{"id":258,"date":"2005-10-15T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T00:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2005-10-15T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T00:59:07","slug":"the-narnia-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2005\/10\/15\/the-narnia-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Narnia Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity Today&#8217;s email movie newsletter includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/lyris\/movies\/archives\/10-14-2005.html\">optimistic comments<\/a> regarding the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narnia.com\">Narnia movie<\/a>.  Says CT&#8217;s movie reviewer, Mark Moring, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the clincher for me was seeing an exclusive 10-minute montage, prepared specifically for these [sneak peek] events. I started frantically taking notes about everything I was seeing\u2014the opening scenes with England at war, the children entering the wardrobe, meeting Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, Lucy having tea with Mr. Tumnus, and, among many other things, Aslan, <em>speaking to the children.<\/em> But a few minutes into the clip, I stopped taking notes and just sat there, mouth wide open, tears flowing. <em>They got it right.<\/em> I could feel it in my bones. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I have to admit, I&#8217;ve felt some ambivalence about the prospect of a Disney-financed Narnia.  Will we see little stuffed Aslans in the happy meals at McDonald&#8217;s?  A &#8220;Dawn Treader&#8221; ride at Disneyworld?  But Moring&#8217;s comments are very encouraging.  If he&#8217;s right, these films could bring to life some of the most beautiful allegories of Christ ever written. I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>An aside &#8212; if you like movies, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/movies\/\">Christianity Today Movies.com site<\/a>, which contains excellent reviews from a Christian perspective, without the silly swear-word-counters and such found on some Christian movie sites.  And, if anyone knows how to get a job like Mark Moring&#8217;s reviewing movies for a publication like CT, <em>please<\/em> let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity Today&#8217;s email movie newsletter includes optimistic comments regarding the upcoming Narnia movie. Says CT&#8217;s movie reviewer, Mark Moring, the clincher for me was seeing an exclusive 10-minute montage, prepared specifically for these [sneak peek] events. I started frantically taking notes about everything I was seeing\u2014the opening scenes with England at war, the children entering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-film"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-4a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}