Prince Caspian

[maribou]

They've figured out how to do Narnia movies, I think. This movie was farther up and farther in than the last one.

(I wept through the entire closing credits.)

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[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

It's been too long since I read the books--some things felt off though. I thought it was Caspian who fought his uncle. And what's with the *smooching*???

[maribou]

No, it was always Peter who fought Caspian's uncle - they actually played up the Caspian/Peter rivalry a bit more than I would've, I remember Caspian being fairly cooperatively subordinate in the book though it's been a long time since I read them too.

I could see someone being irritated about the smooching. I was not. Susan's character has been subject to the "Arwen treatment" all along, and honestly, I never *liked* what Lewis did with Susan - I thought he made a good character and then repeatedly mistreated her and I never believed in a lot of what he had to say about her (ah, the arrogant reader) - so I thought the smooching was in character with the ways they've already changed her (and the slight increase of age of Caspian, at least from what I remember of the story) and it was fine.

It didn't get in my way, is I guess what I'm saying. Whereas in the first movie there were things that did get in my way, and made the viewing experience awkward. This time what they saw and I what I saw as Very Important were close enough that it was immersive. Not the Narnia in my head, yet, possibly never, but much closer to it than they got last time. (I do wish Aslan had properly terrified the hell out of Trumpkin including throwing him up in the air though - but I suppose a modern audience can't take dwarf-tossing with the seriousness Lewis intended for it;) )