In the books, Aslan is clear that females should not go into battle. But you and Lucy are in the battles in the movie. Can you talk about that a bit?<\/b><\/p>\n
Anna: That was a slight alteration we made because we felt that Susan and Lucy should [go into battle]. To be honest, the part that Susan and Lucy play in the battle, although it\u2019s very important, is right at the end of the movie in terms of the \u201cbattles\u201d where women fight. It\u2019s not Susan and Lucy fighting all the way through the battle. But we thought that was important to include them in the battle. So, yeah, that is a difference from the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ah yes, the female \u201cempowerment\u201d angle. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, in my books, but it does mark a change in sensibility from Lewis\u2019s writing; and if the producers do go ahead with adaptations of the other stories, it will be interesting to see what they do with that bit in The Last Battle<\/i> where we find out that Susan isn\u2019t going to Heaven, so to speak \u2014 or at least not yet \u2014 because she\u2019s too interested in \u201cnylons, lipstick and invitations\u201d. The producers could conceivably agree with Lewis that these are silly, stereotypical, pre-feminist obsessions \u2014 or they might insist that even these<\/i> tokens of femininity should not pose any sort of barrier to a happy ending in the aferlife with Aslan.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The film won\u2019t come out for another four months, but CT Movies editor Mark Moring has already posted his interview with Anna Popplewell, the young actress who plays Susan Pevensie in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Here\u2019s one interesting quote: In the books, Aslan is clear that females should not go into battle. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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