"The Great Story"

[Sven-El]

Now bare with me a moment. One thing I loved in the film version of Return of the King is that they managed to work Tolkien's discription of Frodo sailing away into the dialogue as Gandalf said to Pippin, " They grey rain curtian of this world passes away and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it. white shores, green feilds below a swift sunrise."

Now Lewis has an equally beutiful passage at the very end of the Last Battle, as Aslan is transforming and appearing "less then a lion". I'm sure we all know it, but I can never get tired of reading it and I hope none of you do too:
"And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and title page: now at last they were beginning Chaper One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”( Lewis. Last Battle )

I know most of us hate changes made to the book, but would any one make an exception to some added dialouge say from Tumnus the faun, sas he and Lucy are talking in Aslan's kingdom that features this passage? I feel that some how the Last Battle is incomplete with out it.

 

[Benisse]

Great story thoughts

I love that quote too, Sven-El, and would miss it if it were left out of any film version of Last Battle. It seems like it could be worked in to the ending in a variety of ways, whether into a conversation as you suggest or as part of a closing special effects shot of Aslan, slowly morphing into a being of Light, voicing a version of those words Himself for the ending.

 

[Mozart the Meerkitten]

The Last Battle is my favorite book, and if they dare change more than a few lines, well they will be getting emails from a very angry 12-year-old (or however old I am then).

That book is so amazing. It is the only book I've read (save of course the Bible) with a detailed description of what someone thought Heaven was like.

They defintely should have that ending in the movie. It'd be a perfect conclusion to the seris.

If not I will bring the book The Last Battle to the theater and read what it says at the end and will do so whenever I'd whatch the movie.

My mom and I have resolved to pray that the filmmakers will do an ASOMEATIC job on The Last Battle and all the Narnia films.

"Now they were the beginning of the Great Story which no one on earth has every read, which goes on forever, in which every chapter is better than the one before." Amen.

 

[inkspot]

Yah, someone has to say those words in the film ... truly beautiful. I love the end of TLB.