![]() Peter and Caspian are not the noble characters impacted by their experience and worthy of leading the Narnians. The children and animals say "Shut up" while the dwarfs pipe up with "Ya gotta be kidding." It is clear that this script was not from the book and was from someone else's work not Lewis's. Long gone is the intelligent flow of language and in its place is a modern interpretation of how people should talk to fit in with todays youth. He was worthy of what he receives at the end of the movie and was a great addition not included in the book. That character showed a man who was on the wrong side but still had honor. I also liked how we got to know Miraz general Glozelle. ![]() Miraz was great! He was evil and developed in ways he wasn't in the book and I thought it was fantastic. The film felt more like a story someone else wrote and simply pasted names and small scenes from Lewis's book to make it fit the mythos. True, movies are never better then the book so you have to go in expecting changes, however this film is so far from the book that if the characters names were changed one would never know it was a Narnia based story. I tried very hard to separate this film from the book but came up with the conclusion that one can not do that in cases like this. Unfortunately he missed the mark sorely with Prince Caspian. Adamson did this brilliantly in the first Narnia movie creating a rich and deep world faithful to the book while still bringing in those who never did read it. They must balance the creation of a film that anyone can like while still remaining faithful to the subject matter for the fans of the books. ![]() In some ways I think film makers who create films based off of beloved books have a hard and thankless job. ![]()
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