The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

[toushiro]

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Nice cya.. pero murag naa'y kulang...
Dili kay prince caspian naka-center ang movie..

[dwardwarbinx]

narnian royalty is hotttt. haha. pero turn off au ang latino accent sa mga telmarines. like, watdaeff. lol. di kaayo pang-royalty.

but it was nice.

[judz]

cutie lgi to ang nagdala sa prince caspian ^.^

[shaxyra]

mas nahan ko sa first imho lang.. wa ko nalingaw sa fight scene except atong ilang peter.. gibayutan ko ni prince caspian oie.. hehe.. try nako watch balik basin mausab.. haha

[PGM_301]

ok raman ang movie...nalingaw ra ko..hehe

[dwardwarbinx]

I just came back from a short vacation. While rummaging through my old stuff, I found this...



I won it as a prize for an essay-writing contest in 1983 (I was in Grade 5 then )! Battered and grimy, but still intact

-RODION

gash bai. vintage stuff. it looks awesome. O.O

i have the complete set na full-colored collector's edition. bought it two years ago. i wish they'd look old and regal mga 10 years from now or something. haha. i get a kick out of old books. dunno why.

[COMCAM]

I did not know that this was based from an old book, great info for me

[rodsky]

gash bai. vintage stuff. it looks awesome. O.O

i have the complete set na full-colored collector's edition. bought it two years ago. i wish they'd look old and regal mga 10 years from now or something. haha. i get a kick out of old books. dunno why.

Yeah sayang I wish I had the complete set from this particular release Medyo rare man gud ang cover art--I checked ebay and it's not a common cover. I think this release was illustrated by the Brothers Hildebrandt.

-RODION

[dwardwarbinx]

yeah. ganahan sad ko sa cover art sa imong copy. it's way better than mine. lol

[rodsky]

That's a good one too! In fact, kana ang image (in black and white) on the title page inside my book hahaha!

But my favorite one is this:



This wasn't shown on the film. This is the time when Dr. Cornelius was showing Caspian the conjunction of Tarva and Alambil...

(taken from the book)
In this he was not disappointed. A few days later his Tutor said, "Tonight I am going to give you a lesson in Astronomy. At dead of night two noble planets, Tarva and Alambil, will pass within one degree of each other. Such a conjunction has not occurred for two hundred years, and your Highness will not live to see it again. It will be best if you go to bed a little earlier than usual. When the time of the conjunction draws near I will come and wake you."

This didn't seem to have anything to do with Old Narnia, which was what Caspian really wanted to hear about, but getting up in the middle of the night is always interesting and he was moderately pleased. When he went to bed that night, he thought at first that he would not be able to sleep; but he soon dropped off and it seemed only a few minutes before he felt someone gently shaking him.

He sat up in bed and saw that the room was full of moonlight. Doctor Cornelius, muffled in a hooded robe and holding a small lamp in his hand, stood by the bedside.

Caspian remembered at once what they were going to do. He got up and put on some clothes. Athough it was a summer night he felt colder than he had expected and was quite glad when the Doctor wrapped him in a robe like his own and gave him a pair of warm, soft buskins for his feet. A moment later, both muffled so that they could hardly be seen in the dark corridors, and both shod so that they made almost no noise, master and pupil left the room.

Caspian followed the Doctor through many passages and up several staircases, and at last, through a little door in a turret, they came out upon the leads. On one side were the battlements, on the other a steep roof; below them, all shadowy and shimmery, the castle gardens; above them, stars and moon. Presently they came to another door, which led into the great central tower of the whole castle: Doctor Cornelius unlocked it and they began to climb the dark winding stair of the tower. Caspian was becoming excited; he had never been allowed up this stair before.

It was long and steep, but when they came out on the roof of the tower and Caspian had got his breath, he felt that it had been well worth it. Away on his right he could see, rather indistinctly, the Western Mountains. On his left was the gleam of the Great River, and everything was so quiet that he could hear the sound of the waterfall at Beaversdam, a mile away. There was no difficulty in picking out the two stars they had come to see. They hung rather low in the southern sky, almost as bright as two little moons and very close together.

"Are they going to have a collision?" he asked in an awestruck voice.

"Nay, dear Prince," said the Doctor (and he too spoke in a whisper). "The great lords of the upper sky know the steps of their dance too well for that. Look well upon them. Their meeting is fortunate and means some great good for the sad realm of Narnia. Tarva, the Lord of Victory, salutes Alambil, the Lady of Peace. They are just coming to their nearest."

"It's a pity that tree gets in the way," said Caspian. "We'd really see better from the West Tower, though it is not so high."

Doctor Cornelius said nothing for about two minutes, but stood still with his eyes fixed on Tarva and Alambil. Then he drew a deep breath and turned to Caspian.

"There," he said. "You have seen what no man now alive has seen, nor will see again. And you are right. We should have seen it even better from the smaller tower. I brought you here for another reason."

And you all know what that reason is

Incidentally, this little passage, from an old book, from my boyhood, carved out the beginnings of a passion for all things astronomy.

-RODION