Religion In The Chronicles Of Narnia

A New Approach to Religion through Fantasy

When it comes to magical worlds and the fantasies of being there can be quite hard to relate to. One that relates to me is Chronicles of Narnia, not only because of the fantasy part how C.S Lewis made Christianity more welcoming to non-believers C.S Lewis the writer of the series of Chronical of Narnia takes a surprising approach to this belief that seeing is believing. With the adaptations made from the novel to the big screen of Chronicles of Narnia the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Paul Stones (1988) and Andrews Adamson’s (2005) versions of the film incorporated some of the ideas that C.S Lewis wanted to get across to children. Paul Stones version of The chronicles of Narnia is a series

Even the appearance of Santa clause who they called father Christmas appears in the film. "According to Markos, the archetypes we are all familiar with all appear in world called Narnia and that J.r.r Tolkien, the creator of Lord of the rings didn't like the idea that the movie Chronicles of Narnia had borrowed ideas from legends and culture". (pg.6) I think each creature adds to the effect of just believing in something even if it isn't real. Of course, you can't walk through a wardrobe, and come into a world called Narnia. But watching the film makes you want to believe that could be a possibility. The mythological creatures, father Christmas, Aslan, even the evil witch, all create this mise-en-scene effect of a magical world. In Stones version, he does use the mythological creatures but he also created some of them with animations. In Adamson's version of the creatures, he has large giants, and even real animals. In the fighting scene in Adamson's version, you get a close up look of all the creatures of Narnia. But one interesting factor that can be seen is how certain animals were used for the witches' army, and the ones used for Aslan's army. You can't really say that an animal is evil but the fighting scene alludes the fact that since there on the witches side their evil. The creatures used in Stones version in the battle scene were animation, and didn't really use any real animals. But in the fight scene in Adamson version there are polar bears and cheetahs and tigers. When the fight scene starts the cheetahs, who are on Aslan side, and the white tigers are on the witches side are the first to fight. there is a long-muted pause before they fight which adds to the mise-en-scene of the fight. The diegetic sound of the cheetah and tigers screaming during the pause makes the start of the battle scene