The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian DVD Narnia Krónikái Caspian Herceg 2DVD / Directed by Andrew Adamson / Starring: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell / Kétlemezes Extra változat

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Audio: English 5.1, Hungarian 5.1, Czech 5.1, Slovakian 5.1

Subtitles: Hungarian, English, Czech, Slovakian, English HOH

Total Runtime: 144 minutes

English Summary:

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a 2008 high fantasy film co-written and directed by Andrew Adamson, based on Prince Caspian (1951), the second published, fourth chronological novel in C. S. Lewis's epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. It is the second in The Chronicles of Narnia film series from Walden Media, following The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Liam Neeson, and Tilda Swinton reprise their roles from the first film, while new cast includes Ben Barnes, Sergio Castellitto, Peter Dinklage, Eddie Izzard, Warwick Davis, Ken Stott, and Vincent Grass. In the film, the four Pevensie children return to Narnia to aid Prince Caspian in his struggle with the "secret" help of Aslan for the throne against his corrupt uncle, King Miraz.

In Narnia, almost 1,300 years have passed after the Pevensie siblings left. Caspian, a Telmarine prince, is awoken by his mentor Doctor Cornelius, who informs him that his aunt has just given birth to a son and that his life is now in grave danger. Cornelius gives him Queen Susan's ancient magical horn and instructs him to use it if he is in dire need of help. Knowing that his Uncle Miraz would kill him in order to be king, Caspian flees. Chased by several Telmarine soldiers, Caspian falls off his horse and encounters two Narnian dwarfs and a talking badger in the woods. One of the dwarfs, Trumpkin, is captured by the soldiers after sacrificing himself to save Caspian, while the other dwarf, Nikabrik, and the badger Trufflehunter, save Caspian. Not knowing that they are trying to save him, Caspian blows the magical horn, trying to summon help.

In England, the four Pevensie children wait at the Strand tube station for their train which will take them to boarding school. One year has passed in their world after they left Narnia. Just as the train pulls into the station the station tears apart transporting them back in Narnia. There, they discover their castle, Cair Paravel, was attacked and ruined in their absence. The Pevensies save a bound and gagged Trumpkin, who is about to be drowned, and they set off together.

Hungarian Summary:

Narnia, ahol az állatok beszélnek, a fák vándorolnak, s ahol hamarosan kitör a véres háború. Peter, Susan, Edmund és Lucy visszatér Narniába, ahol legutóbbi látogatásuk óta a gonosz Miraz király vette át a hatalmat. A négy tesvér szövegkezik Narnia jogos trónörökösével, Caspian herceggel, kit jogtalanul megfosztottak trónjától, és most végső elkeseredésében hadsereget gyűjt, hogy megszabadítsa hazáját a bitorlótól. Végül azonban két ember között dől el a küzdelem, a becsület csatája dönt az egész világ sorsa fölött.

Cast / Szereplők:

• William Moseley as Peter Pevensie. In a departure from the novel, Peter has a rivalry with Caspian. Moseley explained, "Peter's got his own issues to deal with, and Caspian's got his own issues to deal with, and when neither is willing to compromise, there's bound to be friction. Peter came back to Narnia expecting to be king again and that everyone would do as he said, and Caspian is unwilling to let him take over, so that causes some of it. That's really what happens. And it's a lot about humility. I think they both have to learn a certain humility [...] and that's really what a great king needs is to be humble, to listen to his people, to be willing to compromise, and they start off as these sort of angry teenagers, and become kings at the end." In real life, the two actors got on well together. Moseley also stated that he identified with Peter, having gone back to school between shooting both films.^[4] He trained for three months in New York City to improve his performance and his physicality.^[5]
• Anna Popplewell as Susan Pevensie, the second oldest Pevensie. Popplewell had been disappointed she barely used her bow and arrows in the first film.^[6] Adamson convinced Douglas Gresham to have her present during the battles by suggesting her passive role in the novel indicated Lewis' view of women before he met Joy Gresham. "I think [Lewis] cast women down in the earlier books, but when you look at The Horse and His Boy, it has a strong female character. Doug's mother was a strong woman."^[7] Adamson also chose to have her fall for Caspian, because "The kids are growing up. If you look at Ben and you look at Anna, it seems really implausible that they wouldn't have some feelings for each other." He knew it had to be "sensitively handled" though,^[8] and ultimately it is not about romance, but "[accepting] the fact that you can have a wondrous experience, enjoy it and move on".^[9] Popplewell added that it would not make sense for the Narnians not to use Susan, a talented archer, in battle, and that the romance contributed to her character's reconciliation with losing Narnia in the first place.^[10]
• Skandar Keynes as Edmund Pevensie, the second-youngest Pevensie. Edmund matured during the events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so the writers saw him "as our Han Solo", "[doing] the right thing" and "probably going to be a little low-key about it", highlighting the immaturity of his older brother.^[11] Keynes bruised his heel when performing a stunt where he jumped onto a horse. He narrowly missed landing on it and hit his foot against a column when holding on. Excepting that, he enjoyed performing the action.^[12]
• Georgie Henley as Lucy Pevensie. Henley acknowledged Lucy represents faith in the story, being the youngest and therefore most open-minded of the Pevensies.^[5] During filming, Henley's baby teeth were falling out, so she wore fake teeth to fill in the gaps.^[13]

Telmarines

• Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian. Adamson said "Caspian is a coming-of-age and, to some degree, a loss of innocence story, with Caspian starting out quite naïve, then craving revenge and finally letting go of the vengeance."^[9] While many readers interpret Caspian as a child, a passage in the novel mentions his age to be near that of Peter's, so an older actor was sought to match Moseley. Barnes had read the novel as a child, and was cast in two-and-a-half weeks after meeting with the filmmakers. He spent two months in New Zealand horse riding and stunt training to prepare for shooting.^[14][15] Barnes modelled his Spanish accent on Mandy Patinkin's performance as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride,^[16] though he also had a dialect coach aiding him.^[15] Adamson did not expect to cast a British actor as Caspian, and said Barnes fitted well into the surrogate family of Adamson and the four actors playing the Pevensies.^[17] When cast, Barnes was set to tour with the Royal National Theatre's production of The History Boys: producer Mark Johnson joked Barnes "probably isn't the Nation's favourite actor right now". Barnes left England without telling the Theatre.^[18] They were furious when they found out that he had left them without permission, so they considered suing him for breach of contract, but decided against it.^[15]
• Sergio Castellitto as King Miraz. Castellitto was not familiar with the novel, but his four children had enjoyed the first film. Miraz marks the first time the Italian actor has portrayed a villain, and he found it interesting to "act out a stereotype." Nonetheless, he also felt that he and Adamson brought depth to the role, explaining Miraz is a soldier, not a coward, and that he takes the throne for his son. He compared the character to King Claudius in Hamlet.^[19]
• Pierfrancesco Favino as General Glozelle, Miraz's military commander, who plots with Sopespian to have his king killed in combat with Caspian and Peter in order to lead his own attack on the Narnians. However, in the end, Glozelle repents and is the first to volunteer to go into the Pevensies' world, and in return, is granted a good future by Aslan. This was Favino's idea, because originally Glozelle would have died in battle.^[20] Adamson dubbed the character "a real Benedict Arnold".^[9] Favino is able to speak several languages and generally acted as a translator to Adamson on set while working with actors and crew members of multiple nationalities.^[6]
• Damián Alcázar as Lord Sopespian.^[21] "In some ways Sopespian turns out to be the real bad guy of the film," Adamson said. "Where it seems that Miraz has the upper hand at the beginning, we see that Sopespian, like Shakespeare's Iago, is trying to manipulate the situation."^[9]
• Vincent Grass as Dr. Cornelius: Caspian's mentor,^[22] who is half-dwarf. Adamson compared Caspian and Cornelius's relationship to Aristotle and Alexander the Great.^[9] Cornelius's role in the movie is significantly smaller than in the novel, and he is not named on screen, being referred to only as "Professor".
• Alicia Borrachero as Queen Prunaprismia.^[23] Prunaprismia was Miraz's wife. When she had learned that her husband had killed his own brother, she became heartbroken. After Miraz's death, Prunaprismia was the second volunteer to go back to our world (with her child). Because of her repenting, Prunprismia and her child were promised a good life back in our world.
• Simón Andreu as Lord Scythley.^[24]
• Predrag Bjelac as Lord Donnon.^[25]
• David Bowles as Lord Gergiore. He served as one of the marshals during the duel between Peter and Miraz.
• Juan Diego Montoya Garcia as Lord Montoya.

Narnians

• Liam Neeson reprises his role as the voice of the lion Aslan. Aslan is "more parental here, [he] lets the kids, well, make their own mistakes".^[9] Aslan's entrance was filmed as a dream sequence to emphasize his messianic nature, and not make it reflect badly on his absence when Narnia is in turmoil.^[26] Although the character is considered C.S. Lewis' version of Jesus, Neeson "see[s] him more as the spirit of the planet—this living, breathing planet. That's what he stands for, for me; more what the native Americans would believe."^[27] As Aslan has fewer action scenes than in the first film, the animators found it difficult to make him move interestingly. His pose had to be regal, but if he moved his head too much, he would remind viewers of a dog. As well as having his size increased by fifteen percent,^[28] Aslan's eyes were also changed to look less "Egyptian".^[29] Many of his shots were finished at the last minute.^[6]
• Peter Dinklage as Trumpkin, a cynical red dwarf. Dinklage was Adamson and Johnson's first choice, having seen him in The Station Agent.^[18] He accepted because "often, you get the hero and the villain and not much in between. Trumpkin is in between. He is not a lovable Snow White dwarf. Audiences appreciate these cynical characters. It helps parents and adults to go along with the journey."^[30] Dinklage's prosthetics took three hours to apply,^[18] and restricted his performance to his eyes. Even his frown was built into the make-up.^[20] On his first day of filming, he was bitten by sand flies and fell into a river. "We were lucky that he returned after his first day!" recalled Johnson.^[18]
• Warwick Davis as Nikabrik, a black dwarf. He is descendant of Ginarrbrik, who served the White Witch, and bears one of his rings, which was passed down from each generation.^[31] Mark Johnson acknowledged casting Davis as the treacherous Nikabrik was casting against type:^[18] Berger covered all his face bar his eyelids in prosthetics, to allow Davis to ward off the audience's perceptions of him.^[32] Nikabrik's nose was based on Berger.^[33] Davis feared filming in the Czech Republic, because the grass is filled with ticks, so he put elastic bands to hold his trousers against his legs.^[34] Davis portrayed Reepicheep in the 1989 BBC production of Prince Caspian.
• Ken Stott as the voice of Trufflehunter the badger.^[35] Adamson called Trufflehunter "a walking and talking Narnian library [who is] totally old-school".^[9] The animators visited a badger sanctuary to aid in depicting his performance.^[29]
• Eddie Izzard as the voice of Reepicheep, a swashbuckling mouse. Over 100 actors auditioned to voice the character.^[36] Izzard approached Reepicheep as less camp and more of a bloodthirsty assassin with a sense of honour (a cross between Mad Max and a Stormtrooper from Star Wars): Izzard interpreted Reepicheep as someone whose family was killed by the Telmarines.^[32] The Narnia series were some of the few books Izzard read as a child, and he cherished them.^[37] When discussing Reepicheep to the animators, Adamson told them to rent as many Errol Flynn films as possible.^[18] Adamson credits Izzard for making the role his own; beforehand, the director was approaching the character similarly to Puss in Boots in Shrek 2.^[38]
• Cornell John as Glenstorm the Centaur.^[39] Adamson had seen John perform in Porgy and Bess in London, and liked his long face.^[32] John imagined the character as being 170 years old, and wanted to convey "honour, pride and tradition".^[36]David Walliams as the voice of the Bulgy Bear.^[41]
  • Lejla Abbasová as Windmane (Glenstorm's wife).^[32]
  • Yemi Akinyemi as Ironhoof (Glenstorm's son).^[40]
  • Carlos Da Silva as Suncloud (Glenstorm's son).^[40]
• Klara Issova as a Narnian Hag who attempts to resurrect the White Witch.^[32] She used some Arabic words in her incantation.^[20]
• Gomez Mussenden (son of costume designer Isis Mussenden) plays Lightning Bolt, a child Centaur.^[42]
• Jan Pavel Filipensky as Wimbleweather the giant.^[40]
• Shane Rangi as Asterius, an elderly minotaur who aids Caspian. Josh Campbell provides the voice for the character. Asterius is killed during the raid while holding the gate open to allow some of the army to escape. Rangi also stood in for Aslan, the Bulgy Bear, the Werewolf, another Minotaur, and the Wild Bear on set.^[43] Rangi played General Otmin in the previous film and Tavros in The Voyage of The Dawn Treader. He was able to see more in the redesigned animatronic minotaur heads, though "in order to make the eye line straight and correct, you've actually got to hold your head down, so your view is only about a foot and a half in front of you, which still makes it a little bit hard". This resulted in Rangi knocking himself against the rising gate of the Telmarine castle, although he was fine and it was the animatronic head that bore the brunt of the damage.^[44] The costumes were still very hot, reducing him to a "walking waterfall". Although a head sculpt of Aslan was used to stand in for the character on the first film, Rangi had to portray the character on set because Lucy interacts with him more.^[45] Rangi lost four kilograms wearing all his costumes.^[44]

Cameos

• Tilda Swinton reprises her role as Jadis, the White Witch. Her ghost appears as the hag and werewolf attempt to resurrect her. Swinton and her two children also cameoed towards the film's end as centaurs.^[20]
• Harry Gregson-Williams (the film's composer) as the voice of Pattertwig the squirrel, as Adamson felt he had a "squirrel-like energy".^[20]
• Douglas Gresham as a Telmarine crier.^[46]