A new poll puts the White Witch of Narnia as the top fictional villain. C.S.Lewis’ work continues to ascend to the heights of the timeless classics.
Did you know C.S.Lewis got quite worried at the end of his life because he was convinced his books would go out of print and he had no other significant income with which to support his stepsons?
That’s humility.
I’ve been contending that, with our ‘dictatorship of relativism’, our breaching of ethical bounds, and the incestuous fusing of science, media and politics, palpable and memorable fictional villains, both in literature and film, have been dwindling rapidly.We’re scared to have really villains, especially in entertainment for youngins, because it points to radical good.Or if a film for instance tries to have a real bad villain, say Hannibal Lector, they go off the rails, and the film becomes some kind of strange worship of evil.
Now if only we could get someone to back the third film after Disney backed out.
And if they make the third film Reepicheep had better have an English accent– one of the stupidest choices in moviemaking was making the mouse American.I love Edmund’s black hair and eyes in contrast to the White Witch– like saying he has warmth, and a soul, while she doesn’t.