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第二次世界大战德国空袭伦敦期间，彼得、苏珊、埃德蒙和露西离开伦敦来到一位古怪的教授家里。他们觉得在那所房子里的生活很无聊，直到有一次露西发现了一个可以通向名叫纳尼亚奇幻世界的衣橱。在纳尼亚的世界里，动物可以说话，它们由一头充满智慧并且仁慈的狮子阿斯朗统治着。开始时其他人不相信露西，但很快他们就穿越了衣橱并发现纳尼亚的情况不容乐观—这个曾经迷人、宁静的地方受到邪恶的白衣女巫嘉蒂斯的诅咒，常年冰天雪地。最后，4个小孩意识到他们是破除女巫长期的冰雪之咒的关键。在阿斯朗的指引下，他们与白衣女巫展开斗争，为的是把纳尼亚从长期的冰雪之咒中解救出来。
当被问到最大的个人挑战时，导演安德鲁·亚当森（《史莱克》《史莱克2》的导演）说道：“对于我来说，我现在正在制作的电影是关于一本童年时期对我影响很大的书，它又是一部人们满怀期待的电影，因为很多人孩提时就已经很喜欢它。对于我来说，我要制作一部 重现我童年记忆的电影，而不仅仅是再现小说本身。这就是说我要实现每个人的记忆，而这就是挑战所在—使它真实。你阅读小说，它是20世纪40年代的儿童书籍，我想让现在的孩子也感受到小说的真实。”
链接：关于《纳尼亚魔法王国》
《纳尼亚魔法王国》是爱尔兰作家C·S·刘易斯创作的包含七本幻想小说的系列书。本书有基督教的主题，描述的是一群孩子探访一个叫纳尼亚的魔幻地方所经历的种种历险。纳尼亚是现在意大利城镇纳尼的拉丁文名字，位置与罗马十分接近。据说刘易斯小时候偶然看到一本地图集时把这个城镇叫做纳尼亚。
《狮子、女巫、魔衣橱》是丛书中第一部出版、也是最受欢迎的一本，它已经被改编搬上舞台和银幕。《纳尼亚魔法王国》借用了希腊和罗马神话，以及英格兰和爱尔兰的传统神话故事。
作家J·K·罗琳曾经谈到她对纳尼亚系列的欣赏，以及她从该书中得到的灵感。人们可以在罗琳描绘的哈利·波特世界里找到刘易斯所创造的魔幻世界的元素，特别是那些神奇的生物。
The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy leave London for the house of an 1)eccentric professor during the German 2)air raids of World War II. They find life in the house very dull, until Lucy discovers a 3)wardrobe that leads to a magical world called Narnia. In the world of Narnia, animals can talk and all are ruled over by the wise and 4)benevolent lion Aslan. The others don’t believe her at first, but soon all of them go through the wardrobe and discover the situation is not very good in Narnia ?the evil White 5)Witch Jadis has 6)cursed the once-charming and peaceful land with 7)eternal winter. Finally, the four children learn that they are the key to breaking the Witch’s eternal winter. With the 8)guidance of Aslan, the children fight the White Witch in order to free Narnia from her icy 9)spell forever.
When asked about the biggest personal challenge, director Andrew Adamson (the director of Shrek and Shrek 2) said: “For me, the film I am working on at the moment is a book that was very important to me as a child and it’s another movie that comes with a lot of expectations, because it’s a book that a lot of people enjoyed as children. To me it’s about making a movie which 10)lives up to my memory of the book rather than specifically the book itself. And it needs to live up to everyone else’s memories and that is what my challenge is ?to make it real. You read it and it’s a 1940s children’s book. I want it to feel real for today’s children”
Link: About the Book The 11)Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by Irish writer C. S. Lewis. The books have 12)Christian themes and describe the 13)adventures of a group of children who visit a magical land called Narnia. Narnia is the Latin name of an Italian town now named Narni, 14)located very close to Rome. It has been said that Lewis named Narnia for this town, which he had 15)come across in an 16)atlas as a child.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was the first published and the most popular book of the series. It has been 17)adapted for both stage and screen. The Chronicles of Narnia borrow from Greek and Roman 18)mythology, and traditional English and Irish fairy tales.
Author J.K. Rowling has stated her 19)appreciation for and 20)inspiration from the Narnia books. 21)Elements of the fantasy world that Lewis created can be found in Rowling’s world of Harry Potter, especially 22)in terms of the magical creatures.
