Calormen on screen

[hectorberlioz]

I finished listening to The Horse and His Boy on my ipod. There was NOTHING objectionable race wise, nor otherwise. He was even fair to the Calormene religion, when Aslan says to Rabadash "You have called on Tash, so go to the Temple in Calormene at the Autumn Feast etc..."

[Huorn]

It had been a while since I have read the story, but I do remember at least one Calormen dying his beard a bright red. I am not aware of any arabic correlation there.

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Entwife_Oak

It had been a while since I have read the story, but I do remember at least one Calormen dying his beard a bright red. I am not aware of any arabic correlation there.

Right. I think what CSL essentially wanted was contrast, and in fact, the calormenes* seem to be more pagan than muslim.


*Mithrandir, excellent point about the spanish "calor" thing!

[rael]

i whole heartedly agree with you on the intent that somebody that quit his job to write novels wife would would not let her husband near a old job such as a factory even though i am twelve i understand this completely because my father used to work at a boat repair shop and even if he wanted to my mother would never let him work on boats again he is better off as a painter i think. but i must say in a friendly manner that i wholeheartedly disagree with you on the matter of calormen being turkish muslim i believe that they are either based on vietnamise people or maby even indians but still i hope that because of this you will not ceas to put your voice in this site

[rael]

I beleive that in the course of a few years we shall see all of the remaining six narnia books in cinnema but for the time being you might cosider if you are a television producer to not only put number one in prodction but also put number three a horse and his boy into production assuming of course that first you shall put the magicians nephew into production first and after those two you shall put prince caspian and then you shall put the voyage of the dawn treader and still after the silver chair and still you might think of putting the last battle in to production and of course i understand that all this would happen in the course of ten years or more i wich i shall go from preteen to manhood

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by rael

I beleive that in the course of a few years we shall see all of the remaining six narnia books in cinnema but for the time being you might cosider if you are a television producer to not only put number one in prodction but also put number three a horse and his boy into production assuming of course that first you shall put the magicians nephew into production first and after those two you shall put prince caspian and then you shall put the voyage of the dawn treader and still after the silver chair and still you might think of putting the last battle in to production and of course i understand that all this would happen in the course of ten years or more i wich i shall go from preteen to manhood

Point taken, Rael; and Welcome to the 'Moot.

I think The Magician's Nephew should be made last; because after all, it's the only[?] one where characters from the other books aren't scheduled to appear at inconvenient ages for the producers of the movies...