Reepicheep

amarlie24 said:
Reepicheep has been one of my favorite characters in the series along with the Pevensies! So I am so happy about his fate and he was able to see the things that his father has just told him in the stories. He deserves that kind of fate for he is a loyal subject and also a brave one but with a soft-heart!...:) I will miss him though I will happen to see his character again in LB..:)
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Reep is great. And you're right, it's good that we meet him again in LB. :)

BK, I read your nice story about Reepicheep's ancestor. Good work, captivating and moving. Definitely recommendable to read.
 
Reepicheep's relationship with Eustace was perhaps the one thing in the Dawn Treader movie which was an _improvement_ over the book. Mister Lewis had the honesty to confess that he didn't really like children that much -- which he was confessing as a fault, not bragging about; and it shows in Reepicheep's actions in the novel. Though later turning kinder to Eustace, Reepicheep was initially too quick to get angry at him (I mean even _before_ the tail-grabbing incident). The movie mellows Reepicheep a bit.

As for descendants: at the time Lewis wrote VDT, he had not yet fallen in love with Joy Gresham, and romance and marriage were practically non-existent in his fiction. Reepicheep reflects this bias. He is like Frodo and Bilbo in Tolkien's work: having almost a priestly calling.
 
Reepicheep is cool. Second only to the Fox in the first film. After all he's a really bad*** swordsman. His relationship with Eustice was a great touch too. Though surprisingly, it was handled better in the film than the book.
 
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The Reluctant Warrior said:
Reepicheep is cool. Second only to the Fox in the first film. After he's a really bad*** swordsman. His relationship with Eustice was a great touch too. Though surprisingly, it was handled better in the film than the book.
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Welcome, Reluctant Warrior! I didn't see you post before.

I agree with you about Reep; I thought the friendship with Eustace was handled very well in the film. I didn't like some of the stuff they did with Reep in the Prince Caspian film, though. They made him sort of mean-spirited in that one.
 
Thank you, Inkspot.

I admit Reep was a bit more mean-spirited in Prince Caspian. But hell, he was still a great character(my favorite in the 2nd and 3rd films). How could you go wrong with rapier-wielding mouse anyway?
 
The Reluctant Warrior said:
Thank you, Inkspot.

I admit Reep was a bit more mean-spirited in Prince Caspian. But h***, he was still a great character(my favorite in the 2nd and 3rd films). How could you go wrong with rapier-wielding mouse anyway?
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I've never had any problems with the character of Reepicheep, personally. He was one of the few bright spots of VDT, in my opinion.
 
Thanks for the warning.

VDT wasn't that bad. Sure it wasn't as good as the LWW film, but it was slightly better than PC(which also wasn't that bad).

But I'm getting off topic.

I amit it was a bit sad seeing Reepicheep go in VDT, as that was when I was just starting really like him(I thought he was cool in PC but he really shined in VDT).
 
I do too, but for different reasons. The movie had come out seven months after my freind Kari and her unboarn baby died in a car crash. She knew the Lord, so it was very easy to think of her in those last moments of the movie.

It's like when I watch ROTK. When iI first wacthed it on DVD with my parents, we got a call from my grandma that my great grandma was dying. Right after Frodo's ship sails off into the sunset, we got the call Great-Grandma had gone home.
 
Phoenix, it was never specified in either the book or the movie if reep actually died. It may have just been that he gained an eternal life without dying.

MrBob
 
Once a young fan asked Mister Lewis in a letter whether Reepicheep did in fact make it into Aslan's Country, and Lewis replied unambiguously that he DID make it.

WE NEED MEMBERS TO COMPETE IN THE "NARNIAN CLOSE ENCOUNTERS" CONTEST!!!!
 
Well of course he made it, Copper. He was there at the gates. The only question that isn't clear enough is how he got there. I am in the camp that he got to Aslan's Country alive.

MrBob
 
MrBob said:
Well of course he made it, Copper. He was there at the gates. The only question that isn't clear enough is how he got there. I am in the camp that he got to Aslan's Country alive.

MrBob
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Me to, I`ve always seen him as a sort of Narnian version of Sir Galahad who, once he has found the Holy Grail just passes from the world as he is so changed by the experience that he can never return.
 
MrBob said:
Well of course he made it, Copper. He was there at the gates. The only question that isn't clear enough is how he got there. I am in the camp that he got to Aslan's Country alive.

MrBob
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I think he came there alive, too, like Enoch and Elijah. This is a good scene in the VDT film, Reep on the wave in his little coracle. And we see the others in the background. Very touching. :)
 
AsbelMctalisker said:
Me to, I`ve always seen him as a sort of Narnian version of Sir Galahad who, once he has found the Holy Grail just passes from the world as he is so changed by the experience that he can never return.
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Liz said:
I think he came there alive, too, like Enoch and Elijah. This is a good scene in the VDT film, Reep on the wave in his little coracle. And we see the others in the background. Very touching. :)
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Yes to both of these! I like these ideas very much.
 
I love his role in VOTDT. I was disappointed when we heard news of his voice actor being changed but his new voice actor was a great substitute in my opinion. I actually cried (and still do) when Reepicheep decides to go to Aslan's Country and everyone is sad to see him leave, including Eustace.
 
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