Three Brand New Video Clips From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Aslan’s Country has posted the three clips from the Fun-for-the-Whole-Family Hour package. The first clip shows Eustace being very obnoxious with the Pevensies in Lucy’s bedroom. The second clip shows Eustace discovering the dragon cave and gives some hints about story change. The third clip shows Edmund, Lucy, Caspian, Eustace, and Reepicheep rowing across the Sea of Lillies. Eustace is talking about his undragonning.
There’s a lot of dialogue with Eustace in all three clips. This is by far the best footage we’ve seen from the film.
Click here to watch the videos at Aslan’s Country.
UPDATE: Fox has removed these videos from YouTube and Vimeo. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
What do you think of the new videos?
yay!!!!!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Sorry. I couldn't help it.
Wow that was awesome!! Though they might not seem as much, I enjoyed them and I CAN'T wait for the movie to come out in theaters! =D Time has to go by faster..
Wow, this is really exciting. All the footage we've seen before has been so edited (for trailers) that it's been tough to really get a feel for what the pacing and acting will be like. I've got to say that I like the feel of the videos. Plus, it's great to get to actually hear Eustace. I'm also really interested in the changes they've made to Dragon Island with Edmund and Caspian finding Eustace' shoe.
Ohhhhh. Eustace!! Fantastic. It's so weird seeing actual footage. It all looks pretty promising to me. 😀
Oh my gosh… they're so amazing!!! I'm totally pumped about this movie now…
Actually starting to like the look of this movie now!!!!
Looks good! Interesting changes in the second and third clip…. Still, it's obviously early renderings of the scenes (editing is rather awkward and the music sounds like stock Danny Elfman). Looking good, though! Can't wait for December and seeing what the finished product looks like. 🙂
Is it just me, or did Eustace call Edmund and Lucy "orphans"?
WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! This is SO awesome! Great to see Eustace!
YAY we've all waited so long for these…. so happy!!!!
At first glance there is lots of familiarity with the book, more so than we've seen in any of the trailers – and that is immensely pleasing. However, once you think about the quote for a few minutes you notice some big changes, not least that it shows further evidence that Eustace only gets undragoned right before the end, and that he will spend the majority of the final third of the film as a Dragon.
WOW.
Okay, so the music is clearly a temp track which is kind of distracting, but the footage itself is lovely! I'm already sold on Will as Eustace. And Caspian and Edmund cavorting about brings me great joy. And Drinian! LOVE.
That's not necessarily the case. Eustace could simply not have told the others any details about his undragoning until now.
Just about passed out when I saw this post!! This is sooo exciting! The 3 clips are so much like the book and that's really exciting to me and probably everyone else. I love that in the 3rd clip, Eustace says that line about he couldn't do it himself, that he needed Aslan's help. They really stuck to the Christian salvation theme that C.S. Lewis tried to convey with the character Eustace. LOVE the 1st clip too. Just like I pictured it. And the 2nd one is great too! Really excited by these clips. They are killer
Do you remember the old videos from way back during LWW? Some of them were basically several blips of footage from a scene to condense it. I remember it from the hide and seek scene specifically. Nothing to worry about I hope, editing will be much cleaner in the actual film.
He did, I believe. That's a very interesting developement. They changed his rhyme, it was originally: Some kids who played games about Narnia, gradually got balmier and balmier. Now it is: There once were two orphans who wasted their time, believing in Narnian nursery rhymes.
I wonder what happened to Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie?
The way the dialogue is written does not make it sound like he was talking about events from way earlier in the movie, but rather that it is a heartfelt apology from someone who has just been brought back from the edge. It was also be a pretty odd example of screenwriting to leave any sort of massive big gap between his undragoning and this moment, so its looking that Eustace will be a dragon for quite a while. Worth noting this is not the first piece of evidence to suggest that either.
WOW! I'm crying! It's THAT good.
THE LAST ONE! SO PRETTY!!!
The last was definitely my favourite, soundtrack and scenery and all.
The other two were pretty exciting, now I simply can't wait.
Definitely not final cut. Editing is, as someone else here noted, awkward and sped-up, the CGI doesn't look quite finished, and the music is just what was in the trailer. (which was Two Steps from Hell's music, in case anyone's curious)
Yikes, what a lot of shaky handheld work. I hope it's spread out in the final cut with firm steadicam and jib footage. Though that's my personal cinematographical opinion… I hear shaky handheld is 'in' right now.
Love the limericks… and orphans? Wonder what's going on with that.
Anyone notice that Gael says "Is it the volcano?" in the dragon island clip? That makes me wonder who she is, what she's doing, and what volcano are they talking about? 😀
I hope that Eustace isn't going to spend the entire film as a dragon. That won't be much fun. (after all, how are they going to bring him along as a dragon? Lewis discussed that problem in the bk. :D)
I agree. In looking at these closely I can see that the voices don't always match up. When Eustace first walks in it doesn't look like he's talking. On the dragon clip, they skip out when it's time to see the old, dying dragon (since the CG wasn't done yet). I'm sure these were thrown together some time ago and are more akin to a first cut of the film. I'm not concerned at all with the continuity, but I like hearing the voices and seeing the camera movement, props, etc.
Maybe they're just 'war orphans' – both parents are busy with the war so they don't have anyplace to live? (they still are just 'guests' at the Scrubbs')
Random: is that – the first shot in the first clip – is that Eustace's journal?!?!?
I thought the same thing as well. I can't tell exactly how I feel about it just yet. Although Eustace's largest part in the book IS being a dragon, I just don't know if I want him like that for the whole movie…
DITTO!
I very much doubt that the old dying dragon will be in the movie – even taking into account how edited the clips are, Eustace seems to fall upon the treasure imediately after finding the treasure – and not to mention the fact that Lord Octesian is now present as a Skeleton, rather than it hinting that he was the old dying dragon himself.
correction – *"immediately after falling down the slope"
Surprised they released footage of Aslan's Country already but everything looks gorgeous. I just hope the flow of the final film works well. I thought Prince Caspian had great elements but came together a bit poorly and LWW had good elements but was only worth the sum of it's parts (not bad but now what it could have been). So the jury's still out on Voyage but these clips sure add to the anticipation!
AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!
Will Poulter is freaking AWESOME!!!!
I hope they didn't actually kill off Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie! I liked them!
Perhaps Mr. Pevensie is missing in action?
That doesn't explain why Mrs. Pevensie would be gone, though.
I don't like how the war has been ongoing throughout the movies. Because I think Peter would be the type to enlist, instead of going off to study with Professor Kirke. Edmund would be the same, and in that first trailer he's trying to enlist… ugh.
OMG!!!!!!!
COMPLEATLY AWESOME !!!!!!!!
I do believe it is. 😉
He is as annoying on screen, as on the book. Good casting 🙂
Thanks for sharing! CAN'T WAIT.
Why does Edmund ask Lucy if she has seen the ship in the painting before. Its not hard to miss when the only other things in it are the sea and the sky. What is the point of a painting made up of only sea and sky if the Dawn Treader was not there? Also why is Eustace calling them orphans? Dont remember them being orphans in the book.
I'm pretty sure Eustace was just mocking Edmund and Lucy and their love of Fairy Tales by using the popular convention of such stories to have young orphans as the heroes.
Although i wouldn't rule anything out considering all the twists and turns we've had on this movie so far, but i can't believe they would have Eustace mock two recently bereaved relatives like that. He is supposed to be annoying, not utterly despicable.
You would pretty much expect Lucy to burst into tears if her cousin made fun of them losing her Parents so recently, and you would expect Edmund to respond in a slightly more brutal manner than just returning a comical limerick.
I'm in on the squeeing. These are awesome. I love clips.
I'm thinking that the genre convention is not something that one of Eustace's character would understand (he doesn't seem to know much about fairy tales!). But I can't offer another option because I agree that he wouldn't dare mock them like that if they'd recently been orphaned.
I like having the war continue. In the book, it just ignored the war after the first book – something I never quite understood. (besides, in the film, has it ever said that Peter did not enlist? It's very possible that he did enlist and that's why Edmund wants to go) It adds realism. While the Blitz did mostly stop by this point, the war still dragged on for another couple of years after VDT.
What I do I think?
I think: OMG! It's Narnia….Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! (Yeah, I know, not a very orignal comment. And you know what? I'm okay with that!)
I love the line, "There was a boy called Eustace, who read books of facts that were useless"; You tell him, Ed!
And, um, don't get me wrong, I think Skandar's a fantastic actor, but is it just me or does that boy seriously need to learn out to enunciate when he speaks? He has something of a mumbling voice and twice, though of course he didn't since this is bound to be a PG flim, it sounded almost like he was cursing because he wasn't speaking clearly.
Is it sad that I'm crying? =D with excitement and joy, of course…
WOW! It's not finished, so quite choppy, but I like it. They used the trailer music.
WILL COMPLETELY ROCKS!
I like the way the script (dialogue) was written SO MUCH better than the previously films. At least, so far.
I like it. I can't wait to see the movie.
It's his accent. It's hard to understand sometimes. But it's better than a Telmarine accent! 😀
So is there a copy of the third one? I see they are getting swept away, but i didn't get the third one before it was taken.
Squee all you want! I'll do it with you! *squees*
I do not believe they are actually going to be orphans. Eustace immediately follows up his rhyme with "You're just guests."
I am so happy! I didn't like some of the acting but it is always better in the movie then in the clips. What I really don't like is how small the ship is in the painting. It should be mostly ship and only a little water, not mostly water and only a small ship. Can't wait to see the whole thing!!!!! Keep the story of Aslan alive.
Ug, I'm on vacation and my connection here is so slow! can't get the videos to load! This is like a bad nightmare. Such terrific Narnia spoilers so close, yet so far… ug! guess I'll keep trying.
You can see the third one at Aslan's Country.
Just follow the link at the top of the page. It will take you to Aslan's Country, where the clips were originally uploaded.
I'd totally forgot about those clips coming out. They are much more encouraging than the trailers. The skeleton with the bracelet was a bit of a shock. The clips answer some questions and bring up more.
A couple of further interesting observations –
1. Lucy is looking in a mirror when she first appears – yet more foreshadowing of her "i want to be beautiful like Susan" subplot.
2. There is a river very clearly running through the Dragons Treasure. It looks to be that when Caspian and Edmund stumble upon it they are working out about how the "Deathwater" works by dipping Eustace's shoe in it. Further confirmation, if it was needed, that Dragon Island and Deathwater have been merged together.
Wow, the clips were fantastic! Eustace really irritated me in these videos, then I realized that's how his character was written! The acting is better than in PC and LWW, at least from what we've seen so far 🙂 I'm looking forward to the final cut! Now all we need is a GOOD TRAILER to get the hype up!!!
clip one was great. clip two was good, but clip three was beyond amazing easily the best of the 3. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE ASLAN'S COUNTRY IN THIS MOVIE- or in TLB for that matter!!!!
this is the BEST!!!!!!!
I wanted to download it and i can't seem to do that from aslan's country.
So are you saying you think the show looks to have gold on it?
Agreed. Looking good. Sail on VDT! 🙂