CS Lewis feared film would ruin Narnia

The headline above, which is the one the Guardian used, seems to imply he would not have approved of Disney's latest offering. But a closer look at what he said with regard to his reasons, seems to me to indicate it is more of a moot point as to whether Lewis would have disapproved.

Lewis also said he was "absolutely opposed - adamant isn't in it! - to a TV version" of any of the books. "Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare. At least, with photography,"

It is at least arguable that cgi has changed all that. Lewis was okay with a reasonable cartoon, so a cartoon version would have been okay. I suspect that he would have been alright with a cgi version as it has the potential to take away the element of buffoonery or nightmare.
The BBC a few years ago produced a series of Narnia stories where they used anamatronix. Much more the kind of thing that Lewis feared. Actually it wasn't too bad though Aslan was a bit clunkier than I'd have liked.
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