check the gate...

[hardparade]

So for some reason, I decided to listen to the LWW commentary again recently? And because I've gotten into the habit of obsessively quoting things, I ended up transcribing like half of it. I DON'T KNOW WHY I DO WHAT I DO. But it happened, and it seems ridiculous for me not to post it. I also ripped the commentary and made it into an .mp3 just to round things off. Idc, I love the commentaries. If they don't do one for Dawn Treader, I'll be inconsolable, I'm saying this now.

Andrew: This would probably be new to you guys, because a lot of this was computer-generated and we did it after the fact, we just shot the pilots on green screen. How did it feel seeing this having not really known what was going on when you were running around the house?
Georgie: (to Skandar) You look like a monkey, you've got sticky-out ears!
Skandar: No I don't!
Georgie: I'm only kidding.
Skandar: Why are you so mean?
Georgie: I'm only kidding, you've got lovely ears.
Skandar: Thanks, Georgie.
Anna: I remembered that this was the start of the story, but for some reason I wasn't expecting it when we watched the film, 'cause when you think Narnia you just kind of think snow—
Will: Fake snow.
Anna: —but it opens with these bomber planes and you're kind of taken aback.
Skandar: We're all joking around and Anna has this perfectly educated answer, like, yes, yes.

UGH I LOVE HOW THIS IS LIKE THE FIRST BIT OF INTERACTION AND IT ESTABLISHES THEIR WHOLE DYNAMIC SO WELL. I love how Andrew is like "talk about how this scene was for you guys" and Georgie is like "SKANDAR'S EARS ARE FUNNY."

Anna: William, you look so young in that bit.
Skandar: Will, d'you remember when in one instead of going "Edmund!" you went "Skandaaaaar!"
Will: Yeah.
Andrew: And actually, Skandar, do you remember that Will got you to try the candied glass?
Skandar: Sugar glass! I've always—I've never known if it was actually sugar.
Will: And he actually took the glass and ate silicone.

Infamous sugar glass eating story. But what I really love about this is how Skandar's trying to bring up something stupid Will did, and Andrew just flips it.

Andrew: This was actually a scene that was actually very difficult to get, because I didn't think we could make Skandar cry, because he's ridiculously resilient, and even beating him severely still didn't get him to cry. But actually this was a pretty intense scene when we were shooting that, because I remember you guys were like yelling at each other for twenty minutes before the take, and William had no voice the next day.

RIDICULOUSLY RESILIENT. BEATING HIM SEVERELY. Ilu Andrew. Also: I am pretty fascinated by the idea of Will and Skandar yelling at each other for twenty minutes, back then. In fact, I was exploring the other special features on the DVD the other day and discovered that there is actually footage of this occurrence, so I gif'd it. As you do:


ALL THE SHOVING. ANDREW STANDING THERE WATCHING INTENTLY. WILL'S INEXPLICABLE CHEST-STROKE AT THE END THERE. SKANDAR'S LITTLE FACE. ;_; But, um, anyway—

Andrew: Oh, Anna, you should talk about what was going on for you in this scene.
Anna: This scene was really overwhelming, because we were saying goodbye to our Mum, onscreen, and my Mum left New Zealand that morning, and I think Andrew sort of instructed me to look insecure and vulnerable and really sad that my Mum was going away, so it was sort of reality and the story at the same time.
Andrew: Mind you, making Anna look insecure is a challenging proposition.

Don't mind me, I'm just getting some weird kind of enjoyment out of hearing Andrew talk about them lately.

Will: I had a terrible, terrible haircut at this stage.
Anna: That's the Norman No-Mates look.
Will: This was referred to as the Norman No-Mates look.
Andrew: That's right, in order to make William feel insecure I just gave him that haircut.

Infamous haircut drama.

Andrew: But I think the other thing that was interesting about this, and there's a bit coming up actually, Will, which I really like, just as you're pushing through the crowd you look kind of really disoriented and so on, and I don't think it was acting, I think this was very early on in the process and you guys were thrust in here with something like 150...300 extras, I think we had.
Will: I suppose why it works is because like I'm meant to reassure Georgie but I can't really reassure myself.
Andrew: Here, look at this bit coming up, this bit's one of my favourite little moments. She pulls it off and you just look completely disoriented—
Anna: Yeah.
Will: It was disorienting, though!
Anna: It was crazy.
Andrew: (laughing) Like, "What? Where am I meant to go?" K.C. (Hodenfield, associate producer)'s probably yelling at you, "Over there! Go over there!"

I like how much of a kick Andrew gets out of Will looking lost.

Anna: That made me laugh, that bit, as well, because Skandar was—I was sort of dragging Skandar along, and he improvised the line "I know how to get on a train."
Skandar: Yeah, that's my skills.
Anna: And it was just 'cause he didn't really want me to pull him along on set.

I love this story. Skandar's skillz.

Andrew: And this would've been like the first of the big sets that we were working on.
Will: It wasn't really that big, though, it was quite small, it wasn't huge.
Anna: William, obviously not overwhelmed by the scale of things.

Hahaha.

Anna: This was that scene that took ages, to get the shot lined up through that window, to get William's face in that exact position—
Andrew: Probably trying to get William to sit still is what took the longest time.

*snort*

Andrew and Anna: Awwww, look at Georgie!!
Skandar: Small person.
Georgie: I'm not a small person!
Skandar: Look at how small you are!

I love how Georgie reacts to this in kind of an exasperated way, as though it's something Skandar has said many times before. Also: it's true, Georgie, you were SO SMALL.

Andrew: Ah, I remember how much William loved that haircut.
Will: It was disgusting.
Anna: Skandar's was quite classic too actually.
Skandar: Mine was cool, okay, I could pull it off, it was cool.
Andrew: I remember how shocked I was at first when they cut your hair, Anna, 'cause you'd arrived and you had that long, long hair—
Georgie: It was gorgeous!
Andrew: —and then they came in and I said "Oh! It got shorter!" and you nearly burst into tears because it was so short.
Anna: I remember we were sort of testing all the hair and wardrobe stuff, and they came to sort of check it before they finalised it, and your request was "Could...could we make it lower?" (Andrew laughs) which was your euphemism for 'longer'...by which time it'd already been cut off...
Andrew: I know, I was kind of expecting they'd probably show it to me an inch at a time, getting shorter and shorter, and you came in and I was kind of just taken aback.
Georgie: It was like five inches.

COULD WE MAKE IT LOWER. Also awww Georgie saying it was gorgeous.

Andrew: Tell this story, about what we did to you when we first took you onto the Narnia set.
Georgie: I was almost tempted to call Childline! They blindfolded me—no, I'm only joking, but they did actually blindfold me, I remember they came up to me, advanced on me with like this silk scarf with black tape on it, and were like "Georgie, we're just gonna blindfold you a second." I was like "okay". And (to Andrew) I remember you picked me up with like, bodily force, you were like *imitates picking-up-child noise*
Andrew: Well, we had to be really careful because everyone was really worried about us dropping you, and we had to carry you down all these wood stairs into this—the scene was shot in an equestrian centre that we dug out—we dug fifteen metres into the ground and planted this forest, covered it all in this false snow—
Will: How many trees is it, Andrew?
Andrew: You know, I don't know. You'll have to ask Roger (Ford, production designer).
Will: There were so many.
Georgie: You passed me down, like, man to man—
Andrew: We passed you down the stairs and then removed the blindfold and then poor Peter had to try and follow you with the steady cam, but I think that this excitement that you're seeing in some of these shots was just completely real, because I remember going down to you afterwards and you were trembling, you were shaking with so much excitement at being the first person to step into Narnia.

Oh my god, this is the cutest. I really love that they did that, and that she was genuinely so excited, and I also love Will interrupting to ask how many trees there were, WHAT, WILL, WHY DO YOU CARE.

Georgie: I know when it's Kayleigh (Georgie's double)'s hand shots and not mine. I know because she—
Skandar: You pay that much attention to your own hands?
Georgie: Yeah, I do, actually, when there's a close-up of them.

Bickering, bickering. I actually found myself paying way more attention to the Skandar and Georgie interaction in this than I ever have before, just because it's so weird now that they're older for some reason. THEY WERE LIKE DIFFERENT TINY PEOPLE BACK THEN.

Andrew: Oh, this was when you had to try eating sardines!
Georgie: Euuuughhh!

I have never eaten sardines, but I imagine I would have the same reaction, Georgie.

Andrew: I think we tried you on a cup of tea but you didn't like it too much.
Georgie: Ugh, disgusting.
Will: I love tea.
(laughter all round)
Georgie: He's actually drinking it right now.
Andrew: It was funny how this scene didn't work the same way with Peter though.
Will: "What a lovely fire, what a lovely tune!"
Anna: You'd look lovely with that bow in your hair, though, Will, but somehow Georgie just—
Will: I know. And the dress is definitely my colour.

WHY ARE THEY THE BEST. For some reason I never caught this bit before, at least I didn't remember it. Also you really have to listen to the way Will says he loves tea. He sounds so passionate.

Anna: It's so touching, this moment with James, and it's so kind of moving, but I do think it's funny because you see James sitting down and then suddenly, he's kind of draped across the stairs? And I just kind of wondered...how he got there?
(puzzled laughter)
Anna: Did you not notice that, when you were watching the movie, James is just kind of sitting there talking to Georgie, and then suddenly you kind of see him spread out across the stairs!
Skandar: It's some hours later, Anna!
Andrew: It's a time cut!
Anna: Time cut! Time cut! That was like the saving of all continuity on the shoot. Every time Skandar grew—time cut! Time cut!

I ALWAYS WONDERED ABOUT THIS TOO. I remember being really freaked out the first time I listened to the commentary, because it seemed like everything Anna pointed out or said she liked, I had done the exact same thing, sometimes only seconds beforehand. And I'd been all prepared not to like her, because I didn't like Susan in the movie. /nostalgia

(talking about Jame's Tumnas-nose slipping off when he had a cold)
Georgie: I will not repeat the word but he swore very very badly, and had to pay four dollars to the Pottymouth Bucket.
Skandar: It was two.
Georgie: It was four!
Will: Just to let everyone know, the Pottymouth Bucket—Skandar and I ended up paying half our wages into that...
Skandar: But I never actually—I paid ten dollars to that bucket.
Georgie: Yeah, but you actually owe one hundred.

THE BICKERING. IT KILLS ME WITH THE CUTE.

Anna: Every time Georgie heard anyone swear, she—
Georgie: I have sharp ears.
Anna: She demanded two dollars—
Will: She'd go—
All: TWO DOLLARS IN THE POTTYMOUTH BUCKET!
Will: Skandar used to love hearing that from far away...

Hee.

Georgie: I won't mention any names, I'm not that cruel, but someone—I'm not looking at anybody—someone swore on set, it wasn't you, Skandar, actually—
Skandar: Yes!!
Georgie: Someone swore on set and they were like fifteen metres away from me and my head like, whipped round—
Andrew: I know, you've got the hearing of an Alsatian.
(laughter)
Georgie: Thank you!

Lol, Skandar's glee at not being the person in trouble for once. And Georgie being so genuinely flattered at being compared to an Alsatian.

Will: Actually, in this scene I ended up having to pay twenty five dollars because my phone went off. No wait, I think they made me pay forty, one for the phone ringing and then another for the ringtone because everyone didn't like the ringtone! And I was like, what is that, that's so unfair!

I want to know what the ringtone was, haha. Something serious horrific, it seems.

Skandar: No, but Georgie did make up quite a lot of swearwords.
Georgie: I did not!
Will: Like 'darn'.
Skandar: No, no, 'blighter'.
Georgie: That's six dollars in the Pottymouth Bucket!
Anna: Who says 'blighter'?!
Will: I know, Skandar's like stuck in the 1940s.
Skandar: She tried to make me pay fifty dollars for saying that again!
Georgie: And again, and again...
Skandar: We should probably actually get back to what we're doing.
Anna: This was a bit of an emotional scene.
Skandar: I love shouting at Will.

Is anyone else cracking up at the mental image of like, thirteen year old Skandar going around on set saying 'blighter'? Also—he loves shouting at Will. ♥

Georgie: I christened you Miss Piggy Snorer, remember Anna?
Anna: I do remember. And I also remember the trouble Georgie had getting those wellies on.

So cute. *pretends not to have written porn about them recently*

Anna: Those are my feet!
Skandar: Those are my feet! THOSE ARE MY FEET!
Andrew: That's Anna being Skandar's stunt double there.
Skandar: Nooo. That was me falling over, me falling over.
Anna: Skandar had some problems with his stunts, he just really chickened out—
Skandar: (gasps) I did them all!
Anna: I said "It's okay, Skandar, I will do the falling over for you, I'm not afraid."
Skandar: She did it without my consent!
Andrew: The funniest thing about that scene actually is that Skandar had gone home, and we realised we hadn't got the shot, and Anna hadn't quite left, so we were quickly like "Who can we get to do it? Who can we get to do it?" And we got Anna, and they sent her down in wardrobe, but they actually got the wrong wardrobe so first of all, remember, you were in the brown jumper and grey shorts?
Anna: Yeah!
Andrew: And the long socks and everything! It was hilarious.
Anna: I had a little catwalk in Skandar's clothes.
Andrew: Doing her best Skandar impersonation. She was very attractive.
Anna: (makes teenage boy-esque groaning/grumbling noises)
Skandar: I'M DENYING ALL OF THIS. It never happened.
Anna: I actually sent Skandar a lovely signed photograph of me in his lovely shorts, so that he could keep it forever as a reminder.
Georgie: It's in the 'making of' book, isn't it?
Skandar: (muttering) Hopefully not...

BEST. Skandar's absolute refusal to admit that this happened, the mental image of Anna doing a catwalk in Skandar's costumes, Anna's teasing, soooo cute.

Will: There's a funny joke which Anna's brother actually noticed, that in the poster that's actually my body with Skandar's head—
Skandar: No, I noticed that! I told you that!
Will: And there's Anna's legs used for the falling over moment...
Georgie: And Soumaya's voice.
Will: And Soumaya's voice.
Georgie: What parts do you play, Skandar?!

For some reason I'm really intrigued by how much offense Skandar takes to Will apparently forgetting that it was him who told him this.

Skandar: My sister Soumaya, in the looping, because (deepens voice) my voice is a lot deeper now, so she had to do some of my voiceover...which I'm not too happy about.
Andrew: One of the challenges with Skandar was that he grew about five and a half inches and his voice broke—
Skandar: Six and a half inches!
Andrew: Six and a half inches, my god.
Will: It seems to get bigger every single time I hear him say it.

Lol I'm a bad person and enjoy taking the last three lines out of context.

Skandar: Oh, and here's Tilda.
Anna: Tilda looks amaaaazing.
Will: And what happened, Skandar, with Tilda? Like, you weren't allowed to see her, or—
Skandar: I never saw her in costume. And we weren't really allowed to socialise.
Georgie: (in the background) You weren't allowed to socialise?
Andrew: Initially.
Skandar: Initially.
Anna: (slyly) It didn't last very long, did it?
Skandar: Nah, we were just sort of mucking about in the end.
Andrew: Well, Tilda actually came to me after about the fourth day of shooting and she goes "Can I please just like spend some time with Skandar now?"
Anna: You're so irresistable, Skandar.
Skandar: I feel loved!
Andrew: She actually liked him!
Skandar: YES!

*ships* I really like that Skandar's the first to mention her, and that he says they were 'just sort of mucking about in the end', so casual. And his triumphant "YES!" Looove.

Anna: Wasn't it this bit, in the sleigh, between Skandar and Tilda, there was lots of teasing—
Skandar: (groaning) Oh, god, no.
Andrew: Why don't you tell that story, Skandar?
Skandar: No, I—oh, okay, I'll say it so you don't like, make it even worse. Yeah, well Andrew thought, oh well, let's see how we can annoy Skandar—
Will: Not that he's ever done that before...
Skandar: Yeah! So as I get in the sleigh, Andrew's like "Oooh, Skandar's got a new girlfriend, ooh-hoo-hoo."
Georgie: Well, she is like cocooning you in like this seductive way!
Andrew: Obviously, yes, the intent was to make you feel as uncomfortable as the character is feeling at the time, so quite often before a take, you know, when I was giving Skandar direction, I'd say something like "Just imagine you're going on a sleigh ride with your new girlfriend."
Skandar: I was twelve at the time, okay! For the record!
Anna: It was definitely enough to make you squirm.
Andrew: He definitely squirmed. That discomfort is not acting, it's real.

FAVOURITE STORY EVER maybe no I can't choose but ONE OF THE BEST. Especially Georgie pointing out the seductive cocooning. TRUTH, GEORGIE.

Will: How many pieces [of Turkish Delight] did you have in the end, Skandar?
Skandar: Thirty five pieces the size of my fist.
Andrew: And how did it make you feel?
Skandar: Sick as a dog.
Andrew: Would you like some now?
Skandar: I'm good.

Skandar. ♥ I wonder if he can eat Turkish Delight again yet without like, throwing up?

Anna: This was a weird scene to film because we spent the whole day in our pajamas.

I just love this quote because it comes in the middle of a deep discussion about what's most scary for children in interactions with adults. Anna's just like "lol pajamas."

Anna: I remember the tension between Peter and Susan, and William and me, improv-ing in this scene—
Andrew: That's what you didn't like about it.
Will: That was Anna's end of improv.
Anna: I hated it! I hated arguing with William.
Skandar: (in the background, happily) I love arguing with Will.
Andrew: And at one stage, you just said "Oh shut up, I'm much smarter than you are!"
(laughter)
Will: And I was like "What?!"
Andrew: Was that improv or was it real?
Anna: I was in character!
Will: We're very similar to our characters, and so in improvising there's always going to be an element of truth...
Andrew: I just remember that after that point, Anna was like "I don't want to do improv anymore."

Ahaha. Oh, Anna. Also, I love that Anna hated having to argue with Will, and Skandar loved it.

Skandar: Oh, this really hurt when [Will] hit me!
Andrew: Yeah, that was actually—obviously we wanted him to hit you, but we didn't expect him to really hit you.
Georgie: Awww, poor Skandar.
Will: Of course I was gonna hit him.

OF COURSE.

Skandar: Andrew thought that I was incapable of playing cricket—
Will: Because you are.
Skandar: —he thought that I couldn't actually hit the ball—
Georgie: You couldn't.

Ahaha. Hahaha.

Skandar: A couple of rehearsals later I go "Andrew, can I hit the ball?" and he goes "Yeah, sure," and apparently he didn't think I—
Andrew: I thought he would never actually hit it.
Skandar: So I SMASH it into one of the lighting things—
Will: I was actually quite impressed by that.
Skandar: —and K.C. goes "SKANDAAAAAAR!" and he like, comes running, like "Skandar, you can't do that, that's a security thing," so then we had to use a rubber ball which bounced really annoyingly.

Will was actually quite impressed by that. :3

Anna: Also, it was so funny, because to stop the dust going up your nose, people were walking around set in these kind of surgeons' masks, so it was really bizarre because you'd just walk on set and everyone looked like they were about to go into theatre or something.
Andrew: I tried to make it a policy not to wear one, mainly 'cause you guys couldn't.

Andrewwww why are you the sweetest.

Skandar: This is the coolest coat ever, even though I don't actually like it...of course...
Anna: The thing is, Skandar, you're supposed to hate this coat, but the fact is he just loves it. He loves it.
Skandar: Look at that coat! You can't deny the fact that that looks cool!
Georgie: It's a pregnant woman's coat!
Skandar: It's a cool coat!
Georgie: You look like a pregnant woman in it!
Skandar: I look like a gangster in it!
Andrew: Yeah, but it just made you want to hug him more, didn't it?
Anna: Yeah.
Andrew: Skandar enjoyed our hugs so much.
Anna: Yeah, he loves being hugged.
Skandar: No. Noooo.
Andrew: He really does. If anyone listening to this disc sees Skandar in the street, just know that he loves a good hug.
Skandar: NO I DO NOT.

SKANDAR KEYNES: PREGNANT WOMAN/GANGSTER. I wonder if he actually had fans recognising him in the street and giving him hugs after this.

Georgie: In the Czech Republic, Anna's hands started to like, turn blue, and she was like "WILLIAM!" and William was like "ANNA!" and stuffed both of her hands into his armpit, and—
Andrew: I know!
Will: I just couldn't believe it, 'cause you know, Anna gets cold hands anyway, when it's a hundred degrees of heat Anna will still have cold hands—
Georgie: Yeah, she's got bad circulation.
Anna: It's a bit Granny, but...
Will: And we were in the Czech Republic, and running up this hill, and she turned around like "William!" and I saw her hands and they were literally blue, and I just shoved them underneath my armpits, you know—
Anna: Skandar didn't feel the cold at all, actually.
Skandar: In the Czech Republic, everyone else was in the massive heater like with fat coats, and I actually took off my coat, I was too hot in it. I was like, running in the snow, and I actually started sweating.
Andrew: I think it was the amount of sugar.

Idk I like this story. I also find it amusing how Georgie tells the story, and then Will...tells it again for no apparent reason.

Georgie: I remember that shot took so long to set up, 'cause like, the thing was like drifting over, and William's head was in the way...
Andrew: That's right. William couldn't stand still for long enough to get in focus...
Skandar: ...Will's an idiot...

This part cracks me up because of how Skandar just joins in with the list, jumping at an opportunity to insult Will. I also like how clearly, Will's inability to sit still was like the bane of Andrew's existence on set.

Andrew: Ray and Dawn were fantastic. And they've played a married couple before, as well.
Anna: Have they?
Andrew: Yes, but not beavers. I don't think either of them had played beavers before...

I like how he felt the need to clarify.

Skandar: In this bit, I remember, you know I had to climb up—I think it's been cut, but, as I went up the snow was really thick, and then when they went up, Will said this, I QUOTE: "I never thought I'd say this but Skandar actually made it look easy walking up that hill." QUOTE. QUOTE.
Andrew: I never thought he'd say that either.

♥ He's so thrilled.

Anna: I remember you asking us to like, work out the trigonometry and the height of the castle—
Andrew: I think that came from Georgie actually asking me how tall it was, and then—
Skandar: Cheers, Georgie.
Andrew: I said "I think as tall as the Sky Tower," and she knew how tall that was, I think it was like 328 metres or something, and then you said "How high shall we look?" and I said "Well, you know trigonometry, you figure it out." And you did! You actually sat down and you worked it out on paper, and you told me, okay, if we're this number of metres away, we're looking up...
Anna: Really? Clearly, I was in the wrong job.
Georgie: It was actually 327.
Will: I have a feeling mine was just guesswork...

I love Skandar's sarcastic "Cheers, Georgie," and the fact that Anna doesn't remember willingly doing trigonometry.

Andrew: (to Georgie) I think it was one of the scenes where you had to cry, and you were really mad, and you were bullying me.
Skandar: No Andrews were hurt in the making of this film.
Anna: Everyone thinks that Andrew was in charge of the shoot, actually Georgie ran the show.
Andrew: I was barely hanging on!
Georgie: I remember that when we did that stone table—I don't remember whether it was the stone table, but I got really mad at you after that.
Andrew: You did. I think it was this scene because I remember calling Nicky, my wife, and saying "I'm being bullied by a nine year old. Help me!"
Will: And Nicky carefully replied "I'm being bullied by a one year old."

GEORGIE RAN THE SHOW.

Anna: Did you ever consider using real wolves with Skandar?
Andrew: We tried to, actually, but unfortunately his mother wouldn't let us.
Will: (in the background) ...attach pieces of meat to him...
Skandar: No Skandars were hurt during the making of this film.
Andrew: We thought maybe a meat suit under his coat, and thought if we just released him into the wild and let the wolves go, we might get some good action.
Will: Some organic reactions.
Andrew: Exactly.

ATTACH PIECES OF MEAT TO HIM. There are seriously so many little murmured background bits in this commentary that are basically just Will and Skandar having a go at each other. I love it.

Anna: This set was amazing.
Will: Beautiful.
Skandar: Did you guys visit it?
Anna and Will: Yeah!
Georgie: I didn't!
Andrew: It was at this point in the movie that you guys kinda split up.
Everyone: Yeah.
Andrew: And Skandar was off on his own a lot of the time.
Anna: We started missing Skandy. I don't know how much Skandar missed us, actually, you seemed quite—
Skandar: Not at all. I was coooool.
Georgie: I remember getting really upset at one point, 'cause I was like, I miss Skandar!!
Andrew: Aww, I know.
Skandar: I feel so loved!
Anna: But then we hugged him and it was all okay.
Georgie: But then I got all upset 'cause then William left and I was like, I miss Skandar and Will!! 'Cause I'd been apart from—(suddenly to Skandar, in reference to the movie) Look at you smiling. Tilda's gonna wipe that smug grin right off your face!
Skandar: This is like one of the one shots of me that I actually like.

SKANDY. And ahaha, the sudden derailing at the end is my favourite.

Skandar: I loved saying that Will was stupid. I loved saying that, that was so fun.

Oh Skandar, you're so easy to please.

Andrew: What I remember about this tunnel is that this was the start of Anna's injuries.
Anna: Yeah! I had, sort of, war wounds. My knees were seriously cut up.
Skandar: Oh yeah.
Anna: I think that's why my physical activity in the film was limited, because Andrew realised that every time I had to run anywhere I managed to fall over.
Skandar: Not very co-ordinated, are you Anna?
Anna: Seriously unco-ordinated.

One of the few bits of Skandar/Anna interaction.

Anna: I can't believe how the script has changed since we actually filmed it. I mean, I wondered if you had to CG any of our acting in it, Andrew.
Andrew: Oh, all the way through the movie. Skandar isn't actually real.
Anna: Well, there's me, there's Soumaya...
Skandar: And Will, and Will!
Andrew: Yes, exactly, he's a composite.

I know I keep saying this, but...I love Andrew. (And Skandar's insistence on including Will.)

Georgie: Sorry, I've got to say, now, turning back towards this scene—
Skandar: Yes, I've been trying to get us towards this scene for ages!
Georgie: No, no, no, not about you, about James.
Will: (in the background) We're very grounding to each other.

*snort*

Skandar: Oh yeah, and Kiran, in some of our scenes, he had to wear a fat suit, so um—is that the actual terminology? "Fat suit"?
Andrew: Yeah.
Skandar: All right, he had to wear a fat suit.

Skandar, I love you.

Andrew: I remember Georgie's grandparents coming to me and saying "Georgie's really terrified about the wolves." Remember that? And I was like, "Georgie, there are no wolves." And you were like "No, but I can see them in my mind!!"

THIS IS SO CUTE.

Anna: Water squirted up from between the icebergs, and I don't know whether it was because they were aiming, or if it was an accident, but I seem to remember getting water up my skirt like every shot.
Andrew: It was an accident!
Anna: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Andrew: It did prompt some good screams, though...

Lol, Andrew seriously just tortured them all.

Skandar: Look at Will pout! Look at Will pout! Look at Will pout! Did everyone see that? WILL POUTED THEN, it was on camera, rewind and watch that, Will pouted.
Will: I didn't pout!
Andrew: That's easy for Skandar to say, who didn't have twelve tons of water dropped on him...
Will: Exactly!
Skandar: Yeah, but it doesn't mean you can pout.

Ahahaha SKANDAR WHAT IS YOUR DEAL

Georgie: I HAVEN'T FINISHED MY STORY YET, ACTUALLY, MR. KEYNES.

MR. KEYNES. ♥

Andrew: This was actually a fun scene to shoot because this was actually a scene where Skandar got very emotional.
(long pause)
Skandar: Yes. Andrew's now staring at me expecting me to say something.
Andrew: Well, it's true! It was like the beginning of the film, I didn't ever think we were going to be able to get you to cry.
Skandar: And then I surprised him.
Andrew: You did.
Skandar: But no, I noticed that—'cause we did two takes, and one I'd just started crying and the other I was really crying, and you used the first one.
Will: Skandar, you just thought of how much Coke you'd been banned over the film, didn't you?
Andrew: Yeah, exactly, I just told him "You're not allowed to drink any more Coca Cola for the rest of the film," and he just burst into tears.

I love the long pause, I can just imagine Andrew being like "...say something."

Georgie: Skandar, what made you cry?
Andrew: I don't know if he wants to talk about it.
Skandar: Yeah, I'm fine, really. What made you cry, Georgie?
Andrew: Basically, Skandar told me a very emotional thing that had happened to him, and then while we were shooting this I just sat off-camera and basically re-told him the same story, told him what he had just told to me.

I have to admit to being curious about this. And I like Skandar's snarky response to Georgie's nosiness.

Everyone: Ooh, this is a good scene.
Andrew: I loved this scene because we had the gag on Skandar.
Will: Zelfa (Skandar's Mum) loved this scene.

Hee.

Will: Andrew, doesn't Anna actually look into the camera just at that point?
Anna: Did I?!
Andrew: No...
Will: I think she did!
Skandar: Oooooh!
Everyone: Ooooohhh!
Andrew: Too late now...

Hee. I love the way they all join in.

Anna: There's such a funny story that at the wrap party, Andrew was sort of having a quiet word with everyone before we left New Zealand, and um, William—
Will: He didn't have a quiet word with me.
Andrew: I did too!
Anna: He did! You just don't remember it!
Andrew: I went to each of you, you just don't remember it exactly.
Anna: Exactly. For various reasons. But then Georgie was sort of "Yeah, I'm really sad, it's been wonderful, goodbye," and William was sort of duly emotional, and then Andrew said to Skandar, "You know, Skandar, I'm really proud of you," and Skandar sort of took a moment to consider this and then patted Andrew on the back and said "I'm...proud of you, too?"
Andrew: Yeah, Mr. Non-Emotion over there, I know. Will thanked me, Georgie tried not to cry, Anna gave me a big hug, and Skandar just goes "Yeah, I'm...proud of you."
Will: (laughing) "You've done a good job, Andrew. Well done."
Skandar: He has, he has! He did a lot of work, he deserves it.

ALSO A FAVOURITE. Mr Non-Emotion. I'M...PROUD OF YOU, TOO? And how Andrew gets drawn into the bickering for once, "I did too!"

Anna: This is the only scene I had with Tilda, and obviously I'd met her off set, she's really, really lovely, but I was just so in awe of her in this scene, just 'cause she—
Andrew: She's very powerful in this scene.
Will: So powerful.
Anna: So powerful, and so kind of really...I didn't have to act very much in this scene at all, because she is just so kind of awe-inspiring and so just...striking.
Will: Tilda just seems to draw this attention to her, I don't know—like I mean, I'm not—I mean when you watch her and she just is on the screen and she comes into the scene, into the main area, you can't help but just be watching, you can't, and it's just—
Andrew: She has a very commanding presence.
Will: Really, really commanding.

Everyone is in love with Tildaaa. Apparently, Will is so in love with her that he can't even form decent sentences.

Andrew: It was particularly important because you know, in a moment [Aslan]'s going to die, and you needed to kind of get to know him—
Georgie: Don't tell them!
Skandar: You've given it away, Andrew!
Georgie: Don't tell them, Andrew!
Anna: Shhh!

So cute. Guys, why isn't there more fic with Andrew in it? I should get on that.

Andrew: What do we remember about this scene?
Anna: Um. Lots of crying?
Andrew: Lots of crying. I think Anna cried for about eight hours in this scene.
Georgie: And I cried for like...five minutes. I couldn't do it...
Anna: You did it in the end, though, George.
Georgie: I know, you were like—at the end, you were like, coming out with this really crushing stuff like, "You'd cry for Rachael, wouldn't you? You'd cry for Laura, you'd cry for your Dad, you'd cry for your Mum, why won't you cry for me??"
Andrew: It was so hard, I don't know why you decided you couldn't cry in this scene because you're so capable of it, and this was like...your mother was talking to you, I was talking to you, I was crying, Anna was crying, all the people behind the monitors were crying, and you were like "I'm not gonna cry, I don't feel like crying."
Skandar: Everyone's basically having a go at Georgie.
Andrew: And then at lunchtime, you spent twenty minutes sobbing!
Georgie: But it's like, spur of the moment, isn't it? But the thing is, I got so mad at you—
Andrew: I know you did.
Georgie: 'Cause I thought, I was just sick of this, I was just sick of crying, and I almost wanted to like say, I don't want to film this anymore, this is just horrible—I'm going to my trailer!
Skandar: This is really juicy gossip, just watching you two talk about this.

Anna saying that stuff to Georgie, oh man. Also, ahaha, Skandar just sitting back and enjoying the gossip.

Will: For this scene, I was lying in bed, I was meant to be asleep, and Andrew took a foghorn and blew it in my face. I was so startled that I jumped up, and I looked at Skandar, and he just started bursting out laughing—
Skandar: It was soooo funny. You had to be there to see it. Both of us were just holding it, and then I just burst out laughing 'cause I was staring at Will.
Andrew: I don't think I'm going to be able to use this commentary. I'm torturing William with a foghorn, I'm pursuing Anna with mice that she's terrified of—
Will: ...making Georgie cry for three days...
Skandar: Nothing to me, nothing to me!

SEE. TORTURE. Also, Will/Skandar gigglefits = ♥

Andrew: What happened when we put you on the edge of the cliff, Skandar? Even with a steel cable connected to your belt?
Skandar: I couldn't see it! It was so scary! 'Cause at the time, I was scared of heights, I was standing on ground that was sloping downwards, you have New Zealand wind, and I had this massive heavy sword, and I had to leeeean over the edge and go like, "FIIIIRE!"
Andrew: You were about four feet from the edge with a steel cable bolted to the ground.
Skandar: I was not! I was like half a foot from the edge! Andrew, you weren't there, you couldn't see it! Why are you so mean??

And a few years later, he was bungee-jumping! How things change...

Anna: I remember looking at the unicorn and thinking, you know, wow, and sort of saying to Howard (Berger, prosthetics), "How did you do that?" and he was like "It's...glue?"

Lol I love the way she says this.

Will: Anna, your acting in this I think is amazing.
Anna: Thanks, Will.
Will: No, I really do, I think Anna's acting in this—it's just so empowering and so sad, and you know, everything's just come to a climax now and it's like, you know, these are the choices we've had to make and this is the consequences, and this is just part of it, you know?
(Anna murmurs something)
Skandar: After doing emotional scenes—
(sound of what I assume is Anna kissing Will on the cheek)
Skandar: —you really do appreciate a lot more—how—um—
Will: It's so good. It's really really good, this scene.
Skandar: Yeah, and, um...(trails off)

This is another thing I never caught before. I do like how Skandar seems to lose the ability to speak after seeing Anna kiss Will.

Andrew: Anna had a certain number of prop arrows—
Anna: They were very precious, weren't they?
Andrew: They were very precious, and there was a moment up on the cliff when the girls arrive back at the battle, and Anna was meant to run up and just draw the arrow and get ready to fire, and remember you fired one?
Anna: Yeah, I couldn't resist.
Andrew: And they were running around looking for it.
Anna: I just sort of—I think I couldn't really resist, I was standing on the edge of this kind of cliff and I thought, aw, I don't think they'll mind if I just let one go.
(pause)
Andrew: You claimed it was an accident!
Anna: (coughs)

IS IT WEIRD THAT ANDREW'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ANNA IS MY FAVOURITE?

Georgie: (in reference to the film, gasping) OH, GOSH.
Skandar: I know, I was about to say I loved that bit and then realised what happened. But yeah, I still loved it. Watching Will get thrown around.

O rly.

Skandar: And Will's—this is—isn't—don't you...do someth—I'm gonna shut up now.

Hahaha I love this.

Andrew: One of my favourite bits coming up here because Skandar, on the battlefield—
Skandar: Oh yeah, my one bit of fighting! So everyone look at me, not Will!
Andrew: One bit of fighting coming up! But as it so happened, in all of the takes, the moment that Skandar turns round and slashes, there was nobody there. So it kind of just looked like he was slashing in mid-air, and we had to actually—you know, the very nice folks at ILM added in a cyclops, there he is! There's the cyclops that you take down that was never actually on the set.
Skandar: No no no, it's 'cause I've already swiped someone that's out of shot, and then as I follow through and I turn round—
Will: Basically, Skandar is just not really a warrior.
Skandar: I'm amazing, shut up!!
Will: Him and Mr. Beaver have had to go off and hide.
Skandar: Wi-ill! You get like all of this stuff, just let me have one moment! One moment!!

Poor Skandar. The way he says 'Wi-ill' is so cute.

Andrew: Tilda was pretty formidable in this, too. I am amazed at how skilled she got with her swords.
(Jadis stabs Peter in the arm)
Andrew: That...was pretty real. Remember that? That was one where you actually—you had that plastic guard on but it actually did kinda really hurt you.
Will: Yeah. That hurt. It really got right into my arm and it was absolute agony.
Andrew: But it made for a very convincing scene.
Will: It did.

I like that Tilda actually injured people by mistake. Idk why.

(Georgie gasping at something onscreen)
Skandar: That was skills, Will.

♥

Anna: That was really good, that injured bit, Skandar, as well.
Andrew: It's very convincing.
Anna: I kind of cringed for you.
Andrew: I think actually Tilda really got him, that's why.

Hahaha. I bet she did.

Skandar: I like this moment, 'cause everyone's suddenly worrying about me.

Lol, Skandar.

(during Edmund's dying scene)
Andrew: This was actually probably your most emotional scene, Will.
Will: Yeah, it was.

Love, love, love.

Skandar: D'you remember that bottle? And you know when it pours over, and in that we had one drop, but most of the time it went all over my face, Georgie.
Georgie: It didn't!
Skandar: You poured out the entire bottle on me, up my nose!
Georgie: I did not! I did not!
Skandar: And then Will would have to try and clean it off with his clumpy hands.
Georgie: I didn't! That happened once!
Skandar: Three times!
Georgie: Only once, I'm saying, Skandar, Skandar—
Anna: I think Will was amazing in this scene, actually, he was so good and so emotional, and—
Skandar: And he's gone silent again.
Anna: And actually, after it finished, Skandar gave Will a hug of his own free accord.
Andrew: I know.
Skandar: Only Will, and then you joined in! (others laugh) That wasn't called for!
Will: Actually, that was one moment I won't forget, when Skandar said "That was really good," 'cause he doesn't tell people they've done well a lot of the time. And so when he does, I—
Anna: It was a mark of respect.

♥_♥ Loooove. Also aww at the mental image of Will trying to clean liquid off Skandar's face with all his armour on.

Will: (watching the coronation scene) And so I still look kind of young and I'm smiling and I—you know, I—
Skandar: You're not a man, yet.
Will: Skandar and I haven't actually—um, still haven't really changed, at that point.

Will seems to get kinda flustered at Skandar talking about his...*cough* manhood?

Andrew: But this, I remember, we actually did to music, as well.
Skandar: Which was—okay, 'cause we were told we had to walk in time with it, and Will has NO sense of rhythm or time, so you would just walk on like clumpity-clump-clump-clump.
Andrew: I think you guys have always argued about who was out of sync there.
Will: And it was Skandar.

Bicker, bicker, bicker. I like how Skandar keeps describing various attributes of Will's as 'clumpy' in some way.

Anna: When I was watching it the other day, this moment made me cry, 'cause I thought it was so nice and also linking like—
Skandar: Guys, how many times did you cry in this film? I never cried, I was just sitting there thinking, yeah, this is so cool! And you guys are like, pouring your hearts out.

Hahaha. Well, you would, Mr Non-Emotion.

Georgie: Okay, the girl, the girl in the orange dress, she is my older sister Rachael Henley!
Andrew: She is.
Anna: She looks so beautiful here.
Skandar: And the other, sort of attractive guy, is me when I grow up.

Anna/Rachael? Skandar/Mark Wells? Just sayin'.

Will: (referring to the credits) Andrew, how come you didn't use capital letters? For like Susan Pevensie, Peter Pevensie...
Andrew: I don't know, just a design choice. Just 'cause I didn't have a very good education.

Andrewww.

Andrew: This was one the very first things we actually shot, because we very much wanted the children to look like they had at the beginning of the movie, before they'd had a chance to get out in the sun and grow five inches and everything.
Skandar: Six and a half.

Oh, Skandar.

Skandar: This is to people in DVD land, goodbye from Skandar Keynes, the cool one of the four.

Best sign-off from a commentary ever. DVD LAND.


[download] .mp3 of the LWW commentary on Mediafire.


FORCED GROUP HUG TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. ♥

Comments

[iamshunpike.livejournal.com]

Okay so where is everyone?
Time to say stuff about this HONKIN' LONG POST
So glad I have this LWW-era Will icon

scratch that, his face is terrifying me in that pic right now

[iamshunpike.livejournal.com]

1. I love how appreciative everyone in fandom is of what we're given...the books, films, actors, fic, GENERAL FUN TIMES AT ALL.

2. Georgie: I'm not a small person!
Skandar: Look at how small you are!
As someone who was very, very small as a little kid, I can relate to this. It's adorable.

And I'm on someone else's computer so I will switch now —

all that typing really IS dedicated.

[iamshunpike.livejournal.com]

Okay, a lot of this is me relating to their stories.

3. Georgie: Well, she is like cocooning you in like this seductive way!
GEORGIE YOU ARE ABOUT TEN. HOW DO YOU KNOW THE WORD SEDUCTIVE AND USE IT PROPERLY??
Then again my kid vocabulary had oddities like that too. There is just so much I can relate to about the Narnia kids. It's fun.

4. Skandar: Look at that coat! You can't deny the fact that that looks cool!
It looks quite badass. I ended up making an icon out of this, actually, a couple months ago....



ALSO because it is relevant to the GANGSTA bit, let me share with you one of my Narnia_dazzle blingee things...hopefully i won't get killed.



Yes.

5. Skandar: In the Czech Republic, everyone else was in the massive heater like with fat coats, and I actually took off my coat, I was too hot in it. I was like, running in the snow, and I actually started sweating.
My entire family freaks out when I do that, too, but I wear tanktops and crap all the way through winter and it's like I don't feel the cold. Everyone'll be wearing about five layers of clothing and I'll just casually stop into the kitchen in a t-shirt and shorts from the middle of summer or some shit. So I can relate to this.

6. IS IT WEIRD THAT ANDREW'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ANNA IS MY FAVOURITE?
NOOOOOOOO, I LOVE IT AS WELL.

7. Skandar: And the other, sort of attractive guy, is me when I grow up.
I think it's cool that Skandar is comfortable enough with himself to refer to another man as "attractive" without it having to necessarily mean anything in particular. A lot of grown men can't even do that, let alone a probably-awkward pre-teen boy. Kudos, son. :)

8. Skandar: This is to people in DVD land, goodbye from Skandar Keynes, the cool one of the four.
Best sign-off from a commentary ever. DVD LAND.
DVD LAND. IT'S WHERE I LIVE. Thank you for acknowledging it, Skandar.
THE COOL ONE OF THE FOUR. Hell, yeah.

Weirdly, I kind of enjoyed it? I should get a job transcribing things.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

OF COURSE GEORGIE KNEW THE WORD SEDUCTIVE WHEN SHE WAS LIKE TEN. SHE'S GEORGIE. I know what you mean though, after she says it there's like this awkward little moment where everyone's clearly thinking "Georgie!!" and Andrew quickly moves on.

THAT ICON IS AWESOME and so is the blingee ahahaha, Georgie with the gangsta chain and the CIGAR.

I understand the not-feeling-the-cold thing too - well, I do feel it, but I kind of love it? I absolutely HATE being too hot, like even just a little bit, so when it's too cold for most people, I'm actually comfortable.

♥ Andrew and Anna are the cutest for some reason! I like the relationship he has with all of them, but her the most somehow.

Haha yes! You can tell he gets a little bit self-conscious about it, because he's really just trying to say "that guy is older!me, you can tell 'cause he's attractive" but then he says 'sort of' because he's probably aware of how it sounds.

DVD LAND SOUNDS AWESOME I WANT TO LIVE THERE TOO.

[lizardwriter.livejournal.com]

Can I just say how impressed I am that you actually took the time to write out all of those quotes? Like super impressed! Also, they were really fun to read (especially since the last time I watched that commentary was probably right after the DVD came out).

Now I want to go back and watch all of this commentary. :)

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

♥ Thank you! I type pretty fast and seem to get some weird enjoyment out of transcribing things, so it wasn't a chore, but I'm glad my effort is appreciated. :)

You should! It's so cute.

[alexi-lupin.livejournal.com]

I watched this like last week and OMG THEY ARE ALL SO ADORABLE I CAN'T EVEN

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Were you getting all nostalgic too? I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME. I was watching the Prince Caspian special features the other day too.

[alexi-lupin.livejournal.com]

Not consciously, but I must have been! :P

[harmonyalr.livejournal.com]

I just watched this today-I love this & I too will be gutted if there is no commentary with DT.

They are so sweet together, I wish they would video tape the recording of the commentary, I want to see some of these things as they were happening-esp some of the more embarrassing parts.


Will is so sweet, so earnest, I just wanna hug him! & oh so ornery haha.

Anna is so Ms Serious Business, and yet she also seems so lovely. How does she do it?

Skandar...at this stage, I'm sure his 'verbal filter' was very lacking-I bet with the right prodding (by a certain 'older brother') he would say &/or do just about anything. He may have been afraid a lot, but I bet being around Will really opened him up. I bet he was a real handful-not that he might not be now, because there is definitely something still lurking under the surface with him, but he's 'changed' quite a bit.

Georgie...is waaaaay too smart for her own good. She is quite mature, yet you can't miss the little girl she was. I bet she gave Andrew a serious run for his money-I'd love to hear her Mom talk about her, then & now. She seems so put together, but I bet she's a bit of a wild child too. They all seem to have a bit of that in them.

They are such a good match, in every way, they seem like a real family, even look like one. I wonder if they stay in touch with each other?? I'd like to think they do, and for some of them I bet they do, but I wonder about others??

I'd love to see them all do something like a convention or something that would bring them together, allow them to tell stories of they movies but also be themselves-and be themselves around each other (so we can see how they really are together) I can almost see some of these same relationships falling right back into place, no matter how long they've been apart. Or at least I'd like to :) I'd also like to see how Will P fits in with them, he is family too after all.

I need a new icon. Maybe a Georgie/Will P?

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

I pretty much agree with everything in this comment.

Especially wanting video of the commentary - how awesome would that be? There's also a lot of times where you can hear them talking amongst themselves in the background and I'd like to hear those bits more clearly too. SIGH.

They always say they do keep in touch, but that it's not a constant thing and they often go for long periods without seeing each other. But they say that as soon as they're back together, it's like they were never apart. So you're right about that. :)

Georgie/Will P. icons are definitely necessary!

[suborbital.livejournal.com]

guh, this so brings out the love. Almost makes me weepy remembering what things were like back then! A trip down a very beautiful memory lane. It was this film/era that filled me with so many great memories and inspiration for writing. I love this film and these kids, well, kids back then. All grown up now!

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

♥ I know how you feel! I've been getting so nostalgic.

[timour.livejournal.com]

This is brilliant. can we have one for Caspian please, only i'm far away from my DVD and want to watch the commentry now...

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You know, it's really weird, I remember doing something like this for Caspian recently, but with far fewer quotes as I was just picking out things I hadn't paid attention to. But I can't find the post at all! Maybe if I'm in the mood I'll do another one, idk.

[elamae.livejournal.com]

OMG. You are psychic. I've trying to see if anyone had done a transcript of the LWW commentary (I have it but sometimes it good to see of anyone picks up on things that you don't - particulary when you have 4 excitable kids talking over one another a lot!!) and lo and behold I check your LJ (currently reading The Night Starts Here and here it is!!!

I've printed it off to to pore over later tonight. Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

I also had the 4 DVD set come tonight and am off to watch the special features on disc 2 *rubs hands together in glee* so am in comlete Narnia overload...:oD

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

:D Yay, you're welcome! I'm glad it's appreciated. (And glad you're reading The Night Starts Here - hope you're enjoying it!)

I've been having a special features marathon lately too. XD

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Reading this instead of doing homework! asdjfal; sjdfl;djf SO AWESOME. I love this cast, and I love all your commentary.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

OBVIOUSLY THE SENSIBLE CHOICE. ♥ I'm glad!!

[starrlit-eyes.livejournal.com]

Your Narnia posts always cheer me up. I think I've seen LWW ten times but I haven't played the commentary yet. I need to talk my Narnia-crazy!mother into turning off her talk shows and watching it with me.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Yay I'm so glad! You DEFINITELY need to hear the commentary, it is so adorable.