Should The Film Have A Narrator?

Should the film have a narrator?

  • Yes. Strewn throughout the entire film.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes. But only at the beginning and end.

    Votes: 13 41.9%

  • No.

    Votes: 18 58.1%
  • Total voters
    31
I think that it could work..though I certainly don't want the narrator to take over the film..I like how they had Galadriel doing the narration in LOTR and hopefully if they have a narrator it will be something like that.
 
When I saw LotR, I had actually never read the books, and having Galadriel start everything out like that, helped. I didn't feel as lost when she narrarated. No matter how much we may love the books, and think that there should be a law that every man, woman, and child should read them :lol: , there will be a large number of people that will be as lost as Lucy in LWW saying "Narnia, what's that?" Having a narrator might help the audiences feel like they aren't going into the movies not knowing anything.
 
Yeah. Unlike Harry Potter where EVERY ten-year-old knew the books by heart, the LOTR and the Narnia books have been around a little longer and not everyone has read them, so there might be a little bit of catching up to do for the people who no longer have it on their reading list. I did an informal poll and lots of people over 40 have very strong memories of Narnia, but people younger -- and surely under 15 and not Christian -- will need to be either reacquainted to introduced to the Chronicles. What do you think?
 
i agree. but i am under 15 and a Christian, so i don't fall into either catergory. but yeah. most ppl i know have either never heard of them or have read them when they were young(er). so...yeah.
 
Another thing with narrations, is that they help to convey the feeling that this story really happened. "The Ghost and the Darkness" was very interesting with the short bit of narration at the beginning and the end.
 
I wanted British rocker Sting to be the narrator. He has such a good voice. :)
 
My rational is that the story was writen to be read to a child, so it can be told easily by a narrator. Like we viewers were being read to.
 
This is a tough one. The narrator made the books, but cinematicaly i doubt it would work.
 
In a recent interview the producer, Mark Johnson, had this to say.

In the book there’s a lot of narration, did you take the narration out?

Johnson: I don’t foresee any narration at all.

Malik: (Laughing) Nicole’s [Kidman] going to narrate all seven books.

Johnson: You know, the crazy thing about that is, she was never approached, we never talked about her. I heard that she read these books and loved these books, I just heard that from the press, I don’t know if that’s true and we had a scout here October of…exactly a year ago, we were here and there were a bunch of us in a helicopter on the South Island, and somebody reported that Nicole Kidman was with our scout. Andrew Adamson has really long blond hair, so we don’t know if someone saw him, and if so, if I were Nicole I’d be upset. Andrew’s an attractive man, but he’s no Nicole Kidman. All of a sudden, I found myself apologizing to her agent - and I know Nicole, I didn’t talk to her, and to her publicist, apologizing for something we didn’t do, because we were reading this, that Nicole was going to do it, and the great one was that she was going to narrate all seven books for 94 billion dollars.

Malik: Whatever it was, the kid that plays Edmund, Skandar Keyes, said: “I want to renegotiate my contract.”


I guess that clears that up.
 
maybe so, but I prefer not

I wouldn't say that a narrator is a bad idea, but I personally hope that the movie is without one. Sure enough many lovers of this tale learned of it by having someone else read it to them. I am not saying that is bad. Tradition is always nice. However some of us fell upon this book and the series on our own. I personally created the scenes in the book in my head so everything was first person. Narrating would make it third person, and I have waited too long to see a good adaptation of this book to feel like it was a third person script.
 
Narrator?? Wll, I never thought of it, but I suppose, as Specter said, if he had a good voice, like Liam Neeson, etc. it would be quite good, but not throughout the whole movie...beginning and end. But I accidently voted No. LOL ;)
 
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