It's my favourite story, and I always wanted to make the film. Well, the film's been made, and released, and on Friday night we went to watch it. And it was good, very good indeed. I was so afraid from the trailers that it would be "Return of the King plus Braveheart etc" - the epic battle scene is de rigeur in any movie these days, not only fantasy movies (I hear the latest Pride and Prejudice even has thousands of CG warriors facing off at an epic battlefield dancefloor). Despite Peter's ham-tingling (is that the right word?) cry of "For Narnia!", it was actually a very good battle. I was worried about the White Witch. Tilda Swinton plays her ice cold, with pale blond matted dreadlocks. I always envisaged the Queen of Narnia as absolutely stark raving bonkers, screaming orders at all and sundry, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, gloating maliciously at the death of Aslan. That was how I asked the actress who played her, Priscille, in the stage version I put on when I was in France. Still, Swinton's version actually worked quite well. And Lucy was great! So was Edmund - the kid who played him, Skandar Keynes, is just how I imagine Edmund. All in all the film was great, and gets my thumbs up.
lion, witch, wardrobe
12.12.05 20:57
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