What are the differences between the book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S Lewis and the movie?

Question

I know of a few differences like in the book Lucy doesn't find the wardrobe by playing hide and go seek, but i was wondering if there were any more differences.

I am talking about the new movie that just came out not too long ago.

Answer 1

Assuming that you meant the movie that just came out a few years ago and not the old BBC version, here are a few that I can think of off the top of my head: whereas the movie starts off with the London bombings, the first scene with dialogue in the book is between the Pevensie children as they get ready for bed in the Professor's house. Also, as you said, Lucy finds the wardrobe because the children are exploring the house, not because they're playing hide and seek. There are many minor details--such as Lucy seeing animals magically dancing in the fire at Tumnus's house--that were added as well. Actually, the SECOND time that Lucy gets into Narnia via the wardrobe (the time that Edmund goes to Narnia as well), in the book it IS because they're playing hide and seek, whereas in the movie Edmund follows Lucy into Narnia during the night. The first time Edmund meets the Witch in the movie, the dwarf jumps on top of him and holds him down with a knife. This does not happen in the book. A rather large difference is how all four children find their way into Narnia together. In the movie, they are playing ball and they accidentally smash a window. They rush inside to find that the ball has also knocked over a suit of armor--they hear the housekeeper, Mrs. Macready, coming, and run about looking for a place to hide. Eventually, they are left with no alternative but to hide in the wardrobe, and thus they find themselves in Narnia. In the book, however, they must hide in the wardrobe because Mrs. Macready is taking guests on a tour of the historic mansion, and does not take kindly when the children get in the way. The children hear her coming with a party, and they run to hide in the wardrobe. Once the children are in Narnia, in the book Peter is not nearly as nasty to Edmund in the book as in the movie. In the book, Peter just gives Ed the cold shoulder. And Susan doesn't argue as much about staying in Narnia as she does in the movie. Once in the Beavers' house in the book, there is a LOT more dialogue exchanged about the Witch and Aslan than in the movie. Also, the rush to escape the beaver dam is much dramatized in the movie--in the book the wolves do not attack the dam as the beavers and the Pevensies are in the dam--and they don't escape by a secret tunnel, but they just go out the front door. There is no fox in the book as there is in the movie. When Edmund is in the Witch's castle with the stone figures and he scribbles glasses and a moustache on the stone lion, in the movie they don't tell you that Edmund thinks that the lion is Aslan, as it says in the book. Also, in the book, Ed doesn't go and sit on the Queen's throne before she arrives. In the movie, there is a whole exchange about Ed being thrown in the Witch's dungeon and him meeting Mr. Tumnus--that never happens in the book. In the book, the moment that the Witch hears about Aslan coming to Narnia, she orders her sleigh to be readied, and they depart. In the book, there isn't that whole chase scene when the children and the beavers are running away from who they think is the Witch but turns out to be Father Christmas. In the book, the children and the beavers spend the night in a cave, and awake to find Father Christmas outside. In the movie, the scene where there is an exchange between the fox and the Witch takes the place of a scene in the book where the Witch comes upon a merry party of animals who are dining. The Witch asks them where they got the food, and when they respond that Father Christmas gave it to them, she turns them into stone. In the movie, the whole scene with the Pevensies being chased by the wolf Maugrim by the waterfall that thaws, sending the children downstream on a block of ice is entirely fabricated. In the book they make it to the encampment with no incidents. In the movie, when Aslan hears the news of Edmund's treachery, he is REALLY upset, basically saying "How could this happen?!" In the book, he is more composed and in-control of the situation. In the book, there is no dialogue between the wolf and Lucy and Susan when he attacks them like in the movie--in the book, we just seen Lucy and Susan climbing up the tree, and Peter rushing to save them. In the book in the scene where Edmund is rescued by Aslan's party from the Witch, it's not as comical as in the movie, and the Witch and her dwarf escape the party by magically disguising themselves as a boulder and a treestump respectively. In the movie, they spend a lot more time showing the final battle, but it's not really detailed in the book. (In the book it is not made clear that the Witch is really killed--as a matter of fact she isn't, because she comes back in a later book in the Narnia series, THE SILVER CHAIR, in which she is finally killed once and for all.) In the scene in the movie where the four grown-up children as kings and queens are hunting the white stag, there is much more playful banter than in the book. In the movie when the children finally stumble back out of the wardrobe, the professor comes into the room and tosses them their ball. This does not happen in the book, but rather the children tell the professor of their experiences in Narnia after they arrive back in our world.
Those are all I can think of at the moment, I hope that it helps.

Answer 2

All I know was seeing the professor reach for the silver apple on his desk to get stuff out of it... That was wonderfully cool.
And knowing the relation of the tree carved into the wardrobe... I'm glad they allowed the silent visuals in the movie from the Magician's Nephew... Wonderfully done.

Answer 3

ones a book and the others a movie

Answer 4

And the movie is marketed as the first of the series when the Magician's Nephew is the first of the series.

Answer 5

I every time spend my half an hour to read this blog's posts daily along with a mug of coffee.

Answer 6

Which version of the movie?? It's been done a lot.

Answer 7

the old movie or the new movie?

Answer 8

one u can sit and watch and the other u have to read and comprehend...such a drag