AJAiken wrote:I agree with wagga, Rose - I think it's very important that there be two rings. Uncle Andrew tricking Polly not only means she can't get back but shows his true character. There would have to be a lot of fiddling to get the same impact of Polly being abandoned in the Wood between the Worlds. Also, I think that the filmmakers might like the fact there are two rings - usually there are only one of these items (at least, I can't think of any other film/book with two) and this might make it more interesting.
Ooh, that's a great point about Uncle Andrew's trick illustrating his true character. (Although I suppose the exploding guinea pigs and all the ones that never returned also kind of do that.
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And then let's not forget that Uncle Andrew's whole scheme was to have Polly spirited away by one of the yellow rings and thereby forcing Digory to go after her with a yellow ring
and a green ring. Since no sane person would ever voluntarily agree to being sent to who-knows-where-or-what (including his own nasty, cowardly self), Uncle Andrew had to trick one person and then entrap another to go rescue them. So yes, if they altered the ring situation, that could have significant ramifications for that scene.
And it's true that the green and yellow rings are a very interesting/unique element (and also sets them apart from the One Ring!). They're pretty iconic for the whole story to me as well. I know I wouldn't like for them to change them, although I do wonder about the times in the story when the children know something about how the rings work and the adults don't, and how they'll illustrate that on screen. It just seems like it's the sort of thing that could easily cause confusion for some viewers as the story goes on and they've got to keep track of how the rings function. We'll see, though; I'll have to give it some more thought the next time I re-read the book.
waggawerewolf27 wrote: But why chartreuse?
Perish the thought.
Green sounds ok - emeralds or, better still, jade anyone? Though a malachite effect might be more showy. And yellow is fine. Yellow sapphire, yellow topaz, even yellow diamond, or plain gold leaf, even copper pyrites, if they really want to be fancily in budget. Chartreuse sounds like either an extremely expensive alcoholic drink or a rather sickly shade for a flash new overpriced automobile that wants to be different.
Ha, when I was young I used to "drive" a chartreuse Lambourghini Diablo when I would race against my brother on a racing computer game.
I don't know what that says about my taste in cars, but I was like eight, so....
I mainly chose the word chartreuse because I was looking for a word that meant yellow-green, though.
I also like your idea on animating the wall paintings! Although one problem is that some of the events she relates to the children happened right at the very end of Charn's existence. Unless Jadis stayed awake for a while to dabble in mosaics and illustrate her grand accomplishments (which I would not entirely put past her and her pride
), there wouldn't have been anyone around to relate the apocalyptic war through art. I can imagine Jadis, however, using her magic to create such visions, or even animate the people in the Hall of Images to act out what happened in a kind of play. (Now
that sounds creepy.
) She was, after all, a powerful magician in her own right (at least in the world of Charn) and would probably be happy to have an audience to impress after so many years. Also, if she is shown as possessing loads of magical power while she and the kids are still in Charn, it will be more of a shock/game-changer when it's apparent that she no longer has those abilities once in London.
waggawerewolf27 wrote:It is easy to imagine what I'd like for Magician's Nephew because there hasn't been any real attempts to portray this movie. I wonder what everyone else thinks?
It's funny, because even though they've never made MN into a film, the concept of it
as a film feels somewhat familiar to me. (As opposed to HHB or LB, which have never been made into movies either.) I guess it's because they've made so many films about a couple of children going on a magical adventure with a cast otherwise populated by adults. Aside from the much more unusual Creation scene, it just feels like something that Hollywood could easily get behind: the Victorian setting, the villainous relative taking advantage of the kids, the mischief caused by the Witch in London, Digory's desire to heal his mother, et cetera. It also feels a little old school, though, like a story that could have been made into a movie in the 70s or 80s.