The Chronicles of Narnia

Set · Post by **Set** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:54 pm

Question: Why is God/Jesus always a lion?

Reason I ask is because I can't stand the mangy beasts. It doesn't exactly improve Christianity for me to have a holy figure be represented by a lion.

The movie was cool anyway...but the no blood thing, yeah, weird.

NarnianWolfen · Post by **NarnianWolfen** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:23 am

Did anyone that saw Narnia notice the werewolves in the Stone Table scene and the big battle? They were pretty nice, if a little weak where their heads attached to their bodies. The necks weren't very fuzzy. Thoughts? They were pretty nifty, completely furred AND tailed.

BTW, sorry for the terrible picture quality of the two white weres, it was hard pausing the trailer just right.

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:46 pm

Yeah, we were discussing it a bit over here:
http://calypso-blue.com/werewolf/viewto ... c&start=75

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:39 pm

Set wrote:Question: Why is God/Jesus always a lion?

Reason I ask is because I can't stand the mangy beasts. It doesn't exactly improve Christianity for me to have a holy figure be represented by a lion.

The movie was cool anyway...but the no blood thing, yeah, weird.

Good question. One that I don't know the answer to. Honestly, based on my nominal conjecture of the nature of God/Jesus, I wouldn't think he'd be anything like a real lion, in terms of personality. Especially not a male lion anyway. The comparison to a sacrificial lamb is used more often than a lion, which kinda makes sense, especially for Jesus. But, I guess that would have been kinda weird for Narnia.

Kisota · Post by **Kisota** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:06 pm

Baaaaaahhhh....*stomps witch lady to death?*

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:10 pm

Kiba wrote:Baaaaaahhhh....*stomps witch lady to death?*

Who me?

Have a duckie!

:explode2:

Whoops...I guess injecting it with Nitro Glyceride was a BAD idea...

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:24 pm

Its rumored that Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will be out on DVD early April.

Date subject to change.

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:25 pm

Figarou wrote:Its rumored that Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will be out on DVD early April.

Date subject to change.

Kickass! I'm giving substantial consideration to buying it.

NarnianWolfen · Post by **NarnianWolfen** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:28 am

Lions as symbolic figures were seen as the King of Beasts...as strength, violence, and as dominating mammals. Christ is both the sacrificial Lamb and the Lion of Judah...not literally a lion, as in the cub killing kill stealing lazyish animal of reality, but as that strength and as that King. Aslan actually also appears as a Lamb in the books, I can't recall which...I think Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The whole dual nature of Christ thing.

Grayheart · Post by **Grayheart** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:31 pm

The zodiac-sign leo is also connected to christian symbolics. Marcus is often symbolized by a lion - this is the reaseon, why on the Marcus-Place in Venezia is a lion-statue. The other three evangelists are represented by aquarius (Matthew), taurus (Lukas) and scorpio (Johannes, although he is represented by an eagle, which is the enlighted version of the scorpion).

PariahPoet · Post by **PariahPoet** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:45 am

Ok, I just re-watched it tonight. (heck yeah!)

I payed close attn to the werewolves, and the design looks really good.
Here's a bit of an overview on the design-

<u>Strengths</u>

they have tails
no greazy bald faces
nice digitigrade legs
they look quite lupine rather than looking like a dead rat or a slimy demon thing
lenthened armes for easier quad movement

<u>Weaknesses</u>

no variation in coat color or markings(same goes for the quad wolves)
they're all on the witch's side(sure it's expected, but it still buggs me)
arms may be a bit too long
they don't move quite right

But these are still the best werewolves I've ever seen.

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:59 am

PariahPoet wrote: no variation in coat color or markings(same goes for the quad wolves)

I'm pretty sure that there was some variation in the regular wolves.

PariahPoet · Post by **PariahPoet** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:06 am

Only Maugrim had very slightly different markings on his face.

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:55 am

PariahPoet wrote:Only Maugrim had very slightly different markings on his face.

Ah, well that's what I was referring to.

PariahPoet · Post by **PariahPoet** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:10 pm

I guess it doesn't matter that much, he's the only one you have to recognize anyway...

Short Tail · Post by **Short Tail** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:06 pm

has anyone see the SNL Chrinicles or Narnia rap video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:21 pm

Official DVD release date is April 4th.

http://www.videostoremag.com/news/html/ ... le_ID=8572

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:51 pm

That's about four and a half months from theaters to DVD, and with the edition with extras out at the same time. Not bad. Looks like someone's eager to get the next one out.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:48 am

This is just a rumor. So don't quote me on this.

Its possible that Disney is considering a longer version of the film for DVD release later this year.

Kinda like what New Line did with "The Lord of the Rings."

I'll look for more info and post it here when its official.

forsaken_wolf · Post by **forsaken_wolf** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:47 pm

I was just bored so I thought I would say something maybe it was already said before but it's too bad that The chronicles of Narnia was suppost to or something have a theme song from Evanescence but they turned it down cause it was to dark or something just to say.

theMoonlite · Post by **theMoonlite** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:01 pm

That seriously was the best movie ever. I went to go see the first showing, it was so pretty & snowy. If I had a tail, it would've been wagging. But, I was a faun that night {I've never dressed up for a movie before that one}, and I got alot of compliments. Aside from the fact that I was the only 14 year old girl dressed as a faun. Everyone else was 16 and older. Few police had to come in and check to see if anyone had any beer.

But, I didn't mind how the werewolves were represented as, or what they looked like. From what I saw, they didn't have much screentime. But, I was more on Aslan's side. The effects were stunning, I could'nt ask for a better Chronicles of Narnia. It was better than the BBC version of CoN.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:55 am

Figarou wrote:This is just a rumor. So don't quote me on this.

Its possible that Disney is considering a longer version of the film for DVD release later this year.

Kinda like what New Line did with "The Lord of the Rings."

I'll look for more info and post it here when its official.

Its official.

This was announced at Comic-Con.

Buena Vista officially unveiled at Comic-Con plans to release The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Four-Disc Extended Edition on 12/12 (SRP $42.99). The set will include an all-new 150-minute cut of the film in anamorphic widescreen video, with both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 audio (for the record, the new cut is roughly 10 minutes longer than the theatrical cut). This will be presented on Disc One of the set in its entirety, along with a blooper reel, a Narnia Fun Facts text trivia track, audio commentary with director Andrew Adamson and the child stars of the film, and a second commentary with Adamson and the film's producers. Disc Two will include the Two World of Narnia documentary, broken into three segments. Each segment is composed of its own featurettes as follows: Creating Narnia (including Chronicle of a Director and The Children's Magical Journey), Evolution of an Epic (including Anatomy of a Scene: The Melting River, Cinematic Storytellers, C.S. Lewis: From One Man's Mind and Creating Creatures) and Creatures, Lands & Legends (including Creatures of the World, the Explore Narnia 3-D map and a Legends in Time timeline). Disc Three will offer the all-new and C.S. Lewis: The Dreamer of Narnia feature-length documentary. Finally, Disc Four will include the Visualizing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Complete Production Experience documentary, the Anatomy of a Scene: Behind the Battle featurette and the interactive Art of Narnia Gallery featuring hundreds of production images from the film.

FYI, the Narnia: Four-Disc Extended Edition will also be available for a limited time in a special Gift Set (SRP $79.99) packaged with a pair of collectible bookends created by the artists at Weta Limited. As you may have guessed, both the 4-disc DVD itself, and the Gift Set package, are patterned directly after New Line's Lord of the Rings: Extended Editions.

John Wolf · Post by **John Wolf** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:53 am

This turned out a Good movie, though it was a shame that all the wolves were baddies, I wonder if Maugrims allegiance would have shifted, if a batallion of the Whermacht had come along, instead of the children.

Jadis seems the type to overestimate her strength.

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:52 pm

They're doing Prince Caspian next! Heard about it on IMDb.

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