Narnia Script, Exercises of Music

Download Narnia Script and more Exercises Music in PDF only on Docsity! Edited from the DVD by Specter Original transcript created by ~Rogue~ additional corrections by: bdwilner, Curumo, Guy Drory, Kristen the Great, lamer, memetcalf, Natalie, OnlyMyStory, stronger_WM Send any corrections to webmaster@narniafans.com last corrections made: April 29, 2006 Scene: Bombing London (The Blitz, 1940) (Random Germans speak to each other from inside the plane. Cut to Edmund standing at the window) Pevensie Home, Living Room Mrs. Pevensie: Edmund! Get away from there! Peter! (to Edmund) What do you think you're doing?! Peter, quickly, the shelter. Now! Peter: (grabs Edmund) Come on! Edmund: Wait... Peter: Come on, leave it! Pevensie Home, Lucy and Susan's Room Lucy: Mommy! Susan: (grabs things from next to her bed with a flashlight, notices Lucy in bed): Lucy, come on! (Pevensies are running to the shelter, we hear Lucy shrieking. Edmund turns around, as if forgetting something.) Mrs Pevensie: Come on, quickly! Peter: Run! Run! Susan: Hurry! Lucy: Mum! Edmund: Wait. Dad! (Peter grabs at him and chases him) Peter: Ed! Mrs Pevensie: Edmund, no! Peter: I’ll get him! Mrs Pevensie: Peter, come back! Peter: Ed! Come here! Edmund! Get down! (Edmund runs inside, grabs picture, Peter pushes him to the floor as the window explodes) Peter: Come on, you idiot, run! Get out! (They run back into the shelter.) Mrs Pevensie: Come on! Hurry! (Peter shoves Edmund into a bed in the shelter.) Peter: Why can't you think of anyone but yourself? You’re so selfish! You could have got us killed! Mrs Pevensie: Stop it! (to Edmund) It's OK. Shh. Peter: Why can't you just do as you're told? (Peter slams the shelter door) Scene: Evacuating London Random Evacuees and other people: “Alms for the poor. Alms for the poor.” “Hurry, this way!” “God bless you, sir.” ANNOUNCER: Children and evacuation staff... Attention, would all parents ensure that their children have the appropriate identification papers. Mrs. Pevensie (to Lucy): You need to keep this on, darling. All right? You warm enough? Good girl. Random Evacuees and other people: “Say hello to Auntie Laura. Goodbye, darling, we love you.” Edmund: If Dad were here, he wouldn't make us go. 2 Tumnus: AH!(screams) (Tumnus looks out from behind a tree and Lucy looks from behind the lamppost. Then she comes out and picks up his parcels) Tumnus (slowly walking out as Lucy picks up packages): Uh, CH... ch.. child (stammering) Lucy: Were you hiding from me? Tumnus: No. Uh, well. (stammering) I just... I... No. No. I-I-I just... I was just, um... I didn't want to scare you. Lucy: If you don't mind my asking...what are you? Tumnus: Well, I'm a...(sighs) Well, I'm a faun. And what about you? You must be some kind of…beardless dwarf? Lucy: I'm not a dwarf. I'm a girl! And, actually, I'm tallest in my class. Tumnus: Do you mean to say that you’re a Daughter of Eve? Lucy: Well, my mum's name is Helen... Tumnus: Yes, but you are in fact human? Lucy: Yes, of course. Tumnus: What are you doing here? Lucy: Well, I was hiding in the wardrobe in the spare room, and... Tumnus: Spare Oom? Is that in Narnia? Lucy: Narnia? What's that? Tumnus: Well, dear girl, you're in it! Everything from the lamppost, all the way to Castle Cair Paravel on the Eastern Ocean, every stick and stone you see, every icicle…is Narnia," Lucy: This is an awfully big wardrobe. Tumnus: (scoffs) War Drobe? (aloud) I'm sorry. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tumnus Lucy: Pleased to meet you, Mr. Tumnus! I'm Lucy Pevensie. (extends hand)... Oh, you shake it. Tumnus: Uh…why? Lucy: I... I don't know. People do it when they meet each other. (Tumnus shakes her hand left to right) Tumnus: Well, then, Lucy Pevensie from the shining city of War Drobe in the wonderous land of Spare Oom, how would it be if you came and had tea with me? Lucy: Well, thank you very much, but I... I probably should be getting back. Tumnus: Yes, but it’s just around the corner! And there’ll be a glorious fire with toast and cakes! And-and, perhaps, we'll even break into the sardines. Lucy: I don’t know….. Tumnus: Come on. It's not every day that I get to make a new friend Lucy: Well, I suppose I could come for a little while. If you have sardines. Tumnus: By the bucketload. (They walk arm-in-arm to Tumnus’ home) Tumnus: Not much further..wait until you see it. You all right? Lucy: Mm-hm. (Lucy stops when she sees the door, again in awe of Narnia) Tumnus: Well, here we are. Come Along. Scene: In Tumnus’ House Tumnus: After you. 5 Lucy: May I help you with that? Tumnus: Thank you very much. Lucy: (sees Tumnus' home) Oh. (Lucy looks at a picture) Tumnus: Now that…that is my father. Lucy: He has a nice face. He looks a lot like you. Tumnus: No. No, I'm not very much like him at all, really. Lucy: My father is fighting in the war. Tumnus: My father went away to war too. But that was a long, long time ago. Before this dreadful winter. Lucy: Winter's not all bad. There's ice skating and snow ball fights. Oh! And Christmas! Tumnus: Not here. No. No, we haven't had a Christmas in a hundred years. Lucy: What? No presents for a hundred years? Tumnus: Always winter, never Christmas. It’s been a long winter. But you would have loved Narnia in summer. We Fauns danced with the dryads all night, and, you know, we never got tired. And music! Oh, such music! Would... would you like to hear some now? Lucy: Oh! Yes please. Tumnus(gets flute out): Now, are you familiar with any Narnian lullabies? Lucy(shakes her head): Sorry, no. Tumnus: Well, that’s good. Because this… probably won't sound anything like one. (Tumnus plays a Narnia Lullaby and Lucy watches Narnians dancing in the fire and falls asleep under an enchantment. Hours later, she wakes up, the sun has set.) Lucy: Oh, I should go. Tumnus: It’s too late for that now. I'm such a terrible faun. Lucy: Oh, no. You're the nicest faun I've ever met. Tumnus: Then I'm afraid you've had a very poor sampling. Lucy: No. You can't have done anything that bad. Tumnus: It's not something I have done, Lucy Pevensie. It's something I am doing. Lucy: What are you doing? Tumnus: I’m kidnapping you....It was the White Witch. She's the one who makes it always winter, always cold. She gave orders. If any of us ever find a human wandering in the woods, we're supposed to turn it over to her! Lucy: But, Mr. Tumnus, you wouldn't. I thought you were my friend. Scene: Lucy’s Return Tumnus: Now. She may already know you’re here. The woods are full of her spies. Even some of the trees are on her side! (Lucy and Tumnus step into the light of the lamppost) Tumnus: Can you find your way back from here? Lucy: I think so. Tumnus: All right. Lucy: Will you be alright? (Tumnus laughs nervously, Lucy comforts). Lucy: Hey... hey... hey. Tumnus: I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Here. (He tries to hand Lucy's handkerchief back) 6 Lucy: Keep it. You need it more than I do. (Tumnus laughs, and touches Lucy's nose.) Tumnus: No matter what happens, Lucy Pevensie, I am glad to have met you. You've made me feel warmer than I've felt in a hundred years. Now go. Go! (Lucy runs off and Mr. Tumnus returns to his home. Lucy falls out of the wardrobe) Scene: Back in England Peter (off camera): 98, 99, 100... Ready or not, here I come! Lucy: It's all right! I'm back! I'm all right! Edmund: Shut up! He's coming! Peter: You know, I'm not sure you two have quite got the idea of this game! Lucy: Weren't you wondering where I was? Edmund; That's the point. That was why he was seeking you. Susan: Does this mean I win? Peter: I don't think Lucy wants to play anymore. Lucy: But I’ve been gone for hours. (Susan and Edmund examine the wardrobe) Susan: Lucy, the only wood in here is the back of the wardrobe. Peter: One game at a time, Lu. We don't all have your imagination. Lucy: But I wasn't imagining! Susan: That’s enough, Lucy. Lucy: I wouldn’t lie about this! Edmund: Well, I believe you. Lucy: You do? Edmund: Yeah, of course! Didn't I tell you about the football field in the bathroom cupboard?s Peter: Will you just stop? You just have to make everything worse, don't you? Edmund: It was just a joke! Peter: When are you gonna learn to grow up? Edmund (angrily): Shut up! You think you're Dad, but you're not! (he storms out) Susan: Well, that was nicely handled! (follows Edmund out) Lucy: But... it really was there. Peter: Susan’s right, Lucy. That’s enough. (Lucy closes the wardrobe and it fades to night) Scene: Back to Narnia and the White Witch (Pan down on candle burning. Lucy puts on her boots and takes the candle.) (Flushing toilet as Edmund comes out and sees Lucy. He follows her to wardrobe. Lucy’s candle blows out when she opens the wardrobe door. She climbs inside as Edmund enters the room) Edmund: Lucy. Where are you? (Opens the wardrobe door) Edmund: Boo! (Gets inside the wardrobe) Lucy. Hope you’re not afraid of the dark. (Shuts the door) Lucy? Lucy? Lucy! (Backs through the wardrobe and falls flat on his back into Narnia. Gets up and starts looking around) Edmund: Lucy. Where are you? Lucy. I think I believe you now! (Edmund walks past the lamp post and further into Narnia. He hears bells ringing) Edmund: Lucy. Lucy? 7 Susan: It's our sister, sir. Lucy. Professor: The weeping girl. Susan: Yes, sir. She’s upset. Professor: Hence the weeping. Peter: It's nothing. We can handle it! Professor: Oh, I can see that. Susan: She thinks she's found a magical land. (The Professor smiles) Susan: In the upstairs wardrobe. Professor: (gets up quickly) What did you say? Peter: Um, the wardrobe, upstairs. Lucy thinks she's found a forest inside. Susan: She won't stop going on about it. (Susan and Peter sit on a couch and the Professor sits in a chair across from them) Professor: What was it like? Susan: Like talking to a lunatic. Professor: No, no, no, not her. The forest. Peter: You're not saying you believe her? Professor: You don't? Susan: But of course not! I mean, logically, it’s impossible. Professor: What do they teach in schools these days? Peter: Edmund said they were only pretending. Professor: And he's usually the more truthful one, is he? Peter: No. This would be the first time. Professor: Well, if she’s not mad and she’s not lying, then logically we must assume she's telling the truth. Peter: You're saying that we should just believe her? Professor: She's your sister, isn't she? You're her family! You might just try acting like one! Scene: Playing Cricket Peter: Peter winds up, poised to take yet another wicket! (Ball hits Edmund in the leg) Edmund (rubs his leg): Ow! Peter: Whoops! Wake up, Dolly Daydream. Edmund: Why can't we play hide and seek again? Peter: I thought you said it was a kid’s game. Susan: Besides, we could all use the fresh air. Edmund: It’s not like there isn’t air inside. Peter: Are you ready? Edmund: Are you? (beats his bat on the ground) (Peter pitches the ball, hard, and Edmund thwacks it hard. It smashes through an upstairs window) Scene: Into the Wardrobe and into Narnia (The children are looking at the broken window and the suit of armor on the floor) Peter: Well done, Ed. 10 Edmund: You bowled it! Mrs. Macready: What on earth is goin' on? Footsteps are heard loudly! Susan: The Macready! Peter: Run! (The children run around the house looking for a place to hide.) Peter: Come on! (The children run continue running frantically. The footsteps appear to be everywhere.) Edmund: No, no, back, back, back. (Ed leads the way into the spare room, runs up to the wardrobe and opens the door) Edmund: Come on! Susan: Oh, you've got to be joking. (The children run into the wardrobe, and Peter peaks out through the crack in the door.) Susan: Get back! Lucy: My toe! Edmund: I'm not on your toe! Move back. Peter: Will you stop shoving? (Sounds of kids griping. Susan and Peter fall backwards into the snow. They get up from under the tree branches and look around) Susan: (gasps) Impossible, Lucy: Don't worry. I'm sure it's just your imagination. Peter: (stammering) I don't suppose saying we're sorry would quite cover it. Lucy: No. It wouldn't. (Lucy hits Peter in the face with a snowball) But that might! (Peter throws one back at her and a snowball fight begins.) Lucy: Oh! (Susan hits Edmund in the arm with one.) Edmund: Ow! (rubs his arm) Stop it! (They all realized Ed lied) Peter: You little liar! Edmund: You didn't believe her, either! Peter: Apologize to Lucy. (Edmund just looks at her) Peter: Say you're sorry. (Peter steps up to him) Edmund: All right! I'm sorry. Lucy: That's all right. Some little children just don't know when to stop pretending. Edmund : Oh, very funny. Susan: Maybe we should go back. Edmund: But shouldn’t we at least take a look around? Peter: I think Lucy should decide. Lucy: I'd like you all to meet Mr. Tumnus! Peter: Well, then Mr. Tumnus it is. (goes back into wardrobe) Susan: But we can’t go hiking in the snow dressed like this. 11 Peter: No. But I’m sure the professor won’t mind us using these. (Peter starts handing out the fur coats) Anyway, if you think about it logically, we're not even taking them out of the wardrobe. (shoves a coat at Edmund) Edmund: But that's a girl's coat! Peter: I know. Scene: Discovering Narnia (The children walk through the woods, laughing, looking at the lamp post, Peter falls down a hill laughing etc.) Lucy: ...lots and lots of lovely food, and we’ll have lots and lots of... (Everyone notices the broken down door.) Peter: Lu? (Lucy gasps and runs towards it) Peter: Lucy! (They all run to Tumnus’ house) Lucy: Who would do something like this? (Edmund steps on broken picture of Tumnus' dad. Peter gives him a dirty look before ripping a notice from the wall) Peter: “The Faun Tumnus is hereby charged with High Treason against Her Imperial Majesty, Jadis, Queen of Narnia, for comforting her enemies and fraternizing with humans. Signed Maugrim, Captain of the Secret Police. Long Live the Queen.” Susan: All right. Now we really should go back. Lucy: But what about Mr. Tumnus? Susan: If he was arrested just for being with a human, I don’t think there’s much we can do. Lucy: You don't understand, do you? I'm the human!!! She must have found out he helped me! Peter: Maybe we could call the police. Susan: These are the police. Peter (to Lucy): Don't worry, Lu. We'll think of something Edmund: Why? (Everyone looks at him.) I mean, he’s a criminal! Shot through the open door behind Edmund of a tree with a single robin on a branch. Robin: Psst! Susan: Did that bird just “psst” us? Scene: Outside Mr Tumnus’ Cave (They step outside, they hear rustles from the bushes. The children move closer together. Suddenly a beaver appears) Lucy: It... It's a beaver. Peter: Here, boy. (clicks tongue) Here, boy. (clicks with his tongue and fingers and holds out his hand, Mr. Beaver stares at it then sits upright) Mr. Beaver: I ain't gonna smell it, if that's what you want! Lucy laughs Peter:Oh! Sorry. Mr. Beaver: Lucy Pevensie? Lucy: Yes? (Mr. Beaver hands her the handkerchief) Lucy: Hey, that's the hankie I gave to Mr. Tum... Mr. Beaver: Tumnus. He got it to me just before they took him. 12 Mr. Beaver: No! Peter: Get off me! Mr. Beaver: You're playing into her hands. Susan: We just can't let him go! Lucy: He’s our brother! Mr. Beaver: He's the bait! The Witch wants all four of ya! Peter: Why? Mr. Beaver: To stop the prophecy from coming true! To kill ya! The three children stare horrified. Susan: This is all your fault. Peter: My fault? Susan: None of this would have happened if you had just listened to me in the first place! Peter: Oh, so you knew this would happen? Susan: I didn't know what would happen. Which is why we should have left while we still could! Lucy: Stop it! This isn’t going to help Edmund. Mr. Beaver: She's right. Only Aslan can save your brother now. Peter: Then take us to him. They turn and watch as the gates shut behind Edmund. Scene: Edmund at the Witch’s Castle (Edmund is walking through the courtyard and starts at Giant Rumblebuffin. He walks further in and looks about him at the stone figures. He steps on the remains of a fire in front of a stone lion and bends to pick up a charred log which he uses to draws glasses and a mustache on the lion. Edmund continues through the courtyard and steps over “another stone figure”. Maugrim, a huge wolf and Captain of the Witch’s Secret Police, leaps up and pins Edmund to the ground with his front paws) Maugrim: Be still, stranger, or you’ll never move again! Who are you? Edmund: I’m Edmund! I met the Queen in the woods! She told me to come back here! I’m a Son of Adam! (Maugrim gets off him) Maugrim: Hmm. My apologies, fortunate favorite of the queen. Or else, not so fortunate. Right this way. (Edmund is seen climbing so VERY steep ice steps and walking into the throne-room filled with smoking dry ice. A huge ice throne covered in furs is at one end. Edmund and Maugrim walk towards it and stop in front of it) Maugrim: Wait here. (Edmund looks about him before walking up the throne and sitting in it. He is clearly imagining what it would be like to be king. The White Witch walks up the throne on his left, unnoticed.) White Witch: Like it? Edmund: (Jumps up, startled) Uh... Yes, Your Majesty. White Witch: I thought you might. Tell me, Edmund... Are your sisters deaf? Edmund: No. White Witch: And your brother, is he... ...unintelligent? Edmund: Well, I think so. But Mum says... White Witch: Then how dare you come alone?! 15 Edmund: I tried! White Witch: Edmund, I asked so little of you. Edmund: They just don’t listen to me! White Witch: You couldn’t even do that. Edmund: I did bring them half ay. They’re at the little dam with the Beavers. White Witch: Well. I supposed you’re not a total loss then, are you? (Edmund approaches again) Edmund: Well, I was wondering, could I maybe have some more Turkish delight now? White Witch (to Ginarrbrik): Our guest is hungry! Ginarrbrik: This way... (pulls out knife and presses it into Edmund's back marching him off) ...for your num-nums. White Witch: Maugrim? (He appears at the side of the throne.) You know what to do. (Maugrim lets out a howl summoning the other wolves. Edmund watches them in horror. The wolves burst out from the throne room) Scene: Running from the Wolves Mr. Beaver, Susan, Lucy and Peter burst through the little door at top speed. Mr. Beaver: Hurry, Mama! They’re after us! Mrs. Beaver: Oh, right then...(she dashes around grabbing things from various cupboards.) Peter: What’s she doing? (Mr Beaver indicates she’s lost it!) Mrs. Beaver: Oh, you'll be thanking me later. It's a long journey and Beaver gets pretty cranky when he's hungry. Mr. Beaver: I'm cranky now! Exterior shot. The wolves are already at the dam. Maugrim: Take them. Back inside the Dam. Susan: Do you think we’ll need jam? Peter: Only if the Witch serves toast. (Everyone gasps as the wolves start attacking the dam. Interior shot of the wolves breaking through the wood.) Maugrim: Hurry. (The wolves get in. The place is empty. One starts pawing at a door, opens it and peers down a tunnel. Cut to inside the tunnel) Mr. Beaver: Badger and me dug this. Comes out right near his place. Mrs. Beaver: You told me it led to your mum’s! (Lucy trips on a root…howling can be heard) Susan: Lucy! Lucy: They're in the tunnel. Mr. Beaver: Quick! This way. Mrs. Beaver: Hurry! Peter: Run! Mrs. Beaver: Quick! Quick! Quick! (They continue to run further but come to dead end) Mrs. Beaver: You should have brought a map! Mr. Beaver: There wasn't room next to the jam! 16 (He jumps up and into the hole. Everyone else follows.) Susan: Lucy! (Lucy backs away as the others emerge, trips and falls flat on her back. Peter and Mr. Beaver roll a barrel in front of the hole, Mr. Beaver turns and his face drops when he sees what Lucy tripped over – little woodland creatures turned to stone. Mr. Beaver walks up to a stone Badger and touches its paw.) Mrs. Beaver: I'm so sorry, dear Mr. Beaver: He was my best mate. Peter: What happened here? A fox appears on a little ledge above the Badger hole. Fox: This is what becomes of those who cross the Witch Mr. Beaver: You take one more step, traitor, and I’ll chew you to splinters! Fox: Relax. I'm one of the good guys Mr. Beaver: Yeah? Well, you look an awful lot like one of the bad ones. Fox: An unfortunate family resemblance. But we can argue breeding later. Right now we've got to move. Peter: What did you have in mind? Wolves burst out of the barreled up hole and encircle the Fox who was in the process of covering the tracks with his tail before they came. Fox: Greetings, gents. Lost something, have we? Maugrim (circles the fox): Don’t patronize me! I know where your allegiance lies. We’re looking for some humans. Fox: (laughs) Humans? Here in Narnia? That's a valuable bit of information, don't you think? One of the other wolves pounces on the fox and grabs him harshly in his jaws. Maugrim walks right up to him. Maugrim: Your reward is your life. It’s not much, but still. Where were the fugitives? (The Fox hangs his head in shame and points with a paw) Fox: North. They ran north. Maugrim: Smell them out. (Wolf casts aside the fox and runs off. Fox lies still on the ground.) Scene: Sitting around a fire (Cut to a lit fire. The Fox yelps as Mrs Beaver attempts to sort out his wounds) Fox: They were helping Tumnus. The Witch got here before I did. Ow! Oh! Lucy: Are you all right? Fox: Well, I wish I could say their bark was worse than their bite. Ow! Mrs. Beaver: Stop squirming! You're worse than Beaver on bath day. Mr. Beaver: Worst day of the year. Fox: Thank you for your kindness, but that’s all the cure I have time for. Lucy: You're leaving? Fox: It has been a pleasure, My Queen, and an honor, but time is short and Aslan himself has asked me to gather more troops. Mr. Beaver: You've seen Aslan? Mrs. Beaver: What’s he like? Fox: Like everything we've ever heard. You’ll be glad to have him by your side in the battle against the Witch 17 (The others look at each other curiously before emerging and seeing Father Christmas who laughs happily! Lucy walks towards him.) Lucy: Merry Christmas, sir. Father Christmas: It certainly is, Lucy, since you have arrived. Susan: Look, I've put up with a lot since I got here, but this... Peter: We thought you were the Witch. Father Christmas: Yes, yes, I'm sorry about that, but in my defense, I have been driving one of these longer than the Witch. Susan: I thought there was no Christmas in Narnia. Father Christmas: No. Not for a long time. But the hope that you have brought, Your Majesties, is finally starting to weaken the Witch’s power. Still, I dare say you could do with these. (reaches into his sleigh and pulls out a huge brown sack) Lucy: Presents! (runs up to him) Father Christmas: The juice of the fire-flower. One drop will cure any injury. And though I hope you never have to use it... (presents her with a little dagger). Lucy: Thank you, sir, but I think I could be brave enough. Father Christmas: I’m sure you could. But battles are ugly affairs. Susan. (she steps forwards and he hands her a bow and a quiver of arrows) Trust in this bow and it will not easily miss. Susan: What happened to “battles are ugly affairs”? Father Christmas: Though you don’t seem to have a problem making yourself heard, (presents her with an ivory horn) blow on this horn and wherever you are, help will come. Susan: Thanks. (she steps back and Peter steps forwards. Father Christmas gives him a bright silver shield and a sword in its scabbard. Peter draws the sword out.) Father Christmas: Peter. The time to use these may be near at hand. Peter: Thank you, sir. Father Christmas: These are tools, not toys. Bear them well and wisely. Now, I must be off. Winter is almost over, and things do pile up when you’ve been gone a hundred years. Long live Aslan! (climbs into his sleigh) And Merry Christmas! Lucy: Merry Christmas! Susan: Merry Christmas, sir! Peter: Bye, sir! See you next year! Lucy: Goodbye! Mrs. Beaver: ha ha ha! Lucy: Told you he was real. Peter: He said winter was almost over. You know what that means. No more ice. Scene: Crossing the Frozen River (The children look down the banks of the river which is breaking into chunks of ice that are floating away on the fast current. A frozen waterfall looms on their left. Peter assesses the situation and holding Lucy’s hand starts to make his way down the bank. Susan grabs his arm) Peter: We need to cross, now! Lucy: Don't beavers make dams? Mr. Beaver: I'm not that fast, dear. Peter: Come on! 20 Susan: Wait! Will you just think about this for a minute? Peter: We don’t have a minute. Susan: I’m just trying to be realistic. Peter: No, you’re trying to be smart. As usual. (Starts climbing down. Susan looks like she might stay but the howling of the wolves in the distance changes her mind. Shot of the wolves sniffing at the cave where the children previously hid. Shot of the witch in her sleigh crossing the huge frozen lake. Back at the river, Peter puts a foot on the ice and water spurts up from under it) Mr. Beaver: Wait. Maybe I should go first. Peter: Maybe you should. (Mr Beaver tests out the ice with his feet and tail, trying to find the strongest passage) Mrs. Beaver: You’ve been sneaking second helpings, haven't you? Mr. Beaver: Well, you never know which meal's gonna be your last. Especially with your cooking. (The children start to follow Mr Beaver across the ice.) Susan: If Mum knew what we were doing... Peter: Mum’s not here. Lucy: Oh, no! (Lucy notices the wolves running across the top of the frozen waterfall to the other side of the river) Peter: Run! Susan: Hurry! (The wolves leap in front on them on the frozen river. Turning they see they are trapped by the rest of the wolves. Mr Beaver tries to threaten on but is pounced on and pinned to the ground.) Mrs. Beaver: No! Lucy: Peter! (Peter draws his sword.) Maugrim: Put that down, boy. Someone could get hurt. Mr. Beaver: Don't worry about me! Run him through! Maugrim: Leave now while you can, and your brother goes with you. Susan: Stop, Peter! Maybe we should listen to him! Maugrim: Smart girl. Mr. Beaver: Don't listen to him! Kill him! Kill him now! Maugrim: Oh, come on. This isn't your war. All my Queen wants is for you to take your family and go. Susan: Look, just because some man in a red coat hands you a sword, it doesn't make you a hero! Just drop it! Mr. Beaver: No, Peter! Narnia needs ya! Gut him while you still have a chance! Maugrim: What's it gonna be, Son of Adam? I won’t wait forever. And neither will the river. Lucy: Peter! (looking up horrified) Peter (noticing the waterfall is starting to crack and collapse): Hold onto me! (Stabs sword into the ice. The waterfall plunges down on them and sweeps them away. The beavers propel the chunk of ice to shore. Peter stands up holding Lucy’s coat in his hand, but no Lucy.) Mrs. Beaver: Lovely. Susan: What have you done? Lucy! Lucy! 21 Lucy: (off-screen) Has anyone seen my coat? Mr. Beaver: Don’t you worry, dear. Your brother’s got you well looked after. Mrs. Beaver: And I don't think you'll be needing those coats anymore. (They see a blossom growing in sped up style and leave their coats behind as the wood changes from winter into spring/summer) Scene: Back at the Waterfall (Edmund, the Witch and the Dwarf stand on the bank looking down at the fast moving river. The dwarf starts to shrug off his furs) Ginarrbrik: It's so warm out. (Witch gives him cold look. Edmund smirks) I'll go and check the sleigh. The wolves approach, one of them carrying the fox in its mouth. Wolf: Your Majesty. We found the traitor. He was rallying your enemies near the Shuddering Woods. White Witch: Ah. Nice of you to drop in. You were so helpful to my wolves last night. Perhaps you can help me now. Fox: Forgive me, Your Majesty White Witch: Oh, don't waste my time with flattery. Fox: Not to seem rude, but I wasn't actually talking to you. (Looks at Edmund) White Witch: (Looks first to Edmund and than at Fox. Walks up to fox twirling wand and points it at him) Where is are the humans headed? (Fox refuses to answer. Witch moves arm back about to use her wand when Edmund runs in front of her.) Edmund: Wait! No! Don't. The beaver said something about the Stone Table, and that Aslan had an army there. (realizes he’s betrayed them again) White Witch: An army? Thank you, Edmund. I'm glad that this creature got to see some honesty... ...before he dies. (turns fox to stone) Edmund: No! (The Witch turns and slaps Edmund across face) White Witch: Think about whose side you're on, Edmund. Mine...(turns his head towards the stone fox) ...or theirs? (Edmund’s eyes fill with tears) Go on ahead. Gather the faithful. If it’s a war Aslan wants... (turns random passing butterfly to stone) ...it's a war he shall get! Scene: Entering into Aslan’s camp (The children are now just wearing their shirts and no socks. As they pass a tree, Lucy stops and turns as a Dryad forms and wave to her. She waves back and follows the others as they enter the camp. Centaurs, Bears, Fauns all stop what they are doing as the children pass through the camp) Susan: Why are they all staring at us? Lucy: Maybe they think you look funny. Mr. Beaver: (To Mrs. Beaver) Oi, stop your fussing. You look lovely. (They stop in front of an official looking tent where General Oreius stands guard. Peter pulls out his sword and holds it on front of him pointing to the sky) Peter: (To Oreius) We have come to see Aslan. (Tent flaps in the breeze and suddenly everyone kneels. Aslan comes out from the tent and the children kneel as well.) Aslan: Welcome, Peter, Son of Adam. Welcome, Susan and Lucy, Daughters of Eve. And welcome to you, Beavers. You have my thanks. But where is the fourth? Peter: That's why we're here, sir. We need your help. Susan: We had a little trouble along the way. Peter: Our brother’s been captured by the White Witch. 22 Peter: Get some sleep. And Edmund... ...try not to wander off. (Edmund smiles and leaves) (Later on, the four children are sitting around a low table eating breakfast. Edmund has changed his clothes and is dressed in a tunic like Peter. He munches hungrily on what looks like toast with honey.) Lucy: Narnia's not going to run out of toast, Ed. Peter: I'm sure they'll pack something up for the journey back. Susan: We’re going home? Peter: You are. I promised Mum I'd keep you three safe. But it doesn't mean I can't stay behind and help. Lucy: But they need us. All four of us. Peter: Lucy, it's too dangerous. You almost drowned! Edmund was almost killed! Edmund: Which is why we have to stay. (All look at him) Edmund: I've seen what the White Witch can do. And I've helped her do it. And we can't leave these people behind to suffer for it. (Lucy holds Ed's hand) Susan: Well, I suppose that's it then. (She gets up) Peter: Where are you going? Susan: (picks up her bow and quiver) To get in some practice. (Susan and Lucy practice shooting at the target. Susan fires an arrow which hits just off center. Lucy takes out her dagger and grins. The dagger hits the bulls eye! Cut to Peter and Edmund, riding at full gallop. They wheel around and practicing sword fighting) Peter: Come on, Ed! Sword point up, like Oreius showed us. Edmund: En garde! Peter: Now block. Edmund: Hey! (Mr. Beaver runs up. Edmund's horse rears) Mr. Beaver: Peter! Edmund! Edmund: Whoa, horsey! Horse: My name is Philip. Edmund: Oh. (stammers) Sorry. Mr. Beaver: The Witch has demanded a meeting with Aslan. She's on her way here. Scene: The Agreement Ginarrbrik: Jadis, the Queen of Narnia! Background Voice #1: Go away, Witch! Ginarrbrik: Empress of the Lone Islands! Background Voice #2: You don't belong here! Go away! (Jadis arrives at the camp on a litter carried by Cyclops. They set her down and she stands down, and walks towards Aslan. The whole camp including the children are assembled in front of Aslan’s tent. Aslan waits on the little rock plateau) White Witch: You have a traitor in your midst, Aslan. (Gasps in the crowd) Aslan: His offense was not against you. White Witch: Have you forgotten the laws upon which Narnia was built? Aslan: Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written. 25 White Witch: Then you’ll remember well that every traitor belongs to me. His blood is my property. Peter (stepping forward and drawing his sword): Try and take him then. (Otmin takes a step forward) White Witch: Do you think that mere force will deny me my right... ...little King? Aslan knows that unless I have blood, as the law demands, (turns to face the crowd) all of Narnia will be overturned and perish in fire and water. (points at Edmund) That boy will die on the Stone Table... ...as is tradition. You dare not refuse me. Aslan: Enough. I shall talk with you alone. (Cut to the children sitting down on the grass, clearly bored. The Witch throws open the flaps of the tent. Everyone gets up! She walks back towards her seat, pausing to look at Edmund. Aslan walks the edge of the plateau) Aslan: She has renounced her claim on the Son of Adam’s blood. (Everyone cheers and pats Edmund on the back) White Witch: How will I know your promise will be kept? (Aslan roars. The White Witch sits down suddenly in shock and the camp laughs. She leaves everyone celebrating. Lucy notices Aslan standing alone looking very sad before going back into his tent, then some dwarves distracts her.) Scene: The Stone Table (Lucy is tossing and turning in her bed. She sits up suddenly as we see the shadow of Aslan go past) Lucy: (loudly whispers) Susan! (Susan wakes up. The girls get up and creep out from their tent and follow Aslan. They dart behind trees until Aslan realizes they’re following him.) Aslan: Shouldn't you both be in bed? Lucy: We couldn't sleep . Susan: Please, Aslan. Couldn't we come with you? Aslan: I would be glad of the company for a while. Thank you. (They grasp his mane and walk beside him for a while.) Aslan: It is time. From here, I must go on alone. Susan: But Aslan... Aslan: You have to trust me. For this must be done. Thank you, Susan. Thank you, Lucy. And farewell. (Susan leads Lucy off towards another area of the wood where they can see the Stone Table. The Table is surrounded by the Witch's creatures, holding torches and jeering as Aslan walks up the steps to the table. The Witch steps up onto the table, wearing a gray dress. She holds a stone knife in front of her. Aslan sees this and seems even sadder. He stops in front of the Table.) White Witch: Behold. The great lion. (Otmin pokes him with the sharp end of his ax before slamming it into him and knocking Aslan to the floor.) Ginarrbrik: Do you want some milk? Lucy: Why doesn't he fight back? White Witch: Bind him! Random Creature: Tie him up! Get him! (The creatures tie his legs and muzzle him.) White Witch: Wait! Let him first be shaved. (The creatures begin cutting off Aslan's mane.) 26 White Witch: Bring him to me. (Aslan is dragged onto the Stone Table before the Witch’s feet. She kneels beside him.) White Witch: You know, Aslan, I'm a little disappointed in you. Did you honestly think by all this you could save the human traitor? You are giving me your life and saving no one. (she chuckles) So much for love. (she stands up and addresses the crowd) Tonight... ...the Deep Magic will be appeased! But tomorrow, we will take Narnia forever! (the music gets faster) In that knowledge, despair... (Aslan and Lucy’s eyes lock) ...and die! (She plunges in the knife and Aslan’s eyes widen in shock and pain before slowing closing. Lucy and Susan begin sobbing.) White Witch: The Great Cat... ...is dead! (The rabble cheers loudly. She addresses Otmin) General. Prepare your troops for battle. However short it may be. Scene: Later that Night (The girls walk up the step and cry and lean on Aslan. Lucy unscrews her bottle of healing potion.) Susan: It's too late. He's gone. He must have known what he was doing. (Lucy buries her face into Aslan’s. Both girls succumb to their grief. Mice approach and begin chewing through the bonds.) Susan: Get away! Get away, all of you! Lucy: No. Look. (they follow the mice and remove the bonds) Susan: We have to tell the others. Lucy: We can't just leave him! Susan: Lucy, there's no time. They need to know. Lucy: The trees. (Leaves blow in the wind.) Scene: Aslan's Camp (The wind blows petals into Aslan’s camp and into the boys’ tent. Peter wakes up and draws his sword in fear. Edmund looks confused and a bit scared as a Dryad forms out of the petals.) Dryad: Be still, my Princes. I bring grave news from your sisters. (Peter walks out of Aslan’s tent towards where Oreius and Edmund are waiting beside a table covered in battle plans) Peter: She's right. He's gone. Edmund: Then you'll have to lead us. Peter, there's an army out there and it's ready to follow you. Peter: I can't . Edmund: Aslan believed you could. And so do I. Oreius: The Witch's army is nearing, sire. What are your orders? Scene: The Battle (Peter looks at the map. It morphs into a 3D version which in turn morphs to the actual battle field and follows the flight of the Griffin. It soars towards Edmund who is in full amour on the rocks above the field. Then down to where Peter and Oreius wait on a small mound, in front of the army. Peter is fully armed on a white unicorn) Gryphon: They come, Your Highness, in numbers and weapons far greater then our own. Oreius: Numbers do not win a battle Peter: No. But I bet they help. (The Witch’s army arrives, with way more numbers than Peters and three giants. The Witch rides up onto her own mound in a chariot pulled by Polar bears. She is wearing a chain mail dress, a gold headdress and Aslan’s mane hangs from the headdress. The two armies face 27 White Witch: Impossible! (Peter and the Witch continue to fight. Aslan, and his army, rush to join the battle. The Witch trips Peter and pins him to the ground with one of her swords through his chain mail. She stands over him about the deliver the death blow, looks up, Aslan leaps at her, and pins her to the ground. The Witch looks up, and we see her point of view as Aslan bites toward the camera. Peter stands holding his sword as everything else appears sped up around him.) Aslan: It is finished. (Lucy and Susan run up to Peter.) Susan: Peter! Lucy: Peter! Susan: Where's Edmund? (The three run off, to look for Edmund.) (Ginarrbrik hobbles up and is about to finish Edmund) Susan: Edmund! (She fires an arrow, and kills the dwarf.) Ginarrbrik: Ah! (Edmund coughs and gasps. Lucy pulls out her cordial and places one drop on Edmund's lips. The other children’s eyes fill with tears. He stops moving momentarily before gasping and sitting up. Peter grabs him into a hug and presses his face into his shoulder, crying before letting go and holding onto him.) Peter: When are you gonna learn to do as you're told? (All laugh and embrace Edmund, who notices Aslan. The others turn and see Aslan breathe on a stone satyr, bringing it back to life. Lucy looks at her cordial then runs off to heal others. The camera sweeps over the scene and morphs into a shot of mermaids swimming down a river and leaping about in front of a castle.) Scene: The Coronation The four Pevensies walk up the aisle where all the Centaur are stood to attention. They pause looking at their four thrones which each have a significant carving on it. Then they walk up the steps and stand in front of their appropriate throne.) Aslan: To the glistening Eastern Sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. (Mr. Tumnus approaches in a nice green scarf and the Beavers bear the crowns. Mr. Tumnus crowns each of them.) To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant Southern Sun, Queen Susan, the Gentle. And to the clear Northern Sky, I give you King Peter, the Magnificent. Once a King or Queen of Narnia, always a King or Queen. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens. All: Long live King Peter! Long live King Edmund! Long live Queen Susan! Long live Queen Lucy! (Cut to Aslan, walking on the beach in the sunset. Lucy runs out onto the balcony and sees him walking away) Mr. Tumnus: Don’t worry. We’ll see him again. Lucy: When? Mr. Tumnus: In time. One day he'll be here and the next he won't. But you mustn't press him. After all, he's not a tame lion. Lucy: No. But he is good. Mr. Tumnus: Here. (pulls out a hankie from under his scarf) You need it more than I do. (She takes it and sees that Aslan has disappeared. She looks at Tumnus in surprise and he nods at her and takes her hand. She looks out to sea and begins to cry softly.) Scene: Hunt for the White Stag (The four adult Pevensies are riding horses through the woods. They're after the White Stag. It is autumn and they are all wearing their crowns. Edmund slows down and the others gallop off) Edmund: Are you all right, Philip? Philip: I'm not as young as I once was. 30 Susan: (returns to Edmund) Come on, Ed. Edmund: Just catching my breath. Susan: That’s all we’ll catch at this rate. Lucy: What did he say again, Susan? Susan: “You girls wait in the castle. I'll get the stag myself.” (They all laugh. Peter notices something and gets off his horse) Peter: What's this? (They all dismount. The camera pans up to reveal the top of a lamppost, now covered in vines, up the post.) It seems familiar. Susan: As if from a dream. Lucy: Or a dream of a dream. Spare Oom. (Lucy runs off) Peter: Lucy! Susan: Not again. Peter: Lu? Lucy: Come on! (The branches get denser. We begin to see some fur coats.) Peter: These aren’t branches. Edmund: Ow! Ooh! Susan: They’re coats. Edmund: Susan, you're on my foot! Lucy: Peter, move off! (The voices change to those of the four as children.) Peter: Stop shoving. Edmund: Stop it! I'm not on your toe! (All four children fall out of the wardrobe into the spare room. They look at themselves, each other and then the door as the Professor walks in.) Professor: Oh! There you are. (smiling) What were you all doing in the wardrobe? (The four glance at each other.) Peter: You wouldn't believe us if we told you, sir. (Professor throws cricket ball to Peter.) Professor: Try me. Some Credits Roll (Wardrobe at night. Lucy approaches, opens the door and looks inside. A voice makes her turn around.) Professor: I don't think you'll get back in that way. You see... I've already tried. Lucy: Will we ever go back? Professor: Oh, I expect so. But it'll probably happen when you're not looking for it. All the same... (whispers) best to keep your eyes open. (They walk out the room and the wardrobe door opens a crack and light shines out and we hear Aslan roar) THE END! 31