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Sunday, October 16, 2005

Aslan lives!

I went to see "Serenity" on Saturday. It's not just a great science fiction movie. It's a great movie, period. But I'll talk about that later. The thing I saw that really excited me was a preview for "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe."

I can't really tell from the preview if the movie stays true to the book (although Barb Nicolosi says it does), but it looks beautiful. The children look like normal British children. Tilda Swinton plays the Snow Queen (or the Ice Queen or the White Queen. I forget her title exactly.) which is a great casting choice. Narnia just glows and sparkles. But it was Aslan who really literally leapt from the screen. After that dull British mini-series that featured a rather lifeless animatronic Aslan, I didn't have any high hopes that the makers of the new movie would get Aslan right. But from the few glimpses of him in the preview, he doesn't appear at all to be a tame lion.

And that is a very good thing. If they get Aslan right everything else should fall into place.