prob.

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[lotesse]

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