The lion, the witch and the wardrobe.

Today in English class we watched the movie Narnia, the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe. I am sure you all have heard of this movie and perhaps seen it?

The film we saw is about the siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter. It's war, and the four of them have to leave with a friend of the family out in the countryside, away from the bombs and danger in the city. One day they discover a wardrobe with fur coats. But this is far from a normal wardrobe and inside they all discover a new world; Narnia and that they're all a part of a prophecy. I don't really want to spoil more for you. 

The movie is the screen version of the book with the same name written by C.S. Lewis. He has written seven books about Narnia. Lewis himself experienced the second world war this fact shows in the movies. The wars are very well made and filmed and the effects used are great. Also the film music (by Harry Gregson-Williams) is great and really getting you into the right mood.

Lewis, full name Clive Staples Lewis is an Irish-born British who is among other things a novelist, academic and an essayist. And besides the Narnia books he has also written fictional work The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy. Lewis was married to the American writer Joy Gresham. Lewis dies only 64 year old, seven years after his wife. He has experiences both the world wars, and this affects his writing but in a good way. Both the first and the second movie contain more than one battle. These battles are fought by swords and catapults, and fought very differently from the wars Lewis experienced. They are more like battles from the middle ages. But in our world the children experiences a war I think is the second world war, but it could probably be the first one as well. Here his experiences shows.  He was a close friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, and both of them were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group.

Lewis' works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. 


So you're interested in fantasy/was movies with queens and kings, fables and adventure this is probably a movie you like. And soon the third movie will be shown at cinemas in
Norway!
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