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[cleolinda]

EEEEEEE! NARNIA!

Okay. I'm better now. Actually... their White Witch is... not very white, costume-wise. Fnarr. Ah, well. It's all just production art at this point. Although the banners would make excellent bookmarks if enlarged a big and printed out.

ETA: Bases from the banners, if anyone wants to use them:

Comments

[alysscarlet.livejournal.com]

Oooooooh! I'm getting all tingly just looking at these.

I know what you mean about the White Witch, but she does look very Jadis-like, which is OK.

And the armour all looks good.

I really can't believe that after all these years someone is making these films with a proper budget. It scares me that they still might cock it up, though.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she is very Jadis, which is how I managed to restrain myself from pitching a fangirl fit. See, as much as I love LOTR, *these* are the books I grew up reading. Like, all of them, every summer, and maybe a few more times each year as well.

Of course, watching Lord of the Rings get made was probably a very educational experience for us Narnia fangirls--we've seen beloved elements get changed and the world didn't end, etc. But seriously--they've got, like, the guy who directed Shrek doing this. I'm a little afraid.

[kittygopounce.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you know the answer? (My latest journal post contains a query on lines varying from the book and film of HP:PoA)

Yay Narnia rawr! I loved both books and the telefilm (I think it was) when I was little. Biggest 9 year old =sized crush on Peter back then *blushes*

[kittygopounce.livejournal.com]

Err, meant to add though, that this time 'round should be better quality because of budget, etc. And my ignorant little nine year old heart was charmed by the series anyway. Except for the cartoon creatures. Blech.

[kohler.livejournal.com]

O_o shiver me timbers

[dietcokebreak.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! It's Aslan, dear Aslan...

::thud:: Sooo happy....

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Looks like Narnia has been LOTR-ized. Which is not a good thing. Narnia is many things, but not gritty and dark and full of CGI creatures. Of course, I'm one of those people who things Muppet Yoda looks 100% more real than CGI yoda or any CGI which move around the screen like balloon animals.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. Narnia isn't nearly as dark as LOTR is. It's more akin, in spirit anyway, to The Hobbit, if one really must compare it to Tolkien. I hope they don't overdo it. Isn't Disney involved with this project? That alone worries me. Disney = overbearing commercialism. I don't care if they make millions off of it; I just don't want it to be tacky.

[lost-lorelei.livejournal.com]

I'm probably the only person on earth who holds a grudge against these books. :// I should have read them when I was younger, not a cynical teenager. Bah.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

a) icon love: best Henry V EVAR.

b) You are so not the only person on earth who holds a grudge against Narnia books. I myself am tempted to steal the Aslan base and make an icon that says "I am not at all a thinly veiled Christian propaganda item."

[maggiesox.livejournal.com]

I'm with all above who are concerned that the angst is getting ratcheted up unnecessarily. I mean, go ahead and touch on it, but...no. Not all the way, please. But am very happy with teh pretty.

ome of the key on my keyboard aren't orking, forgive me

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

ooooh, i hadn't een thoe before. man, i can't ait for the movie to come out. i freaking love thi book. and all of them. i reread them jut the other night, and they're till fantatic.

Re: ome of the key on my keyboard aren't orking, forgive me

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww! Poor keyboard! *pats*

[eclectica.livejournal.com]

Aslan, my favorite character, ever, from all books and movies! I can hardly wait for this movie. I'm giddy. ;)

I snagged the Aslan icon, by the way. Thanks! :)

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's just *perfect* for Narnia. The White Witch, and Aslan. Such a pity it's more than a year away. Is anyone else already cast?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

James McAvoy for Tumnus, Tilda Swinton for White Witch, a real lion for Aslan, and a couple of kids I'd never heard of. That's the last I heard.

[supiluliumas.livejournal.com]

Stealing Narnia06. Thanks! =)

[seraphina-pyra.livejournal.com]

So cool!
Pyra

[punkiejeannien.livejournal.com]

woah woah WOAH! are they making a LWW?!

also, my friend Alexandros says you have to make a 15m of "Wicker Park" with lots of *sqees* for Rose whatsherface who played Breseis.

[tecno-fairy.livejournal.com]

I used to love the books when I was smaller, and the BBC TV series, which if you watch it now is the ropiest thing ever and funny in all the wrong places. Also, for some reason, I never picked up on all the religious stuff in the books; I wonder how much that will come across in the new film(s)?

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Lewis always insisted that it is just a story, nothing more, nothing less. So did Tolkien, for that matter. Of course, both of them couldn't help that their frame of reference would leak into the tales. I hope that Disney doesn't cut it out because the symbolism IS there, but I don't think they need emphasize it heavily.

[uchuufuku.livejournal.com]

Reading through these comments, I have to say, I still don't know understand what the problem is with this whole movie-adaption of book thing? People worry and speculate and then complain when ONO! SHE GOT HIS LINE, when really, the books will still be there, just as fantastic as ever, no matter what other things people choose to do with them. It doesn't seem like an issue who's directing, or how it turns out, because it's not going to be the Narnia/Hogwarts/Middle Earth of our respective childhoods.

That being, rather inarticulately, said; ASLAN ^___^

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Very good point--I have to remind myself of that sometimes. Like, "my" White Witch will always be in my book with the Michael Hague illustrations (and, to a lesser extent, in the cartoon version from the late '70s), and it's not like the filmmakers are going to personally come by my house and set fire to my copy so that I can never, ever read it again. ;)

[kookaburra1701.livejournal.com]

Why do they have a unicorn on there? Please tell me they're not going to transplant Jewel from TLB to LWW.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I hope not. I figured it was just a generic unicorn--just because they could.

[velveteenfaerie.livejournal.com]

I've loved Narnia ever since my mum first read them to me when I was about 5. I've read them hundreds of times since.

I notice they're not making the first one first. hmm.

Oh well, Hope the films will be good.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Actually, LWW was the first one published--it's only in the last few years or so that the publisher has started putting Magician's Nephew first and the others in chronological plot order. I grew up reading Magician's Nephew--what, next to last? Something like that. To me, it doesn't make any sense to have that book first, because it actually functions as sort of an extended flashback. Still, I understand that Lewis himself had wanted them in chronological order, so it looks like I'm on the losing side of the argument. But that's why they're filming that one first--it's the one everyone's familiar with.

[edda.livejournal.com]

The White Witch picture looks sort of Boris Vallejo-y to me. I hope they go less with Teh Sexy Cleavage and more with that Evil Scary Mommy Figure-type vibe I got from her in the book. The only other example of such that ever really conveyed that to me was (ironically enough) Mrs. Coulter in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

Sorry for wanking up and down your comments page; this is just very near and dear to my heart. Even if the Christian allegory is spread on with a trowel.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! Mrs. Coulter!

I don't mind the Christian symbolism, mostly because I ignore it. ;)

[rosiegalbasi.livejournal.com]

She looks good. I'm not sure if I like the costume or not, though. Either way, *SQUEE*!!

[gniko.livejournal.com]

I saw the link to this on the bottom of that movieweb story on McAvoy, Narnia!

Disney does scare me a little though.

[ringwraithe.livejournal.com]

Man...I've loved Narnia since I was ickle, it's the first series I ever felt so strongly about. I'm so glad they're doing something about it at last.

Another series that needs to be movie'd? The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. Yes.

Am stealing Aslan base for my harmless!Predator series. :)

[zayden.livejournal.com]

Not sure how I feel about them making a Narnia movie.

*Tired of my favorite books being butchered for short attention spanned American morons who watch reality tv*

On a more pleasant note we have way too many things in common for me not to add you as a friend. Objections?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Of course not! I love new friends. :)

funny qoute

[(Anonymous)]

i dont know where i read this quote but i thought it was cute ...

"your so far back in the closet your in narnia"

i love it, tho its makin fun of gays, i have no prob with gays, i just think its cute..