The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Corrected entry: When Lucy gives Edmund the healing elixir, which "heals any injury", his life-threatening abdomen wound is healed, but the gash on his lip remains.

Correction: The reason that it wouldn't heal Edmunds lip is because the potion is made to heal the most threatening injury or illness. If the injury is something minor, it most likely will not be healed. In the book "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", this is explained when Eustace's arm ring won't come off even after being healed by Lucy's potion. It will stop the pain, but it will not heal the injury completely.

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the film when the children become adults, the eldest sister's eyes are a very dark brown color. When they fall back through the wardrobe cabinet they go back to their original steel blue color.

Correction: It is not uncommon for eyes to change color as you get older (see here) and when the children exited the wardrobe, they reverted to the age that they were when they entered the wardrobe. No error here.

Garlonuss

Corrected entry: When Lucy came out of Narnia the first time, she was only gone for a few seconds. 5 to 10 seconds at the most. But when she goes in the 2nd time, Edmund goes in at least 30 seconds after Lucy. Wouldn't Lucy have already returned if time basically stops in Narnia?

Correction: I suggest you read "The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader", one of C S Lewis' later books about Narnia (filmed by Disney in 2010). In the first chapter of "The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader", you will read, and I quote directly: "Narnian time flows differently from ours. If you spent a hundred years in Narnia, you would come back to our world at the very same hour of the very same day on which you left. And then, if you went to Narnia after spending a week here, you might find that a thousand Narnian years had passed, or only a day, or no time at all. You never know till you get there."

Rob Halliday

Correction: Time doesn't stop in Narnia, it goes a lot faster. Lucy and Edmund eventually met up in Narnia the second time so it makes sense that they came back together. Lucy just spent a much longer time in Narnia than Edmund the second time she was there.

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Continuity mistake: When Edmund speaks with the White Witch the first time, as he eats the Turkish Delight candy, the amount and pattern of powdered sugar that remains on his lips differs in the following shots, depending on camera angle. (00:31:10)

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Trivia: Before filming the Narnia scenes, Georgie Henley was never shown the set. To get a genuine reaction of surprise, director Andrew Adamson had Henley brought onto the Narnia set blindfolded. Her reactions to Mr. Tumnus are real, too. Before filming their scenes together, she had never seen James McAvoy in costume.

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Answer: Spoiler alert: this gives some important plot twists away. Sometimes a bit of unresolved mystery improves a story, and I think this is the case here. But the book partly answers your questions. At the end of the last chapter it is shown that Mrs MacReady thinks the wardrobe is just a piece of furniture. She knows nothing about Narnia. But Professor Kirke amazes Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy by expressing familiarity with Narnia and explaining that a wardrobe might well be a portal into Narnia. If C S Lewis had not written any more books after completing "The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe" Professor Kirke's knowledge of Narnia would probably have been an unresolved mystery. But C S Lewis later wrote "The Magician's Nephew" which tells how Professor Kirke visited Narnia as a boy. The final chapter of this book says he took an apple back with him, which he planted in his garden. It grew into a tree, was cut down and made into the wardrobe. So Professor Kirke was not consciously aware of what the wardrobe could do, but with hindsight, he realised that he had set up a chain of events that caused the children to discover Narnia.

Answer: While Professor Kirke is aware of the existence of Narnia, as he was there when it was created, he doesn't appear to be aware that the wardrobe can act as a portal (although he may suspect that it has unusual properties, as the tree from which the wood came to create it grew from a Narnian apple). Mrs MacReady doesn't know.

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