Re: Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

LWW felt like a starter film. They were still working on the FX and simple
things like making the animated characters sound organic to the moment and
setting, not sound like their dialogue was recorded in a sterile recording
studio. Technically, Prince Caspian was the much better film. I didn't
notice any obvious sets, stuff outside looked like it was filmed outside,
and everything (including the quality of the script) seemed to have been
upgraded. Whether that film was 'true' or not is out of my scope. Comparing
the two films as films side-by-side, PC was much better to my ear and eye.

I understand CoN as a beloved fiction series has all these expectations
attached to it.

Johne Cook
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM, pcg <[email protected]> wrote:

> > It sounds like you're basing your opinion of the film
> > on how well it matches up to the book on which it is
> > based. That rarely bodes well.
>
> Yeah, it's possible that I'm too close to the source material to
> sufficiently disconnect the film from the book. I like to think that
> I'm pretty good at that -- a movie is not a book, and certain
> sacrifices have to be made to make an effective film, and I understand
> that. The changes in LOTR didn't bother me, nor did the changes in,
> say, "Jurassic Park" or "Fight Club." But all of those movies captured
> the spirit of their respective books in a way that "Prince Caspian," I
> felt, did not. It felt to me like Adamson was trying to turn it into
> "Lord of the Rings," which is all wrong. On the other hand, "Prince
> Caspian" is the weakest installment in the series, and I didn't envy
> the task of making it an effective family film.
>
> CoN:LWW, on the other hand, didn't make any significant changes its
> story (that I recall), but the whole thing just felt perfunctory.
>
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