Earlier this semester, we talked a little about The
Chronicles of Narnia, and then Leeper had us raise our hands if we had ever
seen the movie(s) and then who had read the book(s). If you are reading this and don’t recall this
ever happening, it’s because it was a long time ago. I’m just (very) late to blogging about this.
One
of the things that I always do is come up on movies before I even knew there
was a book about it. The reason being, I
watch movies, I don’t read. Anyway, the first Chronicles of Narnia movie I saw
was the first one that came out, which was The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe. I didn’t find out that this wasn’t the first book until years later. (I never read the books by the way).
Side
note: I didn’t even know CS Lewis wrote the books.
Back
to why I’m writing this blog. We were
talking about the Christian connection to Narnia and one thing that was brought
up in the discussion in class was that Aslan was portrayed as God. This struck me, as when I first saw that
movie, I wasn’t a Christian. This was in
like 2006. I used to be obsessed with
that movie. I made shields and armor and
dressed up in the stuff and everything.
It used to be my favorite movie.
The reason it struck me that this comparison was made was because
looking back on it, it’s so true!
The
first thing that came to my mind was after they “crucified” Aslan in the film,
later on Aslan shows up brand new again and I just remember the scene where he’s
on top of some hill and there’s this bright golden light shining behind this
mighty Lion that has somehow come back to life.
I
find it so interesting that I missed this, and at the same time, since I wasn’t
a Christian in 2006, why would I make that connection? But at the same time, being a Christian
today, you can’t deny what a connection that is.
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