History Film / TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe

* TheBlitz: The film opens with a [[ActionPrologue dramatic sequence]] depicting the bombing of central London by the German Luftwaffe, and the Pevensie family making a dash for their Anderson shelter. For a present-day audience, the scene drives home how truly terrifying the bombings must have been, whilst serving as the reason for the children's evacuation to the countryside.

* FaunsAndSatyrs: Mr. Tumnus. He starts out trying to kidnap Lucy, but later becomes her friend.

** The Beavers in the film quarrel and argue a bit more than they do in the book.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Jadis's dwarf]]. It's WhatHappenedToTheMouse in the book but Susan shoots him with an arrow in the film.

-->'''Professor Kirke:''' Hence the weeping.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Susan remarks that a beaver shouldn't be speaking, never mind that she's just travelled through a wardrobe into a magical land.

** In the books, after the kids became kings and queens of Narnia, the narration tells how they ruled successfully for years and years and were given nicknames: King Peter TheMagnificent, Queen Susan the Gentle, King Edmund the Just, Queen Lucy the Valiant. In TheFilmOfTheBook, they're crowned with these names while still kids just after winning their victory, which makes them seem slightly ridiculous and over-the-top -- especially in the case of Edmund, whose main contribution to the plot was betraying his siblings to the White Witch before he got better. Although it ''was'' [[CrystalDragonJesus Aslan]] who gave them the titles, so one could argue that he'd already know stuff like that.

* FoeTossingCharge: Peter performs one of these to get to the White Witch after Edmund is (almost) killed. Orius the centaur and an unnamed Rhino both do this to get to the White Witch earlier in the battle; unusually for this trope, the rhino doesn't make it to his goal and is killed halfway.

** The eagles & griffons' aerial bombing with rocks at the beginning of the Battle of Beruna echos the blitzkrieg of London depicted at the beginning of the movie.

* RealityEnsues: Peter, a 12-year-old given sword lessons just a few days ago, against the White Witch, a woman more than twice his age + with equal amounts of experience. Even with UnstoppableRage fueling him, he is nowhere near skilled enough to take her on, and she is visibly toying with him throughout their entire confrontation in the final battle... then the moment she turns serious, he can barely fend her off at all before she proves too much.

--> '''White Witch''': ''Then '''how''' dare you come alone!''

** Mr Tumnus was portrayed as a pompous older character in the previous adaptations rather than the PrettyBoy James [=McAvoy=] is.

** Upon leading Lucy to exit Narnia the first time, Lucy sees Tumnus emotional and offers him her handkerchief. After he tries to give it back, she tells him to keep it as e needs it more. At the end, as Lucy watches Aslan walk off, Tumnus comes up to her and offers her his handkerchief with the same line.

** The Pevensie mother's name isn't revealed in the book's either. But Georgie Henley ad-libbed "my mother's name is Helen" when she meets Mr Tumnus (Helen being her mother's name in real life).

* RedOniBlueOni: The Pevensie siblings can be differenced by this, with Peter and Lucy represented by Red, due to the fact that they are more intuitive, vibrant, [[{{Determinator}} determined]] and, to an extent, more sensitive than Edmund and Susan, who are more logical, cold and down to earth, inclined towards the Blue part. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Even their hair show it, due to the fact that Peter and Lucy have lighter hair, while Edmund and Susan are dark haired]].

* IronicEcho: The first time, Lucy travels to Narnia alone, and the other three children [[CassandraTruth tell her it's her imagination]]. The second trip, Edmund follows her, but when the older children still don't believe it, he claims he was only playing along. He seriously hurts her feelings with, "Some little children just don't know when to stop pretending." The third trip, all four of the children go, and Lucy is exonerated. First she tells her older siblings, "Don't worry. I'm sure it's just your imagination. Then when Peter makes Edmund apologize to her, Lucy forgives him, but she stings back, "That's all right. Some little children just don't know when to stop pretending."

** And even the book's religious subtext organizes them as this, since Peter and Lucy are meant to represent the better Apostles, Peter being named High King, representing the Apostle Peter, who in reality is the first Leader of the Christian church after Christ ascended, and Lucy, who represents Saint John, who had the most faith in Jesus, just like Lucy has in Aslan. On the other side, Edmund represents [[BiblicalBadGuy Judas Iscariot]], who betrayed Jesus for silver, just like Edmund betrays Aslan for Turkish Delight, and [[spoiler: Susan, who represents "Doubting Thomas", because she loses her faith completely in Aslan and Narnia, never reaching Aslan's Country (Heaven).]]

** Jadis's dwarf is unnamed in the book but called 'Ginnabrik' in the film. WordOfGod says this is a reference to Nikkabrik from the second book - the dwarf who wishes to resurrect Jadis - and suggest the two could be related.

--> '''White Witch''': Tell me, your sisters, are they deaf?

--> '''White Witch''': And your brother... unintelligent?

* LightIsNotGood: Done with Jadis, as she's given blonde hair and light-coloured make-up in contrast to more famous illustrations of her with black hair. WordOfGod says they thought black hair looked too gothic. Jadis does wear two black dresses in the film however - at the Stone Table and the Battle of Beruna.

** Lucy is a blonde in the books but is brunette here. Georgie Henley's hair was actually lightened for the film but it's still noticeable. Edmund is commonly portrayed as a blond too, but is played by brunet Skandar Keynes. Peter meanwhile is dark-haired in the illustrations but blond in the film. Susan is the only Pevensie to keep her book hair colour (black). Jadis's hair is never mentioned in the books but illustrations give her black hair. She is a blonde in the film.

* MistakenForGranite: At the witch's castle, Edmund goes through a foyer full of statues of animals. As he tries to step over one similarly snow-covered wolf statue, it raises ,knowcking him down to reveal he is not a statue.

* AdultFear: Peter uses his sword to split the ice on a frozen river to allow him and his sisters to escape the White Witch's wolves. He and Susan wash ashore and begin picking themselves up. Susan suddenly looks around and asks where Lucy is. Peter realizes that he is holding Lucy's empty jacket and Susan ''positively shrieks'' "What have you done?!" [[spoiler: Fortunately Lucy turns up shortly, perfectly fine except for being cold and asks if they've seen her coat.]]

* SacrificialLamb: Fox is turned to stone in the second act, just to show that Jadis is ''not'' messing around.
* SacrificialLion: Besides the more obvious example, Oreus the centaur exists to fight in the battle and be KilledOffForReal by the witch.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Lucy is a blonde in the books but is brunette here. Georgie Henley's hair was actually lightened for the film but it's still noticeable. Edmund is commonly portrayed as a blond too, but is played by brunet Skandar Keynes. Peter meanwhile is dark-haired in the illustrations but blond in the film. Susan is the only Pevensie to keep her book hair colour (black). Jadis's hair is never mentioned in the books but illustrations give her black hair. She is a blonde in the film.

* AdaptationExpansion: All adaptations feature the battle at Beruna, which happened offscreen in the book. The live action film also adds an extended sequence showing the Blitz in London - and a scene where Maugrim meets the children and offers them a chance to surrender.

* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: In the books, after the kids became kings and queens of Narnia, the narration tells how they ruled successfully for years and years and were given nicknames: King Peter TheMagnificent, Queen Susan the Gentle, King Edmund the Just, Queen Lucy the Valiant. In TheFilmOfTheBook, they're crowned with these names while still kids just after winning their victory, which makes them seem slightly ridiculous and over-the-top -- especially in the case of Edmund, whose main contribution to the plot was betraying his siblings to the White Witch before he got better. Although it ''was'' [[CrystalDragonJesus Aslan]] who gave them the titles, so one could argue that he'd already know stuff like that.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Susan in the books doesn't have much of a personality and leans more towards a TeamMom. The film portrays her as a believer in logic and reason - often showing ArbitrarySkepticism towards Narnia. She also gets upgraded to TheLancer towards Peter, especially at the frozen waterfall sequence.

* MeaningfulEcho: Happens twice. Early in the movie, Peter chides Edmund by asking "when are you going to do as you're told?" At the end, after [[spoiler: Lucy heals his near fatal injuries with her cordial,]] Peter asks the same question, this time thankfully.

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