Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe: Film Analysis

When one person declares their overarching importance of another it creates an environment that says it is okay to treat others like they are lesser and show them no respect. An abuser of power becomes corrupt and destroys an effective society while reveling in their own narcissistic successes. Two boys travel together to a land of magic, fantastical sights, beautiful landscapes, and a war ridden society that can only be saved by “the magnificent”. One of the boys, is known as the difficult one in the family. He is constantly being told he does not listen, that he is no good in comparison to the other, and that he needs to be more like his father. These consistent insults on his character, force the boy to become filled with despair, humiliation, …show more content…
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, is a film adaptation of the beloved book by C.S Lewis. While reading a book, one is forced to make up an entire world in their heads. The way the world is shaped, the way it sounds, the way it moves, the laws it has, the landscape it utilizes, and the society it inhibits is all up to the reader; however, when watching a film these ideas are chosen for us. There is no way around these choices because it is what we are forced to see. The imagined world is shattered and replaced with a world that one might not agree with. According to Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, “each medium calls for specific abilities on the part of the reader/viewer” which means that in order to enjoy an adapted movie one must look past the book and view the movie as its own separate entity; however, it is rare that one actually views an adapted movie …show more content…
At this age, I could recognize the movie for what it was and able to understand the plot and the effectiveness of the characters. After seeing the movie, my initial reaction was that this was a magical place that I would want to visit. It was a place with a true leader, the eldest son, and that he was a role model I could look up to; after all, he was the king of Narnia and kings are always shown in the upmost respect. A couple of years later, I read the book. My imagination was corrupted and twisted with the world the movie created for me. The characters were in my head as they were in the movie and the landscape was what the movie showed me. There was no way for me to separate the two. They were bounded together in one cohesive story that would forever be together. In a way, it is the fault of Andrew Adamsson for causing this corruption to take place. He was the one who stepped up as this dictator of my imagination and instead of letting my independent brain take over he weaseled his own views into my head and put himself as the ruler of Narnia. As a young boy, I was unable to realize the true effect that film adaptations have on imagination and the correlation between a director and a