As I mentioned last week, the first movie adapted from the Narnia series is coming out this December. Today, they launched the teaser trailer.
First impressions: it looks and sounds worryingly like The Lord of Hogwarts. The books never struck me as epic in scale, the way Tolkein’s books are. In fact, to me, they’re the story of four children having a strange adventure. So, while I know it’s the way of the trailer, the operatic feel put me off a bit. Other notes:
- Why’d they have that Lord of the Rings extra of a director introduce it? He looks weirder than Peter Jackson, and that’s an accomplishment.
- I don’t recall the wardrobe being covered in the book. If I were playing hide and seek, I’d leave the cover on.
- There’s definitely no light shining through the wardrobe door when Lucy opens it. She has to fight her way through the coats, then darkness before she stumbles into the snowy woods.
- Somebody stop me before I become one of those people who admonish directors for straying from the original text even infintesimally . I know, too late.
- Tilda Swinton as the White Witch is going to rock the house.
- Jesus…er…Aslan appears to mean business.
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Call me a nit picky book fan but I really agree with you 100% on the wardrobe and the light.
Um I guess that means I won’t be the one to reign you in on the critisims. The chronicles of Narnia are practically sacrisanct to me and I’m terrified of what more will be different. For me, the wardrobe was possibly one of the most vivid mental images of the book that I formed, becuase it was the very normal departure from real-world blandness to a puzzling new place that gradually became a magical and wonderful place. This hocus pocus light suddenly makes the story seem unreal. How many kids after reading the book have actually dared to reach to the back of a wardrobe or cupboard just checking to see if there is a back, now since no cupboard shines like that all the fun is gone.