2008-07-14 
 

caspian redux

I didn't find the box with the book. (see previous entry)

I did spend the past weekend house/catsitting for our friends in Cambridge. They had a copy of Caspian there that I immediately reread.* There were some other differences between the book and the movie, but Peter's personality change is really the most significant.

In the book Peter is not the petulant guy from the movie. Instead it is Susan who is in need of an attitude adjustment...a fact I had totally forgotten. Given the sexism inherent at the time C.S. Lewis was writing, and the fact that I always found her character's arc the most unsatisfying, I now find myself applauding the decision to shift the burden of unpleasantness to Peter. That said, I wish they'd done more to finish off his story at the end. I'm hoping for some deleted scenes on the DVD and maybe even some commentary on the differences between book and movie. All in all, the sequel seems to have sucked me in just as much as the first one did!

*As a bonus, J had the same boxed set that I received myself back in the 70s. The same set that's now hiding somewhere in storage. Somehow that made the reread even more enjoyable.

Labels: dose of mikey, random review

* posted by me at 10:01 PM

Comments:

I was wondering if you were going to notice the box set.
Glad you got the chance to compare.

# posted by  Names : 12:31 PM, July 17, 2008

 

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