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Wednesday, December 7, 2005
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Shoot me now.
The christian fanatics are going to take this movie, based on a book and tear it apart to find nonexistant parallels between it and Christ's story, just like they did with thee Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I'm sorry. I don't even agree with this book even being made into a movie.
The tale is pure fiction, based in a fantasy type setting you see over and over again so much that it has become fodder for the noobs at writing. I admit, I've used this fodder myself, once upon a time.
But please, don't turn it into what it is not. The Elves of LotR are not Angels, and Aslan of the Narnia Chronicles is not Christ.
My only analogy would be a Robert Frost poem--in particular the last stanza
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
There is no hidden meaning in the above text, though scholars have been trying to find one for years. He isn't talking about his own, inevitable death. He merely wrote it because it makes for a good poem.
I did that for my little ditty, Sentry. you can go back a few pages if you want to read it. It is not about some ill omen that the narrator happened to see; it just makes for good poetry.
C.S. Lewis was a Christian, but he never intended his stories to have Christian undertones. If they're there, they happened by coincidence, and the fact that the writer is who he is.
I'm not bashing Christianity. I'm just saying that a masterpiece should merely be taken as it is.
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