InsaneJournal

You can picture movie!verse Peter and Caspian having angry!sex or rival!sex but there’s no romantic storyline there. The only potential there is for one night stands and they hardly have *time* for that. But Caspian/Edmund provides us with an opportunity for one of those great stories where all the plot points can also be read as moments along a romantic timeline. In such a way that you realize if the author had been inclined to do so he could have made them gay and it would slide easily into the plot, and only knowing he probably wouldn’t prevents you from suspecting it was on purpose. Peter and Caspian is kinda hot but Caspian/Edmund is a romance, a coming of age love story that involves clothes sharing, bondage (sadly though, not with each other), power struggles, reconciling with a relative who doesn't like your lifestyle or your friends, and ultimately being dumped for some chick who lives on a magic island because it's time for both of you to move on to your real lives.

ETA: Also, they are a Narnia slash pairing with major characters that is human/human and *not* incest. So if you don't like incest, that's a good pairing choice.



They had once proposed a movie version of Narnia that takes place in modern LA, and uses an earthquake instead of a war. Um. That sounds like a neat exercise in Alternate Universes and would be interesting as an original “Narniaesque” story but as a Narnia adaptation that was supposed to be taken as serious canon, uh…NO. NO NO NO. Especially since I think this idea was proposed in the 80s and I can just picture the UGHNESS of that. Eustace and Jill would’ve been interesting in that universe though. By that, I mean, they would have been much happier in contemporary California (I see him as a total computer geek and her as the classic hippie).

I’ve never liked the “let’s make them Americans instead” thing moviemakers keep doing with children’s movies. There is only one movie that ever worked for, “The Indian in the Cupboard”, because there was nothing in that story that required it to be set in England and it even made a bit more sense from a certain perspective (there’s also a neat bit of casting, that they took a character whose race is not specified and did not make them white by default). Of course, that was when the books were still relatively contemporary. Now they are creeping towards becoming period pieces and filmmakers could have *a lot* more fun with that, and might see more of a need to keep it set in 1980s London. Consciously filming a period piece is very different from making a movie in its own era or making it only a few years later before people start thinking of its era as "the past". You can analyse a period better when you're not in it anymore.



I've decided to mak September "Finish Your Fics Month". I will finish the three fics I've been promising to do, and then the minute I'm done that it's back to real work.