My Thoughts on the latest LWW Release (Contains Spoilers)

For the most part, I thought it quite good when I saw it on Saturday. I thought the little girl who portrayed Lucy was simply adorable. All in all, quite honestly, it turned out to be better than I was expecting, though I was curious as to a number of the changes that were made.

ATTN: Spoilers from this point forward!

Repeat. Anything repeated below are synopses of scenes and changes from the movie. If you want to be surprised or do not wish to hear about anything from the movie, DO NOT READ BELOW. If you do decide to be smart, and read below anyway, don't come crying to me.

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As far as the changes from the book....(most of these are minor)

1. The children did not have to obey a laundry list of rules at the professor's. The only "rule" in the book is that they must stay out from underfoot when the housekeeper is taking guests through tours of the house.

2. Lucy & Tumnus do not panic and hide from eachother when they first encounter eachother.

3. The exchange with Peter and Susan and the professor is cut short and altered; it doesn't have the same 'tone' of a logical Platonic questioning the book has.

4. The scene with Mr. and Mrs. Beaver explaining about Aslan and the prophecies is cut much shorter.

5. The reason for #4 is that, contrary to the book, the wolves (servants of the White Witch) enter the beaver's dam and nearly catch the children.

6. Edmund and Tumnus (both imprisoned in the dungeons) have a brief chat. Tumnus was a statue when Edmund first enters the witch's castle, and Edmund was never imprisoned in the book.

7. A fox helps hide the children from the pursuing wolves (the children climb a tree) and nearly loses his life when one of the wolves begins closing his jaws on the fox's neck & shoulders. The only mention of a fox in the book is a fox that leads a toast with food provided by Father Christmas. (The witch turns the whole drinking party into stone).

8. Every animal 'knows' that the children are the children of the prophecy. This is never emphasized in the book.

9. When crossing an ice covered river (not in the book) during the thaw caused by the return of Aslan to Narnia, the children are once again confronted by the wolves, and are swept down river. (Lucy is feared dead by Peter and Susan).

10. Peter attempts on several occasions to keep his siblings out of the battle and to return them to home (Earth). He intends to stay and rule. (Not in the book.)

11. The treatment of Edmund by the witch is rather cleaned up.

12. The rescue of Edmund by the good animals has been altered. In the book, they fall upon Edmund, the witch, and her dwarf servant. (The witch's army had not arrived in the book).

13. The sacrifice of Aslan is less brutal than it was in the book (understandable, it's being marketed to the child'uns.)

14. Aslan frees the statue-prisoners of the witches castle, but a scene with him rallying the former statues to help him fight the armies of the witch is noticably missing.

15. Aslan does not finish the witch by (presumably) biting her head off; in the book, he pounces on her, and they roll on the ground, ending with Aslan on top of the witch.

16. The dialogue in the coronation scene has been altered.

17. The end scene with the professor has been changed a bit from the book. (due in part to another bit they altered, see below:)

18. The children do not hide in the wardrobe to escape the consequences of breaking a window & knocking over a suit of armor. They hide in there to avoid a group of guests being led around the house.

So, those are the things I noticed. If anyone caught anymore, let me know.

I think some scenes that were filmed for the movie may have been cut as well, as I remember seeing a scene of a dance (presumably a coronation celebration) during the trailer and don't recall seeing that particular scene anywhere in the movie.)