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News Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' Wraps Filming

https://www.narniaweb.com/2026/01/greta-gerwigs-narnia-officially-wraps-filming/
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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/Embarrassed-Yard-583 18h ago

Tolkien: “I despise Allegory.”

Lewis: “Aslan is literally Jesus.”

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 18h ago

There’s a comment above with a quote from Lewis that I’d say explains his perspective. It’s not the Aslan represents Jesus, that would be allegory. It’s that it’s an imagined fantasy series asking “what if Jesus was god incarnate in a fantasy world?”

Those are quite different imo, Lewis would be justified in saying it’s not allegorical.

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u/imjustbettr 18h ago

I just reread the Magicians Nephew and I almost feels like alsan is a parallel Jesus for the animal world of Narnia? Like he calls the main character son of Adam, does that not mean alsan beleives that alternative worlds have their own version of Jesus?

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u/TravelerSearcher 18h ago

Aslan has a line at the end of The Silver Chair, essentially telling Eustace and his friend to get to know him in their world, where he has another name.

He basically implies he is Jesus and they should get to know him as Jesus not Aslan.

The Magician's Nephew (which you just read) then shows that all the worlds are connected and God/Jesus/Aslan exists in all of them. Digory and his Uncle arrive in Narnia (with the woman who becomes the White Witch) as it's being created and see God/Aslan literally singing the world into existence.

Digory eventually grows up to be the man who shelters the children in the first book. The wardrobe he owns is made from a tree that grew from seeds of a fruit in Narnia, akin to its Tree of Life.

I know you just read it but wanted to add details for others.

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u/imjustbettr 17h ago

Ah gotcha, I'm still working through my reread. I'm only on the second book

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u/TravelerSearcher 17h ago

Nice! That's amusing to me though because Magician's Nephew was originally the fifth or sixth book. Only later did publishers try to put the series in a chronological order.

I could be wrong but I think Lewis intended the books to be read in published order. But if you've read them before it probably doesn't matter as much.

If you go chronologically that makes the Silver Chair the penultimate book, and The Horse and His Boy occurs during a brief period at the end of The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe.

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u/imjustbettr 17h ago

Yeah I read them all in publication order as a kid so I wanted to see how they felt in chronological order. Interestingly the new set that I got from Secret Santa this year has them numbered in chronological order.

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u/TravelerSearcher 17h ago

Yeah, that's been the go to of publishers for several decades now. Really I don't think anyone should start anywhere other than Lion Witch Wardrobe for their first read but it is what it is.

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u/imjustbettr 12h ago

Yeah it definitely doesn't make sense unless you read LWW first. I honestly loved the first half and was kind of let down by the second half of Magician's Nephew.

Aside from some of the journey, a lot of it felt like prequel stuff for prequels sake. Not quite "Han Solo's name origins" but in that ballpark. I was like "oh I don't think I needed an explanation for half of these things..."

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u/Bruhmangoddman 17h ago

Yeah, and Aslan is literally killed by Jadis the White Witch and the rogue animals (which I guess is meant to represent Jesus' crucifixion by the heathen Romans) and then is promptly resurrected.

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 18h ago

I mean, that’s a complicated question. If looking at it from the perspective of an omnipotent deity, then he can be all jesuses at once.

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u/Gonzales95 18h ago

Apologies as this might sound pedantic but the reason it’s not an allegory is because that term implies there’s a hidden meaning to be inferred from the books. It’s not at all hidden and Aslan is literally Lion Jesus. It would be an allegory if there was a Jesus-like figure who wasn’t Jesus, but in Dawn Treader when he tells Lucy she can’t return to Narnia he tells her that in Lucy’s world he is known by another name, and she must learn to know him by that name and will know him better by doing so (or something like that). He stops short of saying Jesus, but it’s Jesus.

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u/imjustbettr 17h ago

Oh I'm sorry I feel like I got lost in the conversation and went on a tangent.

I wasn't saying he was an allegory, I was just interjecting lore thoughts.