Drinian said...

>ramandu1@aol.comnojunk (Ramandu) wrote in message
>news:<20030713014014.00221.00000276@mb-m03.aol.com>...
>> Which do you think poses a bigger challenge visually, Eva or the Narnia
>series?
>
>That seems easy, at least to me: Narnia. Here's why:

Agreed. I'll even go one step further and say Narnia is more challenging than
The Lord of the Rings. When filming the latter you have to worry about three or
four anthropomorphic races on each side. Narnia has dozens of races, most of
which don't look like humans. Some of them are total unknowns: your guess as to
what an Efreet looks like is as good as mine. And the filmmakers have to sell
it as an internally consistent world that could actually exist, not as a
conglomeration of stock fantasy characters thrown together for entertainment
(think Dungeons & Dragons). It's easy to film a passable wizard, but Narnia has
an actual Christ figure.
 
>> On a non-visual note, if the Narnia films are a success and they eventually
>get
>> to The Silver Chair, they won't find a better Pubbleglum than Tom Baker.
>
>Nothing beats his delivery of the famous "though there may be no
>Narnia, I will still live like a Narnian" passage. Hope he doesn't get
>too much older before then. I'm probably the only person who got into
>Doctor Who through the BBC Narnia series.
>

Not entirely! I've never gotten into Doctor Who, but Tom Baker at least
introduced me to the concept of different actors playing the Doctor.

--R--