Aslan:
I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mile so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
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That one has always been my favorite of the Narnia stories.
Oh, the political problems of doing a TV or movie version of this book. On the one hand, one of the two protagonists is a girl, even a brown girl, even a brown Action Girl. All good.
On the other hand, her culture is absolute garbage, the designated Bad Guys culture, and is a clear parody of Arabian Nights Islamic despotism with an icing of Aztec-like religion. And half the US has a terrible time slamming a non-Western culture even if it features all sorts of anti-Western things like slavery and despotism and forced marriage, because we have to be "self"-critical (though it is not themselves they are criticizing but their domestic opposition). And neither side is capable of any nuance whatever, over the greater part of the intelligence bell curve.
So it will probably not get put on the screen without doing some major re-writing of the Calormenes. I just now saw--admittedly in passing--a suggestion on Reddit that they should make Narnia "more diverse." How do you do that with a culture that consists of more species than anyone has ever listed?
Favorite line: "The king's not above the law, for it's the law that makes him king."
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