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The White Witch is the Walden-Disney-Fox version of the book character Jadis. She is portrayed by Tilda Swinton.
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In the Disney and Walden Media film series, Jadis' hair was ashy blond; actress Tilda Swinton and director Andrew Adamson wanted to move away from the stereotypical look of an evil "witch" and conceived Jadis as being more of a Germanic figure or white supremacist. It is also notable that Jadis' hair colour was never actually specified in the books, and that the books' illustrations simply chose to portray her with dark hair.
Over the course of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), her clothes subtly change to reflect the circumstances of the scene in which she appears. She originally starts out wearing a glittering blue-white gown with a white rabbit-fur cloak when she first meets Edmund. Then, she replaces rabbit-fur with arctic-fox fur throughout the first half of the movie as it turns grayish blue. She wears the same dress when she is at her army's camp, but is in a darker shade of blue, but instead of white fox fur, she is wearing a badger fur stole with a cape. When she came to see Aslan with her minions, her dress is platinum white. In addition, she wears her hair in dreadlocks, which was styled differently from a flowy ponytail to updos and buns.
At the sacrifice of Aslan, she is wearing a black-gray strapless dress that has a black-feathered cloak with a taxidermied rooster, which sits at her right shoulder. Additionally, she wears her hair in a ponytail.
At the battle-scene; she is wearing a sleeveless battle-dress with a skirt made of chainmail, and a cuirass of armor that is almost corset-like and made of dark gray leather. She also wears Aslan's mane at her neck, which she does as a tactic to instill fear and grief in the opposing army, and a golden plate headdress in her loose hair.
The headdress is angular with multiple spikes, and seems to be shaped like a stylized animal skull or perhaps antlers, with "fangs" hanging down over her forehead. Several multi-pronged arms extend from the top of the head, down the sides, and catch up the hair to the sides of the face. Otherwise her hair is worn free, streaming out from underneath the crown.
Jadis also obviously wears a crown, except in the battle when it is replaced by the golden headdress, but unlike in the books, it is made of ice/crystal. It starts off long and pointy at the beginning of the film, looking as though the spikes are protruding from her head, but as time passes, it gradually shrinks until finally it is almost gone. The reason for this, as told in the DVD commentary, is because the shrinking of the crown symbolises Jadis's weakening power.
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- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (film)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (film)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (film)