I think it would be interesting if they gave the marshwiggles elements of creole culture. Not to the point that people look at Puddleglum and say "Hey! What's a voodoo priest doing in Narnia?" but enough to give the marshwiggles an interesting cultural flavor.

Say, how is this for marshwiggle land?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank-will/2344386320/#/

That picture looks pretty cool...another beautiful shot from Scotland. All it needs is some wigwams and we're set. Wouldn't it be more dark though?...the lighting in that pic makes Marshwiggle land look too cheery...maybe a more overcast lighting scheme would work.

Yeah, thet is how I imagined the marshwiggles living! I always saw it as fairly dark and drizly, with a few gloomy halfhearted fires and torches light and a couple of tents, but that picture looks like the perfect location!!!

[Anhun thumbs through her copy of SC]

"Seen under a morning sun, with a fresh wind blowing, and the air filled with the crying of birds, there was something fine and fresh and clean about its loneliness. The children felt their spirits rise." Now I thought Marshwiggle territory looked somewhat dreary in the BBC movie, but that's not how the book described it.

Also, we know from Prince Caspian that movie-goers have little interest in "dark Narnia." There's no way to turn SC into a light, fluffy movie, but I think they will take any given opportunity to give it moments of brightness.

Yeah...I guess it could do with a couple of light moments, but the Marshwiggles are gloomy so I guess I instantly imagined their home as gloomy too. A contrast would work and it would make the scene more cinematic but I always think of the gloomy picture in my mind. I think that it emphasises how much they want to be inside (Cair Paraval and Harfang) If outside is glum from the start...
But never mind We also learned from PC that people don't like the filmmakers changing what C.S Lewis wrote

So I had a tomato-hurling thought...so we know that the Caspian-Lilliandil romance is only barely hinted at on VDT. So how about some kind of flashback sequence where Caspian courts and falls in love with Lilliandil. Then, with a love story developed, they could have Caspian united with Lilliandil in Aslan's Country at the end of movie when Caspian is reawakened in the riverbed. If executed well, this could be really beautiful.

Actually I kind of like that they didn't go much further with the Caspian/Liliandil thing in VDT. It probably had nothing to do with artistic choice and everything with time limit and schedule, but actually it might be nice if they left out all the courting and onscreen romance and just let everyone realize it for themselves.

I'm not big on "connecting" the series. They are chronicles, and as such there are gaps that are never filled. But you don't really need to fill them because...well, that's not the focus of the story. Lewis wrote in TLB, "but that doesn't come into this story."

The Silver Chair, though it contains the background of Caspian/Liliandil (can't get away from that name...it has stuck well Mr. Gresham!), is NOT about their romance. What the Narnia series needs is a little more subtlety. I think that if the filmmakers left any C/L romance exposition out audiences would be wondering where it came from, but not in a negative "hello random!" kind of way.

Besides, since the filmmakers obviously have such a short running time to work with , they're gonna need every inch of film for what they've gotta do to get SC right. And less is more, sometimes, you know?

So I had a tomato-hurling thought...so we know that the Caspian-Lilliandil romance is only barely hinted at on VDT. So how about some kind of flashback sequence where Caspian courts and falls in love with Lilliandil. Then, with a love story developed, they could have Caspian united with Lilliandil in Aslan's Country at the end of movie when Caspian is reawakened in the riverbed. If executed well, this could be really beautiful.

According to an interview with Ben Barnes that was on NarniaWeb at the end of last year, or the beginning of this, there was some talk of flashbacks that he overheard. There would need to be at least one flashback to explain how Rilian, Caspian's son, came to be missing, what happened to Lilliandil, and Caspian's and Rilian's grief over her death. It may or may not contain their courtship. Even the public acclamation and acceptance of Lilliandil as their Queen and possibly the birth of Rilian might be sufficient.

I like the idea of Lilliandil being reunited with Caspian in Aslan's country, and I agree it could be beautiful. But I've got a feeling that SC will be ending in a headmaster's office where there stands a certain wardrobe....

^^ THE wardrobe? That's at Digory's house... How would the headmaster get it?

~Riella

^^ THE wardrobe? That's at Digory's house... How would the headmaster get it?~Riella

Depends which distinguished professor is appointed to be the new headmaster/headmistress at Experiment House, doesn't it?

^^ You mean Digory is going to be the headmaster? Is this a rumor you heard somewhere, something the filmmakers have said, or a theory you have?

~Riella

That's utterly mad and absolutely brilliant ! I can't decide which feeling is over ruling the other just now but that would seem to be an extrodinary coincidence and if the movie lasted a little longer could be hilarious as he has never met Eustace and Jill, it would be a "You know him?" "How do you know him?" moment.

But I've got a feeling that SC will be ending in a headmaster's office where there stands a certain wardrobe....

Where did you come up with that? That would be cool and funny....

I find that funny, but I wouldn't suggest using that. Maybe he'd become the new (and better) headmaster, but if he starts out the headmaster, wouldn't that make him a bad headmaster?