naill_renfro's Narnia parody, film 1

[mollyringwraith]

I still haven't seen The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but now I don't have to, because naill_renfro has conveniently written up this condensed parody version! Go give him some applause

Comments

[capra_maritimus]

The parody was great! Thanks for the link. :D

[sopdetly]

Excellent! Now I, too, don't have to go see it ;)

[priscellie]

I'm trying to place the line "Well, okay, but you’re not going to like it." and failing. Help a fangirl out?

[mollyringwraith]

Evidently Gaiman wrote a short story recently called "The Problem of Susan." I guess he finds it unfair that Lewis punishes Susan's character (later in the Chronicles) for becoming "interested in nothing but nylons and lipstick"--which Gaiman (like Philip Pullman) takes as being equivalent to sexuality. Thus Gaiman and Pullman think Lewis was kicking Susan out of Narnia because she became a woman. I haven't read the story, nor do I remember the later books of the Chronicles well enough to know how true that theory is, but it's been a point of contention recently among fantasy fans.

[mollyringwraith]

Oh, also I kind of figured it was a reference to Christianity. And the fact that the Chronicles are Christian allegory has really bugged some people--mostly Pullman, but possibly also Gaiman.

[pecos]

Thank you very much for the link. And here I was, the Yank, wondering why the hell Santa Claus showed up and saved the day in the big 'Christian Values' movie....