![]() ![]() If you’re looking for a “remake” of the film, don’t look for it here. If you’re like me, you grew up watching the 1977 original film by the same name. Trouble ensues when Pete and Elliot begin to interact with local loggers, not only exposing Pete to the civilized world but exposing Elliot’s existence to the small town. ![]() Six years pass, and Pete is still living in the woods with Elliot, the two having forged a deep bond of friendship. Soon after the accident, Pete meets an enormous dragon he names Elliot. Four-year-old Pete survives the accident, but his parents do not, leaving Pete stranded in the deep woods. Plot Summary: Pete’s family is involved in a terrible car accident on a remote road. And indeed, that’s exactly the feeling the movie captures for audiences: magic. When not embellishing the tall tale for children, in quiet moments of reflection he describes the fear and wonder of the experience, the “magic” of seeing the creature. Meacham (Robert Redford) is the only one in his small logging community to have seen a dragon in the woods. It is said that every once in a while a dragon loses his family and wanders south into the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest-and if you’re lucky, you just might see one. ![]() This is how Disney’s new film, Pete’s Dragon, begins (and ends): a fascination with the northern mountains where the dragons live. He called this longing by many names, but in his autobiography he simply called it joy-and it all began with an arrow shot from the north. Unconsciously chasing echoes of that far country, it eventually led Lewis to Christ. It is something we’ve all experienced: an echo of heaven in the natural world, a sort of spiritual nostalgia, an unbearable pleasure, a homesickness to return to a far country from which we’ve never been. This is far more than just an escape into childhood fantasy. He recalls how, at certain points in his life, he would be shot through with “the stab, the pang, the inconsolable longing” for another world. Lewis remarked about how in his youth he developed an intense obsession with “northernness”-the mysterious northern lands of Britain and Scandinavia and their dark Norse myths that represented for him the embodiment of an unreachable, imaginary land. North with the wind, where the three rivers meetĭeep in the forest, there dragons will be. Go north, go north with wings on your feet ![]()
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