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The magic began.

During World War II, British-London was threatened by German hawks, and local children were evacuated to the nearby suburbs for refuge. The four children of the Pivins family-Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy-are arranged to live in a mysterious country house of an old professor, Mr. Kirk.

In this huge mansion with many rooms, little sister Lucy accidentally found a strange wardrobe, which is the entrance to Narnia, magic kingdom. Lucy entered this fantastic world where animals can talk and became good friends with the amiable Mr. Dona.

When Lucy came back to reality and told her brothers and sisters about her personal experience, they didn't believe this visionary sister. However, due to an accident, they also entered the wardrobe, set foot on the road to visit Narnia under the dim light inside, and started the adventure of four children in magic kingdom.

At this time, Narnia was shrouded in evil forces. The immortal white witch ruled the whole kingdom with tyranny. She subverted the rule of the lion king with conspiracy and turned Narnia into a world of ice and snow that was cold all year round. The children discovered the cruelty of the witch and decided to help the lion regain the throne.

This film is adapted from the second of the seven best-selling classic fairy tales The Legend of Narnia by the famous Irish novelist C.S. Lewis. According to the production company, the other six will be adapted one after another. The production cost of this film has exceeded $65.438+05 billion, and the overall budget is as high as $65.438+065.438+00 billion, which makes it a film.

Narnia's Behind-the-scenes Story: Magic Adaptation

The Legend of Narnia is a fantastic literary masterpiece, which has long been popular all over the world. It was written by the British writer C.S. Lewis in 1950, and a series of works (seven in all: the seal of the lion? Where's the peptide? a target = _ blank href =/view/ 1373986 . htm & gt。 Prince Caspian, the treadmill at dawn, the silver chair, the talking horse and boy, the magician's nephew and the last battle), each one was very popular and influential as soon as it was released. The book also won the Carnegie Prize for Literature, the highest honor of British children's literature, and has been translated into 35 languages, with a global cumulative sales volume of over 85 million, and still has an annual sales volume of 60 million.

In a word, Louis and Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, have a close personal relationship. They felt that there were no fascinating fantasy works at that time, so they began to create their own works. Different from the long birth process of The Lord of the Rings, Louis completed the whole series in seven years. Seven stories can be written independently or connected in series to form a grand history of the rise and fall of magic kingdom. At the same time, the author is also a well-known god.

The Legend of Narnia: Magic Making

The adaptation of famous works and famous directors, but for such an imaginative magical film, these are not enough. It is WETA Studio in New Zealand that makes these imaginations come true. This special effects studio, which once helped the Lord of the Rings create brilliance, transferred all its experience and wisdom to this brand-new theme.

WETA once created 10 species for The Lord of the Rings, but they created more than 60 species for this film, at least half of which are species that have never appeared in nature. C.S. Lewis rarely describes a new creature too much in the book, so the production team can create the world behind the wardrobe more freely.

For WETA, the most complex species is the centaur originated from ancient Greek mythology. This special effect must combine the actor's performance with the horse's movements in harmony. At the same time, they also produced more than 1300 sets of weapons and armor for the duel of 20,000 soldiers in the climax of the film. More than 1000 makeup artists and technicians were used in that scene, and the clothing department specially made clothes for this purpose, which increased the number of actors.

In the original work, the Snow Witch's carriage was pulled by eight reindeer, but the request of the filming team to import reindeer from the customs was not approved by the Agriculture and Forestry Department because they were afraid that foreign reindeer would bring in the epidemic virus prevalent in North America. For this reason, the crew had to revise the script and change the mount of Snow Princess into eight wolves, because the import of wolves is permissible.

Because the film needs some actors with very special shapes, the production team advertised in New Zealand's local New Zealand Herald to recruit extras, and the recruitment conditions are quite interesting, such as adults who are under 5 feet or over 6 feet tall. Due to the harsh conditions, the recruitment of extras was later extended to Auckland, Wellington and other cities, which lasted for two weeks before finally getting what they wanted.

Hollywood added a magical world "Narnia" and knocked down the "Goblet of Fire".

The Legend of Narnia grossed $67 million in its first weekend.

The icy kingdom of Narnia finally cooled the "flame" of Harry Potter 4 and opened the prelude to the Christmas blockbuster.

There is another magical world in Hollywood. This week, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first installment in the series Adventures of Narnia, was released in North America, with a weekend box office of $67 million, ranking first in the charts. The second place was the political thriller "The Syrian" with high Oscar appeal, while Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which occupied the top spot for three weeks, was finally pushed to the third place.

Like the Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings series, The Legend of Narnia is another magical film based on a best-selling novel, which is also full of amazing computer special effects.

The film really lived up to expectations. One Foot at the Door drove away the box office cloud hanging over Hollywood, making the total box office in North America reach $65,438+0.65,438+0.7 billion, an increase of 65,438+0.7 percentage points over the same period last year. On Wednesday, another "main player" will appear, and that is Peter Jackson's "King Kong". Narnia seems to be "PK" with King Kong, but the head of Disney's distribution department said that he was not worried about Narnia. He said, "I think there is enough market space for two super blockbusters this season because the holidays are quite long." The second-ranked Syrian box office reached $6.5438+0.2 million, and the third-ranked Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire did not fall out of the10 million mark. In addition, Brokeback Mountain and Memoirs of a Geisha, two Oscar-directed films, were also released last week and achieved good box office results. They will continue to expand their achievements in the long "award season". (Reporter Zheng Liu)

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Comment on The Legend of Narnia

When I first saw the introduction of Narnia legend, I was not interested at first. Later, I was a little surprised to see that the publicity was under the banner of "Challenge Harry Potter 4". Besides, the recent movie is not to my taste, so I'm going to see it.

From 5: 30 pm to 7: 50 pm, when I finished watching it, I thought the film was ok, at least it made me forget my hunger, but it was still not good enough, which was far from the publicity effect.

If Harry Potter is dominated by magic and twists and turns, and The Lord of the Rings wins with grand scenes, then The Legend of Narnia gives me the feeling that it is a paperback version of The Lord of the Rings with a little magic.

The first scene, the gray tone, repeated bombing, Edmund risked his life to grab a photo, which should be his father's photo. I thought Edmund would be the protagonist, but the final result should be the end of the war and their family reunion. Obviously, at the end of the film, I found that this scene is a scene. The only thing that runs through the whole film is the sentence that my mother gave Peter: "Do your best to protect your brother and sister." This should be regarded as a deficiency, and there is nothing to echo.

What impressed me deeply was that so many animals, half-human, half-beast and human appeared in the same picture, especially the scene where the white witch fought with Peter, which still felt very imposing. But in the end Aslan got rid of the white witch easily, and there were almost no casualties on the just side. It's unrealistic and disappointing, and the magic inside is Aslan's tone. The "highest magic" described in the film is just an empty idea.

However, the cuteness of the little girl Lucy left me a good memory. A girl in the back row kept saying to her boyfriend, "That little girl is so cute." Indeed, Lucy is a bright spot. The four brothers and sisters pay more attention to Edmund and Lucy's pen and ink, and seldom describe their sister Susan, and the characters are not so vivid. But those otters are very interesting. Another powerful centaur, Aslan the lion, the white witch and her dwarves and wolves, and another tauren general remind me of the tauren in Warcraft. I felt like a baby the moment I jumped up and landed.

Generally speaking, the legend of Narnia is worth seeing this film season.

Seven books, The Magician's Nephew, The Lion King, The Witch, The Wardrobe, The Talking Horse and the Prince, Prince Caspian, Surfing at Dawn, The Silver Chair and The Last Battle, make up Na.

At present, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has been made into a movie, and Prince Caspian will be released in the United States on May 16, 2008! ! ! Dawn Treadmill is expected to release 20 10 in May.

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About the original work: C.S. Louis

As early as 50 years ago, C.S. Louis, a famous British scholar and writer, contributed an outstanding masterpiece series "The Legend of Narnia" to the world. 1898, Louis was born in a scholarly family in Northern Ireland. He was immersed in his parents' books since he was a child and gained a wealth of knowledge. He also cultivated great interest in fantasy literature by reading a lot of myths and legends. At the age of ten, Louis' mother died, and the originally harmonious family immediately fell apart. Sui he

Leave Ireland and go overseas to study in England. The gloomy scenery, foggy rainy days, school life in concentration camps, violent teachers and boring lessons in a foreign land all suppressed his thoughts. In order to seek shade, precocious Louis began to write stories and immersed himself in philosophical thinking. The experience of this period not only honed his writing skills, but also laid the groundwork for his future thinking to turn to Christianity.

192 1 year, Louis was admitted to Oxford University, but World War I broke out soon after. He was drafted into the British army and went to fight in the trenches of the French battlefield. He was shot in the battle and returned to London to recuperate. After his recovery, he continued to complete his studies. At the age of 26, he found a teaching post at Oxford University. Since then, Louis has had three identities: one is a famous literary scholar and critic at Oxford and Cambridge universities; Second, he is a widely acclaimed fantasy novel and children's literature writer; Thirdly, he is a famous Christian theologian and Taoist missionary. Louis first formed a science fiction story. 1936 published the first space science fiction novel "Out of the Silent Plants". Edwin Renson, the protagonist of this novel, is based on Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, and his old friend at Oxford University.

1950, Louis published the fantasy novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. After being welcomed by readers, in six years, he completed six other novels with the theme of the kingdom of Narnia in the story, forming a series of stories of the fantasy literature masterpiece "The Kingdom of Narnia". The last book, The Last Battle, won him the Carnegie Prize for Literature, which is the highest honor of British children's literature. C. S. Lewis's life works include poems, novels, fairy tales, literary criticism and works that clarify the essence of Christianity, no less than 50 books. 1963 after his death, these works continued to be reprinted, and the grand occasion has not been embellished so far. He is regarded as the "greatest Oxford man" in contemporary times and the most outstanding writer and thinker in the 20th century.

The original name of The Legend of Narnia is The Legend of Narnia, and the translation of chronicles into Chinese is a chronicle or chronicle. From this point of view, Louise has built a huge magical world for us with his hundreds of thousands of words. The Lord of the Rings tells the story of a great war between man and the devil. Harry Potter only describes a small school of witchcraft and wizardry, but the novel The Legend of Narnia constitutes the whole history of the rise and fall of a huge kingdom. It is worth mentioning that C.S. Louis also has a close friend named J.R.R Tolkien, who is the author of the novel The Lord of the Rings and has tens of millions of followers all over the world. Tolkien once put forward a "second world" theory in his works, that is, the first world is the world created by God, that is, the world in our daily life. However, people are not satisfied with the shackles of the first world, and use "fantasy" to create an imaginary second world. In this second world, everything is built with a visible "real" image. As Tolkien's colleague, Louis is an active supporter and follower of the "second world" theory. It can be said that The Legend of Narnia is a great practice of Louis on Tolkien's "Second World" theory.

Interestingly, when Louis wrote the legend of Narnia, he did not finish it in the order of seven books: The Magician's Nephew, The Lion King, The Witch, The Wardrobe, The Talking Horse and the Prince, Prince Caspian, The Treader at Dawn, The Silver Chair and The Last Battle. Then came Prince Caspian (195 1), Dawn Knight (1952), Silver Chair (1953), and the eloquent horse and prince (1954). This is because when Louis was writing The Lion King and The Witch and the Wardrobe, he didn't intend to write a sequel, but he didn't expect it to be loved by readers like never before, so he got out of hand and wrote a chronicle of Narnia Kingdom with a huge project. So the seven books of Narnia legend are all independent chapters. You can read them separately or together. If you read them together, as someone once said, "If you read seven books together, you will feel that this is a story in one go. Just like we look up at the sky, first of all, the stars gather in the shape of a constellation. The kingdom of Narnia has its own sun, moon and stars ... "

Although The Legend of Narnia shows a kind of devotion to Christianity, it has been warmly accepted by children all over the world and has become the greatest children's literature in Britain after World War II. Some critics say that it is a work called fantasy novel, which has appeared before and after it, but only it and The Lord of the Rings have become the milestone works of fantasy novel.

Legend of Narnia kingdom

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The Legend of the Kingdom of Narnia is a series of seven magical stories written by Lewis from 195 1 956, which are the magician's nephew, the lion king, the witch and the wardrobe, the talking horse and prince, Prince Caspian, and treading the waves at dawn. The "Kingdom of Narnia" in the story is a mysterious and fantastic world. In these stories, the protagonists enter the magical world of Narnia through various wonderful methods, such as magic rings or wardrobe doors. They took great risks, fought demons and witches and saved the people of Narnia. There are talking animals in the book: giants, centaurs, dragons, tree spirits, fairies and mermaids. There are kind sheep monsters and dwarfs, and the great lion king Aslan. With their help, the little heroes defeated evil again and again and defended this magical and happy country through heroic adventures and battles.

The legend of Narnia is a combination of myth, fairy tale and legend. Its story is based on the struggle between justice and evil, with profound meaning, strong drama, tense plot, twists and turns, strange imagination and fascinating. The characters in the author's works are distinctive and lovable. The work also clearly outlines the fairytale environment. This work is almost a well-known children's book in Britain and America, and it is also recognized by some critics, publishers and educators as one of the best children's books in the 20th century. Over the past half century, this book has sold 65,005 copies and been translated into more than 30 foreign languages. These stories have not only been put on movies and TV screens, but also adapted into children's plays and children's ballets, which have been staged in Britain and the United States for a long time. One episode of The Last Battle won the Carnegie Prize.

Influenced by MacDonald and naisbitt, Lewis's works inherited the tradition of fantasy and adventure stories. Some of his imagination comes from some books he loved when he was a child: Talking Animals written by Beatrix Potter; E. Nisbert; The evil queen in Hans christian anderson's fairy tales: the dwarf in ancient German mythology; Animals in Irish fairy tales, myths and legends and ancient Greek myths and legends. Lewis combined them with his own Christian beliefs, thus turning them into a brand-new and creative story.

According to Lewis, the legend of Narnia is a series of pictures that began in his mind. "At first," he wrote, "there were no stories, just some pictures." "The Lion King, the Witch and the Wardrobe" comes from such a painting: in a snow-covered forest, a little sheep monster runs forward with an umbrella and a package on his back. Lewis later recalled: "This picture has been in my mind since I was sixteen. Then, one day, when I was forty years old, I said to myself,' Let me write a story about it ...' "

Lewis was a famous writer in the 1940s, who wrote many serious works about literature and religion. But as a bachelor, he didn't know many children and never thought about writing books for them. During World War II, many children were evacuated from London to the countryside, and four of them were placed in his home. To Lewis's surprise, the little guests didn't seem to have read any imaginative stories. So he decided to write a song for them himself. In this way, he wrote the first few words of a story. The story is about four children: Ann, Martin, Ross and Peter. In order to escape the air raid, they were sent out of London to live with an old professor who lived alone in the country.

He wrote so much at that time, but a few years later, he came back to write this story. The children (now called Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy) discovered another world-which he finally called the Kingdom of Narnia. As Lewis said, more pictures flooded into his mind: one was "the queen sitting on a sleigh"; The other is The Lion. For a time, he didn't know what the story was about. "But then," he said later, "Aslan suddenly came ... I don't know where the lion came from or why. But once it appeared, it led to the whole story. "

Everything was used to create the legend of Narnia. An evacuated child asked him an interesting question: Is there anything behind the old wardrobe at home? He has his own childhood memories: he and his brother always got into the closet made by grandpa and sat in the dark telling stories to each other.

"The Lion King, the Witch and the Wardrobe" was published in 1950, and was illustrated by a young artist Baines, who reproduced the picture in Lewis's mind well. At that time, Lewis had begun to write more Narnia stories, telling how children found their way back to Narnia again and again and experienced new adventures. In Prince Caspian (195 1) and Surfers at Dawn (1952), Lewis wrote about the time difference between Narnia and our world-this technique means that there are something unusual and unexpected in every new story.

"When I finished the voyage of Dawn Treadmill," Lewis later recalled, "I was quite sure it would be the last time. But I found that I was wrong. " 1953 Write a silver chair; 1954, he wrote the eloquent horse and prince, which happened at the same time as The Lion King, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Each book will bring readers an unforgettable new Narnia character, such as Mr Tumnus, reepicheep, General Mouse, King troup, Dwarf, etc. There are also people coming from our world, such as honest Douglas, chivalrous Shasta, bold Gilball, and eustace who has become a dragon.

This work also promotes many Christian ideas. Lewis created a lion symbolizing Christ in fairy tales, described the struggle between good and evil, and declared that as long as people are kind, obedient and kind, they can get eternal life. Aslan, the great lion king, plays an important role in every book: in the magician's nephew, it gave birth to the kingdom of Narnia; In The Lion King, the Witch and the Wardrobe, it defeated the evil white witch. In the final battle, Aslan ended the story of Narnia and led its loyal friends to a new world.

Lewis once said, "People don't write the books I want to read, so I have to write them myself." In this way, he wrote a book that thousands of people wanted to read. The legend of Narnia has attracted generations of readers, including children and adults. Today, it has not lost its magic power to firmly grasp our imagination.

From June 5438 to October 2000 10, at the 52nd Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest book fair, the legend of Narnia Kingdom spread throughout the exhibition hall, setting off waves of upsurge. Lewis's name spread like wildfire, and many publishers from various countries flocked to the booth where Narnia was placed. ...