New trailer for VODT! (Link goes to Ribbons of Light, a blog I follow.) Actually, it's an international trailer with subtitles in a foreign language (Polish, I think, but I'm not sure...). Anyway, this trailer scares me a bit. I had read that VODT was going to be closer to the book than PC was - and that bringing the White Witch back was going to be the only liberty the filmmakers would take. But this... this...! Aaaaah!
On the other hand, one of the problems I have with the book is that the story rambles all over the place without a set story arc. Instead of having a beginning, a few escalating problems that culminate in a big climax scene, and an ending, the book pretty much follows a nice gentle upslope of events that ends in a nice ending. There is no ultimate problem that has to be conquered or vanquished; just a goal that must be reached. The goal is reaching Aslan's Country, by which act the last lords (forgive me; I can't remember how many are asleep) will be woken up (another crucifixion analogy, maybe?). But no one tries to stop them from reaching that goal. And therein lies the problem.
So I can see why the filmmakers would want to change the story. (But they had better not have a rivalry over Ramandu's daughter between Edmund and Caspian!) Luckily, Eustace seems more or less correct, and Lucy is as Lucy should be. It should be very interesting to watch.
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