Re: Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Good points all.
 
Yes, CoN is a classic and has a lot of baggage and expectation.  I feel the same
way for the way Harry Potter has been chopped up.
 
To a degree, I expect some variance.  Movies always take a few interpretive
changes from the books, that just the way it is.
 
But PC was beyond ‘a few shifts’, it had so many major changes that it became
unwatchable.
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Johne Cook
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 11:25 AM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] 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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