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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 2005 Academy Award-winning film based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published novel in C.S. Lewis' children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. It is the first of what will be a series of films based on the books.

The film was released the weekend of December 9, 2005 in major markets in both Europe and North America. The rest of the word followed soon after with the final major release March 4, 2006 in Japan.. Tagline: The beloved masterpiece comes to life December 9.

Plot

:See also the plot of the book and the differences listed in the next section.

The story begins in 1940 when London is being plagued by air raids (see The Blitz) and the Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are evacuated to the country home of Professor Kirke. Mrs. Macready, a servant of Kirke, gives the children a few rules regarding their behavior in the house. One day while they are playing hide and seek, Lucy discovers a wardrobe and enters it. Behind the clothes is a snowy wood, in a magical world called Narnia. She spends what she experiences as several hours in the home of the faun Tumnus. Tumnus tells her that, due to a curse, in Narnia in the last 100 years there has only been winter, without Christmas. He seems friendly, but, as he later confesses, he had planned to hand her over to the evil White Witch, in accordance with her general orders in the case a human would be encountered. However, Tumnus likes Lucy and regrets his plan and shows her the way to the place where she can return to the wardrobe.

When she returns it turns out that no time has passed in the ordinary world during her stay: she thinks that the others have been worried where she was all the time, but instead they complain that when playing hide-and seek one should not immediately reveal where one is. When she tells what happened, her siblings check out the back side of the wardrobe, but it is closed now; as a result they don't believe her, and claim that it was just her imagination.

On a second occasion Edmund follows Lucy into Narnia, and admits to Lucy that he was wrong, and that Narnia really exists. Lucy visits Tumnus again, while Edmund meets the White Witch. She offers him his favorite sweets, Turkish delight, which she magically makes appear, and offers him the prospect of becoming king, with his siblings as servants. She asks Edmund to bring them. After that Edmund and Lucy meet again, and Edmund learns that he has endangered Tumnus by telling the witch that Tumnus has met Lucy. However, he does not tell Lucy that he did this.

On return through the wardrobe, to Lucy's dismay, Edmund does not confirm Narnia's existence to Peter and Susan.

On a third occasion the four siblings, after breaking a window, hide in the wardrobe from Mrs. Macready. Now all four step into Narnia. Peter and Susan apologize for their earlier disbelief.

They meet talking beavers, who tell them about the good lion, Aslan, who is on the move to take over power from the White Witch. The four siblings must help Aslan and his followers, as has been prophesied.

Since the others are aware of the evilness of the White Witch, Edmund realizes he cannot persuade them to go to her. Therefore he wanders off and visits her himself. The witch is angry that he did not bring his siblings and wants to kill him and is pacified only by Edmund disclosing his siblings' location. Regardless, Edmund is chained in the dungeon and meets Tumnus in an adjacent cell who is soon turned to stone by the Queen.

While Peter, Lucy, Susan and the beavers are traveling to the Stone Table, they see what they believe to be the White Witch and run. But it is really Father Christmas. He gives Peter a sword and shield, Susan a bow and arrows and a horn, Lucy a reviving liquid and a dagger.

Peter explains that they are not heroes. Also they are reluctant to participate in another war, after fleeing from London. However, they have at least to save Edmund. For Lucy another motivation is to save Tumnus. Peter becomes commander of Aslan's army.

They save Edmund. Aslan has a serious private talk with him, after which Aslan commands the others to let Edmund's past bad behavior rest. However, the witch claims Edmund, based on an old rule that traitors have to be handed over to her. Aslan negotiates with the witch, who agreed to leave Edmund alone (redemption). In return Aslan offers to sacrifice himself, and surrenders to the witch. He is humiliated and killed. However, he is resurrected. There was deeper magic that the Witch didn't know about. Her knowledge only went back to the dawn of time. In the darkness in the time before time, the Stone Table said any willing victim who had committed no crime or treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death would reverse itself. Aslan took Susan and Lucy to the Witch's house where he freed the witch's stone victims.

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