Georgie Henley: England's answer to Dakota Fanning
Ken from Chicago
WITCH & THE WARDROBE is 10-year newcomer, literally making her movie debut
as "Lucy Pevensie", and tho you can't tell it from the movie trailers, she
is the star of the movie (well, one of the leads, with Tilda Swinton as "The
White Witch" and Liam Neeson as the voice of the lion "Aslan").
Not having read the book in 20-30 years, I'm a bit fuzzy if the character
was the star in the book or the series, but Georgie holds her own against
the co-stars who've had previous acting gigs. Personally I was concerned
based on the trailers that she would be the weak link in the m the movie,
that she'd have trouble keeping up with the rest of the "Pevensies" and be
merely the "cute, precocious little girl" role and instead is fully
developed character, well-performed by Henley, in ways that kinda even
outshone the older kids early on in the movie (which was filmed
chronologically by new director to capture the actors' growing comfort with
their roles and the material)--much like Dakota Fanning. The difference tho
is that Henley is making her film debut at age 10 while Fanning has had an
even dozen by the time she was 10 (last year)--and has done 5 more movies
since.
That level of poise, of maturity and articulateness in a 10-year-old is
amply displayed in an interview:
http://www.elbakin.net/plume/fantasy/news/narnia/752-Nouvelles-Interviews-Video-Pour-Narnia
Available in Quicktime, Realplayer and Windows Media respectively:
-- Ken from Chicago
Jack Bohn
>The secret ace up the sleeve of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE
>WITCH & THE WARDROBE is 10-year newcomer, literally making her movie debut
>as "Lucy Pevensie", and tho you can't tell it from the movie trailers, she
>is the star of the movie (well, one of the leads, with Tilda Swinton as "The
>White Witch" and Liam Neeson as the voice of the lion "Aslan").
Just a question about that "literally" above. I've seen the word
morph from meaning "exactly what I say," ("He was literally red
with rage," to make a weak example this early in the morning) to
"I want to emphasize here," ("I literally bawled my eyes out.")
Above, it's... what?
>Not having read the book in 20-30 years, I'm a bit fuzzy if the character
>was the star in the book or the series, but Georgie holds her own against
>the co-stars who've had previous acting gigs.
20-30 years? I didn't know you were that old. :)
From what I remember from about that long ago, the younger
children were more a part of the story than the older two. And,
what's more important, they carry on into the next two books.
If you've seen it, there's one thing I want to know.
Part of the White Witch's curse it that it is always winter but
never... [SPOILER?] One of the signs of the curse lifting is the
appearance of [SPOILER?] I guess what I'm asking is if they were
unafraid to make it seem like a children's movie (which they
certainly aren't advertising it as) at this part.
--
-Jack
Ken from Chicago
"Jack Bohn" <jack...@bright.net> wrote in message
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It's not merely her "breakout" movie debut or "wide-release" movie debut
(ala "overnight" discoveries who've been toiling in the biz for years until
they "breakthru" in a major production.
-- Grammatical Ken from Chicago (who also awaits for it to literally rain
cats and dogs, while he eats his cake and have it too because it would very
much truly a unique weather ndition)
Jack Bohn
>"Jack Bohn" <jack...@bright.net> wrote in message
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>> Ken from Chicago wrote:
>>
>>>The secret ace up the sleeve of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE
>>>WITCH & THE WARDROBE is 10-year newcomer, literally making her movie debut
>>>as "Lucy Pevensie", and tho you can't tell it from the movie trailers, she
>>>is the star of the movie
>>
>> Just a question about that "literally" above. I've seen the word
>> morph from meaning "exactly what I say," ("He was literally red
>> with rage," to make a weak example this early in the morning) to
>> "I want to emphasize here," ("I literally bawled my eyes out.")
>> Above, it's... what?
>>
>It's not merely her "breakout" movie debut or "wide-release" movie debut
>(ala "overnight" discoveries who've been toiling in the biz for years until
>they "breakthru" in a major production.
Ah, I understand, now. I could quibble with the word choice, but
close enough for a quick post.
>-- Grammatical Ken from Chicago (who also awaits for it to literally rain
>cats and dogs, while he eats his cake and have it too because it would very
>much truly a unique weather ndition)
A very unique weather condition, irregardless of your pastry
possession.
--
-Jack
Ken from Chicago
No, not "very unique". That would be literally or at least grammatically
incorrect. For it to literally rain cats and dogs, it would be very much,
"truly unique", "actually unique". Grammatically the one qualifier allowed
for unique refers to the validity of something's unique status, whether
something is or is not unique, as in "seemingly unique" or "possibly
unique".
Since something either is or is not one of a kind, then "very" is a
grammatically incorrect qualifier as something is not "very" "one of a
kind"--at least not traditional grammar.
That said, words are defined by people, and the common *modern* usage of
"very unique" simply redefines the word "unique" FROM "one of kind" TO
"distinctive" so that something is "very unique" is "very distinctive".
-- Ken from Chicago (who's given up on the "very unique" even if he doesn't
use it himself)
albsu...@yahoo.com
Russell Watson
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It was always Winter, but never Christmas. But Santa showed up and
gave the kids their presents, which were their weapns. After he rides
away the Lucy character looks at her sister and says, "I TOLD you he
was real!"
I don't know that they got specific about the first sign of spring.
They just showed the ice start thawing off the trees and the frozen
river starting to melt.
'97 FLSTF
The Thunder Child
see it. I thought they did a much better job than the kids in the
first Harry Potter movie - before they learned how to act.
Just saw Narnia today and loved it - thought I have to admit it was all
because of Tilda Swinton as the White Witch. Loved her two-sword
fighting style in the climactic battle!
CM
Narnia, Harry Potter and Oz gifts for Christmas
http://omnivoreink.com/CoolReads/FantasyStore.html
Ken from Chicago
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> Dane Cook is America's answer to ALi G.
RESPEK!
-- D Ali Ken from Chicago
Ken from Chicago
"The Thunder Child" <thethun...@omnivoreink.com> wrote in message
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The older three were a little stiff, especially the guys in the war pose
scenes. Tho they are suppose to be kids so slack is cut for that, tho in the
actual fighting sequences, much better when their rage were unleashed and
when they were injured.
But agreed Tilda stole scene after scene. Plus it was nice to see that Jadis
was a great counterpart to Gandalf--a magic-user capable of physical combat.
-- Ken from Chicago (who wonders of Raimi following Spider-Man trilogy might
have the clout to do Xena: Warrior Movie)
Russell Watson
<kwicker1...@comcast.net> wrote:
>The secret ace up the sleeve of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE
>WITCH & THE WARDROBE is 10-year newcomer, literally making her movie debut
>as "Lucy Pevensie", and tho you can't tell it from the movie trailers, she
>is the star of the movie
She is a cute little shit and a pretty good little actress, too. She
definitely had a lot to do with the movie being as enjoyable as it
was. As for the Swinton woman, unlike some people who seem to think
she made the movie I personally didn't see anything so terribly
compelling about her performance. Looked a lot like the Borg queen
from "ST:First Contact" to me, which I found a little distracting.
'97 FLSTF