Comments on: Prince Caspian, or I don’t remember conquistadors in Narnia

By: anita

anita — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:21:54 +0000

thanks for your blog i’ll not be takgin my 3 yr old- yet there is little for my 3 year old to watch other than kung fu panda.
lucy’s walking towards Aslan has always resonated with me we know where we need to go but something / doubt holds us back.

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:17:14 +0000

the makers of Prince Caspian kept to the original story in some ways and strayed in others… but yeah, in particular, Lewis didn’t stress the battles so much

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:15:35 +0000

I agree with you on that movie. I don’t remember so much war and violence in the book but I do remember that incident with Lucy.

By: Les

Les — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:55:55 +0000

I love your discussion of the glimpses, they are fleeting, sometimes subtle, but very powerful. But I think the more we truly look at our lives we can see those glimpses echo and resound in the details.(I think spiritual things are alot like qualitative research- the richness is ebedded in the experience and isn’t proven by showy force, (like qualitative statistics)

By: JM

JM — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:42:02 +0000

scratch that, I’m thinking of “the last battle”

By: JM

JM — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:38:53 +0000

Scary will be when they show Tash if they make Horse and his Boy.

By: Rachelle

Rachelle — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:05:16 +0000

I just want to say thank you to those of you who talked about rebuilding their faith during dark times by remembering their miraculous moments. I had kind of a dark week and I needed to be reminded of how to remember my faith. I was doing everything else, reading scriptures praying but I just needed an extra boost. Thank you for sharing.

By: Arlin

Arlin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:10:43 +0000

I think the trick is to teach the children the difference between the movies and what they need to do. I mean, I’m just now in my early twenties, and I had a lot of influence with various violent movies and media (admittedly it is in fact getting worse but still), and to my own shame, I have grown to tolerate and even enjoy that kind of entertainment. However, I’ve never been in a fight, I don’t like causing pain or inciting violence, and I go out of my way to move lowly spiders out of harms way rather then stomp them cause their icky. I don’t think myself a violent prone man, but I think that’s because I was taught and had reinforced the difference between the make believe and real life. Just because they do it on the big screen, doesn’t mean I have to.

I do have one little bone to pick though, if there were battles, and wars, in the books, then how on earth would you propose they portray them in a non-violent and uplifting way hmm? It’s war, war is not cool, nor is it fun. Should we colour our perceptions because we don’t want it to be so? What of the Book of Mormon or the Bible, they have some quite graphic descriptions of battles and wars.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:22:00 +0000

I love C.S.Lewis (who doesn’t?)

I’ll admit it. I don’t like CS Lewis. I liked the Narnia Chronicles. I especially loved the way Lewis named the characters so as to show their personalities. I loved being able to see parallels to my beliefs in the series. But, he himself said he was not writing Christian books and that whatever the reader sees in they bring to it. That ambiguity about who Aslan represents is what makes them great and timeless books. That is the same thing that makes him so popular among all Christian denominations. He is describing the things all Christians have in common. Like walking into a hallway and describing what he sees, but without opening any doors into the separate rooms. (His analogy, not mine.) As he said his beliefs are outlined in the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. But isn’t it great that he brought out what all Christians have in common.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:32:38 +0000

I also took my 5 year old son and 10 year old daughter. I haven’t read the book. We enjoyed the movie. My children however realize that movies are that- movies, not real life. Unlike a niece of mine that isn’t a memeber of the church told the rest of her cousins who are, that Jesus is not real but Cinderella is.:{
I did notice that there was no blood, I think it makes it look less violent. My children have taken karate and spared in classes, so to them it’s kind of like that.
Heather, your not a bad parent at all for taking your child to see it. Just comfort him, which you have already done, and explain it’s only a movie. Also some kids are more sensitive. Like the Harry Potter Movies, my daughter just watched recently, but *GASP* my 5 yer old loves them.
But I have to tell ya, my 16 year old has seen some violent PG and PG-13 movies, and he has turned out to be a well adjusted, non-violent teenager.