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09:02 AM - Narnia With the possible exception of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, no movies have ever quite managed to faithfully capture the magic of the novels of my youth. For a long time, I'd pretty much written off the possibility. Every previous screen rendition of the Chronicles lived down to my low expectations, and while the new movie has been given fairly good press, I was nevertheless surprised and truly awed by how well The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe translated to the big screen. When Lucy (the true heroine of the story, for the uniniated) stepped through a wardrobe into another world, we were drawn right in with her. I've got to commend the producers for their bang-on casting of this crux role, which must have been a fairly tricky job considering they were constrained to remarkably young British actresses with charming smiles. There is much else that the got right here, most particularly stretching out just the right bits of the rather slender original novel to create the impression of an epic adventure. Not an easy feat, that. Of course some critics will doubtlessly say this movie leans too heavily on the Lord of the Rings for inspiration, and perhaps rightly so, but epic is as epic does, after all - certain techniques are best for conveying certain impressions. More to come... (
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