Something New to the Table
Posted: Oct 04, 2018 5:59 am
I feel that when you're adapting a book that's been adapted before, you need something you can do in your medium that previous adaptations weren't able to do. I felt the Walden Media movies were able to justify themselves well. They had special effects that the BBC adaptations didn't have and were able to bring Narnia to life in a visual way, something that wouldn't have been possible before. I also thought they had better child actors than the Radio Theatre dramas had. (At least for Lucy and Peter. Edmund and Susan were about equal.)
I know some people are going to hate me for saying this but I kind of liked that they used different dialogue from the books. It's not that I think the dialogue from the movies were better than that of the books. But after so many adaptations which tried to use dialogue similar to Lewis's, different dialogue made for an interesting change of pace. It gave me a chance to see how the stories worked on their own, so to speak, without the writing to help them.
Now that the Walden Media adaptations have been made, what can the new series bring to the table? What can the medium of a Netflix series accomplish that the BBC miniseries, the Walden Media movies, and the radio dramas from the BBC and Focus on the Family haven't?
I know some people are going to hate me for saying this but I kind of liked that they used different dialogue from the books. It's not that I think the dialogue from the movies were better than that of the books. But after so many adaptations which tried to use dialogue similar to Lewis's, different dialogue made for an interesting change of pace. It gave me a chance to see how the stories worked on their own, so to speak, without the writing to help them.
Now that the Walden Media adaptations have been made, what can the new series bring to the table? What can the medium of a Netflix series accomplish that the BBC miniseries, the Walden Media movies, and the radio dramas from the BBC and Focus on the Family haven't?