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:

1) Visual precedent. Eva is already an anime, while Narnia only has
the BBC productions as reference (which were heroically done, but had
a SFX budget of about $2 [1.5 pounds]).
2) Aslan.
3) Material -- _The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe_ is not a
particularly violent piece of work, thought it has its bloody moments.
It is also not really eventful; in other words, it isn't an action
movie. Keeping the viewer interested is going to require visual
masterwork and absolutely seamless and rich special effects. Eva, on
the other hand...

Eva, however, is going to be much harder to *write* and *act*
coherently, understandably, and meaningfully, if you ask me. Looking
at the stories, LWW is a pretty straightforward retelling of the
Christ-story as it might have happened in another world, combined with
some character development in children. Eva, now, is the product of a
fairly areligious director's half-decade experience with depression
and near-total withdrawal from society. The vagaries of the human mind
can be great; it took me 2 viewings of a 13 hour series to begin to
understand that, allegorically, Shinji == Anno == all of us.

> 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.

-- Drinian