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Yeah...she looks far too nice to be Prunaprismia. Prunes and prisms, right? Hrmph. She's going to need some serious uglifying makeup.
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Lewis never described Prunaprismia's looks. In fact, she may be one of the biggest blank slates of the original book. We know that she hated Caspian and was married to Miraz...that's about it.
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I was mainly going off the name. I guess I always associated the term with the sour, nasty governess type. However, upon looking it up, I see that it's more of an attitude that a look. I therefore retract. Posts: 4077 | Registered: Jun 2003
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I"m excited that the cast list is coming out, it means the movie's moving along. I for one am excited to see it, they did a good job with Narnia so I'm expecting that Caspian will be too.
I think Reepicheep's my favorite too.
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Oddly enough, Warwick played Reepicheep in two of the shoestring budget, meandering-scripted BBC Narnia productions.
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Interestingly enough, it's the guy they cast as Trumpkin who looks more like how I imagined Nikabrik... though I imagine that will no longer be the case once they're in makeup and in costume and on the screen.
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I always imagined Trumpkin as a jolly old fat dwarf. Kinda like a small Santa Clause with a long nose.
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Certain Narnia fans are having *ahem* a cow over the notion of a "good" Narnian minotaur over on the NarniaWeb message boards.
Personally, I like the notion. Maybe it's my LDS upbringing, but I have big problems with the idea of an innately evil species, even in a fantasy setting.
Heck, there were evil Talking Beasts, Giants, Dwarfs, and Tree Spirits in LWW...yet that didn't mean every Narnian creature of that sort was evil.
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Mmmm, Peter Dinklage is *amazing*. He'll make a fabulous Trumpkin, even if he doesn't look quite like I imagine him.
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I think I can accept the decision to have a good minotaur, so long as it isn't the common thing in the films. I like the idea of emphasising that it doesn't matter who you are, you are not born evil. Having a traditionally evil creature as good will help to emphasise that. However, I think it's important to retain certain classical traditions in these stories, especially considering Lewis's character. I think that, if done for the right reason, he would be willing to accept such a change. I just hope that it does not change the story too much beyond what is more or less necessary.
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Lewis stated in an interview once that creatures in Narnia have the ability to choose between good and evil. He didn't say "except for minotaurs", so I think this doesn't challenge any of his views. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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There you go, then. I haven't read much of him outside of his fiction (although I've read Narnia near obsessively), but it seemed fitting.
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I don't have a problem with the concept of a good minotaur. I don't have a problem with adding characters either, so long as they don't suck and/or make the film suck.
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quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: I don't know why you think that the aunt needs to be ugly.
I agree. I think it would add to the character, being as she's evil, if she had powers of persuasion from her looks.
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For some reason I've always imagined Reepicheep having an outrageous British or French accent.
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I don't think it poses a huge continuity problem if Reepicheep ends up with an odd accent. Albeit, it would still be odd. Personally, I hope he gets a Brit accent, especially as his ideals fit that of the ideal Brit of a former age. I mean, that scene in VDT where we are told that he is the sort who will lose a chess game because he'll sacrifice a knight simply because that's what a knight with any honour would do! He's more of a Gawain than a Lancelot.
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