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Why do they always pick the ugliest most roman nosed nags around to be "beautiful" horses? The horse that played shadowfax wasn't particularly pretty, and neither is this guy. Don't they have HORSE people pick horses for movies?
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horse people would make it too hard on director's, they would expect such weird things, like fresians and andalusians.
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They seem a little old... don't they to anyone else? I always imagined them all a bit closer together and Lucy about seven?
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Well, what usually happens is that child actors are a few years older than they look. The actor's ages will not necessarily be the implied ages of the characters. But they're alot closer to how I pictured them than the actors in the BBC version, so their age is not really going to bother me.
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Ah. I actually noticed the links this time. They do look a lot younger than they say they are. They all like kind of the ages I imagined them at...
quote:Elizabeth Hawthorne: Mrs. Macready Patrick Kake: Oreius, Aslan’s head Centaur Kiran Shah: Ginarrbrik, the dwarfish sleigh driver Shane Rangi: Gen. Otman, Minotaur leader of the White Witch's forces Judy McIntosh: Pevensie Mother
(Sorry, I looked and looked but couldn't find any photos for most of these actors, except for the ones on the casting page at Narniaweb.com)
But it's because I'm a Quebecer, really. We write it that way in french too. Actually, only Americans write it backwards. Posts: 1996 | Registered: Feb 2004
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I posted a link to this over on the side... there's a new fantasy anthology edited by Al Sarrantonio called Flights that just came out; besides having a new OSC story in it it also has a fun story by Neil Gaiman called "The Problem of Susan" that's about Susan and the Narnia books... very interesting, Gaiman-esque weirdness that I liked muchly...
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I like Gaiman weirdness, but I found that story to be disgusting **SPOILER** Aslan and the Witch eat the children then do the nasty**END SPOILER** and I regret reading it.
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James McAvoy was so awesome as Leto II in the "Children of Dune" miniseries. He was brilliant, gorgeous, enchanting, mysterious, charming, perfect. I was so psyched to see him on the cast for the Narnia film!
-----as Mr. Tumnus? That seems... awkward... to me.
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Yep, Gaiman's story definitely isn't for kids (and not for some adults too)... but I do like it as a commentary on kids' books... I don't want to say more without spoiling Gaiman's story, but I liked it as a comment on/explanation of some of the annoying and sanctimonious aspects of the Narnia books
(I read the Narnia books as a kid and I loved them, though a few aspects left me unsettled -- mostly the theology of the last book. Looking at them as an adult, I can still appreciate the imagination, and a lot of the moral lessons... but there's too much, what, theological smugness? that leaves a bad taste for me.)
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