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The Chronicles of Narnia
I read these books as a kid.... I'm sure I've read the whole set through 5-6 times. Well, apparently a movie of the first book "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is going to be made with a lot of production $$$ put into it.
Is anyone else excited by this? It's going to be produced by Walden Media and distributed by Disney... how do you think those two companies will treat the story? I'm hoping it won't purposefully be skewed towards a very young crowd. The books were certainly intended to be accessilbe to a young audience, but there are lots of philosophical and theological statements in the books that may not fit right into a traditional kids movie.
I think that kids movies these days don't give kids enough credit, or at least assume that if everything isn't on a 3rd grade level it'll be turn off for them. So, this worries me that the movies will be "dumbed down"... but I can't wait to see how it all turns out.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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