A few days ago Disney released the first trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I downloaded the trailer and gave it a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ve written previously that I found The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i>… adequate at best<\/a>. For what it is, it’s a good film. It’s eye-candy. The story? It’s pretty dire. But, it was<\/i> pretty to look at, though it never quite<\/i> gripped me. (And the extended cut added nothing new or useful; it was just an excuse for more pretty footage of New Zealand<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Yet, for all of that, I am looking forward to Prince Caspian<\/i>. I have no particular fondness for the book — which I’ve read but it’s left little impact at the span of years — but I’ve liked what I’ve heard of the production team. They want<\/i> to deal with some of the problems Lewis simply glossed over in the story. They want to confront what it would be like to be a child, grow to adulthood, and then return to childhood when returning to the “real” world. It’s not fixing<\/i> the story, so much as dealing with the story in a sensible manner and giving it some depth and heft that it didn’t have previously. Which, frankly, is a good thing. What C.S. Lewis could get away with fifty years ago isn’t going to pass muster with a modern audience. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n But I’ve said nothing of the trailer!<\/p>\n Frankly, the trailer looks fabulous. And it has trebuchets!<\/p>\n That’s all I have to say, really. It’s a trailer. It has trebuchets. And it looks exciting.<\/p>\n I think the film will do well. It doesn’t need me pimping it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few days ago Disney released the first trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. I downloaded the trailer and gave it a look. I’ve written previously that I found The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe… adequate at best. For what it is, it’s a good film. It’s eye-candy. The story? It’s prettyContinue reading “On the Prince Caspian Trailer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[480,100,497],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-cs-lewis","tag-narnia","tag-prince-caspian","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}