Wow. Paul Bond in today’s Hollywood Reporter:
Liam Neeson, who voices Aslan, the resurrected lion in the upcoming film. The actor told the Telegraph in London that his character doesn’t necessarily represent Christ. That might be news to Lewis, though, who wrote the opposite before he died in 1963.
Gaia, is that you…?“Aslan symbolizes a Christlike figure, but he also symbolizes for me Mohammed, Buddha and all the great spiritual leaders and prophets over the centuries,” Neeson said.
The comment got some passionate bloggers working overtime to rebut Neeson’s analysis by using Lewis’ own words.
“The whole Narnian story is about Christ,” Lewis once wrote. He said he “pictured him becoming a lion” because it’s the king of beasts and because Christ is called “The Lion of Judah” in the Bible.
Aslan, wrote Lewis, “is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question: ‘What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia?'”
Money quote a-coming:
But Dawn Treader producer Mark Johnson agrees with the, shall we say, more inclusive analysis from [Liam] Neeson, telling The Hollywood Reporter that “resurrection exists in so many different religions in one form or another, so it’s hardly exclusively Christian.”“We don’t want to favor one group over another … whether these books are Christian, I don’t know,” Johnson added.
And so there you go…
And to think we almost got duped into spending money on what we thought was a Christian film this weekend.
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