[ SECRET POST #2598 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2598 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 031 secrets from Secret Submission Post #371.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Wait, they're doing another movie?

[feotakahari]

Problematic? Do tell. (I've been looking for a good excuse to bag on C.S. Lewis--I find him kind of sanctimonious.)

Re: Wait, they're doing another movie?

[(Anonymous)]

I would wager a guess it has to do with the portrayal of the Calormenes, who are basically stand-ins for all Middle Easterners. The Calormenes do not come off well in the Narnia books.

CS Lewis didn't run around telling anyone they were going to hell, nor did he try to cram his beliefs down anyone's throat. He had his faults (most of which play out in the Narnia books) but he was a man of faith, nothing wrong with that.

Re: Wait, they're doing another movie?

[nyxelestia]

The long story short is that it's set in Calormen, a culture that is effectively a rip-off of Arabic society. Said society is depicted in a very stereotypical manner (i.e. barbaric, crude, etc), and it rather obviously deemed as a 'lower' civilization (the lack of talking animals, most notably) from Narnia, the very obvious Christian/Western European cultural rip-off.

Re: Wait, they're doing another movie?

[(Anonymous)]

Terrible Orientalism.

Re: Wait, they're doing another movie?

[kathkin]

Iirc, in addition to the above comments, there's the way Shasta is depicted as inherently morally superior to the Calormenes (despite having been raised by a Calormene parent) on account of being from Europe-analogue-country.