"The central theme of the book and the movie is temptation, how you meet temptation and beat it. You have to fight it and defeat it. You can never find how strong temptation is, unless you beat it. You only find out the level of your own weakness." -Douglas Gresham
Walden Media (Webb's employer) released the 3rd Chronicles of Narnia movie last weekend, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It's a great show but didn't get the opening box office success that it deserved.
The movie is in 3D and most reviews agree that it's better than the 2nd movie, Prince Caspian. Still, for some reason it didn't generate high tickets sales (yet, anyway).
The executive producer of the movie, Douglas Gresham, is the stepson of C.S. Lewis. I read his quote above in a movie review where Gresham comments on his mission to keep the movie true to the legacy of C.S. Lewis.
When C.S. Lewis wrote the Narnia books in the early 1950's he worried that our western societies were abandoning important values like personal responsibility, commitment, courage, chivalry, and courtesy. Lewis felt that ignoring these values could lead to our demise. And, history has shown that societies struggle when standards fall.
I've always loved the Narnia books and Walden Media has done a nice job with all 3 of the movies. Any movie that taxes me to think about the themes explored gets high marks in my book (the K2 adnauseam book, that is!).
"To defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness inside yourself." -the Magician in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
