Chronicles of Narnia FAQ
Tuesday December 20, 2005
Lots of people are probably going to see the Chronicles of Narnia movie, but they also probably have questions about it. The books are best-sellers around the world, but they still aren't familiar to a significant segment of the population. Thus, there needs to be a basic explanation of some of the issues involved in the movie.
According to Cracked:
Is it any good?
Ha, ha, ha! Of course not. The books are over 50 years old. If you haven’t heard about it before now, there’s a probably a good reason. It’s not like Lord of the Rings flew under people’s radar for 50 years -- it’s one of the bestselling book series on the planet. The Chronicles of Narnia is essentially Lord of the Rings for kids with religious parents who won’t let them read good books. It’s only even being made into a movie because its producers are hoping every filmgoer who got hooked on watching a Rings movie over the last three years will squint hard at the screen and mistake the kids for hobbits.
Chronicles of Narnia is like Lord of the Rings methadone.
And:
It’s just that I heard it was some kind of Christian allegory. Is Jesus in it or something?
No, Jesus isn’t in The Chronicles of Narnia. Narnia is a fairy tale about four children who befriend a kindly lion and have exciting adventures. Then the kindly lion is revealed to be the King of Kings and the son of an omnipotent deity; is betrayed his disciples and someone called Jadis; and is publicly whipped and tortured in the street before resurrecting himself several days later.
Bottom line: Anyone looking for similarities between Narnia and Christianity is clearly unable to enjoy the simple pleasures of a lion being tortured without spoiling all the fun by reading something into it.
The FAQ answers other questions, too, and with the same detailed knowledge and insights as these quoted here. Definitely worth reading — or at least as worth reading as the movie will be worth watching, I suppose. It represents a lower investment of time and attention, at the very least.
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