History Film / TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** When Peter first pulls out his sword against Maugrim during the standoff on the river, he noticeably fidgets with the weapon, and shows very real reluctance to kill Maugrim, noticeably grimacing at the thought of killing Maugrim in self-defence. Peter has never used a sword in his life, and even though he is the eldest of the siblings, he is still a teenager who still balks at killing even in self-defence. Maugrim notices this and mocks him for it.
** Peter, a teenager given sword lessons just a few days ago, against the White Witch, an adult woman who is immortal and with much more 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.
** What happens when an enormous amount of ice starts breaking apart? An enormous flash flood that washes away any form of scent. The wolves noticeably are stated to be exhausted from having chased them. The children's scent was washed away, so they had to look for the children the hard way.

* TakenForGranite: Jadis's wand turns living things to stone, an ability shown numerous times throughout the movie. Incidentally, this movie currently provides the page image for that trope.

** 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. It's not stated outright that he knows this future, but with the other powers he has, this seems plausible. [[note]] Given that he's Narnia's incarnation of Jesus, this should unsurprisingly be almost certain [[/note]]

** 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. It's not stated outright that he knows this future, but with the other powers he has, this seems plausible.

** [[spoiler: When the children arrive back in the professor's house, he throws them the ball they broke the window with and hid in the wardrobe in the first place over.]]

** The film's 10-minute prologue, showing the Blitz and the Pevensies' evacuation to the countryside, is all based on a single sentence in the book: "...they were sent away from London during the war, because of the air raids." The book also offers no further specification as to where the Pevensies are from; in the film, they're from Finchley.

** The Battle at Beruna, which is only briefly described and mostly happened off-page in the book, is shown in detail and played as an [[BigBadassBattleSequence epic climax]].

** The Battle at Beruna, which is only briefly described and mostly happened off-page in the book, is shown in detail and played as a BigBadassBattleSequence.

* AdaptationExpansion: Being an early work aimed at young children, Lewis's original novel is rather short. The main emphasis is also on the spiritual subtext (Lewis was a Christian apologist and theologian). Adapting the source material for a Disney family film, therefore, required fleshing out some of the more latent aspects, such as the fantasy/warfare elements.

** The Battle at Beruna, which is only briefly described and mostly happened off-page in the book, is given a much more detailed depiction in the film.

* BigBrotherInstinct: The Pevensies care about each other and the two older ones are clearly trying to keep the younger siblings out of trouble, though it comes across as AngerBornOfWorry most of the time. For their part, Edmund rushes straight into battle to defend his brother and Lucy doesn't hesitate to tend to him with her healing cordial.

* AdaptationalBadass: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with the Witch:

* FourElementEnsemble: Aslan's speech during the coronation refers to the four elements:
** Water: "To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant."
** Earth: "To the great western wood, King Edmund the Just."
** Fire: "To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle."
** Air: "And to the clear northern sky, I give you King Peter the Magnificent."

* WalkingShirtlessScene:
** It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] with Mr. Tumnus because the character is a faun.

* AdaptationDyeJob:
** Lucy is a blonde in the books but is a 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 color is never mentioned in the books, but illustrations give her black hair. She is a strawberry blonde in the film.

''[[caption-width-right:350:[[TagLine The beloved masterpiece comes to life.]]'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TagLine The beloved masterpiece come to life.]]]]

''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' is the first installment in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' film series. It is based on the first published and second chronological novel in Lewis's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' series, was released in 2005 and directed by Andrew Adamson. Creator/WilliamMoseley, Creator/AnnaPopplewell, Creator/GeorgieHenley, and Creator/SkandarKeynes play Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund, four British children evacuated during the Blitz to the countryside, who find a wardrobe that leads to the fantasy world of Narnia. There they ally with the Lion Aslan (voiced by Creator/LiamNeeson) against the forces of Jadis, the White Witch (Creator/TildaSwinton). The screenplay based on the novel by C. S. Lewis was written by Stephen [=McFeely=] and Christopher Markus.

* SacrificialLion: Besides the more obvious example, Oreus the centaur exists to fight in the battle and be killed off by the witch. Subverted later when Aslan reverses the stone-process, and he then shows up as part of a guard at the kid's coronation.