The Lion, the Witch, and kids during wartime

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The non-spoilery comments: overall, a joy to watch. They tweaked and fine tuned, cutting some things from the book, adding things that weren't there. All of it was in service to the story and greatly enhanced the character story arcs. I couldn't find any scene that struck a false note or was maudlin or sentimental, which was a big danger in

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[anirien]

Having just reread LWW, I don't think that the book implies that the "deep magic" is guiding the destinies of the children. The only place in which I think it's really referred to is a) by the Witch when she points out it's her right to kill traitors (they leave out Mr. Beaver's mention that she was the executioner for the Emperor Over the Sea) and b) in reference to the Deeper Magic from before the dawn of time which dictates that an innocent taking the place of a traitor on the stone table would cause said table to crack and "death itself to run backward." Or something like that. So I think the only destiny the Deep Magic really implies is that of Aslan's death and rebirth. There is of course the prophecy about the children and the other one about Aslan returning, but the source for those prophecies is never sited. Actually the prophecy about the children is a very messianic prophecy, in the Jewish sense, since it involves the arrival of a king or 4 monarchs in this case, who bring a golden age

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Actually the prophecy about the children is a very messianic prophecy, in the Jewish sense, since it involves the arrival of a king or 4 monarchs in this case, who bring a golden age.

That's very interesting.

Lewis also works in a lot of pagan myth--Bachanalian kind of stuff, and some Greek and Roman maybe as well. He was devoutly Christian but it seems he had interest in all kinds of legends, which maybe helps explain its universal quality despite the fact that it is also specifically Christian in many ways.

So that destiny stuff was put in by the filmmakers. So out of left field. It's not even a Christian idea (I already checked with a friend of mine who's Catholic and she was puzzled by it too). But that's really the only flubbed note in the entire movie, to me.