Gay and innocent and heartless
Dec. 27th, 2003 02:08 pmMild Spoilers for Peter Pan (the book, of course, as I haven't seen the movie yet.)
I have decided to venture to the movie theater today to see Peter Pan, and virus be damned. Everyone there's probably sick already as it is, don't you think?
So now I'm just waiting...waiting... Really excited, too, and totally curious as to what they're going to do with some of my favorite ideas and themes and even the characters. Peter Pan? Are they going to go with the original characterization? Peter was not a likeable boy. He was the heartbroken bully, and until you found out his secrets (his nightmares,) it was difficult to like him, even as great as the story was. How he closes the window at the end, then relents and opens it when he sees Mrs. Darling crying! How he starts to turn into Hook himself! Ooooh, I hope, hope, hope the movie deals with that!
I wonder if they're going to go with the creepiness, too. Of all writers, Barrie really captured the creepiness of childhood. It's not flowers and goodness and light and innocence. Sometimes it is nameless terror and unreasonable dread. Sometimes chidren themselves are creepy. Have you ever heard a group of them sing a slow song? Gives you the willies and makes you think of ghosts. I wonder if the movie is going to go with the awkwardness of Peter and Wendy playing Mother and Father to the Lost Boys. Playing Doctor and House and not having but the vaguest clue what they were really doing, and only a mite more of a clue what it felt like. This eeriness, excitement and fear came across beautifully in the book. I hope it does in the movie, too.
I absolutely hope they get into Hook's psyche the way the book does. How he's afraid of his own blood more than anything, how blue and soft his eyes are but for the pinpoint red glow, the fact that he loves music and flowers, and that he carries a vial of poison for himself in case he's ever captured. That he's totally out of his mind, and that his madness manifests itself in obsession with "good form." That Smee can make him cry with pathos (and envy: "No little children to love me!") And how when the clock winds down, it's over for this adult. O man unfathomable! ^_^
Please let the movie address all of this!
Sheez, I'd quite forgotten how much I loved this book ten years ago. In fact, I was so obsessed with it, I referenced it really strongly in my independent study course in creative writing in my senior year. I had been writing this bizarre little comedy piece, The Adventures of Sinclair and Eleanore, which I had originally begun as a gift for my Gran, who was in the hospital at the time and really bored. In it, Sinclair and Eleanore go through all of these stupid adventures, all having to do with pop culture or classical literature, sometimes (retardly) becoming their own perverted versions of the characters. They were Dorothy and the Lion, Snow White and Some Guy, I know that somehow Crow from Mystery Science Theater 3000 was involved and maybe so was Edward the first, (??) and in the very last section, they surprised themselves by becoming Peter and Wendy, with Eleanore thinking this was all very topping, but that it was totally pervy of the pirate to tie her to the mast. It was April of '94, you know, and one of the Lost Boys looked remarkably like Kurt Cobain. God I was a freak, but I got an A on the damned thing. I can hardly remember it now. I'll have to go looking for it later, because now I'm curious.
I'll see if I can do up a movie review if I have some time later. I'm nervous and excited! :D I want to love this movie. If I don't, I'm going to be very sad.
I have decided to venture to the movie theater today to see Peter Pan, and virus be damned. Everyone there's probably sick already as it is, don't you think?
So now I'm just waiting...waiting... Really excited, too, and totally curious as to what they're going to do with some of my favorite ideas and themes and even the characters. Peter Pan? Are they going to go with the original characterization? Peter was not a likeable boy. He was the heartbroken bully, and until you found out his secrets (his nightmares,) it was difficult to like him, even as great as the story was. How he closes the window at the end, then relents and opens it when he sees Mrs. Darling crying! How he starts to turn into Hook himself! Ooooh, I hope, hope, hope the movie deals with that!
I wonder if they're going to go with the creepiness, too. Of all writers, Barrie really captured the creepiness of childhood. It's not flowers and goodness and light and innocence. Sometimes it is nameless terror and unreasonable dread. Sometimes chidren themselves are creepy. Have you ever heard a group of them sing a slow song? Gives you the willies and makes you think of ghosts. I wonder if the movie is going to go with the awkwardness of Peter and Wendy playing Mother and Father to the Lost Boys. Playing Doctor and House and not having but the vaguest clue what they were really doing, and only a mite more of a clue what it felt like. This eeriness, excitement and fear came across beautifully in the book. I hope it does in the movie, too.
I absolutely hope they get into Hook's psyche the way the book does. How he's afraid of his own blood more than anything, how blue and soft his eyes are but for the pinpoint red glow, the fact that he loves music and flowers, and that he carries a vial of poison for himself in case he's ever captured. That he's totally out of his mind, and that his madness manifests itself in obsession with "good form." That Smee can make him cry with pathos (and envy: "No little children to love me!") And how when the clock winds down, it's over for this adult. O man unfathomable! ^_^
Please let the movie address all of this!
Sheez, I'd quite forgotten how much I loved this book ten years ago. In fact, I was so obsessed with it, I referenced it really strongly in my independent study course in creative writing in my senior year. I had been writing this bizarre little comedy piece, The Adventures of Sinclair and Eleanore, which I had originally begun as a gift for my Gran, who was in the hospital at the time and really bored. In it, Sinclair and Eleanore go through all of these stupid adventures, all having to do with pop culture or classical literature, sometimes (retardly) becoming their own perverted versions of the characters. They were Dorothy and the Lion, Snow White and Some Guy, I know that somehow Crow from Mystery Science Theater 3000 was involved and maybe so was Edward the first, (??) and in the very last section, they surprised themselves by becoming Peter and Wendy, with Eleanore thinking this was all very topping, but that it was totally pervy of the pirate to tie her to the mast. It was April of '94, you know, and one of the Lost Boys looked remarkably like Kurt Cobain. God I was a freak, but I got an A on the damned thing. I can hardly remember it now. I'll have to go looking for it later, because now I'm curious.
I'll see if I can do up a movie review if I have some time later. I'm nervous and excited! :D I want to love this movie. If I don't, I'm going to be very sad.