You might be looking at the picture and thinking - WHAT ON EARTH?!?There's a simple explanation for it.
I'd been doing the dishes the other day... and in mid-drying of this goblet I needed to attend to something else. As a result, I wound having it on my hand for an extended period of time (held upright, of course.) Long enough for me to notice how darn heavy it became.
And where did my mind go? To Captain Hook, naturally. Not that it didn't ever cross my mind before, but suddenly I had a first hand (pun noted) revelation of how weighty and unwieldy having a big iron claw at the end of your wrist just might be! I'm of the opinion that the hook is not dainty and thin. I think P.J. Hogan's Captain's claw is just about right. Another great depiction is the cover of Hook & Jill.
So consider that fact, Pan/Hook fans - it's not so easy. You have to hand it (sorry!) to Hook for being able to deal with such a burden. He certainly has coped rather well with it.
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Indeed.
Although I personally prefer the depiction in the illustrations for the original novel "Peter and Wendy". There it looked like an upside down letter "J" with a point at the end that looked REALLY intimidating, like it could SCRATCH.
For me it's not so scary in the Bedford pictures. Scratch, sure. But PLUNGE? I guess I just like the idea of the weight of it, like a solid mass hefting down and into someone. (Oh! Such violence! ;] ) Bedford's is too fish-hook. I don't find a fish-hook intimidating exactly...
But then, that's why we have vanilla and chocolate, right?
I guess.
I always thought Bedford's was MORE intimidating than how you usually see it depicted, and so that's how I imagine it.
I guess I never thought of any other interpretation PLUNGING it either (Peter's claim notwithstanding), and it's still hard for me to imagine that with other interpretations....
But you know, you'd have to deduct the weight of his hand, since it was cut off ^^
I personally like the one they had in Spielberg's "Hook"
Yes, true. But holding up my hand just now and flopping it around, I don't see that it would do much to add to the hook weight. But... true enough.
The one in that movie is pretty good, I suppose. Sort of the middle-ground of Beford and Hogan (or Jones.)
On a slightly unrelated note, just came across this video, aside from the fact that it is as creepy as it is hilarious, Peter Pan makes an appearance at 1.07 ^^
http://youtu.be/BuRuwR2JSXI
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