Will some one answer my question please?
Here it is: I enjoyed the BBC Chronicles of Narnia, but how come they never completed the series? They could have skipped books 5 and 6, but why did they leave out The Last Battle?
shareI'm not completely sure but this is what i have heard. They believed that one since it was a much darker tale it would not suit the young target audience. Also the filming cost would have been extreme in terms of post-production costs as heavy special effects would have almost certainly been relied upon at certain stages in the narrative. And finally because the last battle is extraordinarily religous in terms of theme it was thought to possibly raise some negative controversy.
This is just information i have heard, so don't go quoting it on me. but yeah those are some of the possible reasons (i no for sure that the religous point is true)
It's funny that religious controversy didn't stop anyone from making "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
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I simply meant that if religious controversy would stop someone from making a movie of "The Last Battle," it should just as much stop them from making a movie of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Both have strong Christian messages and symbolism.
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well.... not really.
of all the chronicals, only the last battle has strong and obvious religious messages and symbolism. the rest can be seen as purely fantasy childrens stories.
the reason i say this , before everyone starts aruing with me =), is because thats the reaction i had when i read these in primary school. every book until the last one seemed like they were just enjoyably fatasy books. the last one, however, felt like it was shoving religious imagery in to the face of the reader. hadn't even realised that there was anything religious until the end of the last book! =)
... actually ruined the series for me a little...
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Perhaps you didn't notice it until "The Last Battle," but strong Christian messages are throughout the entire series. In particular, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is the most creative retelling of the story of the Gospels I've seen. When I was in primary school and more recently, I have been able to appreciate the series on both levels many times.
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Question: did you know that there was any sort of religious links involved in the stories or that the writer was a strongly religious person before you picked up any of the books?
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I was probably was about four years old when I first heard the stories, so I didn't figure things out for myself then. Perhaps the inspiration for some of "The Last Battle" is more obviously from Revelation than "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is from the Gospels. I honestly don't know what I would have noticed first if I had read them myself for the first time. But, reading them all again a few years ago, I was reminded of the Biblical inspiration behind all of them.
shareI'm actually a lot more curious why they didn't do The Horse And His Boy. I mean all they'd have required were the 4 actors that played the adult versions of Edmund, Lucy, Susan and Peter, the guy who played the Mr.Tumnus, some horses, a random child actor to play Shasta and loads of Indian people. I mean compared to some of the other films, especially the Voyage of the Dawn Treader and the Silver Chair, it'd have been a very low budget film in comparison with those particular films and it'd still have an interesting story.
shareIf we're really lucky, Disney will remake the whole series AND they won't mess it up.
shareYeah, well Disney didn't do a bad job, but they could have stuck a little closer to the book. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe will probably do well enough that they'll make Prince Caspian, the successive movies may do well enough that we might get to Silver Chair. I don't think we'll get to far beyond that though.
shareYou read the stories when you were 4? Or had someone read them to you? Because most 4 year olds can barely read, let alone go through an entire series of books that aren't Golden Books or feature Spot running. Anyway, The Last Battle would surely be more controversial than LW&W, not simply because it features Christian themes but because it's anti-Islam or somewhat insulting to Islam. Do something good in the name of Tasht (Allah) and you're actually doing it for Aslan (Jesus). Tasht is essentially weak in the face of Aslan. Most followers of Tasht are coniving, slaving evil doers, while righteous followers end up secretly being for Aslan without knowing it. Believe it or not, Muslims tend to get upset about this kind of stuff. There's more to religious controversy than just featuring religious themes. In LW&W the religious stuff is fairly veiled. They don't discuss things in a religious way. Last Battle, however, features all of what I mentioned previously, plus direct philosophical discussions about the various religions as well as a complex vision of the afterlife.
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