"High King Edmund" (and other notes of interest)
Posted: Dec 25, 2010 2:31 pm
(If this is already posted elsewhere, I apologize – I checked and didn’t see anything, but perhaps I missed it)
I was bothered that Edmund was declared by Caspian (in a now-British accent as opposed to his previous Spanish one) to be the High King of Narnia, because even though Peter wasn’t in Narnia, that doesn’t mean that his powers as High King were lost, or transferred to Edmund (remember “always a king or queen of Narnia”?)
Then, in spite of being given that title, Caspian was declared to have more power than Edmund, which would not make sense if he were really High King – and frankly, with his status as a King of Old, I think Edmund should have had more power than Caspian anyway, even if he weren’t High King.
To make matters worse, Edmund went off, in the cave where they found the gold pool, about how he hated having less power than Caspian and Peter. I know that this place was one of temptation and such, and there was a similar conversation in the book, but adding greed for gold on top of it, and exaggerating the argument to more than I remember it being in the book, without any form of making up or apology, just was over the top for me.
Overall, I felt that the movie was a bit dramatized, and “Hollywood-ized”, to be more appealing to the audience, but it would have been just fine without it. (Need I remind everyone of what was done to Peter in PC?) There were other things that were different from the book than the movie, ie., Edmund and Caspian both thinking Lilliandil beautiful, Caspian making no real move on Lilliandil that could be seen (after Suspian).
There were also some good changes. I’m sure most of these have already been discussed, and if they have, again, I apologize. So, what do you think were the GOOD changes that they made from the book to the movie, and what were the BAD changes?
I was bothered that Edmund was declared by Caspian (in a now-British accent as opposed to his previous Spanish one) to be the High King of Narnia, because even though Peter wasn’t in Narnia, that doesn’t mean that his powers as High King were lost, or transferred to Edmund (remember “always a king or queen of Narnia”?)
Then, in spite of being given that title, Caspian was declared to have more power than Edmund, which would not make sense if he were really High King – and frankly, with his status as a King of Old, I think Edmund should have had more power than Caspian anyway, even if he weren’t High King.
To make matters worse, Edmund went off, in the cave where they found the gold pool, about how he hated having less power than Caspian and Peter. I know that this place was one of temptation and such, and there was a similar conversation in the book, but adding greed for gold on top of it, and exaggerating the argument to more than I remember it being in the book, without any form of making up or apology, just was over the top for me.
Overall, I felt that the movie was a bit dramatized, and “Hollywood-ized”, to be more appealing to the audience, but it would have been just fine without it. (Need I remind everyone of what was done to Peter in PC?) There were other things that were different from the book than the movie, ie., Edmund and Caspian both thinking Lilliandil beautiful, Caspian making no real move on Lilliandil that could be seen (after Suspian).
There were also some good changes. I’m sure most of these have already been discussed, and if they have, again, I apologize. So, what do you think were the GOOD changes that they made from the book to the movie, and what were the BAD changes?