So I've been reading through Peter and Wendy (a.k.a. Peter Pan) again on account of that really cool event that will be happening this weekend [which I hope to have permission to write about here.]No matter which version of the novel being addressed, there is always too much missing. Ridiculously so. Sure, I understand that cuts and tweaks usually need to be made when transferring it to the visual medium. But does that always have to be the case? I've decided no.
If I ever am able to present my own filmed adaptation of Barrie's masterpiece, I am going to do using several parts. It seems the only way to be able to include it all (besides one VERY long film) is to spread it over several sections. I'm imagining the proverbial "mini-series." I'd also like to see it done in realistic motion-capture CGI animation. In many ways, it's the "best of both worlds."
It's truly a shame, for instance, that we always lose the full gamut of Mrs. Darling's fears and toils regarding the coming of Peter Pan. Do you even know about her scouring the floor with a candle in a panic for footprints? And She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls. She's really freaked out! I mentioned the loss of Mrs. Darling's interactions before in this post.
And none have fully realized the flight to the Neverland. What of the real duration? Where are the bouts with the birds? The touching of shark fins? And the Darlings fearful at being left by themselves when Pan darts off to some adventure without them?
It would also require the alluring task of adding some dialogue for passages such as: [Wendy] gave him a look of the most intense admiration, and he thought it was because he had run away, but it was really because he knew fairies. Wendy had lived such a home life that to know fairies struck her as quite delightful. She poured out questions about them, to his surprise...
If ever given the chance, I want to include it PAN (ALL.) And yes, there would HAVE to be a Narrator for the salient quips included as such.
If you've never read the original, please do so... you'll be surprised at how much you're missing!
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I could not be more in agreement!
Not to mention "you must unlearn what you have learned." If you're expecting the pirates to interrogate Tiger Lily about Peter Pan's whereabouts or Hook capturing Tinker Bell to get the information from her, you won't find it.
But yes, they STILL haven't made the "definitive" Peter Pan, as far as I'm concerned. Peter Pan as I imagine him is STILL not the character from any existing adaptation, and the same goes for everything else....
Personally, as far as what you said about Mrs. Darling, I think that would make a great trailer for such a film--make it look like a horror film, and not even change that tone when she looks out the window and sees the sinister face of a demonic delinquent.... o_O
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