that Susan in the Narnia films is not very attractive?

[JoanofArgos]

all the rest of my family are saying she's very very pretty.

I think she's uncommonly plain.

Who is right?

facial features.

I think that she is very beautiful. She has gorgeous lips.

the character is meant to be unattractive, she eventually grows up and gets into nylons and lipsticks and that kind of thing

I think she looks lovely, fantastic eyes, lips and hair.

I have not seen the film, but would say that in the book, she is not described (in terms of looks) and so why should she be either attractive or not? Does it make any difference to what she is like as a character (which is described in the books)?

I watched Prince Caspian over Christmas and found it very weird that a 1940s schoolgirl should be wearing any make-up at all, let alone full slap during the day time. (The lipstick comment in the final book would be when she is older, I think)

I certainly wouldn't describe her as plain though.

I no what you mean about plain, but I think that is why she is pretty (if that makes sense )

She has a natural beauty about her.

I think she's pretty.

I also think the casting for the children in the first 2 Narnia films was excellent(haven't seen the 3rd one yet). They really suited the roles.

She is an English rose IMO. A little teeny plain but classically British horsey prettiness about her that's very appealing. Strange combo but it works And she looks right for narnia and the era it's set.

I'm not saying it makes any difference to the narrative (although actually one of the things in the books is that she IS meant to be pretty, and Lucy is jealous, but then it all comes right cos she dies in a train crash and doesn't get to go to heaven/Narnia because she is 'no longer a friend to Narnia' ) - it's just that I was surprised to find all the rest of my family thought she was very very pretty when I thought she was really not so much. And I wondered who was the freak - me or them!

She is pretty and of course the character in the book was attractive enough to enflame Rabadash of Calormene...

I don't remember that.... I read the first few then skipped to last battle when it all got a bit silly.... and in that one she was meant to be too interested in nylons and invitations. hence death in train.

So I guess I am wrong, and she is pretty! Bah!

Ah, you need to read The Horse and His Boy set when the Pevensies were adult Kings and Queens before they went back through the Wardrobe.

Mind you I always thought that was a bit weird, reaching your 20s in Narnia then being dumped back to being 12 in England.

it would be so odd, wouldn't it? I've often thought that.

But horse in the title = never going to be read by me, I'm afraid!

yes, she's meant to be incredibly pretty & vain by the end of it.

in fact, in 'dawn treader' there's a comment that she goes to the US with her parents as there's not much point in educating her & it's better to look for a wealthy husband.
plus, various 'men' fall hopelessly in love with her.

she's pretty enough, in a girl-next-door way, but not exactly drop-dead gorgeous no man can walk past her without falling for her.

but then, if you re-read the books, they're horribly stereotyped & priggish.

lucy is meant to be more 'homely' but she has a heart true to Narnia. so, either you're a girl-next-door type, or pretty much a whore. very sexist, but then there's some blatant racism & he's v against progress & modern life in general.

actually, i quite like the horse & his boy one, that & the silver chair.

hate the last battle.

Oh most certainly.

But there are also things like duty, honour and thinking of others which shouldn't be thrown out with the bathwater.

beauty is in teh eye of the beholder

I think she's very pretty.

She is pretty, in a girl next door kind of way.

Hasn't Lucy grown in this one - lost lots of her puppy features, and also has the makings of a beauty.

I think she's beautiful. Properly beautiful rather than just make-up type beautiful.