Chronicles of Narnia "The Silver Chair"

[KungPao999]

That's cool how she farts out of her fingers.

[fantasyfreak1456]

0:10-0:15 are the best overacted lines from this campy television production. "You three, DARE DESTROY THEE SILVER CHAR!! (Misspelling is accurate in this quote, due to her strange pronunciation...)

[SilverTounge85]

I was always afrain of Barbara Kellermann's characters when I watched this when I was about 6 years old back in the early 90's. The White Witch was scary as hell, but The Green Lady was much scarier. I must admit I hid behind the couch when she turned into a snake. :D

[SilverTounge85]

I've always wondered if The Green Lady Of The Underworld and The White Witch are the one and same...I know Barbara played both characters, as well as the hag who tried to bring back The White Witch in 'Prince Caspian' in the caves, but is she a reincarnation of the White Witch in some way? When Aslan is mentioned to the Green Lady it's like she knows exactly who he is.

[er10b]

9:00 Time for a good old fashioned bit of rubber snake wrangling.

[Kopite4life12]

lol

[jambajuzi]

Ooh the queen of overacting.

[aniretak92]

I really miss you, Barbara and David. You pwn Tilda and Will in SO many ways.

[CSideBeats]

The Silver Chair is the first film in the series to not include the Pevensie children, who have thus far been the main characters in the series. The main characters are Eustace Scrubb and her schoolmate Jill Pole. Scrubb will be introduced to the series this fall in the third film in the series, The Dawn Treader. No doubt Jesus will make an appearance in Lion form.

[hollyarundel]

This bloody well ROCKS!! it takes me back to my childhood the bit where she turns into a snake is brilliant watch it in slow-mo the effects are just AMAZING, Plus it has tom baker in it. kids these days do not know what proper t.v is, SO WATCH AND LEARN KIDS oh and bloody well learn to S.P.E.L.L

[er10b]

@hollyarundel the morphing effect is great, the snake is not.

[Gawaine687]

i love puddleglum's speeches here. I would say this is the brilliant crux of this book. the witch seemsto be an embodiment of celtic myth and satan and the people of the real world, and puddleglum's speech is i would say not only a defense of christianity, but also of myth and fairy stories themselves. Well done Puddleglum and Mr. Lewis!!!!

[harveydents]

yeah the fourth doctor!

[JillPole13]

It's The old video of the Old silver chair! :)

[MonstersNightmare]

The Queen almost looks like Anna from V..

[cheesesniffer100]

is prince rilian played by a girl

[twooffour]

7:50

OMG, thought experiment FAIL.

Lewis basically admits that Christianity, God and Heaven are imaginary and are clinged to by wilful delusion... hey, Clive Staples, are you sure you're not an atheist apologist after all? Look, there you have your author avatar say it out loud: "our fantasy is more pleasant than this dull reality, so I'll just believe it."

Oh, Jesus Christ, Lewis.

[cheesesniffer100]

@twooffour no man that was never in book this was done by bcc they made that part

[twooffour]

@cheesesniffer100

It wasn't? Because I clearly remember reading it.

[twooffour]

Barbara Kellerman's acting is grand and ludicrous all at the same time :D

[twooffour]

@twooffour

blood withiin thy veeeeiiiiinnnnsuuhh!!!!! :D

[narnia20ify]

0:29 is a creepy laugh and then pause at 0:32 hahahah :/

[33rosyposy]

When I first saw Prince Rillian I didn't know it was him. I thought it was a chick in disguise. lol.

[prewriter14]

Stage actors....

[Hellgrox101NT604comm]

I like how this is similar to the Book

[FurryBrandonXD]

0:20 young version of Jack black :P

[jambajuzi]

Ai. This is very funny for me to watch. Such overacting. Gotta admit though, I love 7:01 when the witch has a minor heart attack over the name Aslan.

Still, I think Puddleglum is the best actor and Rilian DOES look like Jesus!!!

The witch actually gets on my nerves with her overacting though :-)

[erikals2]

You can hear the tremble in the Green Lady's voice - sounds like she was seriously pissed off that someone broke her chair. Then she laughs when Rilian owns up. WTF?

[twooffour]

@erikals2

She's crazy :D

[princessyrandom1214]

kind of reminds of ben barnes

[Galutron]

Please, tell me that they are going to do the Silver Chair movie.

[shadow123991]

Did you know Aslan is JESUS. I think the witch is dumb because she knows exactly who he is and what narnia is.

[ywmuni]

Nothing ever beats the originals! I grew up on these man!

[DarkLordVegeta]

"Which one of you has DARED destroy the Silver Chair"- CLASSIC OVERACTING.

Puddleglum is actually a pretty good actor. Rilian=Jesus, The witch is hilarious. The kids are decent by child actor standards (that's even before you include the kids in Last Airbender). The effects are like Power Rangers. This show is MUCH better than I remember it. Maybe its just that this is the best scene in both the book and the film.

[koozzo]

Rilian like Jesus!

[koozzo]

Rillian like Jesus! XD

[DuchessAliana]

For the record, I love this version, but I really hate the portrayals of Rilian and LotGK. Rilian is...I dunno, something is off about his character, and the witch is WAY over the top. Her maniacal laugh and over-enunciation just makes her comical, which ruins the eeriness of her character. Her evil is supposed to be more subtle, which makes her scarier. This kinda takes away the subtlety of the evil the book LotGK had, which was one of the best parts of the whole story.

[danielchance]

The only thing about this adaption was that with Tom Baker (the most awesome Doctor!!) I expected a blue police phone box to appear at any time in it; course that's part of what made it awesome!!! Towards the end, when the undergrounds falling, it reminded me a lot of Doctor Who, just without Sarah Jane or Romama screaming for Tom

[Oceanic890]

Just watched this for the first time today with my friends and it was so funny! We love Narnia and it was actually a pretty good adaption, just really funny :D

[Hyman74Roth]

The effects, I admit are outdated compared to the recent adaptations but the acting is what makes this a fascinating work.

[farnswort1]

they are the same because jadis gets three lives because of the apple of life in the magicians nephew

[packjim56]

Its not wise to BS a marshwiggle, I shouldn't wonder.

[rootsradic]

FFS people. so the effects are ropey as fuck. since when was that the measure of a film?

this was made 20 years ago for sod all money, and for kids tv for that matter. saying the new films are better is like saying the new star trek film was better than TOS.

[poylian10]

i wish disney makes a remake of this

[Applemask]

a) it's twenty years old

b) it's a BBC Television production

c) it has Tom Baker in it

[joedeasy52118]

this is so crap

[pantstelly93]

it's just like plato's analogy of the cave except that here enlightenment is easier to maintain...and there's a giant snake woman...

[veggiet2009]

So who does everyone want to play puddle glum?

[pantstelly93]

@veggiet2009 why not keep with tradition and get christopher eccleston or david tennant?

[DuchessAliana]

@pantstelly93 LOL what's funny is I actually think DT would be perfect for the part. xD

[crangeyw11]

hahaha! the end!

[verticalcinema87]

omg that was so funny. i love the whole morph sequence. awful.

[cujocujocujocujocujo]

Gadget

[greeno13]

is that tom baker? the old dr who?

[EmilyRocker42]

which one???

[MimeAscension]

LMAO @ the green witch, Prince Rilian, Puddleglum (ESPECIALLY Puddleglum), Jill, Eustace.  Terrible adaptation, bad bad bad!

[PraiseYeshua]

When the Hell are they going to make The Final Battle?

That book is a movie in itself. I hope they make Magician's Nephew before Horse and His Boy at least.

BTW Puddleglum is Bad!!! I wonder who's going to play him when the new version of Silver Chair?

[eduardos1993]

they are making the movie fo the 5th book, is coming out next year 2010

[jumpin4smoke]

the book is great, id like to see the rest of the episode some day and i truly hope that hollywood wouldn t mess it up someday like it is used to

[lavenderblossom]

I lol'd.

[cessnaid]

hey i say 1990 is way WORSE than 2009

[dreamer9913]

check out "The Magician's Newphew" on my channel!

[SparkleFairy162]

didnt that woman with the weird voice and green outfit play the white witch in the lion the witch and the wardrobe

[konaldoo]

yes she did. barbara kellermen

[shirerat1138]

i just love how much the queen resembles satan and how he twists our minds against scriptural truth.......

[konaldoo]

not nessecarily satan. but the witch can represent atheistic rational though ; whereas the others represent existentialism.

if you hear puddleglums' speech you will see that he allegorically suppose pretty much everything a religious polemicist would say against a polemicist

[omniexistus]

that guy the one who plays Dr. Who?

[Fattyrat]

yep he is in this

[omniexistus]

thanks btw, that witch is a milf

[pimpazoid]

wow, as a film student, I'm stunned they couldn't come up with something better for that snake, really not up to production value.

[Jenni208]

LOL - that snake cracks me up! My husband says you have to think of it as the filming of a stage production, but I still think it's hilarious!

[konaldoo]

But then again ; the budget may not have been that high and it was 1990!

[yoka955]

I used to love watching this series. My favorite one is "the lion the witch and the wardrobe". Though there are some very sad scenes

[seizetheday224]

this is jadis again. rillian don't look bad after being a hostage for 70 years ;)

this lady acts like she's seriously on crack.

[vvelvettearss]

Haha you're right Rillian's handsome :) and although she plays the part of the witch moderatley well( at least not like a normal casual human) her acting like she's on crack is a good way of putting it hehe..not that I'd know but still

[themostawesomeperson]

This is the most hilarious thing I have ever seen in my life.

[TaienQuinn]

Her name is never revealed - she is reffered to in the books as "The lady of the green kirtle" but her origins are never revealed.

[Starrlaredeye]

They don't look as cool. They should put more imagination in it.Because this film looks as though It was filmed in someone's huge ass backyard.

[Starrlaredeye]

Jadis IS the witch and also the queen. Haven't u watched the first new film?

[jessiemarianne]

shes still hot!!! it really turns me on when she becomes that snake and waggles her sexy little tongue at me :) xxxxxxxxxxx

[Fallcon]

*points* OOO OOO ITS PUDDLGLUM!!

[baldism79]

Jessiemarianne you have issues

[TaienQuinn]

A lot of readers after seeing this believe that the lady of the green kirtle and jadis the white witch are the same person - actually it was simply that they re-used the actress for budgeting reasons...

[Heliosx15005]

you're fucking right

[StoliDassah]

and she was also the Hag in Prince Caspian.

[Linariel]

@TaienQuinn Actually I believed that The Lady in the Green Kirtle was Jadis because another reason "Though Under Earth and Throneless now I be..." it talks of her once ruling above now when you think about it. Was there really any witch besides Jadis in record who had this ability? I believe she is both the green and white witch and I stood by that long before I saw this movie because of all the hints thrown.

[Patrickwelsh18]

@Linariel thats a valid enough point but wasnt that poem referring to father time???

[veggiet2009]

@Linariel there is a lot of Narnian history that is not written, for example how the White Witch came out of the North in the first place, during the hundred years of winter, and what of the time in between the end the LWW and King Caspian the 1st. I think the greatest reason why the white witch and the green lady are not the same, is that Aslan killed Jadis, I don't think he let her live. Unless maybe some sorcerer brought her back like they tried to do in PC and succeeded.

[MidlandNinja]

Who do you wanna fuck?

Barbara Kellerman is about 60 now!

Camilla Power has been on our screens recently as Lorna on Waterloo Road, fit - still only in her early 30s

[jessiemarianne]

that sexy-ass witch, man! i dont care, 60, 70, mmmm she hot ! you know?

[jessiemarianne]

wanna fuck her tho xxxxxxxxxx

[jessiemarianne]

"So low qually... far much worse than the Disney's Narnia...However, I think Disney's Prince Caspian is sooo cool! "

man that was a seriously lame comment. i totally disagree and think your a complete looser. xxxx

[TaienQuinn]

Cool yes but not exactly faithful to the books Capian was supposed to be a bit younger in the book (which is why it is Peter who challenges Miraz and not Caspian)- on the whole though it made no diffenrence to the film and actually gave it an exciting dynamic

[StoliDassah]

Younger, eys, and more importantly He was blond and never had a love interest in Susan.

[Tslotha]

@jessiemarianne

Lets not forget that very important difference between the 2 of them "Budget"

[Royallous]

So low qually... far much worse than the Disney's Narnia...However, I think Disney's Prince Caspian is sooo cool!

[WraythSkitzofrenik]

Can't wait until they make a movie out of this!

[hezfaceclapton]

bahahah how funny is it when she turns into the snake?!

[jamiriaseeger]

GAAA!!! shes soo cool!!! (i also love the originals, but the new ones have better graphics ;})

[XxducksXrulexX]

I loved the original tv series, There's something so much more special about them than the new movies.

I loved the books too. <3

[norcaljorge]

the book is way more interesting!!!

this film is ok though!!

[crigjig]

I agree...in the book she was a lot more cunning, and I pictured her being much more beautiful....ALSO she played a harp if I remember correctly in the book...to add to the confusion in there heads...the movie didnt have any of that.

[hedavies]

puddle is doctor who a.k.a. tom baker, how did he get such ridiclus hair

[thearmin]

I should have actually read this book when it was assigned back in school. I went with dawn treader instead. darn

[kojikid4]

im reading silver chair right now so far i have read all books 1-5

[jstrouse]

This was Narnia how I remember it.

[Cavic1980]

"As for me, I shall live like a Narnian even if there isn't any Narnia!"

[StoliDassah]

Tom Baker had such wonderful lines in this scene. He was amazing, what a Marshwiggle.

[tandorla]

i love this film. i haven't see it for ages. thanx for posting this.