I was wondering something...I know in the original it says Peter gives Wendy a button off of his clothes...in the '03 movie it was an acorn......I've read online that the acorn has actually been known to have been worn by women traditionally as some sign or hoping for eternal youth? I think I read this was or is in england...can anyone confirm this? I find the choice of acorn in that case to be kind of interesting. Glad my husband gave me an acorn necklace like the '03 movie haha;)

Well I know a lot of people out there are totally for and can see the Peter and Wendy "relationshippy" stuff but some people are sooooo into the mother thing they can't see how things like that can double over (not addressing you btw regarding my other post). But I find there seems to be two camps..the "no way peter and wendy would ever kiss" kind of crowd (even though they kiss in the nursery in the book)...who think he felt nothing...and the people who are all for things like the '03 movie and maybe even more. I fall into the '03 movie with a lot more confusion and angst..not that they didn't show it but I think it needed to be addressed more so with the novel and with the confusions about the feelings and what a mother is opposed to other things Peter may have felt as well. So the movie does fall short with that I admit for sure. I've always felt..and I think this author (of Hook & Jill) actually captured it a bit in a few parts and THAT did pleasantly suprise me...the fact there was something Peter felt for her more than a mother. I believe it says when Wendy kissed him there WAS a passion there and I guess i think people need to be more open to the idea that yes he probably could feel that (you can feel it at any age..as i said in another post...we're born that way it really isn't something magical that happens at 13..it's just stronger then) but if he had any knowledge about romantic love he probably feared it meant one automatically grows up and that falling in love equals mothers and fathers and children..which is not necessarily the case. If Peter knew he could remain a boy..have his Wendy and be in love and still have fun...I kinda wonder if he would have been nearly as scared..it seems to be the lack of understanding their own emotions and feelings that seems to drive them apart in the end.

For instance in the '03 movie when after the faerie dance wendy asks Peter about his real feelings and what about love...he gets defensive. I've always always wondered....if this was the beginning of the end for Wendy. What if she had been told his true feelings? (Which you can't deny in that version they were there) I kind of think she may not have grown up at all...she wouldn't have given it so much thought...it possibly would have been like it was in Hook & Jill where she would have left her family behind for him you know?

I know there is the camp that says Peter should have grown up for Wendy...but i always wonder why no one says the opposite....perhaps it's because maybe love between children feels impossible or scary to most I don't know...it doesn't happen often but if we were all honest with ourselves...real true love probably doesn't even happen that often in our normal adult world. I just kind of think they could have found paradise together if they had known everything. It's just my thought.

I can appreciate someone basing stuff off their life. I am writing something myself...while also trying to stay in the spirit but a totally different story....it won't change the ending of the original story though. It's more of a continuation based on my experiences using those characters. Believe me there were parts I really enjoyed it just kinda left a sour taste somewhere past the mid point

Agreed. It just seems there was a few things in the fairy notes along with little white bird that makes me think "hmmm perhaps there is something to this?" i mean yes obviously the mother bond is there but how many men out there seem to need mothering as well as a wife for instance...it's classic! lol

I guess what I'm saying is....children can be very very selfish..but i don't think selfishness automatically means one doesn't "love". We have selfish grown ups too and i think there are selfish people who are in love but are just really messed up individuals. No one is perfect. Children usually do act selfish...they have yet to learn the world doesn't revolve around them..but i still see them crushing on each other pretty early and some...not often but some actually have fallen in love with their future spouse as children....so it's a thought.

Also does anyone know for sure if it's grapes or perhaps christmas holly on her outfit? And the round object on her chest..does anyone know what that is...also in this picture I noticed she seems to be gloved on at least one hand or am i seeing the picture wrong because it's black and white?

http://www.jmbarrie.co.uk/allscans/fullsize/1904-12-27-PX393.jpg

Yes, I did get in touch with the V&A Theatre Museum and have just heard back from them. Disappointing news though, as they told me they have nothing relating to Hilda Trevelyan's original Wendy costume, and no idea of what happened to it... Can anyone on this forum shed a light on what happened to it?

But I agree with you - the magic lantern pictures aren't consistent with the greens of the dress (nor the brown/red of the jacket), and looking again at the photos from the play, it does look as though the strips should be the same colour as the jacket. It would make more sense too, as they look as though they're attached to the jacket, not the dress. Go with your instinct!

Going back to Finding Neverland, it's as if they wanted to make Wendy more boyish with her hair flattened than in the original version, perhaps to make her less twee and more appealing to a contemporary early 21st Century audience. Hilda Trevelyan has her hair styled in what the French call 'anglaises', ie tight ringlets. One wonders where Wendy found curling tongs in Neverland ... but then, you have to suspend disbelief out there, haven't you?

Christine

That's kind of shocking..they lost the costume? wow..i dunno whether to laugh at how crazy that sounds or cry at how tragic that would be if it's true! As for going with my instinct..will do!
Hehe yes the ringlets would be hard to believe unless i suppose they were suppose to be natural curls for the character but I'm guessing not. I always liked how Rachel Hurd Wood...Wendy from the 2003 film starts off with really pretty proper london hair...she gets to neverland and begins to look like a pixie herself with the messy locks. Looked cute though!

I love your fabric, and its colour! Well chosen.

Finding Neverland was indeed off in so many areas, it is somewhat surprising to find they had researched the original costume and tried to keep close to the original. Wendy's costume in the film is very pretty, but I'm not sure about the hat... Or is that because Hilda Trevelyan's hair made it look different? I see that the film has the strips in brown, rather than green as on the pictures of the Magic Lantern but of course that could have been their own interpretation.

You got me interested in this question now so I might contact the the V&A Theatre Museum here (who have many of the original props and archives from the DoY's production) to see if they can shed any light on this. I'll keep you posted.

I thought the hat looked off too...it might be because Hilda's hairstyle is more whispy than the girl in the movie. The girl in the movie seemed to always have her hair in a pulled up style rather than down on her shoulders. I'm thinking the strips might actually be the same color as the jacket as well because if you look at the photos it doesn't come off as the same shade as the dress at all and the thing about artwork i find is that many times things get miscolored by accident...I'll have to click your link again but i think it wasn't green in all the pictures which might mean it was miscolored. I'll check again.

Did you by any chance get in touch with that Museum afterward?

*jealous*