shadowchild25
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I have decided you are kind of crazy. Have you not read the books?!? I'd sugest reading them again. For one thing they are told in Omnisent point of veiw so Susan telling them would NOT work. I'd like to point out Lewis didn't want the books made into movies and now I think I understand why.
Ps. No ofense.
PPs. I'm again going to say I'm glad some people on here are not in charge of making the Narnia movies.... Also As far as I can tell they are doing the movies IN THE ORDER LEWIS WROTE THEM, that means they'll probably do them in this order:
Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Silver Chair, Horse and His Boy, Magicians Nephew and The Last Battle.
Note experesed in this post are opions of a 12 year old and you do not have to take them seriously.
And thats all I have to say.
The flaw in your argument is that despite the fact that they are told in the omniscient view, they are also written just like an elder telling a story to a group of children, which is how the series began! Lewis often addresses his readers in a fashion that basically says, you've heard the tale of so-and-so, but you might be interested in hearing this other tale which relates to it... as in-
"That was the beginning of all the comings and going between Narnia and our world, which you can read of in other books" - Magician's Nephew, last page
and-
"-it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adventure"- Prince Caspian, first page
and I'm pretty sure I remember someone in the stories telling the tale of The Horse and His Boy at another point in the Chronicles, indicating that it was well known in folklore of Narnia, as were most of the other stories, as indicated by Trilian in the last chapter of the Last Battle, when he states, "If I have read the chronicles aright"
Hence, the idea that Susan could pass on the stories, just as she had heard them before in Narnia, and allowing herself to add on the parts that she may have heard from Professor Kirke. I don't know if you've seen Balto, but the image I get in my head is one of a wise person beginning the story, and then letting the story take it's own way, until you bring it back to the little girl who's like, "wow, did that really happen grandma?"- and yes, maybe it happened like that, but the truth also had a depth to it that no one can know or explain in words, which is why the story Susan begins acts as a springboard into the full omniscient movie version. I don't envision Susan narrating, like the grandpa from the Princess Bride, throughout the story.
When I said I have an idea for how it could work, I meant that I have a full idea of how exactly to craft that beginning... I'm trying to finish writing it down now, and I plan on posting it in the fanfiction section eventually...
The books are being made into movies, whether you mind or not- wouldn't you like some say in how they are being made? And considering what these movies have done for people who had never discovered Narnia prior to their release? I don't think literature should be hoarded, and I love that movies give those who otherwise wouldn't be interested in reading (like my own twelve year old brother) a chance to get a taste of the real thing, so they can choose to devour the feast!