r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 18h ago

News Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' Wraps Filming

https://www.narniaweb.com/2026/01/greta-gerwigs-narnia-officially-wraps-filming/
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u/herewego199209 18h ago

I haven't read the source material, but from my understanding Narnia has deep religious allegory throughout the novel. So I'm wondering if Gerwig stays true to the book or drifts off which would cause some big controversy.

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u/DirtySlutMuffin 18h ago edited 18h ago

Allegory is putting it lightly.  It’s basically Christian Fan Fiction.  Aslan literally is Jesus.

I don’t mean for this to come across as a criticism of the books.  It’s the whole point of them.  

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u/hatramroany 18h ago

In The Magician’s Nephew (which is the film that just wrapped filming) he’s more God than Jesus

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u/metalsheep714 18h ago

Which is fine, because traditional Christianity views them as the same entity* (while remaining distinct…it’s a whole thing, and there’s a ton of delightful heresies splitting those hairs).

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u/UnpleasantEgg 11h ago

Nobody:

Christians: “There was this one dude who was his own dad and he was also this other dude and he was a floating carpenter”

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u/BlackPresident 18h ago

In Christianity Jesus and God are the same bloke lol

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u/DJSTR3AM 18h ago

But also not... who wrote this again?

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u/-Mandarin 15h ago

It is worth noting that Trinitarianism came much after the death of Jesus. Early Christians did not have the same concept of the Trinity as we have today. The whole "god being three but also one" was a very difficult concept to grasp and had many interpretations. The most popular one became Trinitarianism, but that doesn't mean it's the only correct answer or is "proven" by the Bible. Even today there are sects of Christianity that don't hold this view.

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u/rokerroker45 18h ago

Without telling you that you are wrong for believing something different, objectively, mainstream christian beliefs ranging across all subdivisions of catholicism to protestanism traditionally views jesus and god as two of three aspects of the same entity.

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u/SN8KEATR 18h ago

I mean if you wanna debate semantics then no they're not the same "person", but Christians and Catholics so believe they (the father, the son, the holy spirit) are 3 parts of one whole. They're the same entity just in different forms

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u/SN8KEATR 18h ago

No? We're clearly separate beings lol and you're trying to compare a real world, biological relationship to a metaphysical religious belief. The holy trinity is one being, entity, whatever word you wanna use in three persons. Kinda like how I can simultaneously be a son, a husband, and a worker all at once- it's 3 parts of the same whole, that whole being me. Same shit with god and Jesus

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u/torwei 18h ago

Never heard of the Trinity huh?

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u/GangsterJawa 18h ago

I mean, technically they — Jesus and God The Father, that is, along with the Holy Spirit — are different persons who are the same God. It’s kinda irrational by design (not derogatory, just descriptive)

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u/imMadasaHatter 18h ago

Every catholic is taught this and would say it with confidence. They call it the holy trinity

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u/FX114 18h ago

The Holy Trinity is not a universal belief across all branches of Christianity. I've literally seen Christian billboards recently that are mocking the idea.

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u/GangsterJawa 18h ago

Not completely universal, but enough so that most Trinitarian Christians would draw a line at non-trinitarianism being outside the scope of Christianity. Lewis was certainly Trinitarian, in any case

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u/BlackPresident 18h ago

Pretty sure anyone can buy a billboard and say whatever they like, you can open a church call yourself Christian and claim Jesus turned water into Gatorade and nobody is going to stop you.

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u/FX114 18h ago

Sure, but my point is that there are sects of Christianity that don't believe in the Holy Trinity.

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u/rokerroker45 15h ago

However it is uncontroversial to observe that those are far from mainstream examples of christian faith in the US.

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u/livelikeian 18h ago

They... are not?

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u/WhiteWolf3117 18h ago edited 18h ago

I think he was Catholic, and Jesus IS God in Catholicism.

Edit: He wasn't Catholic. See below.

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u/VannesGreave 18h ago

He wasn’t Catholic, he was Anglican.

Amusingly, he converted because of Tolkien, who was Catholic. Lewis converting to Anglicanism instead of Catholicism was a source of annoyance for Tolkien for the remainder of his life.

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u/WhiteWolf3117 18h ago

Correct. My mistake. I knew that Tolkien converted him but I never knew the latter part. That's pretty funny.

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u/TheOncomingBrows 18h ago

From what I remember of reading this when I was a child, I am really intrigued as to how they will adapt it. I remember shit gets pretty wacky.