Molly Ransone Post #8

(Post #8) Student’s Choosing: Lewis’s Narnia vs. Disney’s Narnia

In class we talked about how Lewis did not want Disney to make The Chronicles of Narnia into movies. Well Lewis was right in wanting this. I enjoyed the first movie because I thought overall it was similar to the book. My biggest pet peeve is when books are completely changed when they are converted into movies (cough cough Twilight). I thought that Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader were terrible once they were converted into films. I honestly do not understand how The Voyage of the Dawn Treader can even be named after the book because it is so different. In the movie they leave out half the islands they go to and there is this crazy green gas following them around. One thing I also did not understand was why they skipped so many of the books and only chose to make three of them. I do not understand why they did not film the movies consecutively like they did for Harry Potter and for Lord of the Rings. Maybe they did not have the money to do all of them but I wish they would have respected Lewis’s wishes and not made them into movies if they could not afford to make all of them. Books give you imagination and I felt like the world of Narnia, in the movies, fell short of the world I created in my head. Lewis’s books are amazing so I do not understand why the scriptwriters deviated so far from the original source. I think Disney should have stuck with the motto, “If you can’t do it right, then don’t do it at all!”