I quite liked the film of PC, because it resolves for me a lot of the issues I have with the book.
Some of those issues are structural: dude, virtually the entirety of that novel consists of Trumpkin telling the Pevensies what has already happened. Shuffling around the temporal framework improved it a lot, to my narrative eye. Some of them are philosophical, and those mostly revolve around Susan: I loved the line the filmmakers gave her about how she's happy to be back in Narnia but knows she'll have to go home again, and I approved of the change at the end, when Aslan says she and Peter have learned what Narnia can teach them, and now it's time to take those lessons home. It undercuts one of the central issues in The Problem of Susan, but I vastly prefer it to the book answer, which is "oh well, you're too old now, bye!"
Haven't seen Dawn Treader yet, and I'm a little worried because it is indeed my favorite book (though The Silver Chair has grown on me since childhood), but I'm looking forward to it.
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Date: 2010-12-16 05:29 (UTC)Some of those issues are structural: dude, virtually the entirety of that novel consists of Trumpkin telling the Pevensies what has already happened. Shuffling around the temporal framework improved it a lot, to my narrative eye. Some of them are philosophical, and those mostly revolve around Susan: I loved the line the filmmakers gave her about how she's happy to be back in Narnia but knows she'll have to go home again, and I approved of the change at the end, when Aslan says she and Peter have learned what Narnia can teach them, and now it's time to take those lessons home. It undercuts one of the central issues in The Problem of Susan, but I vastly prefer it to the book answer, which is "oh well, you're too old now, bye!"
Haven't seen Dawn Treader yet, and I'm a little worried because it is indeed my favorite book (though The Silver Chair has grown on me since childhood), but I'm looking forward to it.