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Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:09:23 -0600
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Richard Attenborough did the film Shadowlands about C. S. Lewis and the
grief at the end of his life when Joy died.  That film (which I just saw
again last week!)  is very good but quite wrong about a number of things
concerning Lewis.  Also it received a lot of criticism about Lewis's
religious and moral crisis and the failure to see growth or
resolution--which Lewis did experience.  It also failed to show almost
anything about the profoundly religious aspects of Lewis and Joy's
relationship.

I am saying all this to suggest that I have some real qualms about such a
project with Willimas and Attenborough teaming up to do a filmic treatment
of the later years, tinged no doubt with Freud.  YIKES!  if anything is in
the pipeline I hope they will consult a few experts on the topic who might
add a little balance to the discussion.

Hal Bush
Saint Louis University

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