C. S. Lewis documentary

[@anniefinch6843]

I remember reading the Chronicles of Narnia books and I read them all. My favorite book is The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe because it's magical and a little dramatic.

[@artworkjeremystudio521]

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[@elizaf.9040]

This is a lovely overview. I took a seminary class on CS Lewis. Thanks so much!

[@TheArtfulAddict]

That was very interesting, I thoroughly enjoyed watching and learning about the life of C. S. Lewis. Thanks for sharing!

[@probro9898]

I cannot believe how inaccurate this documentary is. Lewis did NOT "settle happily down" at Malvern College. He was utterly miserable there. Malvern life - in Lewis' time - was revolved around sporting rivalry and homosexual affairs between upperclassmen (Bloods) and their juniors (Tarts). Junior boys were treated like slaves by their elders, and could be (quite legally) beaten for any reason or none. Lewis claimed he was more tired there than he was even in the trenches in WW1. He hated it so much that his father withdrew him after just one year and sent him to a private tutor to prepare for Oxford. And another thing - no mention at all of that tutor - William T. Kirkpatrick - who made such an impression on Lewis, and was the inspiration for Mr. McPhee in "That Hideous Strength".

[@autumn5852]

I guess you’re new to the internet and KZbin because if not, you would know that barely anything on here is accurate ~ you either have to take it all with a pinch of salt or don’t bother coming on here at all - I’m leaning towards the latter - I’ve thoroughly enjoyed KZbin in the last 6 years but I can feel it’s time to move on, now I’m coming out of my 6 year burn out, but it’s been fun and that’s the attitude you have to have because you can’t rely on any of it to be accurate

[@mckavitt13]

The homosexual affairs must have been a balm to many boys so inclined & lonely for their families.

[@zemox2534]

​@@autumn5852 If you want to move on why leave a comment in the first place?

[@TomorrowWeLive]

@@mckavitt13 you don't know much about British public schools, do you? Read Lewis's autobiography.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

@@mckavitt13 and inclination had nothing to do with it. The ones who were having it off all turned straight after they grew up. The true homosexuals were mostly celibate

[@kennyking4980]

A fascinating background on this brilliant author!

[@stevenclarke2559]

another enjoyable documentary . thank you

[@noneofurbusiness5223]

First time seeing a picture of him in his youth - cute!

[@alice86142]

Amazing. Thank you 🙏

[@petersanmiguel1164]

Very good. Thank you.

[@jfmm99]

Wonderful! Subscribed!

[@karaamundson3964]

I must say, TLTW&TW has always been my favorite, but the TMN is absolutely brilliant as well. Some of the others, I do find a little bit questionable on some levels, but they still give delight

[@Fizzwhizz28]

Anyone else see a face among the trees at 6:10? I thought I was imagining it 😂

[@probro9898]

Yep - there's a kind of "Green Man" face in the hillside.

[@autumn5852]

No, I can’t even see a tree at 6.10 - I can see a pattern in the hillside that I can imagine is a foxes face but that’s about it

[@autumn5852]

@@probro9898 … actually yes, I can see that, only in my imagination it looks like the face of a lion and in it’s right eye is what I saw as the face of an animal

[@lukasmiller486]

It’s in the middle.

[@j.jackj.9057]

The cooling of the friendship between Tolkien and Lewis was well underway before Narnia. It seems to have started with the friendship between Lewis and Charles Williams, right back in 1936. And the first meeting between Lewis and Joy Gresham was in August 1952, not in 1951. And they didn't live together until, after Joy's diagnosis, Joy moved into the Kilns. Niggling errors, here!

[@rallyeraidr7841]

What is especially interesting to me is the book Crowns, by Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock (who also penned The Far Distant Oxus books). Crowns was published 4 years before to the Lion, The witch and the Wardrobe. Crowns is about four children who play a game in a country house, and find themselves transported from a room into another world where they rule as kings and queens. Does that sound like a familiar plot line?

[@eliotreader8220]

so the battles that takes place in the books are based on the life that Lewis lived in the Trenches during WW1 and Ed being tempted by the fake Queen of Narnia and its never ending winter is meant to be a reference to WW2 and food rationing? having lived through the darkness of two years trapped by Covid 19 I guess we can understand how Lucy's friend felt. have read nearly all of the books apart from the last Battle.

[@joseacosta1354]

A cynical overview of a decorated soldier who carried shrapnel to his death, a generous friend to contemporaries, a layman who encouraged a nation during the second world war, as well as a great author, who wrote so much more than children's books, ("A Grief Observed," alone would suffice to demonstrate his regard for his wife) and the gossip tinged references to a friends mother were enough to place this effort in to the proverbial dustbin, in my opinion.

[@kathleena.callahan8511]

Amen to that, plus sexualizing Jadis , of all things. Innocence is sadly lacking in this presentation, and I believe Jack himself would agree. He had promised his friend Paddy he would look after Mrs. Moore if Paddy were killed in action, as indeed Paddy promised in turn to look after Jack's father if he were killed.

[@michaelmagee4318]

C.S. Lewis was, more than any living person, responsible for my conversion to Christianity. If you have not, please read Mere Christianity - IMO it was Lewis who was responsible for modern Christian apologetics. God bless C S Lewis

[@tonyvent3238]

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[@CAM-fq8lv]

The illustrations are really awful.

[@mares3841]

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[@uiPublic]

How many myths were ever or at least able to be located in all history else change from BC to AD?!

[@uiPublic]

Like JFK and JLN who died in another Continents, with CSL they'd all their turning points in '30s Spanish revolution took part by International volunteer and Communists together if on flipside remember started World Flue Pandemics...

[@uiPublic]

True Myth as Tree of Life laid behind at Eden center by witch Devil's lie they won't die which wasn't forbidden either except for Angels protected ever after.

[@chucksolutions4579]

All right I can’t take it anymore first of all Lewis never once said that do you book should be read as a magicians nephew first he wrote a letter where he understood why a little girl might be confused. But no no no there’s no way Lewis could look at his grandfather as Azlan!!! He’s famous for having said that Azlan was sacred to him he knew when he wrote Azlan who he was talking about and it wasn’t his grandfather regardless of the admiration he might’ve had for the man is a boy Azlan is allegory. I’m having to write this by dictation so I apologize for any misspellings especially for Azlan.

[@Fruitful888]

Liar!! Misleading title

[@j.jackj.9057]

Extraordinary cr*p is spouted in this. For example, at 26 minutes it's claimed that Malvern College was some kind of idyll for him. Nothing could be further from the truth! HE hated the place so much that he expressed suicidal ideation in his letters home, which got his father to take him out!! Jeez!!

[@mares3841]

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[@GravesRWFiA]

wow, you really are incompetent. while most of these episodes tells us about the writers and how they grew into it you start by just rehashing the books and doing it out of sequence. The books were published LWW, prince caspian, dawn treader, silver chair, horse and his boy, magicians nephew, last battle. The is the order lewis set them out. it is only revisionists who later want to switch them round to be in the order they occur and miss the point that lewis was setting it up in a certain way, you not only don't address this, you seem to not know it.

[@ericadler9680]

Things are presented as Lewis's inventions here that he stole from others. The concept of the wells into other worlds in the enchanted forest was taken from William Morris, that of the creation of a world through singing was taken from Tolkien. Immature Christian apologetics tend to idealise Lewis and present him as a modern saint, whereas in reality he was a sexual sadist who disliked non-smokers (not to speak of non-drinkers) and who forced his university students to get drunk against their will at parties, for which reason he was fairly disliked by his students. And Lewis never became a professor at Oxford, but at Cambridge.

[@johnmulvey5121]

No one works in a vacuum and every artist ''steals'' from others not least Shakespeare.'Fairly disliked '' is a bit like 'fairly pregnant ' Lewis was no saint but I have spoken to people who were students of Lewis who loved him . The actor the late Robert Hardy , a student of Lewis loved him.

[@johnmulvey5121]

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[@ericadler9680]

@@johnmulvey5121 Read my comment again and consider the words "immature Christian apologetics".

[@matthewstokes1608]

Ericadler - what a load of crap. Lewis was no saint, you imbecile - he liked a beer and a fag - millions of us did - but he was much loved and a devout Christian - an example to us all.

[@ericadler9680]

@@matthewstokes1608 Stupid,immature fundamentalist - it makes no sense at all trying to talk to you.

[@chrissalazar2396]

Hello first to comment 👍😂

[@fritula6200]

Lewis converted to becoming a Roman Catholic. Yes, he had "faith"... he had the "whole Truth", not part of it.

[@bridgetmccarthy4689]

He did not become a Catholic.

[@mckavitt13]

Lewis converted to Christianity from atheism.

[@probro9898]

@mckavitt13 Not quite true. He became a theist first before he became a Christian. At the time of his famous "lies breathed through silver" talk with Tolkien he already believed in God but had not yet accepted Jesus as his saviour.

[@amapola53]

​​@@mckavitt13he said he was an agnostic and then, that he was the most reluctant convert in all of England when he came to know Jesus Christ.