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@dafsharirad Ahhh… no. She clearly hates the source material and everything it represents.

Any other interpretation is just an attempt at gaslighting

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:::WARNING: Incoming rant:::

Casting Streep as the voice of Aslan is an astonishingly arrogant. Gerwig’s comments about, “Meryl Streep is one of the greatest actresses alive,” isn’t the point at all! No one questions that. Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors too. That doesn’t mean you cast him as Lucy Pevensie.

Why? Because Aslan isn’t some generic figure with an interchangeable identity. He’s male. Lewis wrote him as male. He’s repeatedly called “he.” He’s a king, not a queen. He’s the Son of the Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea. And, Lewis explicitly conceived of Aslan as what Christ might be like if the Son of God entered a world like Narnia. C. S. Lewis is telling you what he was doing IN THE BOOKS!

Giving Aslan a female voice isn’t daring or profound or some brilliant act of creative genius. It’s an act of creative vandalism pretending to be artistic sophistication. It’s more ideological slop produced by the machine that’s given us plenty already.

Gerwig was handed one of the most beloved works of Christian fiction in 20th century, and decided that even the central figure needed her brilliant editorial correction. Her arrogance has turned a potentially great movie into her ideological vanity project, and it will cost the studio.

This garbage is what makes people distrust modern adaptations. She didn’t enter the author’s world with humility, she’s dragging the author’s world into hers in an attempt to update (code for correct) the author and story. Aslan isn’t accidentally male or thoughtlessly connect him with Christ, the incarnate SON of God, the Lion of Judah. Those choices were intentional and belong to the very architecture of Narnia. Geta doesn’t care. She knows better.

Look, if you want to make a movie about a magical lioness voiced by Meryl Streep, knock yourself out. But at some point you should have enough integrity to admit that your reinterpretation is more important to you than faithfully adapting it.

Narnia doesn’t need Greta Gerwig to make it interesting. It just needed Gerwig to discover why it already is.

:::End of rant:::

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This rat… 😤