Lucy turning into Susan: Is that in the Book?


Does Lucy read a scroll to turn into Susan in the book? Or was that just for the movie to try to attract the Anna Popewell fans to the box office?

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It's not. There are a lot of liberties taken with this adaptation.

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In the book it was to be as beautiful as Susan, not necessarily be her.

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No, it the book the sequence had her becoming more beautiful than her sister, to the point that it started blood feuds, duels, and world wars.

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In the book Lucy sees a spell to become more beautiful than her but she doesn't read it. The spell she does read is to find out what her friends say about her behind her back - and she overhears one friend saying something nasty. Then Aslan interrupts her and tells her the friend did not mean what she said.

Lucy's jealousy of Susan is in the book but it's not really part of her arc. She's just annoyed that Susan was chosen to go to America with their parents, while she and Edmund are stuck at Eustace's house. The film expands on this idea and has Lucy envying Susan's beauty, giving her an arc where she has to realise her own worth as a person. This is paralleled in her friendship with Gael where she now acts as the older responsible figure.

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I think this scene is well within the spirit of the book. Doesn't really bother me. I quite liked it.

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I liked that they expanded on this, because it gave Lucy an arc, and because it's actually a pretty important message to little girls :"When you grow up, you should be just like YOU."

Of course it was probably an added bonus that Anna Popplewell was included more.

Nitpick: She doesn't actually use the spell in the movie either, she just dreams that she does.

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