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...Disney. It was another round in a two-pronged publicity strategy. Even as Disney and Walden push to make “Wardrobe” the next mega-event in worldly cinematic fantasy, they have begun mobilizing the legions who swear by the Narnia books’ allegorical Christian themes.Last year, Motive Marketing worked through churches to make Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” a smash hit. In an effort to reach out to Narnia’s most devout fans, Disney and Walden hired Motive to employ some...
...walk one evening with Tolkien and another friend, Tolkien convinced Lewis that his lifelong yearning for a feeling which he called Joy was, in fact, a longing for God. The friends debated until sunrise, when the middle-aged Lewis became a Christian.Lewis’ conversion from atheism to Christianity influenced the rest of his works and resulted in a series of Christian apologetics. The popular success of books like “The Screwtape Letters” and Lewis’ talents in oratory and debate contributed to his status as spokesman for many Christians, both then...
...monologue to God on “How Do You Do?” Opening with a Gregorian chant of the “Our Father” and church bells, the song has boundless potential, but abruptly changes into a spiritual pop opus with its haunting combination of Christian prayer, Arabic words, and Hebrew chanting. While the topic’s ambition is commendable, the song lacks the power of Madonna’s similarly-themed “Like a Prayer.” Shakira, who pens her own lyrics, excels with English lines such...
Paine Hall. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $6 student/senior, $10 general. Imagine what it would have been like if, as a child, Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and The Memorial Church’s Pusey Minister, had read to you before bed in his booming, mesmerizing oratory style. This possibility can be experienced on Saturday, Dec. 10, as Gomes narrates the Bach Society Orchestra’s (BachSoc) performance of Prokofiev’s classic composition “Peter and the Wolf.” In addition, BachSoc...
...Liam Neeson), must fulfill an ancient prophecy: Defeat the Witch and free Narnia. Disney tries so hard to add peril to an otherwise tame children’s story—Lewis’s strengths were in his gentle bedtime story-like tone, wondrous creatures and espousal of Christian doctrine, not his action narrative. From the expository scenes of World War II London air raids to the “Alexander Nevsky”-esque ice flow chase to the overly long climatic battle—a poor imitation of “The Two Towers?...