{"id":320,"date":"2003-12-20T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2003-12-20T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=320"},"modified":"2003-12-20T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2003-12-20T21:00:02","slug":"more_cgi_with_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"More CGI With British Accents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next on the Hollywood Fantasy Wagontrain, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/3333465.stm\">C.S. Lewis and his Chronicles of Narnia<\/a>.  I tore through these books when I was a kid.  Most of the Christian allegory stuff went right over my little pagan head,  but I became more cognizant of the whole Aslan-Jesus thing as I got older.  The image of his mane being shaved by the Witch&#8217;s evil minions still lurks in my imagination, a good indicator of how effective Lewis was as a writer.  I doubt those books carry the same cachet as Harry Potter or LOTR, at least here in the States, which might make them a tougher sell.  But has Hollywood totally abandoned science fiction?  I can&#8217;t remember the last really good straight up SF film I&#8217;ve seen.  Granted, science fiction doesn&#8217;t resonate with the same moral clarify as fantasy, but there are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812550706\/qid=1071975534\/sr=2-1\/ref=sr_2_1\/102-5780733-5794520\">great<\/a> books out there that I think could capture the popular imagination if put in the hands of the right director.<br \/>\nFor today&#8217;s show-and-tell, we have a view of the Crystal Court in the IDS Building, downtown Minneapolis:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the19thfloor.net\/images\/IDS1.jpg?w=695\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next on the Hollywood Fantasy Wagontrain, C.S. Lewis and his Chronicles of Narnia. I tore through these books when I was a kid. Most of the Christian allegory stuff went right over my little pagan head, but I became more cognizant of the whole Aslan-Jesus thing as I got older. The image of his mane <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=320' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-5a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}