Line #70 WesternAnimation/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe1979


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3	''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' is a 1979 MadeForTV AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' made by Sesame Workshop (known as Children's Television Workshop at the time) and distributed by CBS.
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5	The film tells the story of the Pevensies, four siblings (Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy) who pass through a magical wardrobe [[TrappedInAnotherWorld into the land of Narnia]]. The land has been cursed with eternal winter by Jadis, the White Witch, who calls herself the "queen" of Narnia, and has almost completely taken over. [[BecauseDestinySaysSo In accordance with the prophecy]], the children, helped by Aslan, defeat her and are jointly crowned as the four Kings and Queens of Narnia. [[DistantFinale After fourteen years]], the children accidentally return through the wardrobe, reverting to childhood.
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7	The movie is available on DVD and has separate dubs made for American and British audiences.
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10	!This film provides examples of:
11	* AdaptationalHeroism: This version depicts minotaurs as being allies of Aslan; we see some as part of the Narnian army. This contrasts to the original book and Disney film where they were clearly aligned with the White Witch.
12	* AdaptedOut: The film doesn't mention the Pevensies being BlitzEvacuees. In fact, the way Peter and Edmund are dressed in seventies style flares may mean the time period of the original book was dropped entirely. Additionally, Father Christmas doesn't appear in this version, with his role of handing out magical gifts being given to Aslan, although he is mentioned and his sleigh bells are heard. Nor does the Professor's stern housekeeper Mrs. Macready appear – instead of hiding from her in the wardrobe and accidentally arriving in Narnia, all four Pevensies just venture in because Peter and Susan are finally willing to believe Lucy's story.
13	* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the classic children's book by C.S. Lewis.
14	* AnIcePerson: The White Witch has ice powers. She froze all of Narnia, you know.
15	* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: For all four Pevensies at the end. Aslan himself is there.
16	* BigBrotherBully: Edmund is this to Lucy.
17	* BigGood: Aslan is The Paragon of goodness in this world. The kids are the main characters, but he is the one who saves the day. This is lampshaded by the Beavers.
18	* BreakTheHaughty: Edmund starts off arrogant and becomes more so under the witch's influence. Then she decides he's more useful as a prisoner...
19	* BreakingTheFourthWall: During one of the battles some kind of creature with a bird head wanders through the extreme foreground in no particular hurry, glances at the "camera", and then wanders off again.
20	* CreepySouvenir: The whole ''garden'' of people/animals the White Witch has turned into stone.
21	* CrystalDragonJesus: Aslan, i.e. "Lion Jesus". He's the son of "The Emperor Across the Sea" and enacts Christ's Passion to save a sinner.
22	* DisneyDeath: Edmund gets injured in the Battle of Beruna. He's definitely near death until Lucy's healing cordial revives him.
23	* DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas: Averted in that in Narnia, it is always winter and never Christmas and when Christmas finally does come, it heralds a thaw.
24	* DubNameChange: Maugrim, the wolf servant of the White Witch, had his name changed to Fenris Ulf. This actually ''was'' the character's name in some editions of the book at the time the special was made: the version of the Chronicles available then had slightly different names and in some cases altered chapters from the version HarperCollins currently publishes. Lewis was not above occasionally revising his works.
25	* EndlessWinter: The White Witch casts a spell on Narnia so that it is always winter but never Christmas.
26	* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The White Witch, and her effects on the Narnian environment, are all cold, and evil.
27	* EvilIsHammy: The White Witch to a hilarious degree.
28	* FaceDeathWithDignity: Aslan did it knowing exactly what would happen if he were to die. [[LoopholeAbuse In more than one way]].
29	* FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither: Tumnus the faun reacts this way to Lucy the first time he meets her, and owns a book called ''Is Man a Myth?''
30	* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: Inverted when the siblings are hunting for a stag, and it leads them back to the gate to the normal world.
31	* FourEyesZeroSoul: Edmund up until his HeelFaceTurn.
32	* GenderEqualEnsemble: Two boys (Peter and Edmund) and two girls (Susan and Lucy).
33	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Lucy is blonde in this version. Edmund counts too after his HeelFaceTurn.
34	* HeelFaceTurn:
35	** Edmund, for the second half, when he realizes that BeingEvilSucks and Aslan saves him.
36	** Mr. Tumnus, after his HeelRealization while in the company of Lucy.
37	* IcePalace: The Witch's castle was created by her own power.
38	* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: The wardrobe allows travel between Earth and Narnia -- sometimes.
39	* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The White Witch's justification to Edmund for why she cannot give him more Turkish Delight in the sleigh. The wardrobe is a straighter example. Although it transports the children to Narnia three times in the story, Professor Kirke says it won't work again afterwards.
40	* ItWasAGift: Father Christmas's...or rather, Aslan's gifts to the Pevensies. A sword and shield for Peter, a summoning horn and a bow and arrows for Susan, and a dagger and a magic healing cordial for Lucy.
41	* {{Jerkass}}: Edmund is rude, arrogant and sells out for candy.
42	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Edmund mellows out into this at the end.
43	* KidHeroAllGrownUp: The children grow up to be royalty in Narnia, but return to our world and get de-aged.
44	* LightIsNotGood: Jadis, the ''White'' Witch is evil.
45	* LimitedAnimation: It was the seventies and they didn't have much of a budget so this was inevitable.
46	* TheMarvelousDeer: The wish-granting white stag.
47	* MeaningfulName: "Aslan" is Turkish for "lion".
48	* MisplacedAccent: In the American dub, Peter, Susan, and Lucy all have American accents, implying AdaptationalNationality, but Simon Adams as Edmund inexplicably has a British accent like the original book character.
49	* TheMole:
50	** Edmund, for the first half, although it is revealed to the viewer at the start of the plot thread.
51	** Jadis also fooled Edmund into thinking she was on his side long enough for him to lure his siblings to Narnia.
52	** Mr. Tumnus was this to Lucy, then oddly became a [[TheMole mole]] to the Witch after his HeelRealization.
53	* MrExposition: The beavers fulfill this role, and it avoids AsYouKnow territory since the kids are new to that universe and really don't know any of the expository material.
54	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
55	** Edmund's reaction when the White Witch turns a dinner party to stone for refusing to deny it was provided by Father Christmas over his protests. At that point, Edmund realizes the evil he has sided with and wishes with all his heart that he could undo what he has done. Fortunately, Aslan later helps him do just that.
56	** Mr. Tumnus reaches it immediately when he tries to kidnap Lucy for the Witch. Since he's a nice guy who was only doing it on pain of being turned to stone, she's able to talk him out of it.
57	* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Aslan and Jadis argue about the Deep Magic and she seems to win. In the end it turns out there are things he knows about it that she doesn't.
58	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Witch's preference for turning people to stone and keeping them as trophies in her castle, as opposed to just killing them, means that Aslan can resurrect them all and lead them as reinforcements in the battle.
59	* NoIndoorVoice: The White Witch, especially in this version:
60	-->"If EITHER of you mentions the name 'ASLAN' again, he WILL BE INSTANTLY KILLED!!!"
61	* TheNounAndTheNoun ...And the noun.
62	* PortalSlam: The wardrobe's door.
63	* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: This version of Aslan has a very deep voice.
64	* PrettyInMink: Fur coats are necessary in the deep and eternal cold.
65	* PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime: [[DownplayedTrope Almost.]]
66	-->''When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone''\
67	''Sits at Cair Paravel in throne,''\
68	''The evil time will be over and done.''
69	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Subverted. It looks as if Edmund will suffer this after redeeming himself by destroying the Witch's wand, but he is saved by Lucy's cordial.
70	* SavageWolves: Fenris Ulf and his pack work for the witch as a secret police and enforcers.
71	* SiblingRivalry: Edmund and Lucy, with more on Edmund's part, due to the fact that he enjoys tormenting her. Fortunately, they got better.
72	* SleepingSingle: Implied with the Beavers. If you [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely]] at their home's interior, there's a set of bunk beds.
73	* SpringIsLate: By about a ''hundred years''.
74	* SupernaturalAid: Father Christmas' gifts to the Pevensies such as a HealingPotion.
75	* TakenForGranite: How the White Witch deals with people she doesn't like.
76	* TenderTears: Susan and Lucy shed these during Aslan's Passion.
77	* TheyStillBelongToUsLecture: The Witch tries to reclaim Edmund after his HeelFaceTurn by telling the other heroes that he is a traitor and his blood is her property. The problem is, according to the laws of magic in Narnia, she's right. This is why Aslan has to sacrifice himself in Edmund's place.
78	* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Aslan tells the others to stay back and let Peter fight Fenris alone. It directly echoes the story of Edward III saying of his son, the Black Prince, at the Battle of Crécy, "Let the boy win his spurs." (The spurs were a symbol of knighthood.)
79	* TranshumanTreachery: Mr. Beaver invokes this trope as he advises the Pevensie children that if something claims to be, used to be, or may become human, "keep an eye on it and feel for your hatchet."
80	* TheVamp: The White Witch for Edmund but with candy instead of sex.
81	* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: After being crowned Kings and Queens of Narnia, the children slowly forget their old life on Earth -- until one day, while out riding...
82	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
83	** The animals having a dinner party before being turned to stone by the Witch (leading to Edmund's HeelFaceTurn) are never mentioned again.
84	** The White Witch's dwarf servant disappears from the film after her negotiation with Aslan.
85	* WinterRoyalLady: Although not fitting the title part of the trope, Jadis fits the other parts; calls herself queen, dresses in winter colors and styles etc.

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