I wonder if Lewis ever had anyone in mind for the role, or if he simply didn't think that way.
and I would love Tilda Swanson as Jadis when she was vivid, rather than drained of color as the White Witch (though she was a good White Witch.
I can't decide whether I wish the film series would make it to The Magician's Nephew just so I can see Swinton as Jadis or whether I think they would eff the rest of the book up so badly, I might as well pray they never get close.
Though don't get me started on those films, as I really don't like them.
You can start if you like; I disagreed in places with the adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe—its White Witch was a major redeeming factor—but Prince Caspian managed to excise the two sequences that have always been most resonant for me (the night the trees are almost awake, the second coming of the pagan world with Dionysos in the streets and the breaking of the river-god's chains) and substitute a lot of nonsensical battling in their place. And I have it on good authority that the trailer for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will, if you liked the book even a little, just depress you.
And didn't he ever read fairy tales?
And the sea is important to him: he visits the mermaid fountain, he keeps tanks of tropical fish, there's ocean-type art on his walls. He's never learned to swim, but the falling-down drunken night after his longtime girlfriend breaks up with him, he gets a cab driver to take him up to Cape Cod; there's something there he can't remember, but he misses it.
How can anyone who's ever heard of mermaids, let alone seen a real one as a kid, find the concept so apparently offputting? But yeah, discovering something unacceptable about your sexuality and then coming to terms with it--that I could buy.
Thanks. I could still be utterly wrong, but it seemed to click.
I should get hans_the_bold to discourse at some point on Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989); he's the person who pointed out to me that the film handles Ariel's desire for the human world like an issue of sexuality or gender identity. If she merely fell in love with Eric at first sight, then we might have a subtext of interracial or cross-cultural romance, but she's obsessed with the land long before she saves a prince from drowning. The cave where she stores all her treasures of the world above, she has to keep carefully secret from her father, like clothes she's not supposed to wear or (in the days before internet) magazines she's not supposed to look at. And when he does find out, he destroys all her human things in the same kind of horrified fury; and is sorry afterward, because he's hurt his daughter, but he still can't understand why she wants what she wants; he doesn't want her to want it. Consequent to this interpretation, I can accept the movie's ending as a valid shift in story protocols as opposed to the Disney inability not to close with a smile and a song—there are enough stories already where non-mainstream desire ends with rejection and death, including Andersen's original, thank you.
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I wonder if Lewis ever had anyone in mind for the role, or if he simply didn't think that way.
and I would love Tilda Swanson as Jadis when she was vivid, rather than drained of color as the White Witch (though she was a good White Witch.
I can't decide whether I wish the film series would make it to The Magician's Nephew just so I can see Swinton as Jadis or whether I think they would eff the rest of the book up so badly, I might as well pray they never get close.
Though don't get me started on those films, as I really don't like them.
You can start if you like; I disagreed in places with the adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe—its White Witch was a major redeeming factor—but Prince Caspian managed to excise the two sequences that have always been most resonant for me (the night the trees are almost awake, the second coming of the pagan world with Dionysos in the streets and the breaking of the river-god's chains) and substitute a lot of nonsensical battling in their place. And I have it on good authority that the trailer for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will, if you liked the book even a little, just depress you.
And didn't he ever read fairy tales?
And the sea is important to him: he visits the mermaid fountain, he keeps tanks of tropical fish, there's ocean-type art on his walls. He's never learned to swim, but the falling-down drunken night after his longtime girlfriend breaks up with him, he gets a cab driver to take him up to Cape Cod; there's something there he can't remember, but he misses it.
How can anyone who's ever heard of mermaids, let alone seen a real one as a kid, find the concept so apparently offputting? But yeah, discovering something unacceptable about your sexuality and then coming to terms with it--that I could buy.
Thanks. I could still be utterly wrong, but it seemed to click.
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