Gift vid for dawnier (The Chronicles of Narnia series)

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Title of vid: Never The Same
Vidder: Dogstar
Recipient: dawnier
Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia series (Movie)
Music: "Infinite Legends" by Two Steps From Hell
Summary: Things never happen the same way twice.
Content notes: No standardized notes apply.
Length: 2:04

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Comments

[themadlurker]

It's taken me a lot of rewatches to figure out just how much you've done in this vid, narratively and as meta on the series, and I'm sure there's a lot I'm still missing, but wow, I love what you have done with the Narnia series. Some things I really like: The layering of expectations, with the prophesied crowning at the beginning. The really, really effective way you lead from Edmund and Lucy falling down through scenes of running away to taking up arms instead. Peter and the sword, receiving it and finally passing it on and how that frames the kids' active involvement in violence. All of them drawing their weapons in turn and how that moves them out of a passive role. Susan and the bow: the cut from Susan practising her bow with Lucy, in the sunny campground to drawing it in action in the dark woods, and getting to see how her expression (how she) has changed, and then the increasing violence of the battle scenes that follow. I like seeing the scene where they meet Caspian for the first time as part of the battle sequence; it makes me think how much more violent the kids' instincts/reactions have become since their initial wonder the first time in Narnia. And then the river washing things clean, which is both violent in itself and also something that brings an end to the violence and battle scenes. The final image of the kids as adults looking up at the lamp post from their childhood again with that lack of recognition is haunting. Amazing, amazing storytelling, wow.