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Post by bookaddict on Oct 14, 2006 2:08:23 GMT -5
It seems that no matter what bookstore I go to, they have a vast amount of Narnia books on display. The movie came out awhile ago?
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Post by Dominique on Oct 14, 2006 2:09:54 GMT -5
Yeah it was awhile ago now. I've only seen the movie, I was never given the books as a kid
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 14, 2006 2:12:00 GMT -5
I remember in grade three, the teacher read to is "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe"....i remember hating it, and not remembering all the characters.
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Post by Bina on Oct 14, 2006 7:11:35 GMT -5
I´ve recently seen the movie but I haven´t read the books. But they´re on my tbr list.
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Post by bethany88 on Oct 14, 2006 9:58:11 GMT -5
I loved the Narnia series when i was a kid. They were classics to me at least. I think that bookstore still have huge displays of them because the publishers are trying to bring them back again now that the move has built some excitment around them even though it was quite a while ago that the move came out. I geuss they'll start taking them done once they stop sellign as much maybe....
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Oct 14, 2006 11:38:55 GMT -5
i've seen the movie a couple times and i've only read the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe. but my sister has the whole big book with all the chronicles in it and she likes it. whenever i watch it i just think about christianity, since that is what it's supposed to represent in a way.
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Post by Bina on Oct 14, 2006 12:07:59 GMT -5
Really? I missed out on that enlightenment . I just thought it was cute except for the battles which practically gave me a heart attack. I guess it was about this whole saviour thing? I really don´t get along too well with what the church teaches. I´m not even religious but of course that´s a wholly different matter.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Oct 14, 2006 12:33:53 GMT -5
Yeah, like Aslan is supposed to be Jesus...if you know the story of Jesus and you watch LW&W you can see how it's supposed to be similar. The first time I read that book I had checked it out of my church's library. But that was 10 years ago and I'm not very religious anymore. Agnostic perhaps? I go with the Unitarian Universalist because they believe a lot more freely with things that should only be political (homosexuality, etc.) Anyways, stopping the talking of religion...
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Post by bethany88 on Oct 14, 2006 13:00:36 GMT -5
YEa there are a bunch of christian Parallels in the LWW basically it is supossed to represent Genisis the first book of the bible. It explains more in the other books of the Narnia Series. C.S.Lewis was super religious so this is probably why the books came out that way
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Oct 14, 2006 13:02:40 GMT -5
Did you think it was weird that Disney was the maker of the movie? For some reason that just suprised me...
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Post by bethany88 on Oct 14, 2006 13:08:36 GMT -5
Yea it was definitely weird ... disney always went agains Religious things!!.. Maybe the company assumed it would just bring in a lot of money ( WHich it did!!!)
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Oct 14, 2006 13:12:55 GMT -5
yeah...and i think not as many people realized it was supposed to be religious so it didn't seem wrong disney made it...
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Post by holliday on Oct 16, 2006 14:30:04 GMT -5
I've read all the books, I like them. I also have the movie.
From what I've read about it, Aslan is not supposed to be Jesus, no one is supposed to be anyone from the Bible, but it is a spiritual/Biblically based story, and some actions and storylines represent certain aspects of people and storylines in the Bible. For example Aslan may be seen as Christ when he is killed and comes back to life and his innocent death is what it took to set a "sinner" free, but in other parts of the story he is not seen as Christ. The stories definately relate and portray the Bible, but it is not a parallel.
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Post by czarval on Oct 17, 2006 12:28:13 GMT -5
I read some of the books, but I didn't like them very much. I also watched the show on TV every now and again. I'm not really into heavy religious symbolism.
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Post by Kristie on Oct 17, 2006 16:26:27 GMT -5
i was never in it for the religios aspect either. i'm not a religious person because i've grown away from believing many of the doctrines and things, but i like the whole fantasy of it anyways
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