Sunday, January 04, 2009

Narnia Movies & Prince Caspian Quiz 1

I just found out a couple of days ago that Walt Disney Co. has pulled its support of making the movie adaptation of the next book in the Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. More details, although they are scant, can be found at IMDB. I'm disappointed to see Disney pulling the plug on what hopefully was going to be one of the most movie-friendly books in the series, one that could generate quite a bit of income. Of course, one of the possibilities is that Disney execs saw that the script was as unfaithful to the book as Prince Caspian's and backed out because they knew that they wouldn't make enough money with another poor adaptation. On the other hand, no one knows exactly what happened. All we know is that Walden Media is shopping the Dawn Treader around. Hopefully, they find someone to help with production while also having a script that stays closer to the book than Prince Caspian.
Speaking of Caspian, I've had the chance to go back and watch the movie, again. I've already written my opinions about Prince Caspian in a previous post, so I won't rehash that review. Instead, I've made a series of quiz questions that highlight the differences between the movie and the book. The point of this quiz is simply to have a little fun with the changes that occurred between the book and the movie. At times, I will still post blog entries on other topics and tag the quiz questions on the end.
The rules for the quiz are as follows: you will be given two or three multiple choice questions that deal with some aspect of the story. Answer either according to the movie, the book, or both. I’ll post the answers as a comment. Because of the vast differences between the book and the movie, give yourself 5 points for answering correctly according to the movie and 10 points for answering correctly according to the book. Give yourself 20 points if you get both right. Read on to try the first two questions. (Note: I am following the movie’s chronology.)

1. How does the story begin?
A. At a train station somewhere in the English countryside, where the Pevensie children are headed back to school
B. At Aslan’s How, with a counsel called by the red dwarf Nikabrik
C. In Trufflehunter’s cave
D. With a son being born to Miraz and Caspian fleeing for his life

2. Upon being wakened by Dr. Cornelius in order to flee for his life, what are Prince Caspian’s first words?
A. “Five more minutes…”
B. “Are we going to do a little Astronomy, Doctor?”
C. “What time is it?”
D. “My, but you look a lot like Dumbledore!”

2 comments:

Mr. Pi Thetahead said...

1. Book: A, Movie: D
2. Book: B, Movie: A

incurable optimist said...

Aw, Dawn Treader is my mom's favorite!