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accurate enough. Adapting a book for a Hollywood audience is tough and changes were always going to be made.
The acting was phenomenal. Liam Neeson was magnificent and All the child actors and actresses were brilliant. Georgie Henley won awards for her performance of Lucy.
They all did well at the box office. The first one made almost a billion and the other two made back their budget and still were profitable.
👍 to all of these. The actors were great and in my mind Liam Neeson and Tilda Swinton will never be replaced as aslan and the witch
The fact that PC made any money at all is remarkable considering Disney decided to sandwich it between Ironman and Indiana Jones. And then they decided, "Oh, I guess Narnia can't make money," and dropped it.
A big "Oppsie" on Disney part. Walden Media was uber pissed!
They also did a beautiful job of keeping the religious themes. They could’ve easily just cut it all out, but they still let Aslan allude to being Jesus which I greatly enjoyed.
Why is everyone so hard on these movies? They’re all great! And even Dawn Treader is halfway decent. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is top tier adaptation, great acting, and they definitely got it to an epic scale. Prince Caspian took the weakest Narnia book and expanded it, not everything it does works, but the Revenge and redemption stuff works really well! Dawn Treader, though unfaithful was still well produced. The Dawn Treader itself looked badass, and Eustace’s and Reepicheep’s relationship is basically Treasure Planet which is cool.
My unpopular opinion with PC is that the castle siege and including the White Witch were good changes and made perfect sense. At least, that was an unpopular opinion back on the Dancing Lawn back in the day.
I totally agree (but then that might be my William Moseley/Ben Barnes crush talking). I know people get mad about the tension between Peter and Caspian, but it lines up perfectly with the film characterisation of them - Caspian is good but naive and scared, and Peter is a good king but is prideful and hurt that he was sent back to England.
So much of the book is flashbacks and exposition that it just wouldn't translate that well to film, and the castle raid works well in showing that while Peter was a skilled general back in the Golden Age, Narnia is not what it used to be. It kickstarts so many character arcs (Peter realising he messed up, Caspian and Pruaprismia learning of Miraz's betrayal, the unconditional loyalty of the Narnians and even Lucy's standing up for what she believes in as a queen and equal to her siblings) that I really can't hate it.
I love Prince Caspian's adaptation. I think it really fleshed out both the Pevensies and Caspian himself.
I think The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe might be the greatest book-to-film adaption of all time in that it actually added depth to the book and enlarged the scope to be somewhat more cinematically "epic" and "mature", while still retaining the charm and tone of the original book. Essentially, it succeeded at what Jackson's Hobbit trilogy failed.
I can't like this comment enough.
Your opinion that Prince Caspian is the weakest of the Narnia books, makes me wonder if you read the last two.
The Silver Chair was my personal favorite growing up (and I think the Last Battle is pretty cool too). I liked the additional focus on Eustace as well as Jill and Puddleglum, who I thought were interesting characters.
I was glad to see Eustace continued his character growth, but I didn’t find the story interesting.
Last Battle I didn’t read the physical book, I listened to the audiobook. As a result, I didn’t realize how far into it I was at any given time. I spent the entire book waiting for it to start, just for it to end. The ending caught me completely off guard. It felt like the entire thing was just lead-up with no real story.
I definitely get that criticism of the Last Battle. The strong sense of ending throughout from it was what made it a strong book to me, but I prefer the Silver Chair. I think that Jill’s personal struggles were the most interesting for me.
I don’t know why but I have always been able to imagine that book so vividly in my mind that I have always wondered if someone made a movie adaptation that I watched, because the pictures in my mind are so clear.
Casting was great on them.
Will Mosley (the actor for Peter) went to my school, a few years above me.
Everyone used to shout “Banarnia 🍌 !” at him. Poor dude was suffering from success 😂
This is fascinating and so profoundly representative of British Secondary Schools. What is Banarnia? How is it an insult? Just shout it repeatedly until it sounds like one.
A shame really because he always has the air of being genuinely nice, very Peter IRL.
Indeed. It was pretty witless but that just made it funnier tbh.
What was he like?
I never interacted with him personally but he seemed nice enough. Would just smile, shake his head and carry on walking. 😂
Man Idk where the heck this Narnia subreddit came from but I’m not complaining. I think I’m gonna go rewatch the movies now.. I remember liking them
I never get it when people complain that “things were left out”.
It’s a TWO HOUR MOVIE. They would have to make the movie 8 hours long to include everything
That's what radio theater is for!
Compared to the old BBC Narnia films the acting in the Walden films were Oscar worthy in comparison.
Seriously? I loved the movies, wish they made more. The first one was a perfect adaptation of the book imo.
The LWW and PC for the most part were accurate, had good acting and did well at the cinema (if PC had been released in late 2008 instead of when Iron Man and Indy 4 came out it would have performed better at the cinema). VDT was quite inaccurate, acting was a bit wooden but did reasonably well at the box-office.
The first one was perfect, they got lesser and lesser but I never hated them
I hated the third fan fiction atrocity that had the name "Dawn Treader."
Caspian was okay, but the love story could have been avoided. Romantic thirteen year old relationships thrown in as "plot" aren't necessary.
I thought this was Lord of the rings for a moment😅
r/TolkienLewisMemes
I loved these films. They were mostly accurate adaptions, the acting was fantastic, and they all did pretty well at the box office. This meme makes no sense
The first one was amazing, and I will fight anyone on that.
The second is contentious as an adaptation - in Walden's defense, the book focused a lot on backstories and the siblings' travel to meet Caspian, leaving very little conflict to focus on. Great acting though.
The third one is... uhhhhh?
I never knew that anyone disliked them! Personally as someone who couldn’t get through the book series I found the movies to be really charming and fun. Especially Prince Caspian, which is my favorite out of them.
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe was really good. I liked the Prince Caspian movie better than the book in most places. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was a massive disappointment, but that was my favorite of the Books, and an unfaithful adaptation was just going to piss me off.
They were all accurate for the most part, but LWW was definitely the most accurate adaptation while VTD was the least accurate. I think the acting in all three movies is great, and they all performed well in theaters. LWW is one of my favorite movies of all time, and while I like the other two, they just don't compare to the first movie, IMO. Still wish that the PC and VTD adaptations were closer to the books, and the rest of the Narnia books would've received film adaptations too.
Prince Caspian is a personal favorite of mine but the ending always makes me so sad. You can feel real life creeping onto these kids and their struggle between acknowledging that and holding onto the innocent faith they had before. And the first Narnia movie is literally the best adaptation of the books that has ever been done in any medium, so I don't know what this meme is on about.
VDT is offensive.