The Horse and His Boy

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MissReepicheep

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Who's looking forward to seeing the Horse and His Boy once they get around to making it?! I know I am! The story would make a great movie! What are you guys hoping to see in it? What would you hate for them to take away or change?

I'm hoping that they'll keep the whole Lasraleen thing. (I don't see how they would take it out, but the filmmakers have found interesting ways to change things in the past... :rolleyes:) I think it was my favorite part in the whole book when Aravis went to see Lasraleeen and they snuck into the Tisroc's house. I also liked it when Shasta visited the Pevensie's.

I hope that Bree will talk like he did in the book. Bree is my favorite horse character in any book I've ever read. :)
 
This is my favorite story. I'm hoping, when they make it, it will be what the book is about: a runaway Calormene boy who, with his horse, a Tarkheena and her horse set out on an epic journey through Tashbaan, the Southern Desert, Anvard and Narnia, meeting Edmund, Susan and Lucy along the way, to fulfill his destiny of becoming King of Archenland after reuniting with his long-last father King Lune. I am so looking forward to this story: it will be awesome!
 
HHB is my favorite (Silver chair is a close 2nd favorite), so I hope that whatever changes they do make, it doesn't take away from the story.

The one thing I hope that's left in the movie: the scene between Shasta and Aslan in the mountains. Anything else I could deal with being changed, but that is one thing that should not be touched. But I somehow doubt they'll get that far if people don't give each new movie a chance.
 
One thing I like about "HHB" is that, as far as Mr. Lewis tells us, the Calormenes are as different from average Narnian and Archenlandish humans, genetically and culturally, as any human can be from any other human in the rather small Narnian universe....yet Archenlandish Cor ends up marrying Calormene Aravis, and no one in Archenland seems to have any objection to it. This is one of the best rebuttals to slanderous liars like Phillip Pullman, who make up spiteful accusations that Mr. Lewis was a white supremacist.

As a matter of fact, where Aravis is depicted exercising her storytelling skill, Mr. Lewis was doubtless taking a poke at HIS OWN academic sector of society, when he said that people would much rather listen to stories than to lectures.
 
Aravis Kenobi said:
HHB is my favorite (Silver chair is a close 2nd favorite), so I hope that whatever changes they do make, it doesn't take away from the story.

The one thing I hope that's left in the movie: the scene between Shasta and Aslan in the mountains. Anything else I could deal with being changed, but that is one thing that should not be touched. But I somehow doubt they'll get that far if people don't give each new movie a chance.
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I agree Aravis, this is in my opinion the most important scene of the story.
 
I also hope they preserve the line about how 'no one hears any story but his own.'

The Horse and his boy is my third favorite story but my memories from my first time reading it are more special than memories from reading the other six CON books. (I read LWW after having my gums cut after braces. I was lying on the couch drowsily, holding a wad of bloody gauze to my mouth as I read. Not exactly the most delightful memory, huh?)
I read Horse and his boy while at a cabinet store. My parents were shopping for cabinets for new rooms in the addition on our house. I was sucking on a cherry cough drop, nestled in our coats, which were on the floor by a chair as I read the story. This is hardly breathtaking, and it doesn't sound particualarly nice, but it's vivid and sweet to remember how I discovered the story for the first time. I think HHB is the most important to my childhood of the Narnia books. This is why it's important to me that they keep it just like the book.

Interestingly enough, this was the very day that I saw LWW for the first time. After we were done cabinet shopping, my dad took me and my sister to the theater to see the movie. (I was halfway done with the book by then, and loth to lay it down, even to see a Narnia movie!!)
 
I think it could make an interesting film, but could also not seem like a very Narnian film and more like a story of a boy's journey among foreign lands, etc. (which I kind of get from the book anyway, but this might potentially make it less interesting for the usual film goer). But, hey - it's got the talking horses!

I mentioned in another thread concerns about how they'll present the Tisroc and so forth, without it seeming a bit on the stereotypical, racist side of other cultures. I suppose they might move towards what they did in Prince Caspian, but it wouldn't hugely fit.
 
This is my favorite book, and it would be fairly easy to adapt, so if they mess it up, I'm going to be livid.
I wonder if they'd put Orius (spelling?) the centaur in.
Copperfox said:
One thing I like about "HHB" is that, as far as Mr. Lewis tells us, the Calormenes are as different from average Narnian and Archenlandish humans, genetically and culturally, as any human can be from any other human in the rather small Narnian universe....yet Archenlandish Cor ends up marrying Calormene Aravis, and no one in Archenland seems to have any objection to it. This is one of the best rebuttals to slanderous liars like Phillip Pullman, who make up spiteful accusations that Mr. Lewis was a white supremacist.
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I like how you call Pullman a slanderous liar. :D I really would be mad if they tried to be "politically correct" in this film. Yes, the Calormenes are kind of like the people of the Middle-east and India. Please, get over it! Lewis was not a racist!
 
They could put Oreius in since Tumnus is in; that would be a nice touch (just to carry some characters over from LWW the movie).
 
Don'tTrustADuffer said:
I hope they don't cut the scene with the Dufflepuds out of the Horse and His Boy. That is my favorite part of the book.
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*pokes thread*

Erm, there were no Dufflepuds in the book, and I think you know that.

I'm afraid they may never make a HAHB movie. :( I do hope that they will, though- it would be such a treat, with all the middle eastern culture portrayed.
 
The Dufflepods were in the VOTD book, not HHB. I too would love to see the rest of the Narnia books made into movies. I just hope they will do that. I love how well the Narnia books are done by Focus on the Family. It really brings the world of Narnia alive!
 
Aravis Kenobi said:
Um yeah, I think you kinda have the books mixed up.

My favorite part that will be unforgivable should it be left out is when Shasta and Aslan talk in chapter 11.
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I love that scene! And then when Shasta washes his face and hands in the water caught in Aslan's pawprint. I'm not sure why, but that has always been one of the parts that sticks out to me.
 
I would love to speculate on this since I also love HHB, but sadly, I don't think they'll get around to make it. Maybe I'll take that animation class and make it myself!! :D
 
BarbarianKing said:
I would love to speculate on this since I also love HHB, but sadly, I don't think they'll get around to make it. Maybe I'll take that animation class and make it myself!! :D
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I'm afraid that they'll never make it too. :( But we can still hope!
 
Copperfox said:
One thing I like about "HHB" is that, as far as Mr. Lewis tells us, the Calormenes are as different from average Narnian and Archenlandish humans, genetically and culturally, as any human can be from any other human in the rather small Narnian universe....yet Archenlandish Cor ends up marrying Calormene Aravis, and no one in Archenland seems to have any objection to it. This is one of the best rebuttals to slanderous liars like Phillip Pullman, who make up spiteful accusations that Mr. Lewis was a white supremacist.

As a matter of fact, where Aravis is depicted exercising her storytelling skill, Mr. Lewis was doubtless taking a poke at HIS OWN academic sector of society, when he said that people would much rather listen to stories than to lectures.
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I love the fact that Aravis and Cor have one of the few interracial romances in fiction and it's remarkable given the time the books came out as well. Kudos to Lewis for writing this so un-remarkably that it takes reflection to even realize just how ground-breaking it is. It's also an indictment on contemporary writers like Rowling who despite teasing with some interracial high school romances, could never follow through with a healthy adult romance/marriage.


Does anyone know of any good Aravis/Cor fan fiction?
 
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