This new disney Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe has been given the Disney treatment, and what a mess they made of it, again a complete lack of hollywood subtlety.

scene errata :
lucy enters the room mid a game of hide and seek, and ‘she slows down in some misplaced sense of awe at a sheet covered object ?’ unrealistic please ! first of all if you were rushing to hide you would not to slow down at an ordinary wardrobe which as yet has shown no magical qualties established, secondly the wardrobe is ridiculously overwrought and ornate, and carved, the whole point of this story is that it is an ordinary wardrobe ! and it is not described to closely on the basis that children can imagine it to be the wardrobe in their own house, ie the wardrobe is the symbol of a wardrobe rather than an explicit version in itself
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