Greta Gerwig Sent us a Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew Gift Today

Some good PR work on their part. It is nice of course, but I have trouble believing it is nothing more than just part of the prep for the release of The Magicians Nephew.

The wood piece is numbered, is that saying the lamp itself is limited? I can't see the wood piece itself as being the limited numbered piece, but then it feels weird that they would make that many lamp posts.

The greatest gift Gerwig could give the fans is a faithful adaptation, sadly I think we will be left empty handed.

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I was curious how many of these were sent out and found on another Narnia forum that they received one as well, which also had me realize the lamp post was not part of the gift, just the box duh :D So definitely a PR kit looking at all that is in that box. Again not to diminish a gift but I really have trouble seeing this as a heartfelt gift and look at it as marketing to slowly try and build some hype from a movie that if the rumors of a female voice for Aslan, the time change setting among other things are true, the trailers may be ratioed pretty quickly. People are tired of the stories they love being destroyed by Hollywood, at least destroyed in their adaptations, the books are here to stay unchanged thankfully.
 
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Yeah... the lamppost was not part of the gift. :-D It was just the box with the letter and the book. From what I heard, they only sent out 50 of them, and the number, hand-written on the item, was just the number that we got. I do not know where all of them went, but it was a very kind gesture to send this out to people.

You're not the only one to be skeptical of this gift, but that is most definitely rooted in fear that she will do the book a great disservice with her adaptation. I'm taking a wait-and-see approach. I'm going to see the movie, no matter what it turns out to be, so I can give it as fair a look as possible.

When I review the movie, I'm going to look at it from multiple angles.

1) How does it work as a film, in a vacuum? I'm going to give it a score based on the film itself. I'm going to base my score on how it works as a fantasy film, to me, if the book didn't exist, and all I had was this film, just like seeing Toy Story 5, which isn't based on a book. I'm intentionally not re-reading The Magician's Nephew in the run-up to the film's release. It will be difficult to separate my own visions of it, but this will help.

2) How does it work as an adaptation? I'm going to score the film based on my memories of the book. This score might be different from the above score, but it could honestly be the same. It depends on how the movie turns out. I am also going to re-read the book at this point, and will either revise this part of my review, or write an all-new analysis review, once I'm able to read it and see the movie close together.

3) I'm going to give it a final score, which is not going to be an average, but how I feel overall.

So if I gave the movie an A as a film, a B as an Adaptation, and an A overall, it's because that's how I felt about it, and why it's not an A- or something. But I'll give all of my reasoning behind things, and why I score it like I do. I don't like reviews much, myself, but when I have read them, the ones I liked actually backed up their scores with facts (opinions).
 
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