The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe Movie Analysis

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a film series which was directed by Andrew Adamson based on the novel of C.S. Lewis. While the movie was praised by many critics for identically portraying elements in the book as Lewis would have, some critics have raised concerns about the film’s, or the book’s simplified, almost inaccurate symbolic depiction of Aslan as Jesus Christ. It is mentioned in Don King’s journal article that the film has “effectively eviscerating Lewis’ powerful tale of selfishness, love, sacrifice, and redemption” (King 583). This paper is going to examine Lewis’ true intentions hidden behind the character of Aslan through the scope of the movie The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, as Director …show more content…
For instance, Edmund in the movie is angry, self-centered, proud, and mean-spirited, is actually everyman or everywoman, as we can see in him our own self-love. Like him, we want the world to revolve around us–we want to be the smartest, the best-off, the one in control. And, like him, once bewitched by our own version of Turkish Delight, we would willingly sell out even our own family in order to please our lofty visions of ourselves (King 583). Edmund is the ultimate representation of the sinful human nature in that sense and the movie does not make the mistake of making the evil orientation of Edmund ambiguous to the audience. Peter, Susan, and Lucy then portray the love for the lost, compassion for unworthy, concern for the wretched which vividly represent Jesus’ teachings and characteristics. In the beginning of the movie, Edmund lied to Susan and Peter about going the Narnia with Lucy and eventually made her cry, yet Lucy never despairs of her brother and she is the first to embrace him when he finally comes to his senses as the parable of the lost son in Luke 15:11-32. I could also see the correlation of Lucy being the first one to find the door to Narnia as Jesus once preached that little children will be the first to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 18:3). As soon as Lucy entered the kingdom of Narnia, there was a lamppost in the midst of snow, which I believe …show more content…
Lewis was acutely conscious of the hiddenness of God, of the inexhaustible mystery of the Divine” (Schakel 1). Lewis proved this by incorporating Will Vaus’ statement in his first published book which depicts Aslan as “the greatest character of his fiction...the great lion who gives us Lewis’ perspective on the very character of Jesus Christ”. Such wording implies a cataphatic view of Aslan, as presenting an intentional, accessible, evident image of Christ (Schakel 6). However, C.S. Lewis revealed his intentions to depict some of the Christian elements indirectly rather than accurately in his books when he wrote in his essay, “why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm”, denying determined use of evangelical Christian imagery in his work The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Schakel 11). In the end, the images of Christ are present in Lewis’ books but these images often work by indirection, by suggesting the truth but leaving readers to discover and experience it for themselves, as is the motivation behind all imaginative literature. Thus, Lewis intentionally simplifies the “truth” of the gospel in his work in order to give the readers a choice to discover, and perhaps

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The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe Movie Analysis

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