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Alrighty Narnia lovers. I have a recommendation fer you.Behold lion witch and the wardrobe 1979 [link] . In my humble opinion the best version of Narnia in a visual medium (Granted I haven't seen all that many play versions). There is this weirdness about there being two audio versions (one for America and on for Britain....for some reason they didn't think British accents would fly in America... no idea why). I think the British version is a bit more accurate and slightly better acted. but both versions have the same Aslan which is good because THAT VOICE IS SPECTACULAR. And the Sound track is the best I've heard for conveying the correct atmosphere. Not to mention it is GORGEOUS.
Now! this was a low budget affair, so the animation ain't Disney quality, make no mistake. But the timing and character for each frame I think makes up for choppiness. You may be turned off if you tend to prefer them easy "barbie" aesthetics that seem to be everything now adays. The whole thing seem very story like and they try to make it as accurate as they could for time allotted.
Some things they were forced to cut, like Santa Claus... but I can really forgive it because they maintained the original feeling of the book. And that is most important when representing a book in a visual medium. Maintaining it's purpose. The BBC version did a fairly good job of this too with their tv series....Disney dropped the ball entirely.
The joke I make here is that they actually managed to get Lucy's hair color right. I can sympathize with folk who hate movie versions of books when they can't get so SIMPLE a thing like hair color correct.... feels dreadfully lazy and unfeeling. If you are going to change something.... You gotta commit AND have a very good purpose... other than "I prefer brunets." Especially now adays when changing hair color is a snap.
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Actually, it's that everyone looks too dissimilar to be siblings Lucy. I like this hairstyle. Can I pull one? I'll be soft...
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Lucy: leave my pigtails alone.
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They look so pretty...
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Lucy: I agree pigtails are pretty
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This is awesome and some of the only fanart I've seen of this movie! Β My favorite version by far. Β This is amazing!
P.S. I love the way you drew her and would love to see the other Pevensies too!
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I was introduced to the animated adaptation first before the BBC version, the book, and the Disney version. There's aspects from all three adaptations of the book that I like. For the animated series, just the feel and the music in each scene, plus I think the animated one had the best version of the White Witch's death, I love how the Witch looks up, sees Aslan pouncing down from the cliff, screams in sheer horror, and then *BOOM!!* Aslan lands right on top of her, crushing her, and causing her to evaoprate into black smoke and then leaving a black stain, and i also love how her minions see what has happened and just completely panic seeing their queen dead, Aslan alive, and reinforcements of good narnians charging at them, causing them to flee like cowards! The animated White Witch actually kinda creeped me out a little, what with her sort of resembling the wicked queen from Snow White, and all the shouting and screaming she does, as well as some of her more dramatic and terrifying expressions. One thing I don't like about the animated adaptation was that while Aslan's army was much more consistant with what kind of creatures were on his side, the White Witch's army was kind of a cluster lump of randomly drawn monsters, yeah sure I mean I could sorta tell which monster kinda looked like a hag and which looked like an ogre or some sort of yeti type thing, but still.
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The BBC adaptation had it's cool parts too. I liked alot of the animated features like the animated ghosts and demons on the White Witch's side, and I loved the group of animated animals on Aslan's side like the pegasus, the cockatrice, the griffin, the eagle, the pelican, and the winged cougar/panther/whatever kind of feline it was. lol One thing I found intruiging was that there seemed to be at least three types of nymphs, at least in the LWW episodes. I know in the books there were two types of nymphs: dryads/wood-nymphs and naiads/water-nymphs, but there seem to be three types: One common type being a very human looking woman in a greek/roman style outfit and a headband of flowers(flower nymphs??o_0), a secondary common type being male in form, but skin suits made to look like tree bark and leaves and a headband of leaves(makes me think of the wood-gods mentioned in Prince Caspian and The Magician's Nephew, which to is basically the male version of a dryad), and a final type seen later on when Aslan frees the Witch's stone prisoners, being similar to the first type being have more closer in common with the second type. This type had yellowish/greenish skin, their hair was up and apparently turned into this sort of plastic looking headpiece of four or five big leaves. Yeah I dunno.......Anyway, I do like those nymphs over the CGI dryads of the first and second films. The White Witch kinda resembled more like the illustrations by Pauline Baynes this time around, though she wasn't as intimidating as the animated one in my opinion. The monsters in the White Witch's army could have been better, it wasn't as much of a cluster of randomly drawn monsters like the animated one, but there were very few costumed actors in her army compared to Aslan's army which consisted mostly of groups of fauns, dwarfs, satyrs, female flower nymphs and male tree nymphs, whereas the White Witch's army was mostly animated ghosts and demons while it had like two or three hags,Β threeΒ or maybe four or five evil dwarfs, one ogre, one minotaur, two guys in skeleton masks(ghouls maybe??), one guy that looked like an evil stayr, two little actors dressed as armoured beings with reptilian heads, a chick in dark samurai armor and a guy dresses like some barbarian dude! O_o; One thing that bummed me out majorly was that no centaurs were depicted in the BBC LWW episodes, but thankfullyΒ a centaur appears in the PC and SC episodes.
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The Disney one was cool, but I will admit it could have been better. The centaurs and merpeople were AWESOME!!^_^ The fauns and satyrs were great, but if the film makers had used the fauns and satyrs from the BBC series as a reference, I would like them eve n more, because then the fauns would have long tails and the satyrs wouldn't look so much like goat-furries! LOL The White Witch was completely different this time, she was more cooler, more subtle, and more calm than her previous incarnations, though I do wish her skin was more pale and her hair not blonde, but oh well. lol Her army was better this time around. You could actually tell which creature was which and they were in DROVES! Although they did take away alot of the more interesting creatures and replaced them with other things like cyclopses, harpies that look more like vampires, ankleslicers, and minoboars. They made the hags too bird-like and inhuman which was kind of a bummer, plus they don't have the hags and nymphs participate in the battle which was a drag....The nymphs in the recent films were notΒ very good in my opinion, and apparently pegasi and naiads were intended for the film but where cut out! T_T
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Yes, I know I rambled mostly on the creatures, but fantasy creatures are kinda my forte! XD
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P.S. I'm sorry that this comment is so freaking long. lol
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^____^ THE best version it, agreed. :3 Had this on VHS with English accents (I SHUDDER when I hear the American butchering...) and it was my fav film when growing up... :3 Nice job!
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I remember this! I watched it as a kid. I lost the recording I had of it. Imagine my confusion when I read the book for the first time. I was like 'there was a Santa Claus scene?"
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LOL me too.
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I loved it from before folk knew what it was.
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i jumped on the band wagon when it started to blow up
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That's one thing that came of that Disney Devilry, folk know what I'm talking about now. Shan't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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yeah it's nice when people don't think your crazy
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Anyways, I really do like this picture. Really captures the animation style in your link, and I just really dig the sassy-ness in her pose and facial expression. x3 lol (you seem to have a talent for characters like this, in my opinion. xD lol)
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Yea, I know I'll get flamed for this, but I really haven't delved in the novels or movies versions for Narina....not even the Disney movies.....*puts up flame shield*
And its NOT because I'm don't like fantasy-adventure stuff, its just, whenever I see Narina related stuff in particular, I just internally feel.....meh....about it, making it hard for me to feel compelled to give the series an in-depth look. And I kinda feel kinda bad about feeling this way, but hey, I'm being honest. 
Really, the only movie I really have see was a live-action British adaptation of the book (don't remember what year its from, but I know it was older version). : /
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That's probably the BBC tv series. which weren't bad, low budget aside.
That's fine sugar, I feel the same way 'bout Harry Potter.
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Oh god....I know it must suck when you're in the room with Die-hard Potter Fangirls/boys. -___- lol
I mean, i have met those who can carry their fandom with dignity....but sadly I've met many, MANYYYY others who can't. -___- LOL
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Most folk have been cool about it, really.
Dignified fans aren't much for interesting conversation.
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I'll admit, it's sometimes cool seeing the energy and devotion of die-hard fans. Also helps to chit-chat with them, when you want to learn about how faithful a film/TV adaptation is its source material....
....but I just guess from my personal experience, ive come accross a lot of jerk-ish fandoms behavior. But I won't be arrogant enough to say that my experience is true for everyone. Lol
Maybe one day, I'll give Narina a true chance, but till then, I'm WAYYYY to busy tackling the monster that is the Doctor Who series.......allllll the damn way from the beginning......I better slip on my comfortable wslking shoes. Lol xD
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I wouldn't have given the good doctor a look if it hadn't have been for the vehement ploddings of a friend that is a fan. Tend to habitually ignore anything that is popular for fear of the tastes of the lowest common denominator. A foolish habit that is broken only by my wiser friends.
It helps if you wish to give any book a chance but can't seem to be bothered, to get an audio book and listen to it while endeavoring in other pursuits.
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Actually, I've dabbled a bit here an there with audio books. Some people find them sacrilegious, but I really don't agree.
Its a great alternative for people who don't have time to physically read or for those situations where you can't practically carry around big, bulky hard-copies. And given that fact that most people have Mp3 players these days, it makes the medium of audio a really ideal medium for literature, for the time we live in today. 
....that said, the only fear I have with audio books is just hoping that the person narrating has an interesting (or at least, listenable) VA performance. x-x lol
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sacrilegious? The very idea. Oral tradition predates the written word. And many folks are audio learners anyway. Fie on that nonsense.
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Exactly!!!! People seem to forget (or just aren't even aware) that sophisticated printing technology and mass distribution of literature happened wayyyy later in human history.
And prior to that, making tons of copies for the general public was just impractical. So really, the only option most people had to pass on stories and info to the next generation, were oral renditions. = /
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