Darger and C.S. Lewis were rough contemporaries, and both wrote Catholic fantasy epics about alien planets where Christian children fight the forces of evil. So when is In The Realms of the Unreal going to get the Disney treatment? ;-)
shareDisney doing a movie about little girls with boy genitals walking around naked fighting in grand battles. Hmmm...How long will it take? Even if they did want to water it down for kids I think the people who own the Darger estate would just hang up the phone on them.
shareI think the Disney people could pull it off...Of course, they'd have to release it under the Miramax banner
shareIf the depictions of Kiyoko Lerner I've read in articles on Darger are accurate, she will NEVER agree to this, or to letting any part of Darger's work out of her hands for a Disney-like treatment (or any other). Heck, I'm surprised she allowed this documentary to be made!
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Does anyone know where I might find a copy of the script for Realms?
Working on a project at UCF (Univ Central FL) thanks
I also thought that Henry's stories reminded of the Narnia books while I was watching the documentary.
shareWas Darger's fantasy specifically Catholic? It was Christian, and at that, not thoroughly ideological or subtle like Lewis'. There is no mention of Christianity in Lewis' fantasy; there are symbols for personas and principles etc... Darger's has a full-blown Christian nation, the only, and overstated, principle of which is the love of children.
Not to mention the "Satanic" diversion and alternate ending in Darger's fantasy that absolutely has no place in Lewis'. The simple reason is that Lewis' fantasy is an allegory to a system of faith and ideas, whereas Darger's fantasy is an allegory to his own personal psychology.
Very Catholic. Over and over he mentions the Vivian Girls going to mass, depicts them with haloes, and talks about the good Catholic nations (even the place called Protestantia is mostly Catholic).
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A devout Catholic, born in 1892, orphaned at an early age, this man wrote a huge epic fantasy beginning in the 19-teens, about a world similar to our own where innocent people fight cataclysmic battles against the forces of evil. He was also a self-taught artist who painted many illustrations of his imaginary kingdoms. People line up for blocks to see his work.
a) J.R.R. Tolkien
b) Henry Darger
c) Both
Can't take credit for this, it was in a blog by Elizabeth Hand.
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