You know what, I want The Horse and His Boy next.
Posted: Apr 03, 2013 11:43 pm
I just re-read it again and I don't know, as much as I also love The Silver Chair, there is part of me that is just absolutely mad about The Horse and His Boy. Now that I've read it again, there's so much that I love about it and I'm dying to see it on screen. I really love the "far east" fantasy setting of Calormen, I love Aravis as a warrior-like heroine, I love the dynamic between her and Shasta, and so many of the scenes are just awesome. When they ride over the ridge and see Tashbaan for the first time. Their moonlit race through the sea. The battle at Anvard, imagine if they did another great battle sequence like the one from LWW? It was also really fun seeing Lucy, Edmund, and Susan in their "golden age" times. It made it feel real, like that was something that really happened, they really did live years and years there and had even more adventures that we never really got to hear about in-depth in LWW.
Plus--it has horses! Who doesn't love horses? And it's a group of friends traveling together, that's a well-loved motif. It also has quite a few opportunities for humour. Lasaraleen and Corin spring to mind instantly. And I know it wouldn't be good to put too much romance in, since it wasn't really explored too much in the book, but Shasta and Aravis do get married, and they do grow fond of one another at the end of their journey, so they could put some romance in without completely deviating from the story the way they did in PC. I really want to see that relationship develop. It's so cute, the way they're bratty to one another and mature and grow close. I would be happier to see them kind of fall for one another at the end rather than just be like "Then later they got married" purely for the sake of "sticking to the book".
Sigh. Can they make this happen? :C I've been imagining what it would be like as a film since I read it as a kid...
Plus--it has horses! Who doesn't love horses? And it's a group of friends traveling together, that's a well-loved motif. It also has quite a few opportunities for humour. Lasaraleen and Corin spring to mind instantly. And I know it wouldn't be good to put too much romance in, since it wasn't really explored too much in the book, but Shasta and Aravis do get married, and they do grow fond of one another at the end of their journey, so they could put some romance in without completely deviating from the story the way they did in PC. I really want to see that relationship develop. It's so cute, the way they're bratty to one another and mature and grow close. I would be happier to see them kind of fall for one another at the end rather than just be like "Then later they got married" purely for the sake of "sticking to the book".
Sigh. Can they make this happen? :C I've been imagining what it would be like as a film since I read it as a kid...