#people of narnia

[iliveinnarniaandstudyathogwarts]

People Of Narnia

Tirian I The Last king

[freakcliff]

many things about the chronicles of Narnia made me irrevocably insane at the small age of six years old but one of the big ones was the bit in prince Caspian where caspian blows susan's horn to try and summon help and it summons the pevensie kids like. that's crazy ok. that's insane. imagine at 12 years old you're given a horn thats purpose is basically summoning divine intervention & then years later someone blows it and summons YOU . I'm crazy !

[doverstar]

can't express accurately how happy it makes me that c.s. lewis did not leave room for many interpretations in narnia. it's christian and you can't get around it. susan chose to care more about worldly things than what matters and he said what he said. the lion is Jesus. evil is evil and good is good and people have to choose. and that makes some readers angry because it's nearly impossible to ignore and they want to ignore it. they want it to be something else and they can't make it something else without making it not narnia. love that. that is doing it right

[tending-the-hearth]

not to carry on with my "lucy and edmund step into susan and peter's roles during the events of votdt" but in "prince caspian" we saw the pevensie siblings consistently falling into their throne order whenever they were near each other, always standing in that specific order whether on purpose or subconciously. throughout "voyage of the dawn treader", lucy and edmund continue that, only this time, thye fall into susan and peter's positions in the throne order, with lucy almost always standing on edmund's right side just as susan stood on peter's right.

but i think another detail, specifically in this shot from the end of the movie, is caspian standing in lucy's original spot, and eustace standing in edmund's original spot. caspian, who came into narnia as a stranger, and stepped into the role of king with ease, and who loves narnia and the narnians more than anything, and who vows to be a better king for his people. eustace, who was on edge, angry, and doubtful of everything around him for the first half of the movie, whose experiences changed him into a better person with the capability of connecting with his cousins.

[queenlucythevaliant]

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[pftones3482]

I want to be excited for the live action Little Mermaid so badly

The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney movie. Anyone who knows me knows I'm obsessed with mermaids as a whole and will watch any media that has them. Hell, I own my own tails and monofins. But every time I see a gif or a video for the new Little Mermaid, I cringe

(btw, this is NOT because of the casting. If you're against this movie because Ariel is black, you're a racist piece of shit and this post isn't for you)

My issue lies with the CGI. It just looks so FAKE. We've seen through the course of movies and TV shows that use it that CGI does not age well, and that's because technology is constantly improving. What was impressive in 2005 is not impressive in 2023 (Just look at Aquamarine, another movie about mermaids). And the CGI on Ariel and her sisters already looks fake and the movie isn't even out yet!

Compare this image from the trailer

To this screenshot from H20: Just Add Water (a TV show that came out in 2006):

You can see the details of the scales in the second image

The first image is flat. Sure, it's colorful, but it's flat. It's fake. Halle herself is the most beautiful and alive part of the image, because everything else is fake

The difference?

H20 had costume designers, ones specifically trained in mermaid tail making, HAND CRAFT every tail on the show. All of the scales were hand laid, all the tails molded to fit the actors/actresses perfectly, painted by hand

Let's even look at someone with no affiliation to TV or movies:

This is Mermaid Linden, a very well known (in the mermaid community) professional mermaid. You can tell her tail is not as high quality as the ones made for H20 (though it's still a VERY expensive tail) - but it still looks like it's a part of her. You can still see the details. Because professional mermaid tails are also all handmade and molded to fit each person. Even if they don't lay every individual scale, good professional mermaid tail makers are very meticulous about what they do.

This is what happens when Disney refuses to pay practical effects artists. We could have had beautiful, handmade tails that would look real on screen for decades to come and could be reused for promotional purposes - instead, they're underpaying and overworking their non-unionized employees to make CGI tails that don't even look real now.

(to be clear, I'm not shitting on the artists. As I said, they're being underpaid and overworked. This is not their fault)

And before anyone comes and says "But swimming in those is difficult!" Absolutely it is. You should never swim in a professional level tail (or even just fabric tails) without practice and training. Which Disney could have given the cast if they were willing to PAY people (the cast of H20 [a TV SHOW] literally learned how to be mermaids on set. It's been done before)

Disney's "Live Action" needs to be rebranded as "CGI with some real people tossed in" because that's all any of these remakes have been, and it's exhausting when I look at what we could have had.

[zannolin]

the pevensies never getting to stay in narnia as long as they did that first time makes me crazyyyy like they had years. YEARS. and then they lost it and they got to go back but it was for a matter of days. days. just long enough to remember the things you lost. to find pieces of yourself again. and then they had to go, and peter and susan never got to go back. at least edmund and lucy were there for weeks aboard the dawn treader, even if it wasn't in narnia itself. probably it was more cruel than anything that susan and peter went back for hardly any time at all.

[margindoodles2407]

It's about Edmund Pevensie. It's about how he was a greedy, selfish brat of a kid. It's about how he allowed himself to fall into sin. It's about how he was willing to sell out his own siblings for a position of power. It's about how he became enslaved by the White Witch. It's about how he almost died in sin. It's about how Aslan died in his stead. It's about how Edmund felt true shame for his actions. It's about how Edmund repented. It's about how Edmund, the greedy, selfish brat of a kid, repented, and came back from sin, and it's about how he couldn't repair his relationship with his siblings or the damage he'd done, but that wasn't the end because Aslan did it for him. It's about how Edmund, the greedy, selfish brat of a kid, grew up and became a King of Narnia, known as the Just, because he knew what it was to act unjustly and decided he wanted no part of that ever again. It's about how Edmund the Just, a King of Narnia, came back to earth, but he wasn't a greedy, selfish brat of a kid anymore, because he who is once a King of Narnia is always a King of Narnia. It's about Edmund Pevensie, and why he's my favorite of the Pevensie Children.

[fantastic-nonsense]

I think my ideal Narnia reading order looks something like this:

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Magician's Nephew (who's the professor? where did Narnia come from? How was the Wardrobe created?)

Prince Caspian (Return to Narnia, intro to Caspian)

Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Final major Pevensie story, direct continuation of Caspian's story)

The Silver Chair (conclusion of Caspian's story)

The Horse and His Boy (Golden Age Flashbacks!!! One last fun worldbuilding romp in Narnia before the end)

The Last Battle (end of Narnia and the final story)

[accioroyals]

golden child, lion boy; tell me what it’s like to conquer

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[iliveinnarniaandstudyathogwarts]

The People of Narnia

Caspian X The Seafare

[ddeck]

did all the westerners first learn about turkish delight through narnia books or what

[karda]

new ocs that are actually old ocs i forgot about. shoutout to this-> >_< face

[totally-not-peter-parker]

I love calling certain movies "really old movies" and watching the adults around me cringe

[bookcub]

publication: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, prince caspian, the voyage of the dawn treader, silver chair, the horse and his boy, the magician's nephew, the last battle

chronological: the magician's nephew, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, the horse and his boy, prince caspian, the voyage of the dawn treader, silver chair, the last battle