Phixius

Corrected entry: When Peter first dislocates his arm in the fight with Miraz, his arm is snapped backwards, away from the body. However, when Edmund later "relocates" it for him, he is still pushing it backwards, away from the body, which would just dislocate it even more.

Correction: He's pulling Peter's arm away from the shoulder socket in the direction it was dislocated to avoid further damage to the tissue or bone as he manipulates it. He then manoeuvres the bone back into its socket.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Miraz isn't crowned King until midway through the movie. Yet before that point, Caspian is still referred to as "Prince," so he isn't the King either. So who is? Miraz is identified as the Regent, but a regent is a person who reigns in place of a king who isn't of age yet or is otherwise unfit to rule; i. e. the other person is still King (and usually has some limited authority), although he doesn't rule yet. That does not seem to be the case here. Either Miraz should already be King, or if Miraz is a regent, Caspian should be King. This mistake is only in the movie; in the book, Miraz is King from the start.

Correction: You're talking about our rules/laws/customs. This is an entirely separate plane of existence. They do things differently there. Also, differences between books and their film adaptations are immaterial in regards to anything on this site.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Fireworks are shot up at the beginning of the movie (to announce the birth of Miraz's son) and at the end of the movie (for Caspian's coronation). For the Narnians to have fireworks, they must have gunpowder (and from the modern appearance of the fireworks, must have had it for some time), but if that's the case, why are their battles still fought with swords and crossbows? Shouldn't they have firearms by now?

Correction: Just because they've got something that resembles our fireworks doesn't mean they can (or want to) turn them into a weapon. Remember, magic exists in Narnia: there very well may be no gunpowder involved at all. At any rate, there's not enough info here to warrant a mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the opening sequence in the movie, Miraz sends at least a half dozen soldiers to kill Caspian by massive crossbow fire while he sleeps. Later, none of the other members of the court of nobles has any clue that an assassination attempt was even made. Historically, unless an usurper wished to make plain that he killed the rightful heir, such blatant shows of force would not be used because of the near certainty that the act would be discovered by someone's spy. Another is that Miraz is made king by unanimous consent when Caspian, the rightful heir, re-emerges in league with the Old Narnians. It would make sense that at least a few nobles would have had pause or joined the rightful heir. Both of these are only plot holes in the movie and are departures from the plot of the book itself, which has a seamless plot.

Correction: These are all matters of opinion, from someone who apparently didn't much care for the changes made to the story. If Miraz kills Caspian and becomes king, who's going to prosecute him for the murder of Caspian? The nobles remained with Miraz because they felt he had the better chance of winning and because they wanted to hold on to as much power/authority as they could. Miraz would be more willing dole out favors to corrupted nobles than Caspian would.

Phixius

Corrected entry: To reach the battle ground at the Narnian headquaters, the troops had to travel through the woods. The trebuchets were also able to make it through the dense woods without any problems, even though they are much larger than the trees.

Correction: Trebuchets can be disassembled and made more compact for transportation.

Phixius

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