The Chronicles Of Narnia: A Classic Left Behind

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"Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch; I was there when it was written" That shit was some heat

The CGI in this film is incredible for its time.

19:09 Fun fact! C.S. Lewis, the author of the Narnia books, was close friends with J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Tolkien obviously took world building super seriously, and was so annoyed that Lewis was putting Santa in his story with no explanation that allegedly he almost ended their friendship and stayed annoyed for so long he told his official biographer about it to put in his biography 😂

When I was a kid, my sister and I convinced our Sunday school teacher to let us watch this movie in class by telling her they were based on the Bible, because we really didn't want to do actual Sunday school stuff. But the movie is too long to watch in one class, and she could never remember where we left off, so we just kept getting her to start very close to the beginning. We ended up watching the movie for like 2 months, and the teacher was so curious about Turkish delights that she tried making them at home. She enjoyed making them so much that she started her own business around it and stopped being our Sunday school teacher.

The four Pevensie siblings were very well cast, you could really buy them as siblings, and their intereactions were very authentic.

Between "little children don't know when to stop pretending" and "I'm not a dwarf, and actually I'm tallest in my class" I'm surprised Lucy didn't thaw all of Narnia herself with those sick burns

It's insane how good Aslan looks, unlike the Disney Live Action Lion King, Aslan can still look like a real lion wjile still have an emotive face.

I actually liked Prince Caspian, had a darker edge and I felt as if there was more world building

I think that Edmund gets an unfair amount of shit from everyone bc the movie fails at establising WHY he's such a selfish little shit. But in the book it is actually explained that Edmund always feels like he's a left-over that no one likes; Peter is the "brave one" that everyone respects, Susan is "the smart one" that everyone admires, Lucy is the "baby one" that everyone thinks is adorable and wants to protect, and Edmund is perpetually just The Middle Kid. He doesn't have anything "special" about him that singles him out from the others, he feels like everyone overlooks him as being simply "the third Pevensie" while everyone else is singled out for a specific characteristic - and so, he really resents his siblings because he thinks they think they're better than him. He doesn't feel like he's liked by them, so he doesn't like them either. And he's so ready to help Jadis because he has Abandoment Issues from his dad leaving for war and then his mum leaving him on the countryside; so the second there's an adult who's apparently willing to be there for him and give him attention and say that he's worth as much as - or even more than - his siblings, he likes it because he doesn't feel very loved at home (also he wants Turkish Delight because someone apparently told him it was delicious and he was curious idk; he hadn't had much candy since the start of the war, so I guess anything would do). Also, he's like, 13 - he's selfish and needy by default. All this other stuff just exacerbates that. So yeah, I think that comparing him to Zuko is a great comparison, because they both go through basically the same arc, of realising they have potential and value by themselves and don't need to be compared to or overshadowed by their respective siblings. And after they learn that, they both become the best characters in their respective stories. I'm sorry this became a rant, I just really really love Edmund and I think his arc is a fun character study. TL;DR: Edmund is a little shit because he has Abandoment Issues on top of Middle Child Syndrome and being 13; he's also amazing and the best character in this book.

6:30 ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Audacity of this B***h’ will never stop being iconic.

Interesting trivia about Edmund: Turkish Delight is specifically a Christmas candy. His request for it from Jadis might have been the first act to directly weaken her power. She kept Narnia in a state of “Always winter never Christmas” and a Son of Adam got her to bring a little piece of Christmas into the world.

Fun fact about C. S. Lewis: he adopted his wife's sons from a previous relationship, and continued to raise them after she died. They kids had Jewish heritage but weren't raised in the faith, but one of the sons decided to convert back and become a practicing Jew. C. S. Lewis was cool with it. He learned how to cook kosher food and hooked his son up with some Jewish neighbors who could take him to the synagogue and shit. If you visit his house, you can still see the marks on the door frame where he put up a mezuzah for his stepson.

I remember as a kid feeling super uneasy when the ice queen is very obviously manipulating edward and “killed” simba. Like it was a fairly adult villain

I'm pretty sure someone has already said this but them being adults is a metaphor for what the writer felt when he returned from war just having to be a teenager again after going through a war and being forced to grow up. Also i don't remember if they ever said this but i thought that the portal to Narnia only works if you aren't looking for Narnia.

They did such an amazing job building up Jadis as a genuinely terrifying threat. I thought rewatching Aslan's sacrifice would be easier to watch as an adult, but it still makes me squirm. When she rolled up to the battle wearing Aslan's fur... so dark.

"He's a beaver, he shouldnt be saying anything!" 😂 Will always be my favorite line.

On the bit of them being adults in kids' bodies, that's one of the things that the sequel actually does well. The main conflict on earth is that Peter is used to not only being an adult but also being high king and can't deal with other teenagers his age being you know, teenagers, and keeps getting into fights.

It was always a mystery for me why even books are SO underrated!!! It is a pure classic as Tolkien is.

Fun fact: when they filmed Lucy discovering Narnia, it was her actual first time reaction seeing the narnia set and all the snow that's why it looks so genuine :) use that at dinner you're welcome