Popes, Advent Calendars, Pillars of Salt
You can't excommunicate him! He's Pope John Paul II!
Via Alex Ross, you got yer Bach-themed Advent calendar, and via the Corner, it's yer Narnia-themed hip hop from Saturday Night Live. I forgot to review the Narnia movie, probably because I was so relieved simply to have survived the experience. I would give it an A-; it failed to do the impossible of living up to the book, but it avoided any eye-rolling embellishments, which is more than you can say for the LOTR movies. In fact, the most significant addition (a whole new talking fox character) was actually sort of almost in line with Lewis' creations.
Congratulations are due to Renewable Music on its first bloggiversary, and thanks to Daniel Wolf for squandering part of his celebratory post on some very kind words for the Fredösphere. And yes, if he and I were ever so reckless as to enter the same room, we would turn into pillars of salt, the mountains would melt like wax, the moon would turn to blood, and a flock of geese would fly by in the shape of a swastika.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
1 Comments:
I saw LWW, too. What I liked about it was that it was faithful to the book, but not slavishly so.
F'r'example, in the opening of the book, the short note about getting away from the bombing would have been as well understood by anyone born after 1940 as if we were to start a story now with "they were sent away from New Orleans to get away from Katrina". The movie rightly filled in the details for the rest of us.
Towards the end of the book there's a great scene with the giant Rumblebuffin, which makes perfect sense to someone born in England around the 1940s, but which would seem quite odd to a contemporary American.
It'll be interesting to see how it fares in the awards contests.
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