Prince Caspian?

Not Quite Prince Caspian

  • Prince Caspian reaches out to the White Witch?
  • Susan has to break the enchantment?
  • Waitaminit… Susan’s not back at the bridge with Aslan?
  • Um… eagles? Are the kids coming to rescue Gandalf from the top of Orthanc? (Oh, sorry—wrong Inkling.)

Katie and I just finished reading Prince Caspian a few weeks ago, so the book’s still fresh in my mind. I hope they don’t screw around with it too much… but it irks me that, while “book Caspian” was definitely repulsed by the idea of working with Jadis:

“So that is you plan, Nikabrik! Black sorcery and the calling up of an accursed ghost. And I see who your companions are—a Hag and a Wer-Wolf!”

in the film it seems Caspian X’s nursemaid and Doctor Cornelius gave him a more tolerant education on Old Narnia. Why do filmmakers insist on taking successful books and messing with them, to the point of changing main characters’ motivations?

I guess I should just be glad Aslan wasn’t changed into a 2007 Camaro. :?

Myth

In the sermon my Pastor (Drew Derreth) gave yesterday, he spoke of how fairy tales point to the truth of the gospel, in that there’s something within us that years for the “dashing prince” — the knight in shining armor — to “slay the dragons” and take the downtrodden princess as his bride, to live happily ever after.

I know C.S. Lewis spoke of this in Mere Christianity, but I’m looking for a more elaborate treatise on the subject.

Could anyone offer suggested books and/or articles covering the idea of myth and fantasy being this sort of subconscious yearning for the Gospel?