Has anyone watched "Shadowlands"
A film on CS Lewis' life...
Has anyone watched "Shadowlands"
I watched it tonight, I'm still wondering about how they stripped the faith from his life...
It's really cool, but they took all the faith from CS Lewis' life, and took only what seemed applicable in todays secular society... has anyone seen it? I think it was out a few years ago, and a lot of people went to see it in theators.
It's really cool, but they took all the faith from CS Lewis' life, and took only what seemed applicable in todays secular society... has anyone seen it? I think it was out a few years ago, and a lot of people went to see it in theators.
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I saw it about a year ago and found it very interesting! Since I was not familair with most of the details of C.S. Lewis's life, I couldn't vouch for it's accuracy or the lack thereof, but I really enjoyed watching it and getting a broader perspective of Lewis - beyond CoN. The story was rather moving as well!
I think I vaugly remember hearing about this but I'm certain I never saw it...
It's ironic really because just the other day I was thinking about how it cool it would be if they did a movie about his life.
How much of it surrounded his writing Narnia? They didn't talk about his Christian books at all? How do they think he became famous?
It's ironic really because just the other day I was thinking about how it cool it would be if they did a movie about his life.
How much of it surrounded his writing Narnia? They didn't talk about his Christian books at all? How do they think he became famous?
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I loved the representation of CS Lewis. He is my favorite author because 1) He was a Christian 2) He wrote VERY inspiring and thoughtprovoking pieces and 3) Experience showed him that no matter what happened, God was still with him.
The movie didn't do justice to his faith, though. It was very sad how at the end, CS sat down with Douglas, and they cried. But it seemed as though they stripped his faith from him. They took the pithy statements about grief, because you really can't deal with life without dealing with grief. But I think the movie would be a lot better if they actually mentioned that CS stayed a real believer despite the pain and death.
My dad had been talking to a friend, and they started talking about Shadowlands. The friend said "I liked that movie. It was about death."
The movie didn't do justice to his faith, though. It was very sad how at the end, CS sat down with Douglas, and they cried. But it seemed as though they stripped his faith from him. They took the pithy statements about grief, because you really can't deal with life without dealing with grief. But I think the movie would be a lot better if they actually mentioned that CS stayed a real believer despite the pain and death.
My dad had been talking to a friend, and they started talking about Shadowlands. The friend said "I liked that movie. It was about death."
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I've never seen the movie, but our fall drama this year was Shadowlands, so I know it inside and out. And I agree, it didn't really show C.S. lewis to have much faith but what you have tor ealize is that the whole play was made up around a few simple facts, Joy Gresham was divorced and C.S. Lewis married her, and he did adopt Douglas. The writer(s) may have taken other parts from thigns he said, but most of it was just educated guesses.
In C.S. Lewis' books, including the notes of the places at which he had spoken, you were able to grasp the kind of trust he had in God. Yet, as he said, "Experience is the greatest teacher", and even he hadn't experienced grief beyond the fact that his mother died when he was 9. In his notes, and in everything he wrote, he always spoke of pain as God's megaphone. Yet, it must have been so hard, because this woman he had come to love was being taken from him.Barely Is wrote:I've never seen the movie, but our fall drama this year was Shadowlands, so I know it inside and out. And I agree, it didn't really show C.S. lewis to have much faith but what you have tor ealize is that the whole play was made up around a few simple facts, Joy Gresham was divorced and C.S. Lewis married her, and he did adopt Douglas. The writer(s) may have taken other parts from thigns he said, but most of it was just educated guesses.
Yet, despite all that, and contrary to how the movie portrayed him, he held fast to his faith in God. They didn't do Douglas Gresham justice, either. The statement he makes that he 'doesn't believe in heaven', and Lewis' pithy answer 'that's alright' doesn't do justice to the fact that CS Lewis had a relationship with God that passed our own knowledge. It was a personal, intimate relationship that not even death could break. The movie didn't show that.
they may be copper,
annoying little coins! but,
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annoying little coins! but,
they might be giants.