Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Narnia-Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Warning, Spoiler)

For those of you who really know, you know that I am a huge Narnia fan. I own all seven books and have watched the first two movies many times over. Recently the third movie, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, came out.
We went to see the movie as soon as we could. All the family went and my cousin , Jacob, went too. We saw it in 3-D and really enjoyed it. It wasn't all we thought it would be but if you hadn't read the book, it was a really good movie. The acting was exceptional, as I had come to expect. It kinda gave me a headache watching it in 3-D but it was still good.
Some of my favorite characters were in this movie, such as Rhinc, the dufflepuds and a boy name Eustace Scrubb (and he almost deserved it). There was also old character that returned. Lucy and Edmund Pevensie, Reepicheep , Caspian and ,of course, Aslan.
The whole movie, and book, are based on the concept of temptation. In the book it takes a less obvious form. It comes in the form of greed and appears over and over, at the golden pool, the dragon's cave and the black island. In the movie it takes the form of a mysterious green form. This form creeps over the ocean and demeans sacrifices of human slaves from the lone islands. The crew of the Dawn Treader vow to set the people free.At the same time still trying to complete their first mission, which was to find the seven lords of Narnia.
I am trying not to spoil the movie to much, so I'm going to skip some parts. Anyways...Later on they find that their two quest are intertwined. They set out for the black island. The black island stands for dreams, not day-dreams, but dreams, nightmares. In the movie, the green mist comes from the black island. You can't let it know your deepest fears, for that's what it will become. Edmund makes the mistake of think of a sea serpent and the mist takes that form.
After a big battle they beat the serpent and distroy the island and the mist. They find the hunam who were sacrifaced, safe and unharmed. The Dawn Treader sails on to the utter east, which is romoured to hold Aslan's country. They reach the edge of the world (Narnia is a flat world, not round like ours) There they met Aslan. He tells the travelers (Caspian, Reepicheep,) that they may enter His country but once their in there they may not return. Caspain almost goes but last mintue he stops, saying that his father would not be proud if he choose to enter now. Reepicheep has no such thoughts and he hoops into a little boat andsails right up and into Aslan's coutry.
Alsan then turns to Eustace, Edmund and Lucy. He says its time for them to return to their world. Lucy starts to cry, for she understands that she and Edmund wouldn't be return to Narnia again. Aslan says that Eustace might return, which leads up t the next movie, The Silver Chair.

2 comments:

  1. I didn't like how dragon'Eustace changed back to boy-Eustace, I wished they had it happen like it did in the book, being "bathed & immersed" with the help of Aslan

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