Dancing in Narnia

Another illustration for "The Chronicles of Narnia"

thinking about how a part of her would always know what truly happened during the war.

how a part of her would always know where she truly went.

how a part of her childhood and adulthood would always be lost to the land of no time

how a part of her would always remember that her family was lost there too

no matter how hard she tries to deny it, she knows

she remembers

she remembers the god that threw her out of paradise and knows that she can no longer step foot in a church

she remembers silk dresses and heavy crowns and knows that scratchy nylon and caked makeup will never suffice

she remembers blood stained fields and war torn siblings and knows that this world was worse in every way for it

she remembers herself

she doesn’t know herself

she sits in front of her bedroom wardrobe

it does not have carvings of trees or fauns or fairytales

it holds flimsy dresses instead of winder coats

she opens it up and walks inside

she prays to a god that she doesn’t believe in

she prays to the version of him that she knew

she prays for her family people back

she prays that this time the back of her wardrobe will fall away and take her with it

it never does.

today I am thinking about susan pevensie

'But you're happy to be here, aren't you? 'While it lasts'

1. the new zealand actor, ash jones, doing an english accent.

2. the statue of a lion that was already at the location where they were filming. it's actually a musical theatre building called rudolfinum, located in prague.

3. the boat that was radio controlled by andrew, who said that william was not good at rowing at all and was mostly just playing around with the oars. this location was also only reachable by helicopter so they had a very small crew around when filming this scene.

4. those ferns are all individually potted plants in a studio so the actors were basically walking around on ceramic pots which made them fall over very often. they had found a forest in poland with ferns but it turned out to be cheaper to buy 5000 ferns and create a fake forest instead.

5. skandar had a swollen lip here because (his words) he had turned a corner and somebody left a bar at lip height, and he walked into it. i honestly don't really see it but andrew recalls seeing skandar with ice shoved in his mouth.

6. it's a bit hard to show on a screenshot but william is holding onto a running horse here, kicking a soldier down and then getting on said horse. he actually did most of his stunts himself but this one stands out to me in particular because he had to train a lot for it and was very proud of himself. sneaky extra fun fact: one of the people william and skandar fight in the beginning of the movie is william's stunt double.

7. how absolutely unreal is this!? that's all natural light! the only thing they did was add smoke. it was shot on the south island of new zealand. amazingly done by anna as well who didn't move or flinch at all while there were galloping horses running straight at her.

8. again pretty difficult to show but that's skandar's stand in running. this will ruin the scene for you because once you know it becomes extremely obvious, he just runs in a really different way. another sneaky fun fact: in the first movie, when lucy meets tumnus for the first time and she is walking from the lamppost towards tumnus, where you see only her back, that's also georgie's stand in.

9. andrew's parents in the window which is so freaking adorable. they had a lot of people in this scene that they knew, other people's family, friends, part of their crew etc.

10. ''how do we know he's not leading us to our death?'' is a line which is said by a friend from ben named marcus, i honestly don't know anything else about him haha.

It was the White Witch. She's the one who makes it always winter, always cold.

I wonder who lived here. I think we did.

Narnia: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe • dir. Andrew Adamson

well, with the sole exception of Charn because it is haunting.