Narnia the lion the witch and the wardrobe

The movie Narnia The lion the witch and the wardrobe was first made as a fantasy novel and then as a film. The novel was published in 1950 by Geoffrey Bles, but in 2005 they made a movie out of it. The movie is based on a lion, a witch and a wardrobe. The movie is one of the most successful movies in the world.

The film is about this place Narnia, which is a land you come to if you go through a wardrobe. The white witch has ruled there for 100 years of deep winter. Narnia is full of mythical creatures, like animals with human characteristics, some of the animals can talk, and my favorite character in this movie is a faun. He is a goat mixed with a human, so he is a goat from the hips and down and the rest of him is a human body.

On the other side of the wardrobe we have the four siblings Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy who are living in London. They are endangered by a second world war attack of German bombers. So the four siblings evacuated to Professor Digory Kirke who doesn’t like kids so much and he isn’t used to having kids around his house. One day the siblings play hide and seek, and the youngest one Lucy hides in a wardrobe. She starts going longer in inside the wardrobe until she enters to the fantasy world Narnia. There she meets a faun named Mr. Tumnus, Lucy believes that Tumnus is so kind to her because he likes her, but he had been commissioned to kidnap her for the white witch. But Tumnus hasn’t a heart to do that, so he leads her back to the wardrobe.

Lucy tells everything to her siblings but they didn’t believe her. So Lucy returned to Narnia again to meet her new friend Tumnus. Then her brother Edmund follows her without letting her know. Edmund meets the white witch, and she introduces herself as the queen of Narnia. She is very interested in him and questions him about his siblings. She want him to take them with him to the castle. If he comes back with them she will make him into a prince.

Edmund decides to go back and retrieve his siblings with him to the castle. When he gets all his siblings to Narnia they meet some talking beavers who tell them about the witch. Her magic will fail if two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve fill the four thrones at Cair Paravel. And then the beavers tell them of the rightful king of Narnia, the lion Aslan. The sibling settles out on a long journey to help Narnia to end the cold winter.

I really like the movie, and I prefer watching the movie over reading the book. Because I like to see the environment and what's really happening, I also like to hear the music and the sound effects, over imagin my one picture in my head, and guess whats happening. There are many differences between the book and the movie. In the book the witch is described with long black hair and a crown made of gold, but in the movie we see the witch with blond hair and an ice crown. There are more action scene in the movie than in the book.








Sources:
- http://www.oprah.com/book/The-Chronicles-of-Narnia-by-CS-Lewis_1
- http://thatwasnotinthebook.com/diff/the-lion,-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-vs-the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-lion,-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/0#diffPage
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia
 - http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/File:The_chronicles_of_narnia-HD.jpg

- Amalie Eivik