JMBarrie
JMBarrie => Davies Family => Topic started by: Dala on April 19, 2009, 10:14:38 AM
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I made a search about Nico on internet and i thought that i would find more about him because he was the last surviving of the Davies Boys. But i didn't find a lot of things about him. I know that he joined Peter Davies Ltd... but was it his only job? does anybody know what he did in his life (his job or something else...)
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If you search for "Nico" on the database, you will find dozens of letters from him to Mary Hodgson, to whom he wrote at least one letter a year giving his news.
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okay, good. im going to do it. thanx a lot.
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Nicholas wasn't in "Finding Neverland". Why?
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Maybe because the director didn't think that his character was interesting for the movie, he was too young. I guess, cause I don't see any other reason.
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Probably you're right. It could be that as you said.
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There's a lot of film constraint reasons (combing characters, reducing actors). This is not a reason, but an observation: the character/actor "Michael" in Finding Neverland acted way more like the real Nico than the real Michael.
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The original play on which FN was based - The Man who was Peter Pan, by Allan Knee also leaves out Nico. The reason of course is because Arthur was also left out. FN compresses time - having Barrie meet the Llewelyn Davies family in 1903 or so which was when Nico was in the midst of being born. FN could hardly have a pregnant Sylvia with no Arthur about!
I would definitely recommend that you read Nico's letters to Mary Hodgson - faithfully written year after year with his happy personality coming through very clearly. His handwriting is small, but very clear and he is a very good writer!
And here is a fan of the wonderful ghost writer M.R. James writing of his epistolary encounter with Nico (who was at Eton when James was provost)
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/ArchiveMRJLetter.html
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Thanks for that link - entirely new to me. When Nico first read my scripts for The Losdt Boys, he commented wryly, "I suppose if I'd committed suicide, I might have had a bigger part!"
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When Nico first read my scripts for The Lost Boys, he commented wryly, "I suppose if I'd committed suicide, I might have had a bigger part!"
Ah, that's exactly what I was thinking earlier today! I remember that line somewhere in a discription under the audio clips. Nico always makes me laugh! One of the things he said that had me falling of my seat was stuff about Jack's kid Timothy. I almost retyped it here, but it's just not funny unless Nico himself accounts for it...it's on page 4 of Nico's audio files if anyone cares to give a listen.