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When anyone tries to show me a meme on Facebook that I already watched die on reddit
Apr 11, 2018 2:39 PM
DarnNiceGuy
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HeckinLoveGators
I just watched the first one last night!
SkeletorIsKewl
My response: https://imgur.com/5vspXx1
Xinnna
Thats a cool ass line!
UnderratedCommentFinder
Aslan was hardcore
bridogz
This series and this movie always have me bawling. Some God allegories like this and Pi just nail the feel for me.
Garouleloup
Badass line from a badass lion
Theauthenticdonaldtrump
Screwtape letters ftw
itisafunnystoryifyouignorethetragicelementsandthesenseofdoom
wow, this guy is on top of the meme chain.
CeruleanTransienceOfAllMyImaginedShores
Amen!
Dehaka
I'd be a lot more into religion if Jesus was a lion, but nooooo, we gotta humanwash all our fiction.
DarnNiceGuy
Now I want there to be a sitcom in the style of The Office about a pastor who is also a furry trying to get his furry church off the ground.
ProfessorDumbass
I was there for the first repost to make FP and bring glory to OP. Of course the OC died in usersub ... but the post made it there
Rifneno
ialwaysexpectthespanishinqusition
DekeZ909
This....this had me spitting my drink out at the restaurant im at for lunch thx OP haha (>_<)
SikkVikk
Yo Narnia memes were something I didn't know I needed but now I'm expecting more.
IncorrektGramerNazi
MORE NARNIA MEMES PLEASE
CalluColorGod
All hail Lion Neeson
GlacierLife
Damn son, straight up murder ahhaha
al81
It probably died on Reddit first.
Viol8or
And on 4chan before that.
Goronhead
Already saw this on twitter.
Galbatorix21
WellintheNavy
Source?
Maultasche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JbZRrCusM8
puertoerican
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ObsceneTentacularInsertions
kitty
cantstop10292
My god this is a good meme. Bravo
aSheepAmongWolves
This lion is a badass
TheGoodKingOfImgur
Badasslan
bladerunner93
That’s mutha fuckin aslan bro, he’s a real OG
Flyndaran
He's literally God in the story. Why should I care when the protagonist lacks any flaws and cannot lose even when "killed"?
BEANSBEANSBEANSBEANSBEANSBEANSBEANS
Before it died on Imgur it was beaten, murdered, and raped on 4chan.
DarnNiceGuy
Ah, 4chan, the Stone Table of the internet...
luvas
I'd forgotten how badass Aslan and the rest of Narnia was.
captainfantasticfasterthansupermantheflashandthehulkcombined
Damn those graphics really stood the test of time
DarnNiceGuy
Oh, the lion was practical. They smeared peanut butter under his lips to get him to move his mouth like he was talking.
Nilowame
I am 90% sure you're bullshitting me.
DarnNiceGuy
Maybe, but that 10% is really bugging you, isn't it?
ciraxis82
They never made the third movie did they?
DanFranzen
Sure they did. Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
PracticalCactus
THEY NEVER MADE THE THIRD MOVIE DID THEY?
DanFranzen
SURE THEY DID. VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER.
PracticalCactus
Thanks for speaking up, I couldn’t hear you the first time
DanFranzen
You are welcome. I am sometimes a low talker!
TheMershedPerderder
You tell 'em, Jesus Lion!
AliciaCrIsSuperGay
@op and you got them from reddit and reddit got them from 4chan and 4chan got them from... well we don't want you there.
LumpWithaLeafHat
Hey Soos.
DarnNiceGuy
StrangerTex
Aka Jesus Dogg
ShaydeLiger
Qui-gon Lion
mrread55
Jesus Allegory Lion
QueenCousland
Not just an allegory. At the end of the series, the kids see him in a new way. It doesn't outright say "Jesus" but it's very clear that -
QueenCousland
- he is actually, literally Jesus. Aslan is just the form he takes in Narnia.
dontmagpie
i never saw the connection. i think people read too much into a simple fantasty story
aleakyhousesinks
The line in the picture is a reference to the book of Job. Job asks God why his life's gone to shit and God speaks to him out of a 1)
aleakyhousesinks
Whirlwind, and instead of explaining he says "where were you when I created Heaven and Earth etc." Basically just "don't even question me."
YourWaifuIsTrash
First book was almost exactly Genesis, with Aslan creating everything in its order. Second had him die for human's sins, and reject the >
YourWaifuIsTrash
Witch's (Devil's) attempts to persuade him to selfishly choose to live. The last book is basically Revelations. etc. etc. etc.
TheHoffster
Read up on the author
thefeckamisigningupwithfacebook
Agreed. Except yanno the author said he was doing it...
roads88mph
To this day, the only actually awesome Christian based fiction. Other than bibleman of course.
kranchan
Bibleman was certainly a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZabuchoFpo
qwoellfrisch
Look up this one: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. I wish it was nonfictional!
FriskyDolphin
Monty Python Life of Brian?
malachitedragon
BIBLEMAN! AAAA-aaaa! Fighter of the Atheiman! AAAA-aaaa!
Adthay
You're not a fan of Harry Potter or Robocop?
YourWaifuIsTrash
Is it fiction if it is directly adapting chapters of the Bible? Because the Dreamworks Prince of Egypt/King of Dreams movies were dope.
TheMershedPerderder
I still listen to the Prince of Egypt's soundtrack.
JJtheSpaceGhost
Your also forgetting Mcgee and Me and Adventures in Oddessy
totalytryingtobeniceroninternets
Veggietales?
Tkeleth
Sentient vegetables that do sing-alongs and worship the LORD. I wish I was joking.
YourWaifuIsTrash
Author was a well-versed theologian, did a lot of writing on Christian themes and messages. He was known as a "Christian Apologist", >
YourWaifuIsTrash
meaning he defended the religion against critics by writing and debating about it, so he had an inside-out understanding of it. Which >
YourWaifuIsTrash
means he avoided a lot of the things that would turn away non-Christians. Narnia was actually from what I've heard one of his more >
YourWaifuIsTrash
overtly Christian works, a lot of the others addressed its themes and morals without invoking symbolism and characters from Christianity.
SweatingBeaver
What about that one time when orc Moses led his people to the promised land in Warcraft?
roads88mph
I don't listen to hip hop.
Doctornotyep
The Stand is based on the Bible
SideEffectsOfJuice
Yo yo yo yooooo hold up, is Narnia Christian based? I guarantee you 1000% I had no clue lol. Maybe because I'm not very Christian myself, >
SideEffectsOfJuice
> despite technically being a member of the Ev. Lut. Church of Finland.
roads88mph
It's basically taking all the bible mythology and transmuting it into something more fantastical.
SideEffectsOfJuice
You know, come to think of it, maybe if I'd read more than about 1 page worth of the Bible I'd have realized Narnia is a spin on that shit
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
Frank Peretti had some good stuff. Also, I loved the Christy Miller series, and am watching thriftbooks for the married and baby years.
Tultamunille
I wasn’t allowed to read anything secular, growing up, so I read Peretti. That stuff is scarring; why did the dog always horrifically die?
dpidcoe
Also Ted Dekker. I think there were even a few collaborations between him and Peretti that resulted in some pretty decent horror thrillers.
davisboy42
Bibleman was the shit, but I think you're neglecting veggie tales
CassiusPolybius
Also 321 Penguins
Paradigmthefallen
I forgot about those! My gosh, it's been ages...
JonestownClassPresident
Was 321 Penguins bible based? I barely remember it.
Gyinagal
It was the same people as veggietales
notinitforthepoints
Bible is fiction too
TonyTortellini44
"The people were astonished at his doctrine".
roads88mph
YOU HEARD ME
Voltair
Well, Jadis was there too. Unless you're not talking about Narnia being created.
theresgarlicinthatnebula
As I recall the Old Magic was present before Narnia was created.
MitchellTF
There's Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time, which Jadis may have witnessed...and DEEPER magic from BEFORE the Dawn of Time, which she missed.
haunter64
This is the kinda rules of magic were probably written even before Jadis Forgotten world came to be
Voltair
Fair enough.
avidatheist
No, she was there for the Deep Magic because she was there at the creation of Narnia.
haunter64
id guess the part im refering is the small letters Jadis never read lol
Bibulus
The point was that the creation of the deep magic likely predates the creation of both Narnia and Jadis' world
Bibulus
The books never go into the creation of the greater universe in which the separate worlds exist, nor Aslan's place in it, but he's a lot
Bibulus
older than just Narnia.
avidatheist
The Deep Magic of Narnia is what's being discussed there. It's why the Witch was owed Edmunds life. There is deeper magic that predates(1)
avidatheist
Narnia, and it's that Deeper Magic that allowed Aslan to return after sacrificing himself in place of Edmund.(2/2)
Bibulus
Fair. I will admit, I never saw the movies, because I liked the books so much and the movies didn't look great.
UlfhednarSkol
I know the movies were never blockbusters but I'm quite sad they never continued making them past Caspian
LostandFoundIMGUR
I reckon narnia reboot will come soon
MackenzieBowen
Yeah, I hate it that I didn’t get to see all the kids die at the end. Oops, spoilers!
Klaaism
Eh the old British ones were better imho.
JohnnyWalkerTexas
Holy fuck yes! Turkish delight! Fucking Edmund you brat.
TheHoffster
They're supposedly filming a new one in NZ this year.
GitRightStik
Spoiler. Do you want a movie that ends with a crashed train of dead kids? That's the last book.
kindofacat
You know the kids wouldn't die in real life, right? It's important to me that you understand this.
GitRightStik
They need to let me direct it. I will make it happen.
SuperSpecial
Too lazy to read the books, mind explaining what happned?
GitRightStik
The kids get summoned to Narnia (again) to stop a fight between good/evil people. Most of the kids are traveling on a train. (1/2)
GitRightStik
Bonus: Aslan opens a portal from Narnia to heaven, they enter, then they realize they have died in real life. (3/3)
GitRightStik
The other kids are waiting at a train station. All the kids enter Narnia, fix the problem, and then the train crashes into the station (2/2)
Voltair
Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a thing.
UlfhednarSkol
Wait, what the hell? I honestly thought they stopped after Caspian. I'm not expecting much but I'm so watching this tonight.
FinrodFelagundPrinceoftheNoldor
You are right not to expect much.
thisistherevolt
Based on your username, I am guessing no expectations for a Silmarillion adaptation either huh?
FinrodFelagundPrinceoftheNoldor
No expectations for a particularly good one. Who knows, someone might give it a try.
Arkyrion
IT'S QUITE SAD THAT THEY NEVER CONTINUED BEYOND CASPIAN.
Gremlynn4023
There was a movie named Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but it was not Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
VictarionsCrispyArm
This is so true. That was my favorite book as a kid. I liked that everywhere they went was a story of its own. Movie just mashed it all up.
Gremlynn4023
Not just that, but it was a story that held really well without a central antagonist and the movie was like "nope, lets fuck that up hard /1
Gremlynn4023
-by putting a single being of evil as the central cause of every island's issues and make that the focus!"
Lilly64
I kinda see why. The farther into the books you get, the harder it gets to hide the Christian elements. That would make Hollywood antsy
VioletMoonRising
Uh what.... that's 100% not the reason. Did you forget many of americans identify as chritisnas? even if many aren't srs?
MrOsmo
Batman vs superman would like a word with you
BQZip
The bigger problem is that the other books encompass much longer timeframes. Hard to put into a kids movie. LOTR? sure, but not this
ellert0
Yeah, the last one is basically. "You wanna worship false idols? Well fuck you, rapture time!"
Snooj
Hollywood doesn't have a problem with that. Just look at Noah, basically a play-by-play of how it went down in the Bible.
CaptnVonClapp
Laughed out loud man.
Trickstan
The sarcasm is strong with this one
spectheintro
This made me chuckle heartily. Take your upvote!
kindofacat
Just like the golden compass books
WarlockSniper
His Dark Materials has no real Christian message. Now, having a complete anti-religion message, that is another thing.
kindofacat
While there is no real Christian message, at one point I'm pretty sure there's an entire Adam and Eve scene.
WarlockSniper
Not really, closer to a "they are no longer children" and a "lost innocence" thing as they pretty much declared love for one another.
jixathejinx
I wasnt raised in any religion. I loved all the books and never saw any Xtian allegory. Hollywood is just lazy and greedy.
PygmyYak
The books are definitely heavily influenced by Christian stories
Monahven
Not just influenced - the symbolism was absolutely intended.
PygmyYak
That's what I thought but I couldn't find a source for a it with a minimal amount of searching
MediaMuerte
Why tf does hollywood have to be like that?
Lilly64
Over the years, it's built up a certain culture. If you want to go against that culture, you're not getting any kind of funding from them
jsktrogdor
Tell ya what, we'll tell Hollywood to make Jesus movies if you stop trying to rip people's basic rights away through religious legislation.
MediaMuerte
Gun ownership and the right to protect yourself is attacked by many in hollywood.
ArchieWizard
That's some powerful strawman you've got there, maybe pay attention what people are actually saying instead of reading your own
ArchieWizard
interpretation in to it.
lordfluffy
SPOILER: "Good work. Say, how does the last book end? All the kids are dead in a train wreck? Um... wanna do superheroes instead?"
daguq
FURTHER UP AND FURTHER IN!
kittenflare2718
Oh i remember that. I hated the last book
iwanttomountndewya
Wait seriously that's what happens?
lordfluffy
The final book is Narnia's apocalypse. All the kids save Susan assist in the final battle find they stay with Aslan forever. 1/2
lordfluffy
2/2 When they question how this can be, it's explained to them that they died in our world. Even with that knowledge, worth reading.
iwanttomountndewya
Well that's sort of depressing
Bibulus
Well, at least Susan survived because she had stopped believing in Narnia, and got to live in a world where her whole family died rather
Bibulus
than joining them in lion-heaven
ahotpotato
Why I read past spoiler I will never know.
Gremlynn4023
They didn't call it The Last Battle for nothing
lordfluffy
Sorry. It's still quite a good read.
ahotpotato
In all fairness I started reading them as a child and never made it through Prince Caspian. I remember one scene in particular where all 1/2
ahotpotato
The forest creatures were convening on some issue and it seemed so dull and went on forever. Tried twice and never got past it.
rpgaff2
I'm just waiting for the day they make The Magicians Nephew.
bananabutt13
Omg yes!!
Camelspotting
I honestly don't think that will translate well into film.
PinkBelly
Agreed. it’s my favorite too
kelleyrhymeswithsmelly
And Horse and his Boy! I love that one.
7hatsBollocks
That was the best one imo.
Kavian
The best fucking one. I'll never understand why they produce them in production order and not chronologically the way they should be read.
ShawnSpencerPsychic
I liked reading TMN after reading about the Pevensies. I think it works really well as a prequel.
Kavian
I hated the Pevensies. They were okay in TLTWATW but after that the time moving different in Narnia really ruined character development.
ganondan
Eh, I think 2 should be read first. Does a better display of the wonders of Narnia than 1 does.
Kavian
See, i liked the not having to be in Narnia bit. The other potential dimensions were far more interesting to me.
ganondan
Gotcha. Good stuff, just not relevant to the chronicles of NARNIA. I'm sure we'd all love it if he'd written another about a worldhopper.
IncredibleViolence
TLTWATW was the most famous one, probably
thaguyyouknowbutwishyoudidnt
That’s a mothful
daguq
Must be a hungry moth.
somethingdark
Even the original BBC version never went past The Silver Chair.
JohnnyWalkerTexas
That series was soooooo good. The fucking beaver costumes though!
theresgarlicinthatnebula
I was so confused when people were acting like this was the first live-action Narnia out there - I grew up on that shit.
somethingdark
I still believe that one day I will see a live-action The Last Battle.
theresgarlicinthatnebula
Nah, we're just gonna get "God's Not Dead 7: Obama's Christian Ban"
HiddenSanity
Same, Tom Baker is best Doctor, but I know him as Puddleglum.
theresgarlicinthatnebula
Oh my GOD I NEVER MADE THAT CONNECTION UNTIL JUST NOW.
Batmannequin
I've got the whole set on DVD and still watch them. The theme tune fills me with the warmest nostalgic glow
YourCakeAndEatItToo
That whole series had fantastic music.
Batmannequin
It really did