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[cleolinda]

Omg. Someone at TCM's programming department is a genius, because they are showing Imitation of Life tonight.

(Narnia screencaps: Happy Mother's Day. Warning! Spoilers! Omg!)

(P.S. "I'm looking for Isengard, can you help me?")

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[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Aaaah fake LJ-cuts confuse me like whoa.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Fake LJ-cuts? It wasn't even boldface! ;)

[chexzies.livejournal.com]

I know. What is up with all the Orcage, yp.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, it's also Weta Workshop, is the problem. Their signature look, if you will.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

man...that Chronicles of Narnia: LW&W trailer...oooh...the music in the backgorund gave me tingles...and i need to head to my library or Borders or something for the BOOK...read that...then see the movie....yeees...and the orc-like creature in that last picture....O.o White Witch? Weren't the orcs followers of the White Wizard in lotr? hrrrrm...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Tolkien and Lewis were big friends, let me put it that way.

[maeritrae.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who's really not feeling Lucy? And isn't she meant to be blonde?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I know, dude.

I have a massive girlcrush on Susan, though. Too bad she's going to hell for liking boys and lipstick.

[unheardpublic.livejournal.com]

I think my heart stopped beating...

No..wait..there it is. All is well with the world.

I would have never known about that trailer unless you posted it.

I bow at your feet, oh goddess of movies, in reverence of your gifts.

Z

OH! P.S.- I died at the Harry Potter trailer...omfg, I'm so excited!!!!!!!

[ktkid.livejournal.com]

omg i love Imitation of Life. i love Douglass Sirk period. i wrote a paper last semester comparing the Sirk and Stahl versions. it was fun.

i have caps of IOL here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/cap_it/705287.html) if you're interested.

[conejita-diabla.livejournal.com]

The screencaps don't seem to show any hint of Edmund's little stint with the witch...do you think they kept it?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think you do see a few hints of it--first of all, there are several shots of only Peter, Lucy, and Susan together. Also, take a look at the caption on this one. (http://www.narniaweb.com/gallery.asp?temp=1&n=12&p=9&img=789)

[agentsculder.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for all the Chronicles of Narnia goodness. I can;t believe we have to wait until December. It certainly looks beautifully done, which is what I expect from WETA. But yeah, those White Witch minions look just a BIT too much like the orcs for my taste.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who though Lucy was blonde, but I must say, that little girl is adorable! And Susan looks kick ass. I always loved her in the book. You know, now that I've seen that trailer I'm feeling motivated to read the whole series, even though I hear bad stuff happens with Susan.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Actually, Susan only appears in the first two (LWW and Prince Caspian, by my reckoning) books. Nothing "bad" actually happens to Susan, except that... well, I won't spoil it. I would recommend the rest of the series (IN THE CORRECT ORDER OMG ASK ME MORE), particularly since they're quick reads, but just warn you to have patience with Prince Caspian. People tend to like it less than the others, as it's kind of slow and a bit of a repeat.

(I totally thought Lucy was blonde, too. I can't remember what I thought Edmund looked like--I'll have to get out my books and check the illustrations. And the Weta orcs are totally too orcy, except that--well, Lewis and Tolkien were BFF. It almost seems fitting when you think of it that way.)

Isengard??

[inuit3877.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO!! Isengard??

Uruk-hai: I am soo lost...does anyone have a number for Peter Jackson.

*giggle smirk*

That's funny stuff.

[piratesorka.livejournal.com]

I watched that trailer and thought: "WTF? When did the Orcs arrive in Narnia?"


But it does help to know that Professor Lewis was a friend of Professor Tolkien and see who influenced whom.

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

WETA's doing the work for Narnia, too.

Which I suppose is fitting, but does lead to some, "Heeey, I wonder if Frodo's gonna come bouncing across the screen?" moments.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Someone at TCM's programming department is a genius, because they are showing Imitation of Life tonight.

Somewhere there are snarky moms with a sense of irony who will enjoy that for Mother's Day. Coulda been Terms of Endearment.

For her seventieth birthday I took my mom to the opera. Our choices were ... whatever was playing on her birthday within a hundred mile radius, y'know?

We saw Elektra.

My mom: "At least the brother is the killer, and your brother is a rat."

Point of view. It's all in your point of view.

Not anon, I just don't have a journal, Kat

[(Anonymous)]

Is it just me or does Aslan tied to the Stone Table look like a Disney World costume?

Also major SPOILER if you didn't read the whole series but...

What do you think happened to Susan after everyone else died and went to the real Narnia? Do you think because she didn't believe she didn't get there? The book upset me that there was no mention of what happened to her in the end.

Re: Not anon, I just don't have a journal, Kat

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I seriously think that we were meant to take her as one of the "unbelievers"--Lewis didn't really delve into an actual concept of hell in the Narnia books, so at the very least she seemed doomed to having no afterlife, or a hell conceptualized as "the absence of heaven." Unless, of course, you want to imagine that she grew older and came to Jesus Narnia on her own and had a change of heart.

I just can't BELIEVE that Lewis writes her off with some quick line about how she doesn't like to play Narnia anymore because she's more interested in boys and lipstick. I mean, I guess he's trying not to trash a character people like too badly, so he just doesn't get into it or give her more substantial "sins," but--it just makes him look extremely shallow and vindictive if you think about it too hard. I mean--sending a character to hell, basically, for lipstick?

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

This is great. The first 3 entries of my f-page are about the Narnia trailer. I am SOOO in good company. And yes, my heart is pounding. I'm so excited that I can hardly contain myself.

Oh My FUCKING God!!!!!!!!

[whizkidliz.livejournal.com]

Thankyou Cleo! My mother used to read me those books and I loved them! I still have the box set of them, my mother is going to flip her lid when she sees this.

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

*sighs at the pretty*

[endril-lei.livejournal.com]

mmmm, I'm totally digging the Tilda Swinton as the White Witch. I'm not sure how I feel about the children yet, but I guess I'll just have to see. This was one of the first book sets I got as a kid, and read them all the way through I adored them. And Lewis was definitely all about the faith...

[backfromspace.livejournal.com]

Jesus Aslan!

I have to say, yellow tights? And what is that they're sacrificing, a giant muppet?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

That's Jesus Muppet to you.

[sturmclan.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. You my girl, Cleo. I don't know anybody, other than hubby & me, who have a jones for Imitation of Life. Saddest. Movie. Ever.
Y'know, if you have Mahalia Jackson singing at your funeral? You win at life.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the earlier Claudette Colbert version? It's also good, but doesn't have the pure Sirk melodrama-cheese factor of the Lana Turner one, which is SO AWESOME, as you know.

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

Peter's tights burn my eyes. Is it just me, or does that seen reek of Disney Channel style coloring and such. erg. It should be old and ancient but reeking of power and someplace that loks like the seat of power, not a lost episode of wee-sing sing a long.
Lucy ought to be blonde, because she was ME when i was little.
Oughn't Jadis be red haired? or black haired?
and thanks for preaching the correct order of the books. I mean, it ruins all the shock of magician's nephew.

...and i totally didn't know aslan=Jesus until..last year.
i'm not into allegories. i just loved CoN from my childhood. I grew up on CS Lewis. I have read the Screwtape Letters...it made me giggle.

Susan is...wow, look at that coronation shot. O.O yowza.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Teeny weeny nit - Narnia isn't, in the pure technical sense, an allegory. Aslan doesn't equal Jesus, in that he's not Jesus in a lion suit. In our world, Jesus is the incarnation of the Godhood on Earth, and Aslan is the incarnation of the Godhood on Narnia. Lewis would do something similar with his Space trilogy books, where he looked at how the Incarnation would play out on Venus.

[backfromspace.livejournal.com]

They're doing more Serenity prescreenings on the 26th! You can buy tickets right now for fourteen of the twenty cities showing it.

I've got a list of cities as they appear and links to follow here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/backfromspace/231780.html), or you can go to the Browncoats site here (http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/?u=twobyfour) and check out the forum post. It's under "Message Boards", then "Movie Production", then "Crushing Disappointment".

The Browncoats site is pretty bogged down from all this, so don't be surprised if it doesn't load quickly. Make sure to join the site if you want to hear about any more prescreenings!

[mandy0x.livejournal.com]

Can someone help me out? I want to post a file on YSI, but I don't know how! It says "recipient email address", but I don't want to send it to anyone. I just want to link to the file from my journal. Thanks!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Just send it to your own email, which is what I always do.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

This cap (http://www.narniaweb.com/gallery.asp?img=760&n=12&p=6) actually brought tears to my eyes. The Chronicles are amongst my all-time favorites. Lewis has this way of making all the scenes just glow - great descriptions, and I could always see the scenes and colors exactly. I'm really glad they are doing it in film, though I saw quite a few changes from the canon already. (Dude, I am NEVER the one who spots the changes, but I know these books way too well!) I hope the overall product still ends up being true to the book. And I REALLY hope they get to make the other ones into movies too!

(*sniff* Aslan!)

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously? Best trailer I have ever seen. Right where it says 'A destiny will be fufilled' and the Pevensies trun, and then 'And the Chronicles will begin'...even thinking about it right now is giving me shivers.

On a tangent, check out this link from the official Disney 'site:http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/narnia/index.html
Click on 'Movie', then click on 'Production Room'. Then, click on the axes above the cast pictures and scroll down to the bottom. They have pictures of Peter's shield, Lucy's vial, and Susan's bow. I really like the way they made the quiver of arrows the ivory horn.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

There has GOT to be a way to skip the intro with the doorknob.

[kookaburra1701.livejournal.com]

Arrrgh! They got the wardrobe wrong! It's supposed to be PLAIN dammit. (This is an issue that is going to be hotly debated on my campus- college I attend is in possesion of the actual wardrobe that inspired the books: http://www.westmont.edu/_academics/pages/departments/english/Pages/cs_lewis_wardrobe.html)

[flower4444.livejournal.com]

the white witch. is like. blah. not white witchy at all