Katie Couric this morning mentioned Narnia and said something alluding to the ‘pop’ culture phenomenon. I don’t normally listen to her but she happend to be on in the background. My first thought is that she doesn’t really get the power of such stories like “Lord of the Rings” or “The Chronicles of Narnia.” Both carry powerful themes which are similar. It just happens that some of the symbolism is more vivid in Narnia.
Tolkien’s friendship with Lewis encouraged the writing of two classic book series. If all goes well both of these series will be found on the nearest shelves as classic DVD’s. This past weekend the first movie about Narnia took in 67 million dollars. It beat out Harry Potter this weekend though Potter had a better first weekend with 102 million dollars rake in.
Though Narnia has parallels to Lord of the Rings they are certainly different. Yet it was Lord of the Rings which paved the way for this movie. My family is looking forward to seeing it and hope that it does well enough that the entire series will be produced. Why? Because we have read both series and enjoyed them. So of course there was excitement when the movies came out.
