Reflections on Narnia, Part 1

I've begun reading the Chronicles of Narnia (I'd previously read a couple of the books in grade school and hardly remember them) and so I'll be blogging about them in coming months.

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Here's an article from USAToday about the upcoming movie.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a beloved children's book about four British schoolchildren who pass through a wardrobe into a magic land where a witch has made it always winter and never Christmas. There they meet Aslan, the lion of the title, who offers his own life to the witch to atone for the treachery of one of the siblings.

On Dec. 9, a $150 million movie version will open nationwide, reigniting an old debate: Is the world created by British author C.S. Lewis a rip-roaring piece of fantasy — or a fairy tale suffused with Christian imagery?

The answer is both, and that raises a related question: Can Disney succeed by selling the movie on two tracks — as a sort of cross between The Lord of the Rings and The Passion of the Christ? If so, TheChronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe figures to be a holiday blockbuster.

…continued here.

[Thanks to Jarod Anderson for pointing out the article.]