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Couldn't agree with you more! I think it's part of the deconstructionist myth that there is no happily ever after, just breathing room. You see that in the later Star Wars movies that speak of "balance" between the light and dark sides of the force because for all of forever they're both hanging...

That's just what we need...movies made by people that don't agree with the source material. Kind of like making Close Encounters of the Third Kind but changing the ending so aliens don't really exist and everything odd has another explanation.

People who read the Hebrew and Arabic translations read the books in the complete opposite order....from right to left, back to front. ;-) Seriously, one of the oddest things I ever saw was a college friend of mine from Jordan who had the translation of our current Inorganic Chemistry textbook...

Reading any other book than maybe The Magician's Nephew before LWW is something that only looks feasable to you because you already know the backstory. For someone who was, like, "What the heck is Narnia??" it would be different.

As someone who adapted material for performance, I agree. But changing for a medium and changing for a culture are not the same thing. An excellent example is the animated Peter Pan produced by Disney. He said it was the way Barrie would have written his play had he possessed the capabilities of...

Maybe I've been on this side of the pond too long....

I love the books. I like the movies. I am offput by the way the movies try to appeal to "modern"...(aka less spiritual)...audiences in areas such as Aslan's resurrection. I utterly dislike giving characters "depth" by giving them weaknesses or bad habits the author did not intend. And I hated...

No, nope, absolutely not, and probably not recommended. A lot of the books rely on setups from earlier works.

"Something of a star" is more of an American thing. In the UK, acting is considered a middle class profession like a computer programmer or a doctor. And even in America most child actors grow up to become real estate salesmen or organic farmers.

I wonder how Lewis would have written it had all the ideas for all the books been with him from the first. But I must say (no, it's REQUIRED, they passed a law!!) that Lewis is more like Chopin, who wrote exquisite short pieces of music but was not talented at long form works (hence no...

I understand your frustration. I'm banking on the resurgence of interest in the Chronicles after the Netflix films come close to release. This year I have released several ambitious projects.

Agreed. That all said, the most magnificent resurrection of Aslan happened in the animated version. The music was so majestic and they didn't pull punches. When Aslan said, "It is I!!" he bounded around the meadow with the girls and flowers sprang up wherever his feet trod. I still tear up when...

Very, very true. It was very important for Britain to hold on to the colonies because a ship had to balance food and cargo. If you don't have a place on the other side of the ocean, you have to carry food for the return journey. If you DO, you can carry HALF the food and a lot more cargo.

He's a looker. The woman would be a handsome woman. Really.

JT, is there something particularly about that era that speaks to your soul? I'm drawn to the world wars and interbellum period, a real ding dong daddy from dumas! And a great deal of it is based on how quickly people changed the way they viewed the world.

I would heartily recommend that you google slang from the 18th century colonies. It would also be very useful for you to become familiar with the local news of the area your stories are written for. I'll give you an example. 1910's America. "This new sky sure gon'na turn heads. This remake with...

Edwina the Just...my oh my....

In a sense, given that all Narnians would have suffered through the fall of this one man, and all of Narnians benefitted through the sacrifice of one saviour.

I don't know where to begin addressing your question properly, but I will share this bit of wisdom. Once a pharmaceutical group tried to write a computer program that would diagnose problems by asking a series of questions. That's called "keying down". Never could they ever write the program to...