Cold and flu symptoms have me awake with coughing. So, I decided to go online for awhile. My son was planning on seeing the new Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at a 12:30 A.M. showing, after getting off of work. But when he and his co-workers arrived at the theater at about 12:15, all seats were sold out. That's incredible!
Of course, if we lived in China, with its contempt for protecting intellectual property rights, they could have gone down to the corner video store and picked up a pirated version of the film for a buck!
The buzz about the Potter film seems to be that it's very good. Some are even suggesting that it's the best of the lot.
Who could have imagined before the Potter phenomenon that a movie based on what is essentially a children's story would sell out theaters after midnight, when the crowds are sure to be predominantly adults, even on a Friday night? Amazing!
Of course, like The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis' extraordinary seven-volume series, the first of which, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, is scheduled to hit cinemas on December 9, the Potter books are well-written stories with appeal to more than just children. They're works of literature. The truer their cinematic adaptations can manage to be to the books, as the Potter books have shown, the better, both artistically and commercially.
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Technically if you follow the chronological order of the books, Prince Caspian is the first book in Narnia series.
Raven:
Thank you for stopping by.
Of course, LWW was the first of the seven books written.
But 'The Magician's Nephew' would be the first book chronologically, giving an account of the creation of Narnia.
Then comes "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," which tells about the next time that "the sons of Adam or daughters of Eve" went to Narnia.
"The Horse and His Boy" tells the tale of Shasta, the boy, and Bree, the great Narnian warhorse, and their escape to Narnia, in the time when Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy reigned at Cair Paravel in Narnia.
"Prince Caspian," telling the story of the successful rebellion of "Old Narnia" against Miraz, the usurper to the throne, comes next. In Narnian time, Caspian's era, Lewis writes, came hundreds, maybe thousands of years after the reign of the Pevensie children.
"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," telling of the fantastic journey taken by King Caspian with Edmund and Lucy and their cousin, Eustace, is next.
"The Silver Chair," in which Eustace and his friend, Jill, liberate Prince Rilian to become king himself, follows.
"The Last Battle" tells of the end of Narnia.
I think that this is the chronological order of the Narnia stories.
Thanks and God bless!
Mark
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